PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON RUSSIAN 19TH CENTURY COSTUME SERIES SECRETS OF MRS KIRSANOVA AKA SMALLTOWN MYSTERIES

The series aired in Russia back in 2019

Among more than 4,400 posts that we've published so far, there are those that get continuous high hits for a very long time, usually those on international dramas about which we wrote among first in English. One of such series was definitely Russian period set dramaDetective Anna which aired on Amazon Prime. You obviously loved that series shot in 2016 and 2017, but what is interesting is that the series was followed by a prequel series THE SECRETS OF MRS KIRSANOVA also known as SMALLTOWN MYSTERIES. In it Olga Lerman portrays Larissa Kirsanova, a young mathematics teacher,

Olga Lerman plays the lead role in the 50 episode series

who, back in 1878 arrives in a small provincial town of Bogorodsk. Produced by Star Media in 50 episodes, the costume drama aired on weekdays in Russia

The series aired daily on their national TV Russia 1

back in the winter of 2019!

  The Story Of The Series
In 1877, Larisa Kirsanova's fiancé, nobleman Pavel Bestuzhev (Anton Batirev), mysteriously disappeared in St. Petersburg, and for some unknown reason did not appear at the wedding with her. After the incident, Kirsanova quarrels with her father and goes to Bulgaria for the Russian-Turkish war, where she works as a sister of mercy in a front-line hospital. Immediately after the end of hostilities, in 1878, Larisa comes to her own aunt, Lizaveta Prokofievna

The series was even nominated for TV awards in Russia

(Evgenia Simonova), in Bogorodsk, where she gets a job at a local female gymnasium as a mathematics teacher, and tries to find a clue to the

The series was made by the same team that created Detective Anna

disappearance of her beloved, at the same time revealing a lot of confusing crimes that happen in that town. But unlike the main character of the series

The series is filled with authentic 19th century costumes

Detective Anna who possessed paranormal abilities, Mrs. Kirsanova reveals secrets exclusively with the earthly power of her "mathematical" mind and iron logic.