Secrets of Mrs. Kirsanova (Season 1)

Secrets of Mrs. Kirsanova (2018) is a Russian historical detective series you can watch online on iFILM, starring Olga Lerman and directed by Sergei Mezentsev and Vitaly Bordachyov.

Larisa Kirsanova is twenty-eight when her fiancé disappears on what was supposed to be their wedding day — no note, no explanation. She doesn't sit and wait. She leaves for the Russo-Turkish War, spends months as a field nurse near the front, and comes back a different person. Back in her provincial hometown at the end of the nineteenth century, she takes a post as a mathematics teacher — and starts solving crimes. The cases give her a use for the methodical thinking she developed keeping count in a war zone, and the small-town setting means everyone has something to hide.

Yevgenia Simonova and Anton Batyrev appear in supporting roles. The series works because its central character isn't a natural-born detective — she's a woman who got through something difficult and came out the other side with a clearer head than most. Stream Secrets of Mrs. Kirsanova online on iFILM.