Season 7 • Episode 20
LatestViktor Rastorguev, a police colonel, moved to St. Petersburg with his entire family. In Moscow, he crossed paths with a certain official and was forced to leave. He would no longer have been allowed to serve peacefully in Moscow. In St. Petersburg, Rastorguev became the head of the district police department in one of the city's districts. Rastorguev's family moved with him: his wife Olga and 16-year-old son Pavel. They are trying to settle into their new home, but everything in their lives is not turning out the way they would like...
Acting
Chubchenko's exhausted dignity anchors every scene
Writing
Moral ambiguity that actually earns its darkness
Production
Gloomy St. Petersburg as character, not backdrop
Creator
Oleg Larin
Andrey Chubchenko
Виктор Расторгуев
Kirill Poluhin
Максим Тихомиров
Igor Botvin
Антон Морозов
Eldar Lebedev
Михаил Каплевич
Denis Sinyavskiy
Кочевник
Natalya Kruglova
Светлана Круглова
Dmitriy Sutyrin
Константин Локтев
Anna Miklosh
Елена
Aleksandr Rybakov
Юрий Васьков
Aleksandr Solonenko
Новожилов
Igor Golovin
Сергеев
Aleksandr Baranovskiy
Шульгин
Aleksey Baydakov
Бугаев
Yevgeniya Igumnova
Дана
Aleksandr Mosolov
Евгений Решетов
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'police colonel as tragic hero' became a post-Soviet television staple; this series helped codify the genre's visual language of gray skies and moral fatigue.
Andrey Chubchenko reportedly based Viktor's physicality on his own father, a retired military officer, explaining the character's stiff bearing and reluctant tenderness.
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