Season 1 • Episode 127
LatestPoor Nastya is a Russian telenovela originally aired from 31 October 2003 to 30 April 2004 on the STS. Based on the imperial setting of the 19th century, the series reached international success and was shown in Ukraine, China, Israel, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria and more than twenty countries worldwide. With the budget of $11,8million, it is the most expensive Russian television project of all time. The sequel was planned, but had not been made yet.
Production
That $11.8 million bought actual palaces and enough velvet to drown a Romanov.
Costume
Petrograd fashion week, 1800s edition—absolutely unhinged feather budget.
Creators
Yelena Isayeva, Sergey Kaluzhanov, Irina Pivovarova
Elena Korikova
Анна
Daniil Strakhov
барон Владимир Иванович Корф
Pyotr Krasilov
Михаил Репнин
Anna Tabanina
княжна Елизавета Петровна «Лиза» Долгорукая
Dmitriy Isaev
Tsesarevich Alexander
Ekaterina Klimova
княжна Наталья Александровна Репнина
Anton Makarsky
Андрей Долгорукий
Olga Ostroumova
княгиня Мария Алексеевна Долгорукая
Aleksandr Filippenko
Андрей Платонович Забалуев
Anna Gorshkova
Полина
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Николай I
Alyona Bondarchuk
императрица Александра Федоровна
Marina Aleksandrova
Принцесса Мария
Albert Filozov
Барон Корф
Olga Syomina
Татьяна
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Russia's answer to Latin American telenovelas, proving melodrama transcends all borders and sanity.
The 127-episode count was allegedly determined by astrologers advising the network—seriously.
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