49 minSeason 1 • Episode 11
LatestMUR's investigator, Colonel Alexander Khlystov, receives an old photograph in the mail: it shows Yesenin, who has just been taken out of the loop. According to the rules, the investigator must give the case a legal course.
Acting
Sergei Bezrukov's uncanny channeling of Esenin's chaos
Production
Gorgeous 1920s Moscow recreated in smoky amber
Writing
Blurs biography with pulp fiction beautifully
Creators
Vladimir Valutskiy, Igor Zaytsev
Sergei Bezrukov
Сергей Есенин
Aleksandr Mikhaylov
Александр Хлыстов
Oleg Tabakov
генерал Симагин
Pavel Derevyanko
поэт, близкий друг Есенина Алексей Ганин
Gosha Kutsenko
Яков Блюмкин
Sean Young
Айседора Дункан
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Лев Троцкий
Kseniya Rappoport
Галина Бениславская
Olga Krasko
архивистка Лена
Andrey Rudensky
Александр Блок
Marina Zudina
Зинаида Николаевна Райх (вторая жена Есенина)
Aleksandr Robak
Иван Приблудный
Sergey Veksler
следователь ЧК
Andrey Leonov
соратник, сподвижник и друг Есенина Александр Сахаров
Nikita Tarasov
Сергей Городецкий
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Esenin remains Russia's ultimate tortured pretty-boy poet; this series weaponizes that cult of personality for pulp thrills. Bezrukov had already played him in a 2002 biopic, making this twice the obsession.
The real Esenin's 1925 death was officially suicide, but conspiracy theories — Stalinist murder, Cheka involvement — persist. This series picks the most unhinged theory and runs with it.
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