The era of Stalin is a difficult, the terrible page of our story, which is still comprehended, including cinematograms. The authors of the series "Vlasik. Stalin's shadow "tried to show what happened in those days, the eyes of Nikolai Vlasik - the head of the guard of the leader of the peoples.
When working on a scenario, the authors of the series partially relied on the personal diaries of their main character, who handed the daughter of Vlasik, Nadezhda Nikolaevna. "We somehow removed the hope of Nikolaevna for the cycle of documentaries. She lived in a small apartment, two steps from the Metro Station "Belorusskaya". She lived was not born, he was very bad. They began to help her, take care, - recalls producer and co-author Scenario Alexey Pimanov. - And a few months before death, she called me, asked to come. Sidim, talk, and she suddenly says: "Alexey, go to the chestnik. There is a suitcase without a handle, dermatine. " I open it, and there are smaller notes, scraps of papers with pencil marks, napkins, on which there were records. I ask: "What is it?" And she says: "Father's diaries." She did not show them fifty years, I was the first to hold them in my hands. " "These diaries were difficult to decipher, because Vlasik wrote very fragmentary, and it was necessary to guess who he had in mind," Pimanov continues. - Now the diaries are in the archive of the Federal Security Service. "
Olga Pogodina played in the series Asya - the only and true love of Nicholas Vlasik
The main role in the series was performed by Konstantin Milovanov. "Before the start of the filming of this film, I did not have the idea of who Nikolai Vlasik. Begin to prepare, read. Most of all I was helped by the memories of the daughter and Diaries of Vlasik, - admit an actor. - I especially remember the shooting in that we managed to visit those places where I may never have visited. And in the near dacha of Stalin, and at its cottage in Abkhazia. When I went on these floors, I was sitting on these chairs, I played billiards, which was played by Vlasik, all this helped me very much. "
"I play the only real love Vlasika - Asya. It was close to the top of power. And to Beria, and to the marout. These warring clans constantly faced each other. And my heroine falls precisely into such a political binder, which, in fact, broke her life, "says Actress Olga Pogodina. - Historical projects are always interesting, it's how to plunge into another era. And when you get into this world, you understand: at all times, life was about the same, unless the clothes changed or household amenities, and the morals, spiritual values remained almost unchanged. "
Part of the filming took place in the historical interiors of the neighboring cottages of Stalin and its residence in Abkhazia
"Vlasik in general the symbol of the era. Initially, an incredible takeoff, a lot of power, and then fall, prison, gulag, says Alexey Pimanov. "But when he was arrested in December 1952, he said:" Will not be me, there will be no Stalin! "In two months, Strange Death of Stalin followed, the secret of which historians are still unraveling."