''Moscow Saga'' (russian: Московская сага, Moscovskaya Saga) is a Russian television series loosely based on the eponymous trilogy
Vasily Aksyonov
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov ( rus, Васи́лий Па́влович Аксёнов, p=vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ɐˈksʲɵnəf; August 20, 1932 – July 6, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the autho ...
. The shooting took place in the winter and spring of 2004. It aired from 11 October to 12 November 2004 on
Channel One Russia.
Plot
''Moscow Saga'' shows the fate of family of medicine professor Boris Nikitich Gradov from the mid-1920s to mid-1950s against the background of the history of the new Soviet state. Boris' character represents the old dynasty of Russian doctors. His sons and daughter did not continue in his footsteps, but instead chose other professions. The eldest son, Nikita, joined the military; the younger, Kirill, became a
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
theoretician; and Boris' daughter Nina became a writer.
CastCast
at the kino-teatr.ru
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Yuri Solomin
Yury Mefodievich Solomin (russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born June 18, 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture ...
as Boris Nikitich Gradov
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Inna Churikova
Inna Mikhailovna Churikova (russian: Инна Михайловна Чурикова; born 5 October 1943) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress.
Biography
Churikova was born in Belebey, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In t ...
as Mary Gradova
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Alexander Baluev as Nikita Gradov
*Ekaterina Nikitina as Veronica Gradova
* Alexey Zuev as Kirill Gradov
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Olga Budina as Nina Gradova
*Alexey Kortnev as Vadim Vuinovich
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Kristina Orbakaite Kristina may refer to:
Places
*the Swedish name of Ristiina, a town in Finland
People
*the Swedish name of Christina of Sweden
* Kristina (born 1987), Slovak singer
*Kristina Adolphson (born 1937), Swedish actress
*Kristina Apgar (born 1985), Amer ...
as Vera Gorda (prototype — singer
Nina Dorda)
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Dmitry Kharatyan
Dmitry Vadimovich Kharatyan (born 21 January 1960) is a Soviet and Russian actor of Armenian descent, People's Artist of Russia.
Was born in Olmaliq, Uzbek SSR on 21 January 1960. His debut as an actor came in Vladimir Menshov's ''Practical Jok ...
as Shevchuk (guard in the Gulag)
*Marianna Schultz as Celia Rosenblum
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Victoria Tolstoganova as Tasia Pyzhykova
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Andrei Smirnov as Leonid Pulkovo
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Sergei Bezrukov
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (russian: link=no, Серге́й Вита́льевич Безру́ков, born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of th ...
as
Vasily Stalin
Vasily Iosifovich Stalin ( ka, ვასილი იოსების სტალინი, russian: Василий Иосифович Сталин; surname since 9 January 1962 Dzhugashvili, , ; 24 March 1921 – 19 March 1962) was the son ...
*Marina Yakovleva as Agasha
*Alexander Rezalin as Nugzar
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Igor Bochkin
Igor Ivanovich Bochkin (russian: И́горь Ива́нович Бо́чкин; born February 17, 1957) is a Soviet and Russian theater, television and film actor, theater director. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1972. He was name ...
as Petukhov
*Ilya Noskov as Boris Gradov IV
*Dmitry Ulyanov as Semyon Stroilo
* Elena Kasyanova as Mayka Strepetova
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Irina Kupchenko
Irina Petrovna Kupchenko (russian: Ирина Петровна Купченко; born 1 March 1948 in Vienna) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She rose to prominence after acting in Andrei Konchalovsky's 1969 movie adaptation of '' ...
as Mayka's mother
*Marina Shvydkaya as Elizaveta
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Andrey Ilin as Savva Kitaygorodsky
*Valery Ivakov as Vaskov
* Vladimir Mironov as
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
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Igor Sklyar
Igor Borisovich Sklyar (russian: Игорь Борисович Скляр; born 18 December 1957) is a Russian actor and singer. He has appeared in over 30 films since 1974. He starred in the 1994 film, '' The Year of the Dog'', which won the S ...
as
Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (russian: Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе; ro, Mihail Frunză; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Born in the modern-day ...
* Pavel Remezov as
Molotov
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Alexei Makarov
Alexei Valerevich Makarov (russian: Алексе́й Вале́рьевич Мака́ров; 15 February 1972) is a Russian actor of theatre and cinema. Born 1972 in Omsk in family of actors Valeriy Makarov and Lyubov Polishchuk.
Biography
A ...
as Alexander Sheremetyev
*Vitaly Egorov as Sandro Pevzner
*Anna Snatkina as Yolka Kitaygorodskaya
*Vladimir Dolinsky as Shaytis
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Irina Brazgovka
Irina Vladimirovna Brazgovka (russian: Ирина Владимировна Бразговка; born November 12, 1954, Minsk) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. Biography Career
She started acting in the cinema from the age of ...
as Leonid Pulkovo's beloved
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Mikhail Yefremov as party organizer of the medical institute
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Tatiana Samoilova as Professor
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Vyacheslav Shalevich as General
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Regimantas Adomaitis as journalist Reston
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Emilyano Ochagaviya
Emilyano Lorensovich Ochagaviya (russian: Эмиляно Лоренсович Очагавия; May 24, 1945 – February 7, 2016) was a Soviet and Russian theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1986), People's Artist of the Russian Federati ...
as Galaktion Gudiashvili
* Nana Mchedlidze as Keke, Stalin's mother
* Alexey Bysh as
Obersturmbannfuehrer
References
External links
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Russian-language television shows
Films shot in Moscow
2004 Russian television series debuts
2004 Russian television series endings
Films based on Russian novels
Channel One Russia original programming
Russian drama television series
Russian television miniseries
Television shows set in Russia
Television shows set in Moscow