''Sherlock in Russia'' (russian: Ше́рлок в России, Sherlok v Rossii, also known as Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles) is a Russian detective

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based on

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Hol ...

stories about the legendary

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Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

. This is the third Russian adaptation of the character and the first with original script. The series was released in October 2020 on the Start.ru streaming service.

Synopsis

Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer wa ...

leaves behind a trail of victims and escapes from

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to Saint-Petersburg. Sherlock Holmes leaves

Doctor Watson John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Along with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson first appeared in the novel ''A Study in Scarlet'' (1887). The last work by Doyle fe ...

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and goes after the deadly killer to Saint Petersburg. In

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, he meets Doctor Kartsev, from whom he rents a living room. Dr. Kartsev starts helping him solve very strange, confusing, and complicated crimes, and Holmes is once again forced to convince law enforcement authorities of the correctness of his deductive methods of investigation.

Cast

* Maksim Matveyev as

* Vladimir Mishukov as Dr. Kartsev *

Irina Starshenbaum Irina Vladimirovna Starshenbaum (russian: Ирина Владимировна Старшенба́ум; born 30 March 1992) is a Russian stage, film and voice actress. For her role in ''T-34'', she won the TEFI award for Best Actress and was a no ...

as Sofya Kasatkina *

Pavel Maykov Pavel Sergeevich Maykov (russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Ма́йков; born October 15, 1975, in Mytishchi) is a Russian theater, film and voice actor, TV presenter, singer and musician. Maykov is best known for starring as Viktor Pch ...

as Lavr Trudniy, collegiate assessor, head of the detective police of St. Petersburg, prototype

Inspector Lestrade Detective Inspector G. Lestrade, or Mr. Lestrade ( or ), is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Lestrade's first appearance was in the first Sherlock Holmes story, the novel '' ...

Konstantin Bogomolov Konstantin Yuryevich Bogomolov (russian: Константи́н Ю́рьевич Богомо́лов; born July 23, 1975) is a Russian theater director, poet, and actor. He has served as the art director of the . He is the son of the film crit ...

as Pyotr Znamenskiy, Major General, Chief of Police of St. Petersburg * Konstantin Yushkevich as Dr. Bakhmetyev, prototype

Professor Moriarty Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a formidable enemy for the author's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He was created primarily as a device by which Doyle could ...

* Yevgeny Dyatlov as Kobylin * Kirill Gordleev as Koshko * Yevgeny Sannikov as Ilya Moiseev * Yevgenia Mandzhieva as Aigul Valikhanova, curator-

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of the Museum of the

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* Oksana Bazilevich as Madam Manuylova, prototype Mrs. Hudson * Fyodor Fedotov as Anton Sviridov * Yevgeny Romantsov as Kat * Fyodor Pisarenko as Venya Kasatkin, Sophia's deaf and dumb little son *

Valery Kukhareshin Valery Aleksandrovich Kukhareshin (russian: link=no, Валерий Александрович Кухаре́шин; born 7 December 1957) is a Soviet and Russian stage, film and dubbing actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1994), ...

as Albert Ludwigovich Dreitsen * Andrey Feskov as Dr. John Watson * Aleksey Vdovin as

Production

Filming began in St. Petersburg in spring 2019. The director was

Nurbek Egen Nurbek Egen (Russian Нурбек Эген; born 3 December 1975) is a Kyrgyz and Russian film and TV director and screenwriter. His films have won two Young Artist Awards: his short film ''Sanzhyra'' as Best Short Foreign Film and his feature ...

. He has already shot such series and films as “Alibi”, “Secret Sign” and other detective dramas on Russian television. Oleg Malovichenko worked on the script, his previous works were “

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”, “

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”, “ Attraction” and others. The series is not a full-fledged adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's works; it is based on an original script. Producer Aleksander Remizov claimed: “The plot is based on exciting and mysterious crimes that Sherlock would never have encountered in his native England. We will show the viewer a story familiar to everyone, but on the other side. The unification of cultures through the adaptation of the Englishman in Russia, new crimes and love are the components of the project that create a new story - 'Sherlock in Russia'”.Sherlock Holmes in Russia
on

Komsomolskaya Pravda ''Komsomolskaya Pravda'' (russian: link=no, Комсомольская правда; lit. "Komsomol Truth") is a daily Russian tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper, founded on 13 March 1925. History and profile During the Soviet era, ...

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