The Road to Calvary

The series tells about the fate of the Russian intelligentsia on the eve, during and after the revolutionary events of 1917. In the center of the story is the life story of the two...

Set in 1914, sisters Katya and Dasha navigate love and betrayal amid the changing spirit of St. Petersburg. Dasha studies law, becomes entangled with poet Bessonov, and meets engin...

Bessonov has recovered at Hannah's farmhouse, where Hannah is alone following the death of her son and her husband. Bessonov writes a poem for Hannah, but she confesses that she ca...

As the war deepens, Dasha aids her friend Liza, who serves on a hospital train. Telegin endures captivity, escapes, and reunites with Liza in a military hospital, but his heart rem...

Spring 1917. The Tsar abdicates and revolution sweeps through Russia. Dasha marries Telegin, while Katya learns that her husband Nikolai has died. Katya weds Roshchin, but Dasha lo...

As revolution reshapes the country, Dasha and Telegin marry, and Katya loses her husband. She later marries Roshchin, while tragedy strikes Dasha, whose baby dies during childbirth...

1918. Dasha returns to work in a hospital as Telegin fights for the Red Army and is wounded. Roshchin joins the police in Samara but soon breaks with the revolutionaries. In Petrog...

As civil war rages, Dasha works in a hospital while Telegin fights on the Red side. Roshchin and Katya grow disillusioned with the revolution, and Dasha, dismissed from her job and...

Krasilnikov rescues Katya from Makhno’s men and hides her on a farm. Telegin and Roshchin cross paths as soldiers on opposite sides of the war. Dasha begins working with Savinkov’s...

Katya escapes from captivity, while Roshchin and Telegin’s fates intertwine in the chaos of the civil war. Dasha joins Savinkov’s conspirators, is ordered to kill Lenin, but fails...

Savinkov needs Dasha alive to recover stolen jewels. Dasha flees Moscow with a decoy bag, while Katya escapes from Krasilnikov, who kills her pursuers. Telegin, Roshchin, and Sapož...

Katya is rescued from captivity; Telegin and Roshchin’s paths cross again amid war and chaos. Dasha joins Savinkov’s underground and is tasked with assassinating Lenin but cannot b...