The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
| Directing | Dzhanik Fayziev | Director |
| Writing | Boris Akunin | Writer |
| Writing | Boris Akunin | Novel |
| Production | Leonid Vereshchagin | Producer |
| Crew | Andrey Feofanov | Compositor |
| Production | Konstantin Ernst | Producer |
| Production | Anatoliy Maksimov | Producer |
| Camera | Andrei Zhegalov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Maxim Pokrovsky | Music |
| Sound | Vsevolod Saksonov | Music |
| Sound | Goran Bregović | Music |
| Sound | Isaac Schwarts | Music |
| Art | Vladimir Svetozarov | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sergey Struchev | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Galina Korolyova | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Mikhail Buyanov | Sound Director |
| Production | Tamara Odintsova | Casting Director |
| Directing | Boris Levkovich | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Yuri Nikolayev | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Baghir Rafiyev | Additional Director of Photography |
| Crew | Valeriy Derkach | Stunt Coordinator |
| Visual Effects | Arman Yakhin | Visual Effects Director |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Polevoy | Visual Effects |
| Production | Nikita Mikhalkov | Producer |
