To define its virtues is not easy. Sure, the costumes, the rooms, the locations, large part of the performances are admirable. Sergey Bezrukov is just a hard , good worker for a role provocative in each aspect and the expectations of the public are not low. Sure, he seems a soft Boris Godunov. But it is only a version of good Tsar serving his people, the run of a modest man to the trust of the tsars and his ascension on the throne of Ruriks, the intense fragility of power and the difficult reign, the crisis beginning near his death and the come back to normal. Two virtues - the courage to not reduce the series at the life of Boris Godunov and the atmosphere of the last episode. The great good point - to give firce and soul and beauty to this huge project , with noble , high care to the details. It is not perfect and, sure, it is profound subjective, against the desire of objectivity. But it is more than decent and, at the end, indeed, it deserves applauses.