The Road to Calvary (TV series)

The Road to Calvary (Russian: Хождение по мукам, romanized: Khozhdeniye po mukam) is a Russian 12-episode television miniseries from 2017. It is based on the eponymous trilogy of novels of the Soviet writer Alexei Tolstoy and directed by Konstantin Khudyakov.^[1]

The Road to Calvary
Genre	War epic
Written by	Elena Raiskaya
Directed by	Konstantin Khudyakov
Starring	Anna Chipovskaya Yuliya Snigir Leonid Bichevin
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producers	Irina Bark Susanna Muasen
Producers	Timur Vaynshteyn Aleksey Zemskiy Yuriy Sapronov
Running time	48 minutes
Production company	Russian World Studios
Original release
Network	NTV
Release	27 November (2017-11-27) – 5 December 2017 (2017-12-05)

The first run began on November 27, 2017 at 21:40 on NTV in Russia.^[2] The series was available on Netflix with English subtitles but Netflix seems to have pulled it as of September 2020.

Plot

The series covers the years 1914-1919. The action begins before the outbreak of World War I. Society is in anticipation of major change. In the center of the story are the Bulavina sisters: Katya and Dasha. The girls share a love for the decadent poet Alexei Bessonov, who changes their worldview and way of thinking, predicting the end of Russia.

The first world war brings new experiences to the serene existence of the Bulavin-Smokovnikov family. After the war and revolution, the ways of the sisters diverge. Katerina Bulavina falls in love with the white officer Vadim Roshchin.^[3][4]

Cast

• Anna Chipovskaya — Darya Dmitrievna Bulavina
• Yuliya Snigir — Ekaterina Dmitrievna Smokovnikova
• Leonid Bichevin — Ivan Ilich Telegin
• Pavel Trubiner — Vadim Petrovich Roshchin
• Svetlana Khodchenkova — Liza Rastorgueva
• Andrey Merzlikin — Arkady Zhadov
• Anton Shagin — Alexey Alexeevich Bessonov (prototype — Alexander Blok)
• Alexey Kolgan — Nikolai Ivanovich Smokovnikov, lawyer, husband of Catherine
• Sergey Koltakov — Dmitry Bulavin, doctor, father of Daria and Catherine
• Yevgeny Tkachuk — Sergey Sapozhkov
• Aleksandr Yatsenko — Alexey Krasilnikov
• Lyubov Aksyonova — Ganna
• Roman Madyanov — Olovyannikov
• Dmitri Dyuzhev — Mamont Dalsky
• Yevgeny Stychkin — Nestor Makhno
• Sergei Puskepalis — General Romanovsky
• Andrei Chernyshov — Ivan Sorokin
• Roman Kurtsyn — Mishka Solomin
• Aleksandr Galibin — Boris Savinkov
• Vasily Shchipitsyn — Lenin
• Petr Rykov — Zhukov
• Maxim Stoyanov — Dmitro