A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison her. An old man named Prokhorov helps him to get rid of his wife by lecturing about famous deaths caused by poisoning. It is from Prokhorov we learn that many famous and not so famous like Cesare Borgia and Caligula were killed as they were poisoned.
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Ignat Akrachkov
Volkov
Oleg Basilashvili
Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
Zhanna Dudanova
Katya
Aleksandr Bashirov
Arnold Sharapov
Olga Tumaykina
Zoe Filimonova
Lyudmila Kasatkina
Evgenia Ivanovna Holodkova
Andrei Panin
Cesare Borgia
Yuri Osherov
Socrates
Aleksandr Andrievich
Artaxerxes
Marina Kazankova
Lucretia Borgia
Ekaterina Klimova
Jeanne d'Albret
Ivan Lakshin
Nero
Фёдор Шеленков
Caligula
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Edma Costa
Vasiliy Dolbitikov
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