Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
Pyotr Fyodorov
Yakovlev
Vladimir Mashkov
Earl Beklemishev
Franziska Petri
Aleksandra Iosifovna
Martin Wuttke
German Baron
Sergey Garmash
One-armed nobleman
Yuri Kolokolnikov
Basargin
Aleksandr Yatsenko
Yakovlev Jr.
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Servant
