An experienced Moscow investigator, he works with Evgeny Bokov and a young investigator to examine the series of murdered teenagers discovered in a forest belt near the Rublyovskoye Highway. The investigation becomes a defining ordeal for the team and changes their lives forever.
Papa Carlo is a carpenter who longs deeply for a son. After losing his jacket to buy Buratino an alphabet book, he accepts the wooden boy as his child despite later misunderstandings. He searches for Buratino with the performers, is attacked by Karabas, and eventually becomes a caring father to the artists in the new theater.
The immediate superior of Captain Volkonogov, he leads the department whose employees later face arrest under the pretext of evaluation. Threatened with imminent arrest, he throws himself from his office window and dies by suicide. His death becomes the event that Captain Volkonogov witnesses before escaping the same purge.
He decides with Oleg to renovate and redesign an apartment, helps present their proposal, and becomes involved in the renovation’s financial and labor arrangements. He later develops a relationship with a woman living in Sergei Sergeyevich’s apartment and is tested over his feelings.
Fedka is Saint Alexius’s keleynik and accompanies him on the journey to the Golden Horde. After the attempted healing of Taidula fails, Fedka is sent to work at the furnaces beneath the khan’s bath for desecrating a threshold. He later suffers alongside Alexius and returns with him to Moscow.
Zuev is one of the artists involved in the forgery operation. He worked with Andrey on inexpensive European paintings, altering the canvases and forging signatures so they could be presented as masterpieces by famous Russian painters. His collaboration with Andrey links him directly to the dangerous criminal scheme under investigation.
Yakovlev's son, whose reappearance in his father's life disrupts the protagonist's isolated existence. Their relationship uncovers the emotional roots of Yakovlev's exile and his hardened exterior.
Aleksandr Yatsenko has 74 screen credits in a career dating back to 2001. Their work is anchored in the Новые русские universe with 2 titles. Signature works include The Master and Margarita, Fisher, Новый дом. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
