One Night Of Love

One Night Of Love (Russian: Одна ночь любви) is a 2008 Russian historical telenovela TV series. It was first developed by Amedia, with Alexander Akopov as head producer. The novela has 60 episodes. It stars Svetlana Ivanova, Alexander Konstantinov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Irina Muravyova, Olga Ostroumova, Yelena Bondarchuk, Andrey Chernyshov, Viktor Verzhbitsky. "One night of love" was nominated for International Emmy in a "Best telenovela" category. It is the original television series.

Plot
Alexandra "Sasha" Zabelina (played by Svetlana Ivanova) is a young Russian aristocrat who lives on a small country estate with her father, Earl Illarion Zabelin (played by Aleksandr Filippenko). Sasha's mother was brutally killed in front of her eyes at a young age. After the tragedy she decided to become brave and strong in order to protect herself. She grew up reading stories about Nadezda Durova - woman, who dressed up like a soldier and went to war.

10 years later, Alexandra became a very beautiful young lady. She is smart, brave and kind-hearted. Her father decides to move to Saint Petersburg and Sasha joins him. When they were waiting for horse-change, Sasha heard a conversation between two men, who plan to dethrone Tsar. She finds a strange list with numbers and names and takes it with her. Strangers try to stop Alexandra, but she manages to escape. When she tells the story to her father and nanny Anna, they don't believe her.

Meanwhile, a handsome and rich knyaz (title in Russian society) Mikhail "Misha" Voronzov (played by Alexander Konstantinov) returns to Saint Petersburg from Europe. He has been absent for 2 years because of the scandal with woman. Now tse-tsarevich Alexander asks him to investigate the case about prospective plot against Tsar.

When Sasha comes to Saint Petersburg the two strangers decide to kill her. So they sent a man who should stole "the list" from her. The men threatens her with a knife. And at this moment Mikhail Voronzov saves her life. That is how Alexandra and Mikhail meet. But Sasha tells Mikhail that she could protect herself without his help.

After that Sasha decides to take fencing lessons. But the teacher Mr.Sharl do not want to teach a girl. So Alexandra dresses up like a boy in order to take this lessons.

Alexandra and Mikhail meet again in weapon shop and... argue. But it is obvious that something happened between Sasha and Misha. And this is the beginning of their great love story.

Cast

 * Svetlana Ivanova - Princess Alexandra Zabelina (after marriage - Princess Alexandra Vorontsova) - daughter of Elizabeth and Illarion Zabelins, cousin and best friend of Olga Orlova, cousin of aunt Alexei Orlova, is also friends with Nadezhda Orlova. Before arriving in St. Petersburg, the idea of ​​marriage did not interest her, but then Sasha very much, at first glance, fell in love with Mikhail Vorontsov and happily married him, later she gave birth to him - a son - Mikhail and a daughter - Alexandra.
 * Alexander Konstantinov - Prince Mikhail Vorontsov - the son of Pavel Vorontsov, cousin of Ivan Vorontsov, best friend of Nikita Orlov and Tsarevich Alexander, also a close friend of Dmitry Ignatiev. Mikhail studied at a military school with Nikita Orlov, Dmitry Ignatiev and Ilya Urusov, but with the latter he was not friendly. Misha used to be a womanizer and vowed to never marry, but then, by the ears, at first glance, he fell in love with Alexander Zabelin and now he is happily married to her. After a while, they had a son - Michael and a daughter - Alexander.
 * Artyom Osipov - Count Dmitry Ignatiev - the son of Sophia and Anton Ignatiev, the best friend of Mikhail Vorontsov, the adjutant wing of Nicholas I. Dmitry studied at a military school with Mikhail Vorontsov, Nikita Orlov and Ilya Urusov, but he was not friends with the latter. Mitya was, at first glance, madly in love with Alexander Zabelin/Vorontsov. He looked after her, at first she refused him, then she accepted his courtship and even promised to marry him, but then she suddenly married Mikhail Vorontsov and it turns out that all this time she had a serious affair with Misha. After the alleged death of Mikhail, Sasha told Dmitry that she was expecting a child from Mikhail, and her father was in prison, but Mitya said that he would take care of Sasha. Later, Dmitry proposed to Alexandra to marry him, but Sasha admitted to him that she still loved Mikhail very much and would never change his memory. Mitya still offered to get married in order to take care of Alexandra’s child. Sasha promised to think, but after thinking she accepted Dmitry’s offer. They merried. Mitya understood that Alexandra did not love him in return and suffered because of this. Sasha tried to fall in love with Dmitry, but was never able to forget Misha. Michael returned to her and Mitya realized that Alexandra and Michael should be together and stepped aside. Then Dmitry mutually fell in love with Ekaterina Urusova and is very happy with her.
 * Tatyana Kazyuchits - Princess Ekaterina Urusova - the daughter of Fedor and Daria Urusov, the single-mother (mother) younger sister of Ilya Urusov. Katya's first love was Prince Anton Volkonsky, whom she dreamed of marrying, but then Anton left her, although he still loved her. Catherine suffered for 3 years because of their separation. After 3 years, she - without reciprocity, at first glance, was madly in love with Mikhail Vorontsov and suffered greatly because of this. Michael took care of her, she accepted his courtship and believed in him, but it turns out that he was courting her all this time, only fulfilling the task of Tsarevich Alexander, and all this time he was very in love with Alexander Zabelin and was going to marry her. After the wedding with Sasha, Misha, confident that Sasha had betrayed him, began to look after Katya again and even promised to marry her and she believed him, and he carried out an assignment of national importance, then he admitted that he did not love her and could not do it marry. Catherine suffered greatly. Then, when Mikhail left her house and came there again, he informed Katya that he had returned to his wife. Catherine was very jealous of him to Alexandra and suffered from the fact that her love is not mutual. Now Katya finally fell in love with Dmitry Ignatiev and was happy with him.
 * Ilya Kozin - Prince Nikita Orlov - the elder brother of Nadezhda Orlova, husband of Olga Orlova, father of Alexei Orlov, the best friend of Mikhail Vorontsov, is also friends with Tsarevich Alexander. Nikita studied at a military school with Mikhail Vorontsov, Dmitry Ignatiev and Ilya Urusov, but he was not friends with the latter.
 * Anastasia Makeeva - Princess Olga Orlova - cousin and best friend of Alexandra Zabelina\Vorontsova, niece of Elizabeth Zabelina, wife of Nikita Orlova, mother of Alexei Orlov, best friend of Nadezhda Orlova.
 * Kirill Grebenshchikov - father John - a monk (in fact, Prince Anton Volkonsky) - in the past, he loved Ekaterina Urusova very much and dreamed of marrying her, he was also the best friend of Dmitry Sitnikov, but after being angry with anger, accidentally killed him, abandoned Katya, although he still loved her and became a monk in order to atone his sin for the rest of his life. Now Anton is unrequitedly passionately in love with Olga Orlova.
 * Ivan Nepomnyashchy - Prince Alexei Orlov - the son of Olga and Nikita Orlov, nephew of Nadezhda Orlova, cousin of Alexandra Zabelina/Vorontsova.
 * Anna Zdor - Princess Nadezhda Orlova - the younger sister of Nikita Orlova, aunt Alexei Orlova, Olga Orlova's best friend, is also friends with Alexandra Zabelina\Vorontsova. Nadia used to be the bride of Count Nikolai Buturlin and loved him madly, and he had an affair with another woman, married, but she did not want to leave her husband. Nikolai often told Nadia that he was busy and would not be able to see her, in fact - he had a date with that married woman. When Nadia found out everything, burning with jealousy, she went and told the husband of this woman that his wife was cheating on him. The husband of this woman challenged Count Buturlin to a duel and shot him during this duel. After the death of Nikolai Buturlin, Nadia was worried and regretted that she had told everything about the husband of that woman. Then Prince Grigory Vasilchikov looked after her and she was already ready to answer his feelings if she had not met a man like two drops of water, looking like Nikolai Buturlin. She began to think that Count Buturlin survived the duel. Then I realized that that person was not Nikolai, but a tradesman Sergei Derevyanko. Hope is in love with him, in her ears, at first sight, later - happily married him. At first, Nikita was against their marriage, but after Sergei saved his life, he began to support him. At first, Nadia was offended by Seryozha that he had tricked her from telling the truth about her past, but then she forgave him and decided to go with him to the Irkutsk province.
 * Mikhail Zui - Prince Grigory Vasilchikov - adjutant of Nicholas I. He is in love with Nadezhda Orlova - without mutual feeling. He looked after her, but for a long time could not see her because of the frequent assignments of Nicholas I. Then he left on behalf of Nicholas I to Moscow and transmitted a letter from Nadezhda through Pavel Obolensky. In this letter, he apologized that he could not personally say goodbye to Nadya and hoped that Nadezhda would write to him, but Nadya, after reading his letter, did not write an answer to him and tore this letter apart.
 * Nikita Tarasov - Prince Ivan Vorontsov - the son of Konstantin Vorontsov, cousin of Mikhail Vorontsov, husband of Elena Vorontsova. He is passionately, but unrequitedly in love with her, for the sake of her he expelled Alexandra Vorontsova and her father with her maid Anna from his cousin's house. Jealous of Elena to Tsarevich Alexander, with whom she cheated on him, he replaced Alexander’s daughter — the daughter of his cousin and his wife — his cousin, so that everything would work out for Alexander and his wife, Princess Maria and Elena, and the daughter of Alexander would stop Ivan threw Princess Mary into the monastery, embroidering the monogram I.V. on the blanket in which the baby was wrapped. When the girls were replaced, Ivan begged Lena to go abroad with the money that Mikhail Vorontsov gave them, but Elena slandered Ivan the police and that Vanya was beating her and Ivan was taken to the police station, and Lena took the money for herself.
 * Elena Kutyreva - Princess Elena Vorontsova - the wife of Ivan Vorontsov, a former maid. She married Ivan without love to give birth to a child from him, but she lost the child. Lena is a mercenary, cruel woman who loves money, hates living in poverty, and she is missing something all the time. Constantly stole various things from the house of Mikhail Vorontsov. At some point, madly in love with Tsarevich Alexander, seduced him and cheated on him with Van. When Alexander found out that Elena, with the help of a solicitor, had forged the will of Mikhail Vorontsov, he drove her out of the palace.
 * Irina Muravyova - Anna Osipova (after marriage - Princess Anna Zabelina) - serf of the Zabelins. After the mother of Alexandra Zabelina/Vorontsova died. Anna, along with Illarion Zabelin, raised Sasha. Anna was secretly in love with Illarion for a long time, then happily married him.
 * Alexander Filippenko - Prince Illarion Zabelin - widower of Elizabeth Zabelina, father of Alexandra Zabelina\Vorontsova. He loved Elizabeth very much. After her murder, after some time, she mutually madly fell in love with her serf servant - Anna Osipova, with whom he raised Sasha. Having become elderly - happily married Anna.
 * Lyudmila Drebneva - Countess Sofya Ignatieva - widow of Anton Ignatiev, mother of Dmitry Ignatiev, best friend of Daria Urusova.
 * Olga Ostroumova - Princess Daria Urusova - the widow of Fyodor Urusov, the mother of Ilya and Ekaterina Urusov, the best friend of Sofia Ignatieva. In her youth, Daria and Nicholas I had a romance: they were madly in love, but were forced to leave, since the imperial family would not have blessed their marriage, later Nicholas I fell in love with another and married her. Daria suffered very much because of this, but later - she lost all her feelings and her love turned into hatred and she tried to take revenge on Nicholas I. Daria was accidentally killed by Olga Orlova.
 * Alyona Bondarchuk - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova - wife of Nicholas I, mother of Tsarevich Alexander and her other children. Then she became the grandmother of Grand Duchess Alexandra Romanova.
 * Victor Verzhbitsky - Emperor Nicholas I Romanov - husband of Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova, father of Tsarevich Alexander and his other children. In his youth, Nicholas I and Daria Urusova had a romance: they loved each other very much, but were forced to leave, since the imperial family would not have blessed their marriage, later Nicholas I fell in love with Alexander Fedorovna Romanova and married her. Then Nicholas I became the grandfather of Grand Duchess Alexandra Romanova.
 * Tatyana Korsak - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna Romanova - wife of Tsarevich Alexander. After some time, Mary gave birth to a daughter - Alexandra and is incredibly happy.
 * Ilya Noskov - Tsarevich Alexander - the son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fedorovna, the best friend of Mikhail Vorontsov, also a friend - Nikita Orlov.
 * Andrey Chernyshov - Peter Kaulbakh (false-Konstantin Romanov). He impersonated the son of the elder brother of Nicholas I - Konstantin Romanov and his ex-wife Juliana Koburgskaya (Julianna-Henrietta-Ulrika-Saksen-Koburg- Saalfeldskaya) (after the adoption of Orthodoxy - the Grand Duchess Anna Fedorovna Romanova), as well as the nephew of Nikolai Romanov and two cousins brother of Tsarevich Alexander.
 * Dmitry Volkov - Prince Ilya Urusov - the son of Daria Urusova and Nicholas I, the half-father (father), the elder brother of Tsarevich Alexander and his brothers and sisters, the unified (mother) elder brother of Ekaterina Urusova. Ilya studied at a military school with Mikhail Vorontsov, Nikita Orlov and Dmitry Ignatiev, but did not make friends with them. He led the military regiment, now retired. Due to dirty gossip about his origin, Ilya entered into a conspiracy against the emperor to avenge all this. After the plot was uncovered, Ilya was sent to prison. Then he will be sent to hard labor in the Irkutsk province for 10 years.
 * Konstantin Yudaev/Ivan Vasiliev - Count Nikolay Buturlin Derevyanko - was the bridegroom of Nadezhda Orlova, at the same time he had an affair with another woman - married, but she did not want to leave her husband. Nikolai often told Nadia that he was busy and would not be able to see her, in fact - he had a date with that married woman. When Nadia found out everything, burning with jealousy, she went and told the husband of this woman that his wife was cheating on him. The husband of this woman challenged Count Buturlin to a duel and shot him during this duel.
 * Konstantin Yudaev/Ivan Vasiliev - Sergey Derevyanko - tradesman. He is madly in love with Nadezhda Orlova, later - happily married her. He turned out to be a criminal for this he was imprisoned, then he was sent to hard labor in the Irkutsk province for 5 years. Nadia decided to go with him in order to live in the Irkutsk province, with the goal of following her convicted husband.
 * Anatoly Zavyalov - Prince Pavel Obolensky - the son of the Prince and Princess Obolensky, adjutant of Nicholas I. He is unrequitedly in love with Nadezhda Orlova. He looked after her, Nadia accepted his courtship. Pavel was going to marry her, but then - Hope refused him. Later he learned that Nadia went to Pavlovsk to get married in the church with Sergei Derevyanko. After that, Pavel arrived in that city, but when he went to the church of Nadezhda and Sergey was no longer there and they already managed to get married.
 * Lyudmila Gavrilova - Princess Obolenskaya (wife of Prince Obolensky, mother of Pavel Obolensky).
 * Peter Chernyaev - Prince Obolensky - husband of Princess Obolenskaya, father of Pavel Obolensky.
 * Roman Shcherba - assistant to Pavel Obolensky.
 * Ravshana Kurkova, the gypsy Leila, helps Nikita Orlov in the investigation, she is also unrequitedly in love with him.
 * Valery Garkalin - Monsieur Charles (fencing teacher).
 * Vladislav Bokovin - Arkady Mureev - lieutenant.
 * Vladimir Bolotnov - Athanasius - butler of Mikhail Vorontsov.
 * Tamara Spiricheva - Agrafena - aunt of Ekaterina Urusova.
 * Irina Shipova - Alexandra Zabelina/Vorontsova - in childhood.
 * Ioannina Studilina - Polina - a serf girl in the Urusov country estate, former lover of Peter Kaulbakh.
 * Sergey Pioro - Stepan - the servant of Daria and Ilya Urusov.
 * Raisa Konyukhova - Anfisa - serf servant in the Orlov mansion.
 * Yaroslav Ros - gypsy Ivka.
 * Boris Nikiforov is a priest.
 * Sergey Barinov is a policeman.
 * Alexander Grishin is a prison guard.
 * Samvel Asatryan - Baron.
 * Igor Afanasyev - actor.
 * Grigory Zhuravlev is a servant.
 * Maxim Titov - envoy of Emperor Nicholas I.
 * Leonid Kalarash - Prince Shuvalov - the husband of Princess Shuvalova.
 * Ekaterina Astakhova - Natalie - maid of honor.
 * Alexander Soldatkin - Matvey - the groom in the Orlovs' country estate, a former friend of Alexandra Zabelina/Vorontsova.
 * Galina Churilina - Martha - former Buturlin cook.
 * Alexander Kudinov - Zakrevsky - general, head of the military regiment.