These are the dark times around 1720 in Russia. Tsar Peter the Great dies and his highly esteemed partner and friend Prince Menshikov rules the country from now on. But there are also those who oppose the prince. Messenger Ivan, an army officer, fails one of the risky resistance orders given to him by the scheming opposition and openly confesses to it. He is to be punished mercilessly, but the head of the secret service recognizes the officer's qualities, and from now on Ivan becomes an agent of the Tsar. Thus begins a series of mysterious incidents and he begins to investigate them. Masons, pirates and grand dukes, all have their dark secrets...
as Ivan Samoylov
as graf Belozyorov
as Varvara Belozyorova
as Sofya Belozyorova
as Belozerov's aunt
as Vasiliy Vozhzhov
as knyaz Menshikov
as Andrey Ivanovich Ushakov
as graf Tolstoy
as Tumanov
as Falinelli
as Lestok
as Fedor
