48 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestSvetlanais a woman of indeterminate age who arrived in Minnesota from the former Soviet Union as a mail-order bride.
Acting
Viktoriya Romanenko carries the deadpan chaos perfectly.
Writing
Biting satire that weaponizes historical trauma for laughs.
Creators
Yevgeni Zvezdakov, Ilya Rubinstein
Viktoriya Romanenko
Светлана Аллилуева (Сталина)
Sergey Koltakov
Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин
Pavel Trubiner
Алексей Каплин
Sergey Kolos
Василий Сталин
Oleg Osipov
Юрий Жданов
Boris Bedrosov
Эдик Дорогин
Oleg Fyodorov
Джонрид Долидзе
Denis Sinyavskiy
Андрей Синявский
Тарас Бибич
Давид Смолов
Samvel Muzhikyan
Браджеш Сингх
Elizaveta Aleksandrova
Людмила Шверник
Elizaveta Nilova
Капитолина Васильева (жена Василия Сталина)
Kristina Kuz'mina
Ляля Смолова
Semyon Strugachyov
Вольф Мессинг
Viktor Melikhov
Георгий Маленков
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Svetlana Alliluyeva defected in 1967 and died in Wisconsin—this series turns that exile into grotesque comedy.
Director Zvezdakov uses Minnesota's flat emptiness as visual punchline: nowhere is as nowhere as the Midwest.
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