Torgsin — Season 1, Episode 5: Episode 5
Crime, Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 8 episodes
Episode synopsis
Bandits attack Lida and Aleksey. Only Serebrov's intervention helps save Lida from death. The heavily wounded Girya is on the verge of life and death. Lida remembers that she is the daughter of the bloody prince Akhrubekhov. Lida is tricked and kidnapped at the solemn reception. Yarovaya prepared a cruel revenge for her.
About Torgsin
It's 1934. The USSR lives brightly. The famine of 1932-33 is already over. The era of the Great Terror has not yet begun. And no one can even imagine a war approaching. It is urgent to buy equipment abroad but where to get gold and currency for industrialization? For these purposes throughout the country work Torgsins - shops for trade with foreigners - oases of prosperity and abundance, which Soviet people have not seen since pre-revolutionary times. In exchange for gold, precious stones, antiquities or currency, wealthy Soviet citizens can buy here delicacies and inaccessible imported goods. The poor come for sweets and cakes for the holiday. And the "disenfranchised", classed in the bourgeois class and deprived of food cards, carry the last rings and earrings to the Torgsin, in order not to die of hunger.