Daddy's Daughters

Daddy's Daughters (Russian: Папины дочки) is a Russian TV series produced in 2007—2013. Made by "Kinokonstanta" (episodes 1 to 60) and "Kostafilm" (since episode 61) film companies, it is characterized by various aspects of life — family, love, work, study, and friendship. The series has very high television ratings and has won multiple awards (received four "TEFI"). Unlike many other contemporary Russian sitcoms, this is an original series, and is not an adaptation of a foreign show.

Plot
Protagonist Sergei Vasnetsov (Andrei Leonov), a family therapist from a small private clinic, was in a deplorable situation. His wife, Lyudmila Vasnetsova (Nonna Grishayeva), left him for a Canadian hockey player. To make matters worse, his practice is all but collapsing, as all of his patients have left. His wife's departure leaves their five daughters (Miroslava Karpovich, Anastasia Sivayeva, Darya Melnikova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Ekaterina Starshova) in his care.

The main character, a family psychotherapist from a small private clinic, Sergei Vasnetsov, was in a deplorable life situation. His wife left him, leaving five daughters in his care: the eldest of them, Masha - a big fashionista and heartbreaker, meets with many guys; the second oldest, Dasha - a stereotypical gotessa; the third daughter is the athlete Zhenya, who is friends with the guys, and does not meet with them (though, later she has a boyfriend - Eugene); the fourth, Galina Sergeevna - scholar and child prodigy; the youngest daddy's daughter is Polina, nicknamed Pugovka, a creatively gifted girl. Girls are struggling to please their beloved dad. And Vasnetsov himself had a complete “blockage” at work and money problems, but one day there is a hope that luck will smile on him. And by the will of fate, his client becomes a rich lady from Rublevka Oksana Fedotova, who has everything except family happiness. Oksana dreams of a child, but her husband, the oligarch Vasily Fedotov, is categorically against it at first. Nevertheless, after a month of cohabitation and a platonic romance with Sergey, she finds out that she is pregnant, and the reconciled Fedotovs have a daughter, Alexander.

After a year and a half, right on New Year's Eve, the girls' mother Lyudmila returns (127 series, season 7). Sergei, not forgiving the betrayal of his wife, leaves for his parents in Krasnoyarsk. Meanwhile, mom remains with her daughters “one on one” and does not know how to approach them. During the time when she was gone, all the girls matured and changed: Galina Sergeyevna had a boyfriend (Ilya Polezhaykin), Masha entered Baumanka, Zhenya got a job in a sports store, Pugovka went to first grade.

A year later, Sergei returned to Moscow (270-271 episodes, 13-14 seasons). During this time, Galina Sergeyevna entered the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and began to take a direct part in the business of the oligarch Vasily, Masha became a physics teacher, Zhenya left to study in the USA (by then she had a new guy - Denis, with whom she had previously worked on Radio Active "), A young man, Kolya, appeared at Pugovka, Dasha ceased to be a Goth and married Veniamin. Dad arrived just at Dasha’s wedding, after which he was about to leave for Krasnoyarsk. But the sisters began to develop various plans on how to prevent him from leaving and reconcile with his mother.

Happy end in series 290: Sergey and Lyudmila reconcile, and a year later they have the long-awaited son Sasha; Dasha and Benjamin give birth to their first child - the daughter Sonya, Zhenya becomes the press secretary of the Prime Minister, Galina Sergeyevna leaves the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and is seriously engaged in science, and Masha starred in the comedy series about the Vasnetsov family.

In the 15-16 seasons, the events of the series are postponed several months ago. After the family reunion, the Vasnetsovs’s apartment became crowded, so Dasha with Venik and Galina Sergeyevna with Masha moved to rented apartments (291 series). While Venik experiences all the charms of Dasha’s pregnancy, serious love passions boil between Galina Sergeevna, Pavel Sergeevich, Masha and Felix. A characteristic feature of the 15-16 seasons is the presence of the narrator’s voiceover — each episode begins with the memoirs of Masha, Dasha, Galina Sergeevna or Pugovka.

In the 17-18 seasons, events that occurred in the Vasnetsov family after the happy ending of the 290 series were described. Six months have passed since the birth of Sonya, the daughter of Dasha and Venik. However, the Vasnetsovs celebrate this event not in its entirety - dad, mother, Pugovka and Zhenya in Krasnoyarsk, they left there temporarily while repairs are being made in their Moscow apartment. Soon, Masha has a new guy - paratrooper Vadim, and Galina Sergeyevna found a new friend - Maxim, who works with her at the same university.

The whole Vasnetsov family moves to a town called Lokhovo (Moscow region). The big country house in which they began to live is helped by the oligarch Fedotov to help Sergey Vasnetsov. With the move, the life of each member of the Vasnetsov family changes. Masha gets a job as an actress in a theater. Dasha is immersed in the family life and upbringing of Sonya's daughter. Galina Sergeevna begins to meet with the prince, and the present. Zhenya falls in love with the Vasnetsov family doctor, Yuri Antonov, but again she has to leave her father's house. Buttons are bought by a Bobtail dog named Graf. Dad and mother raise a young son, granddaughter and five daughters.

Cast

 * Andrei Leonov as Sergei Alekseyevich Vasnetsov
 * Nonna Grishayeva as Lyudmila Sergeyevna Vasnetsova
 * Miroslava Karpovich as Maria Vasnetsova
 * Anastasia Sivayeva as Darya Vasnetsova (Vasilyeva after marriage)
 * Darya Melnikova as Eugenia Vasnetsova
 * Elizaveta Arzamasova as Galina Sergeyevna Vasnetsova
 * Ekaterina Starshova as Polina Vasnetsova
 * Olga Volkova as Antonina Semyonovna Gordienko
 * Aleksandr Samoylenko as Andrei Antonov
 * Angelina Varganova† as Olga Antonova
 * Tatyana Orlova as Tamara Kozhemyatko
 * Alexander Oleshko as Vasily Fedotov
 * Maria Syomkina as Oksana Fedotova
 * Mikhail Kazakov as Ilya Polezhaykin
 * Philip Blednyi as Veniamin Vasilyev
 * Lyudmila Gavrilova as Mother in law