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.
The first run began on November 27, 2017 at 21:40 on NTV in Russia. The series was available on Netflix with English subtitles but Netflix seems to have pulled it as of September 2020.
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Plot
The series covers the years 1914 to 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.
Cast
Anna Chipovskaya as Darya Dmitrievna Bulavina
Yuliya Snigir as Ekaterina Dmitrievna Smokovnikova
Leonid Bichevin as Ivan Ilich Telegin
Pavel Trubiner as Vadim Petrovich Roshchin
Svetlana Khodchenkova as Liza Rastorgueva
Andrey Merzlikin as Arkady Zhadov
Anton Shagin as Alexey Alexeevich Bessonov (prototype as Alexander Blok)
Alexey Kolgan as Nikolai Ivanovich Smokovnikov, lawyer, husband of Catherine
Sergey Koltakov as Dmitry Bulavin, doctor, father of Daria and Catherine
Evgeniy Tkachuk as Sergey Sapozhkov
Aleksandr Yatsenko as Alexey Krasilnikov
Lyubov Aksyonova as Ganna
Roman Madyanov as Olovyannikov
Dmitri Dyuzhev as Mamont Dalsky
Yevgeny Stychkin as Nestor Makhno
Sergei Puskepalis as General Romanovsky
Andrei Chernyshov as Ivan Sorokin
Roman Kurtsyn as Mishka Solomin
Aleksandr Galibin as Boris Savinkov
Vasily Shchipitsyn as Lenin
Petr Rykov as Zhukov
Maxim Stoyanov as Dmitro