
A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison her. An old man named Prokhorov helps him to get rid of his wife by lecturing about famous deaths caused by poisoning. It is from Prokhorov we learn that many famous and not so famous like Cesare Borgia and Caligula were killed as they were poisoned.
Volkov
Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
Katya
Arnold Sharapov
Zoe Filimonova
Evgenia Ivanovna Holodkova
Cesare Borgia
Socrates
Artaxerxes
Lucretia Borgia