Based on several of Russian author Aleksandr I. Kuprin's novels, including 'Poznanie (The Interrogation)' (1894), 'Na perelome (At the Turning Point)' (1900), 'Poedinok (The Duel)' (1905), and the autobiographical 'Yunkera (The Cadets)' (1928), this 8-episode mini-series follows young Cadet Aleksandrov (Ilya Iosifov) through his training at the Alexander Military Academy in czarist Russia during the years just before the October Revolution of 1917. Although the cadets are told that they are R ...[Read Story ]