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THIS SEASON WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE BRAVERY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE

DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY AGAINST THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS SERIES WISHES TO THANK THE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS,

AND MEDICS WHO HAVE PROTECTED OUR COUNTRY AND KEEP DOING SO.

THE TIME HAS COME

NIZHYN GIRLS' SCHOOL

PELAHIYA KUSHAKEVYCH'S GIRLS' SCHOOL

Good gracious.

You bastards!

It's not a poster! Don't read it!

Don't read it!

It has nothing to do with the theater!

NIZHYN. THEATER

CHERVINSKYS' ESTATE

Has Piotr Ivanovich decided not to ruin his appetite

by looking at our faces, which are far below this house's status,

and decided to eat in his room?

I'm going to miss him.

Let me ask you, Zoriana Nazarivna,

why so much venom for a sickly and lonely old man?

That sickly old man was one of the cruelest local landlords

who was ruthless to his bondspeople.

He would have his serfs whipped for the smallest fault.

What gets around, comes around, Mademoiselle.

Do you always take other people's sorrows so close to heart?

You couldn't be older than three when serfdom was abolished.

An urgent message from His Highness Mr. Khmelnyk.

An incident in Nizhyn.

The city is flooded by leaflets whose content is extremely dangerous

in the opinion of the head of the Investigation Department,

My God.

All this on the eve of the acting Governor General's visit!

I need to be at a meeting at the Investigation Department.

Finish your meal without me.

Let me come with you!

I have some errands in Nizhyn.

"It's time to speak the truth aloud.

They have no choice but to understand:

we are not hundreds, not thousands,

we're millions.

Millions of those dreaming about a new, better,

fairer world.

Will we be stopped by the fear

of a handful of lightweights

who are scared of parting with power?

The day is near when we come out in the streets to announce loudly:

we are the power, the truth is with us,

and we will decide in what world and by what rules we will live."

Do you at least begin to realize what they are saying?

What this bunch of bastards is calling for?

Yes.

They sound, let's put it this way, arrogant.

The question is, what prompted these words -

rambunctious vanity

or the confidence in their righteousness?

Good gracious, Lev Petrovich, what are you talking about?

Look like we have underestimated these People's Will's revolutionaries.

They are not just a bunch of terrorists

that can be stopped by hanging their leader.

Judging by the places where we found the leaflets and by what they say,

they are numerous, they are from different social strata,

and they know very well what they want.

Ergo, they are a power to be reckoned with.

What is it that you suggest,

Mr. Chervinsky?

To get to know them better.

When you know how your enemy thinks,

it's easier for you to predict their next step.

It's even easier to nip the plague in the bud

when you know who is in charge,

giving orders

and putting the wrong words together in the right order.

So go and find him, Vasiliy Fedorovych!

That's it!

Enough hanging out here.

Go out and don't come back without new information!

Where these rascals meet,

what they are planning,

where the next evil deed will come from:

give me something really valuable at last!

Go!

PHARMACY

Hello.

Hello, Miss. What can I do for you?

Please save me.

You and your potions are my last hope.

Gladly.

All right.

All that we have from your list is camphor for bruises.

- The rest we don't have. - When will it come in?

I'm tortured by migraines.

Nothing brigs me joy - neither the sun nor the birds' singing.

If you have the complete recipe from your doctor,

I can give you something for headache and heartache instead of nitroglycerine.

The doctor insisted on these ingredients.

I don't know why, but he was very particular about it.

Yes, Mr. Officer?

What can I do for you?

Serve the lady first.

I'm here about the papers you found under your door this morning.

It will take a while.

Uh-huh.

Well, if you insist that you need nitroglycerine,

leave your address, and I'll let you know when we get some.

No, I can't wait. It hurts really bad.

I should probably go back to my doctor and ask him to change the prescription.

Goodbye.

Spring time, young ladies and their migraines.

You know how it goes.

All right. Start from the beginning.

When did you see the leaflets,

who had access to the drugstore during the night?

Maybe someone did it right before dawn.

NIZHYN. HOTEL

That's all I know.

You can talk to the coachmen if you want. Maybe they saw something.

Is this why it's so busy here?

The entire town is plastered with these papers,

and Mr. Gendarme believes that we ourselves put them on our door.

As for your request, Mr. Yablonevskiy,

we have asked at Furmanov's and the Tsar's.

They weren't' too eager to give away any information about their guests.

You know, hotel's reputation and all that.

But we have our connections there.

And?

Nothing!

No one heard about an Adam Hrabowski there.

There are no foreigners at Furmanov's,

and Tsar's Hotel hosts a German or a Pole,

but he is very young, probably a student.

He has been there for a few days.

Alas. So much work, and all in vain!

Thank you for your efforts.

I'm glad to serve!

Have a nice day.

Only the camphor? Nothing else? I need nitroglycerine first of all!

We don't have it, Miss.

And there is no hope to get it quickly.

It's all but banned now,

after what happened in the capital.

What do you mean, banned?

It's just a medicine!

Medicine for some

and potentially a deadly weapon for others.

By the way, I have orders to inform the police about anyone

who seems too eager to purchase it.

As if gendarmes can heal my migraine!

Miss!

You forgot your camphor.

Oh, thank you.

Today's issue!

RAILWAY STATION

Excuse me, could you lend me a match?

I can't find mine.

Thank you.

Well?

I have no good news for you right now.

Our professor leads a righteous life,

except for sometimes working after hours.

He visited Chervinka.

Also, he had a visit from a young lady

who stayed there for a while.

I don't know who she is yet.

The problem is, dozens of girls like her come to the professor.

I think, Mr. Detective, you're barking on the wrong tree.

You are not paid for thinking, which isn't your strong suit.

Don't let Korieniev out of your sight

and find out who the girl is.

And the matches?

Keep them to remember me by.

CHERVINSKYS' ESTATE

Piotr Ivanovich allowed me to look through the scores.

I want to add something to my program.

You should put it back in place.

I heard your father fired three maids over it.

Sounds just like him.

Ruining someone's life over a trifle.

He loves her too much, Lev, that's all.

All this is just his way

to love her in spite of anything.

Admit it,

you take his side just to spite me, don't you?

Are you serious, Lev?

I have no reason to hate your father.

Or your mother, for that matter.

They were protecting their child the only way they knew how.

It was much more painful to realize

there was nobody around to protect me.

NIZHYN, INSTITUTE

I decided to pay you a visit.

You did the right thing.

Those goddamned scientists!

Leaving it ajar again!

Miss? What are you doing here?

What in the world do you need at the laboratory?

Good evening.

So all that thing wasn't painful only for you, Lev.

Each of us lost something big and important.

Take me to the study.

Wait, Piotr Ivanovich.

You said you were prepared to answer any question

that was bothering me.

Ask.

Excuse me, I should go.

Tykhon Yuriyovych.

Uh-huh.

Did Mama regret what she had done even once?

CHERVINSKYS' ESTATE SEVEN YEARS AGO

He has left.

Yes, I saw him.

He is still very angry.

He didn't want me to see him out.

He didn't even look at the house when he was getting into the carriage.

What have I done?

God, what have I done?

I'm begging you, forgive me.

Forgive me.

He is so angry at you,

because he doesn't know it's me who is to blame.

What have I done?

Now, now. Enough

A year or two in St. Petersburg, and he will forget everything.

You were wrong.

I was unable to forget it in a year, or two, or seven.

After each visit to you

Larisa would suffer from heartache for days.

She couldn't forgive herself

for causing you to break up all connection with me.

Why didn't you tell me three years ago,

when I came to her funeral in Chervinka?

You came to bury your mother, whom you adored.

I couldn't do it to her

or to you.

Also, I thought you'd come round anyway,

let it go and, well…

forgive me one day.

And that you and I

will be able

to forget old quarrels.

Can we?

I don't know, Piotr Ivanovich.

Even if it wasn't your fault

that my world was ruined seven years ago,

you didn't see it as something wrong.

You thought it was

all a folly and silliness.

Well, then that's that.

Tykhon!

Mr. Professor, I'm sorry to bother you,

but this young lady says you have an appointment.

I found her in the other wing, back at the laboratory's door.

Professor, I've made you wait again.

I'm begging you, forgive me.

I can't remember how to get to your office from the front door.

Mademoiselle,

this is your last warning.

Next time I won't be sitting here waiting for you.

Is it this hard to tell left from right?

Come in.

I hope you've read everything on your list,

and I haven't been waiting for 30 minutes in vain.

Fylymon Dmitrievich, thank you.

I will show the lady out myself when we're finished.

Yes, sir.

Explain yourself, Zoriana Nazarivna.

What were you doing at the laboratory?

Just spare me your tale about being unable

to find your way around.

I intend to borrow something at the laboratory

for the sake of the revolution.

Really?

So you needed me only as means to your goal?

Not at all, Vladimir Dmitrievich, no.

But desperate times

call for desperate actions.

You know better than anyone that any changes are paid for in blood.

You can do more than sit around and wait

when people become smarter and the world more just.

You crave actions as much as I do.

What is it you are trying to offer me with such passion, Zoriana Nazarivna?

A bomb, Vladimir Dmitrievich.

An explosion that will stir St. Petersburg and the entire empire

and make everyone hear us.

If memory serves,

Lev Petrovich expects us at nine.

We need to hurry if we want to make it in time.

I'm sure he doesn't know about your plan.

Zoriana Nazarivna?

Are you going to stay silent?

Or will you grace me with some kind of answer?

Tone down your anger. Looks like we're been followed.

I have seen observers here on more than one evening.

Looks like this one is very much interested in us.

Don't look.

Walk faster.

Oh, here.

I'll see you at the city exit.

- Where are you going? - I'll walk.

Go!

Do they all live on thin air or what?

Don't even dare tell me that the master won't have his dinner.

He said he wasn't hungry.

Goddamn all of you.

Is it a conspiracy?

What am I supposed to do with it now? Throw it away?

So much food going to waste!

All right. I'll go and tell him what I think about his hunger strike!

Galina, don't.

He told me to get out of his room and said he wanted to be alone.

All those memories were stirred in him.

Look.

See what I've brought you.

Oh.

- Lilacs. - Uh-huh.

Where did you get it? It's too early.

Well, it's already in bloom.

So I thought I should bring you some.

You know, to give you some joy.

Is it because of me turning on the waterworks the other day?

Don't.

I've already gotten myself together.

Can't I just bring you flowers?

You can't! Because I know you through and through.

Either you want something from me

or you're trying to make it up for something you've done.

That's not true!

I said, enough!

I'm not a martyr!

I'm fine!

- Take away your lilacs! - I won't.

I said take it away!

If that's what you want.

Natalia Panasivna, first lilacs.

To improve your mood, so to say.

He really just wanted to make you happy.

What did you want, anyway?

Natalie!

Let's go!

You're right.

History has never seen any bloodless revolutions.

The bigger the change you want,

the bigger the commotion you must be prepared to make.

So you agree?

Uh-huh. However, there must be no innocent victims.

Only those who really embody

greedy power should be hurt.

Who else knows about your idea?

Monk and Bayda.

Is that all?

Yes.

Did you have to take such a risk?

- What happened? - He'll betray us all!

Bayda took the leaflets to Suslivka.

- He was supposed to be back by sundown. - Damn it.

Do you think Nizhyn isn't full enough of our leaflets?

What was this village tour for?

He still hasn't come back.

How will people find out what we want, if they don't get the leaflets?

Even if Bayda ran out of luck,

I don't doubt his loyalty to the cause.

He will not get scared and will not betray us.

He is a simple villager.

There is no need to scare him: just promise a hundred rubles or…

You're forgetting yourself, Talleyrand.

What happened?

A region-wide round-up.

They search every second carriage and cart.

I had to take the long road through the fields

and wait until dark for the evening mass to start.

At least when they came out of the church, they saw my gift at once.

I simply left them on the doorstep.

Enough for each household to get one.

Have you managed to get the ingredients?

No.

But I found someone who can help me with it.

CHERVINSKYS' ESTATE

I promised Lev Petrovich.

People appreciate his words all over the region.

How about another sack each?

Enough, Bayda.

We already have enough for more than one jail sentence.

Go, before everybody wakes up.

All right, bye.

Go, go, go!

NIZHYN. THEATER

Uncle, I can see it written on your face

how much you regret the need to waste your time

on visiting the place that has nothing to do with you.

I'll take it from here.

Our family is extremely lucky

to have such a smart and well-behaved young lady.

Mother expects me to dinner at seven,

so please pick me up no later than quarter to.

This way, we'll be only one hour late,

and you don't have to pretend to Mama that you're remorseful for too long.

Hold your tongue, young lady.

I'm your uncle, after all, and you're supposed to respect me.

I'll try not to be late.

Yanosh Stefanovych,

you came early today.

Did Marianna Fedorivna stay home today?

Yes, she has some chores at the estate.

Uncle will get me home after work.

That's great.

What do you say if I suggest that we left this temple of the arts for a short while?

Mykhaylyna Yevhenivna will be here any minute, and then we'll start.

By the way, your dressing room is empty.

Where are Romeo and Julia?

Could it be that the dared to elope?

Julia is too well-behaved for it.

Romeo wouldn't ask his beloved to do such a reckless thing, either.

However, they took advantage of Marianna Fedorivna's absence

and went for a walk in the park.

This eternal parental desire to protect children from trouble

and also from life.

It's as much impractical as it is harmful.

Vladimir Olehovych,

what had you been writing to my mother about all these years?

What did you tell her?

Well…

About your studies, about Paris.

Do you remember how excited you were about our trip to Montmartre?

I remembered every word you said and wrote it all down.

I think she still believes it was you who were writing to her all those letters.

Why did you do that?

She is your family, Natalie.

The closest one you ever had or ever will.

You should stick to her and your brothers.

Even if it feels that your ways have parted forever.

Believe someone who hasn't had anyone to hold on to for a while.

Uh-huh.

She wasn't too eager to hold on to me, though.

She couldn't wait to send me to Paris, even more than Larisa Viktorivna.

My God! Are you still nurturing your resentment?

If she stood up for me then, none of this would have happened.

No Filipp, no surgery.

No stage, no Paris,

no global glory.

Any medal has two sides, my dear. You should remember it.

Unlike you, I did read her letters.

Believe me,

she cared.

NIZHYN, INSTITUTE

I have the lock. Everything's fine.

You are my savior.

- Really? - I swear.

It won't take more than fifteen minutes.

Let's go.

CHINA SHOP

To listen to you, you are completely innocent.

The goods are yours, but it's not your responsibility

what happens to it on its way to the client.

Exactly.

I'm not a millionaire to pay workers for every day.

China isn't sugar. It doesn't bring the same income.

When I have an order, I find someone at the marketplace,

who is ready to pack it and deliver it for cash.

How they pack it, how they deliver it - it's none of my business.

Meanwhile, a dinner set arrived to the wife

of the Nizhyn Investigation Department's head

from your store, wrapped in revolutionary leaflets.

And someone will answer for it.

Oh my God.

Mr. Detective! I swear to you, I had no idea!

What am I going to do now?

What can I do?

First of all, you need to recall

who was responsible for the packing and delivery.

Then we'll see.

Oh God.

It was three days ago.

I went to the marketplace myself to hire help.

I think one of them was called Khavron, from Sheferivka,

and the other Stepan, I believe.

- I'll recognize them if I see them. - I'll send gendarmes.

You will go with them and point out those men.

Whatever you say, Mr. Detective!

I'm ready to go right now.

Go!

We have potassium chlorate, everything for mercury fulminate,

nitric acid, sulphuric acid, pyroxylin.

NITROGLYCERINE

Let's do it. Have you prepared everything for the mediums?

Yes, of course.

Yevsey Havrylovych!

Yevsey Havrylovych!

Yevsey Havrylovych!

How many times do I have to tell you not to leave the laboratory unlocked!

Mykyta, find him immediately!

He even took the lock with him!

Will you wait here or at the faculty room?

Faculty room!

The inspection will be here in less than 15 minutes.

Oh, Havrylovych.

It's not just any flower.

It wasn't called immortelle for no reason.

It means immortal love

that survives even when the lovers are dead.

Then it's exactly what we need.

It's strange how easy it is to be happy

when everything you are experiencing is real.

I should be thanking you all the time, Polina Romanivna.

You saved me.

I saved you?

What do you mean?

On my way here from Krakow, I felt

as if my whole world were falling apart.

I didn't know who I was or what I wanted.

But after I met you,

everything suddenly fell into place.

What do I want?

To make you happy every day,

protect you and cherish you.

Who am I?

Someone who loves you.

You brought meaning back into my life.

NIZHYN. HOTEL

To number ten, quick! The guests need their luggage.

Excuse me, sir.

I will, if you tell me if Mr. Yablonevskiy is in his room.

I think he left in the morning.

I didn't see him coming back.

Thank you.

Hello, Mr. Hrabowski.

Don't be in a rush.

You've just came.

You should better sit down.

Professor.

Here. I managed to grab some more in the end.

Well, Robin…

Yevsey Havrylovych, of course, will turn a blind eye to this, but…

He won't make noise, believe me,

because it's his own fault.

He hadn't checked the lock.

He will be the one held responsible.

And we have a chance to test Monk's recipe.

Yes, but how will we get nitroglycerine?

On the other hand, if we had enough of glycerin…

Finding it isn't a problem.

Where can we get it?

Hospitals.

Drugstores.

I'm afraid this isn't an option.

Soap factories…

Perfumery shops.

Goddamn it!

I should have thought about it earlier.

We'll have as much glycerin as we need!

Where are you going to find it, if I may ask?

In Kyiv.

I'm booking a train ticker for tomorrow.

I don't think it's a good idea

to let you go

on such trip alone, Zoriana.

Good evening.

Galina Romanivna, do you have a minute?

I have a question for you.

Olesia! You stupid girl, why do you cut the bread so thickly?

How are the masters supposed to bite this slice?

Markiyan Vasylyovych, you see how busy I am.

Maybe later?

I just wondered if you have spare keys to the far outbuilding.

I have an errand, and the key is with Lev Petrovich.

You mean where he used to do experiments when he was a boy?

The key is in the mistress's boudoir,

in the upper drawer, if the girls haven't misplaced it.

Thank you, Galina Romanivna. I'll let you get back to your work.

I wish you became a toad's matchmaker!

What is this lace for?

Why is it so thin?

Give it to me!

Here.

Good evening, Mr. Yablonevskiy.

Hello. Was anyone looking for me today?

No, Your Grace.

Nice flower.

Thank you. It's an immortelle. They say it's a symbol of eternal love.

Please.

Go.

Have you seen this man here before?

Yes. Two or three times.

What is going on here, goddamn it?

Mr. Yablonevskiy,

we hoped you'd tell us what this gentleman's name is

and why you took his life.

I…

I wasn't here today.

I know, I know.

This man broke into your room and brought his killer with him.

You have no idea what happened,

and you have never seen them before.

But the bell boy says that

this gentleman had come here to see you more than once.

Take him to the precinct. We'll continue there.

If, of course, you don't choose to confess right here.

I have nothing to confess!

I didn't kill anyone!

Well, Uncle, I don't suppose you and I will have a pleasant evening.

Mama has probably already sent Severyn to the crossroads.

We were supposed to be home an hour ago.

Damn it, all I need today is a lecture from Marianna.

You have developed a passion for the stage at a very unfortunate moment.

I only accompany Mademoiselle at the rehearsals.

She asked me for help. How could I say no?

All right, get in.

Or instead of Severyn we'll see the woman who instilled these ideas into you.

And what is going to happen then? I don't want to even think about it.

Mr. Detective! Mr. Detective, wait!

What is it? Another leaflet? A rebellion?

Illia Tykhonovych asked me to find you.

He has arrested your Polish protege Mr. Yablonevskiy.

If you want to be present at the interrogation…

- Yanosh was arrested? - Wait in the carriage.

Idiot, did you have to yell?

On what charges?

An unknown man was killed at the hotel. The killer must be Yablonevskiy.

It happened in his room.

Goddamn it.

Tell Kryvchyk I'll be there in an hour and a half.

Sooner, if I can.

Go to Kosachivka. Quick.

What is going on with Yanosh?

Are you deaf? I said, to Kosachivka, quick!

Listen, I've told you that I didn't invite him.

I have no idea what this gentleman was doing in my room.

How strange, Mr. Yablonevskiy.

The concierge said the victim had come to see you three times in the last week.

How come?

Mr. Kryvchyk, I swear I didn't meet with this gentleman in Nizhyn.

Yes, I did meet him once before, in Kyiv.

I brought him something from Krakow from my friend.

That's all.

I see. So at least you know his name.

He introduced himself as Adam Hrabowski.

What it was that you brought to this gentleman

and on whose request?

Remember me

I'll live forever

Behind your eyes…

You have connections in high places.

Is he an important man?

Important enough to take care of your problem.

I'll ask you for a small favor.

Adam Hrabowski.

I was told to give this to you.

Thank you so much.

Please give this little present from Kyiv

to the sender of this book.

Mr. Yablonevskiy, I asked you

who asked you to give Mr. Hrabowski a present

and what the present was.

A package

with a makowiec in it.

What?

A makowiec.

A Polish dessert,

a poppy seed pie.

I think you have a similar dish.

My Krakow landlady asked me

to give it to Mr. Hrabowski.

Her name is Mrs. Vojcek.

We met at the station,

I gave him the makowiec and never saw him again.