Serbian actor Ivan Bosiljcic takes the lead role

You know your trusted spy is always the first one to inform you about the new period set projects arriving from all corners of the world, and today I have the first photos of Serbian star Ivan Bosilychich in new historical series CASANOVA IN RUSSIA (Казанова в России) that will air on Russian national TV.

 LOVE IN RUSSIA
Set in imperial Russia, during the rule of Tzarina Catherine the Great, in 1764-1765, the lavishly expensive 12 part series will follow the great Venetian lover Giacomo Casanova during his stay in Russia, filled with conspiracies, intrigues, insidious murders and fatal passions. It will be an adventure in the spirit of the Three Musketeers, only on the banks of the Neva, not the Seine. In the centre of the plot is the story of how Casanova, sent to Russia with the plan to infiltrate Catherine the Great's court as a Vatican spy, got carried away by a female serf

Anton and Iliya Chizhikov are directing the project

peasant on the banks of the Neva, so much that he went to extreme lengths to buy her. That accidental meeting will make history's most famous womaniser and seducer to believe that a live could be spent next to just one woman.

The new historical series will be shot in twelve hourlong episodes

Beside being the famous lover, Casanova was also one of the most educated people of that time, he translated legendary Iliad and co wrote the libretto for

The series was shot in Russia in utmost secrecy

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. A friendship with famous Voltaire also left a great impact on that, less known, side of his life. Produced by Favorit Film and Brothers Chizhikov, the saga, which will air next year on Russian National

The series sees Casanova fall in love with a poor woman

Broadcaster, will also star Maria Skuratova as Casanova's love interest, Mariyana Spivak as Catherine the Great and our dear Ilya Malakov (from Furious or Kolovrat) as her general and lover Potemkin!