Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.
Production
Lavish 1876 Moscow and London sets that smell like old money.
Acting
Ilya Noskov's twitchy, endearing Fandorin stutters into your heart.
Costume
Uniforms so crisp you'll want to starch your own soul.
Creator
Alexander Adabashyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Boris Akunin's first Fandorin novel, which spawned 16 books and made the author Russia's best-selling novelist.
The 14-grade Table of Ranks system meant Fandorin started lower than a village schoolteacher—his detective dream was genuinely absurd.
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