1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
1612: Хроники смутного времени
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time On Soap2Day. The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.
- Genre: History, Drama
- Country: Russia
- Director: Vladimir Khotinenko
- Cast: Pyotr Kislov, Artur Smolyaninov, Michał Żebrowski, Violetta Davydovskaya, Mikhail Porechenkov, Aleksandr Baluev, Marat Basharov, Ramón Langa, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Sergey Taramaev, Dmitriy Mukhamadeev, Viktor Shamirov, Daniil Spivakovskiy, Dmitri Ulyanov, Gabriele Ferzetti, Igor Sigov, Aleksandr Andrienko, Evgeniy Kulakov, Alexey Fursenko, Grigoriy Dantsiger,
