Nikolai Dostal is busy filming a 16-episode TV project for the channel "Russia" with the working title "The Split" ;. The film co-authored with Michael Kurayevs and is based on historical chronicles.
Set in the XVII century, during the transition from medieval Russia to Imperial Russia, during the schism of the Russian Orthodox Church. series heroes - Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, archpriest Habakkuk, Patriarch Nikon, boyarynya Morozov. The main theme of the series - an awareness of the terrible tragedy, which began in the XVII century and is still ongoing.
Filming will take place on the Kola Peninsula in Suzdal and Solovki. Approximately series will be released in theaters in March 2011.