De gebeurtenissen van de serie ontvouwen zich tegen de achtergrond van de confrontatie tussen prins Alexander Menshikov, die daadwerkelijk het beheer van het land overnam tijdens het bewind van Catharina I en Peter II, en het hoofd van de geheime kanselarij, graaf Andrei Ushakov.
| Crew | Валерий Деркач | Stunt Coordinator |
| Production | Yulia Pogrebnyak | Casting Director |
| Sound | Natalya Altukhova | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Ageeva | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Lukyanchuk | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Production | Nikolay Surov | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Evgeniy Ryaskov | Lead Editor |
| Art | Yuriy Karasik | Production Design |
| Production | Sergey Smirnov | General Manager |
| Art | Ольга Карасик | Assistant Production Design |
| Crew | Igor Laptev | Animal Coordinator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyudmila Samorodova | Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Evgeniya Minaeva | Costumer |
| Crew | Andrey Ryklin | Martial Arts Choreographer |
| Visual Effects | Alexander Kuzmin | CGI Director |
| Editing | Sergey Smirnov | Lead Editor |
| Editing | Oleg Ryaskov | Lead Editor |
| Production | Svetlana Volkova | Finance |
| Production | Oleg Ryaskov | Producer |
| Production | Ekaterina Efanova | Producer |
| Sound | Антон Новосельцев | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Edgar Arens | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Anton Kostromin | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Oleg Ryaskov | Screenplay |
| Directing | Oleg Ryaskov | Series Director |
