New show started airing last week

Airing finally every evening this week and next on national broadcaster Russia 1 is new historical Series CASANOVA IN RUSSIA (Казанова в России) with Serbian star Ivan Bosilychich in the title role of the legendary seducer at the time when he visited the imperial court of Russia. He previously played sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in Russian epic series The Russian Prisoner or Janissary. The series started shooting back in 2019 but had numerous delays thanks to covid outbreak and many other problems, but is now finally being presented to the audiences. Sweet Matushka Rossiya is, by the way, preparing some other lavish costume

It is a twelve episode historical series

dramas, so stay tuned for more updates during the festive days when Hollywood goes to sleep and we move, as usual, onto the international stage.

 LOVE IN RUSSIA
Set in imperial Russia, during the rule of Tzarina Catherine the Great, in 1764-1765, the lavishly expensive 12 part series follows the great Venetian lover Giacomo Casanova during his stay in Russia, filled with conspiracies, intrigues, insidious murders and fatal passions. It is 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 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 believe that a life could be spent next to just one woman.  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 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 also stars 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!