Моя прекрасная няня - Season 1

In this episode, we get to know the characters of the series. The main character, Viktoria Prutkovskaya, will find a new job and a new home. At first, working as a clothes salesperson in a boutique for her boyfriend Anton, by the end of the episode she will become the nanny for the children of the famous music producer Maxim Shatalin. Shatalin's butler, Konstantin Nikolaevich, will become her good friend almost from the first minutes of meeting Vika, and the children — Masha, Ksyusha, and Denis — will notice the difference between the old nannies and the new one.

Konstantin Nikolaevich is ill and can't cook, so Victoria orders pizza for lunch. It's brought by Zhora – the same young man who Masha likes and with whom she kissed on the balcony in her father's office. He invites Masha on a date. Victoria persuades Maxim Viktorovich to let the girl go, but he agrees on one condition: if Vika accompanies Masha.

Denis heard Vika and her closest friend Vera reminiscing fondly about the "bad boys" from their own school days. Taking all this into account, he tries to emulate those guys, which is why he smokes at school and is caught in the act by the principal. Vika is eventually forced to tell Maxim about the incident. And right away she admits that she herself is partly to blame for what happened. They come up with a punishment for Denis: he has to spend some time with Vika's elderly grandmother, Nadezhda Mikhailovna, who smokes one cigarette after another. Then he will be able to see for himself what smoking can do to a person.

Zhanna Arkadyevna is Shatalin's business partner and is envious of the relationship that has developed between Vika and the children. She decides to take part in their upbringing and takes the children to the zoo.
Ksyusha thinks that Vika only cares about them because she's paid to do so. So she decides to run away from home and spend Vika's day off with her to test her hypothesis. Maxim Viktorovich meets Vika at her relatives' wedding to pick up Ksenia. Ksyusha accuses Vika of only caring about them for the money, and Vika has to convince her that she really loves them. And not at all for the money.

To get the "star" of TV series Boris Storm for his project, Maxim agrees to "lend" him Vika, although he is tormented by a strong sense of guilt. Vika doesn't suspect anything and is actually very pleased and thrilled at the opportunity to spend an evening with the "star." She agrees to have lunch with him, but rejects his advances and runs away. Storm refuses to film, and Maxim Viktorovich breathes a sigh of relief.
 

Masha was invited to join the Moscow elite women's club "Socialites." Vika supports her in this, as she believes it will allow Masha to find friends. At the same time, when Maxim finds out that a party will be held at their home with the participation of such "high and critical" society, he begins to prepare Vika for this event together with Konstantin. Everything starts out like something out of Bernard Shaw — the gait, the speech, the diction — but it develops and ends in a way that's anything but classic.

When Klavdia, a famous model and Maxim Shatalin's former love interest, appears in the house, the whole family's life becomes hectic. Konstantin Nikolaevich cannot forgive Klavdia for the fact that she once broke Maxim's heart. Jean suddenly feels that she no longer has a place in Shatalin's life, and when Klava invites Masha to work as a model at her agency, Vika begins to worry that Masha has found a new best friend. When Klavdia discovers that Masha has no talent for modeling, she treats her rather cruelly. And then everyone begins to realize that it's far more important to be a person with a beautiful soul than just to be physically attractive!

Maxim's sister Irina comes to visit him with her fiancé, the Lithuanian baron Janis. The proactive Vika suggests holding the wedding at Shatalin's house. Everyone agrees. But then Vika finds out that Irina is secretly in love with her driver, Sergei, who brought them from Riga to Moscow. Sergei is also madly in love with Irina. It's only on the wedding day that Victoria manages to convince Sergei to propose to Irina.

As she is dying, Vika's great‑aunt bequeaths her a fur coat made of fox fur, but Vika refuses because she has become opposed to wearing natural fur (because of Masha). Love cannot forgive Vika for refusing the inheritance.

Vika is trying to impress her relatives by pretending that she is married to the outstanding producer Shatalin, and not just a nanny. She is, however, forced to say that Konstantin Nikolaevich is Shatalin, and Shatalin is their manager, who is also the butler — Konstantin. But, to her misfortune, everything coincides with a review of Konstantin's work. He "applied" to participate in the "Best Butler of the Year" contest, and the contest jury comes to their house.

The premiere date for Maxim Shatalin's new musical has been set. All of Vika's numerous relatives have gathered to attend this significant event for Maxim. Zhanna Arkadyevna also demonstrated "organizational prowess" and sent small gifts to all the music critics. But the most spiteful and influential critic, Zvonarev, returned his with a rather caustic comment. By a happy coincidence, Zvonarev's son, Pavlik, attends the same art studio as Ksyusha. Zhanna's plan — to befriend Zvonarev Sr. through his son — ends in a resounding failure: Vika hits the boy on the head with a loaf of bread!

Anton, Vika's former fiancé, proposes to her. It comes as a complete surprise to Viktoria. After much deliberation and emotional turmoil, Vika agrees to marry him and leave the Shatalin family. Naturally, Zhanna is thrilled. But Maxim, Konstantin, and the children really want her to stay. Vika has to make a choice between the man she once loved and the family she has grown attached to.

The plumbing in Shatalin's apartment breaks down, and Vika hires her elderly second cousin, who is a plumber, to fix it. Meanwhile, Maxim is holding auditions for corps dancers for his next musical. He's in a terrible mood because he couldn't even properly shave and wash his face in the early morning — there's no water. Masha wants to go to a party, but Maxim doesn't let her. Vika accidentally witnesses Denis kissing the granddaughter of her second cousin, the plumber. When she tells Maxim about this, it turns out that he is even proud of his son. Vika skillfully makes Shatalin understand that he judges his children's behavior using a "double standard." And Maxim, "feeling guilty," lets Masha go on a date.

Victoria takes the sick Ksyusha to the doctor, but there she unexpectedly finds out that she herself is actually sick – she needs her tonsils removed. She is admitted to the hospital for surgery. Zhanna is getting ready for the university reunion evening, and, of course, she really wants Maxim to accompany her. After all, she needs to show off in front of her jealous friends and rub their noses in it. He is torn between the desire to stay in the hospital with Vika and go to the evening with Zhanna so that he can dazzle her fellow students.

Zhanna Arkadyevna's father comes to the Shatalins' with tickets to a Nikolai Baskov concert. Zhanna does her best to pretend she doesn't want to go, and then Zhanna's father, Arkady, invites Vika. Victoria is delighted, but, knowing that Zhanna actually really wants to go, she insists that Zhanna go to the concert.

A fashionable theatre director is visiting Shatalin. Upon seeing Vika, he immediately offered her the role of Juliet in his avant‑garde production of Shakespeare's classic work. Maxim objects; as an expert, he immediately realized that his children's nanny was completely unsuitable for the role. Zhanna Izhevskaya finds out: the director gave Vika the role on purpose, so that the production would end in complete failure. In this original way, he wants to settle the score with the producer.

Maxim suggests that Victoria become the director of the play at Ksyusha's school. But when it comes down to it, he can't resist the professional temptation and starts staging the play himself. Because of his стремление to achieve "Broadway perfection," Maxim literally drives Ksyusha to despair. She only calms down when Maxim assures her that he loves her no matter what. It's just that not everyone is cut out to be an actress.

According to Vika, Ksyusha has already grown up, and it's time for her to stop dragging her plush teddy bear around everywhere. She's trying to wean Ksyusha off this "childish" habit. Masha wants to go to a rock concert, but she can't get tickets. At her request, Vika gets Maxim involved — she asks him to get the scarce tickets, using his connections in the show business. Vika meets a wealthy older man who proposes to her and takes her to Europe. But in the end, Vika comes to a simple conclusion: he's not right for her.

Masha can't pass the physical education test. Vika decides to help Masha deceive the teacher. But it turns out that Masha's physical education teacher is also Vika's former teacher, who knows Vika very well and remembers her mischief perfectly. Maxim invites an actor into his new play — an actor for whom he used to work as an administrator in his youth. The actor, out of old habit, torments Shatalin with his whims. And Maxim finally decides to reshape this relationship. Or, more precisely, to break it off.

Shatalin is celebrating the anniversary of his production company. There's a celebration at home. Vika suggests organizing a home concert to mark the occasion. Ksyusha wins some kind of children's phone quiz and is invited to take part in a TV program. But the condition for the performance is that she must do a number with one of the adults. Ksyusha persuades Viktoria to perform, although Zhanna Arkadyevna strongly opposes it.

Vika needs to leave for a couple of days to attend a wedding of some relative. But so that the children wouldn't be left unattended, she asked her mom to work as a nanny in her place. And then, to make matters worse, disinfection work started at Nadezhda Mikhailovna's house. So the grandmother had to stay with the Shatalins for those days. And she managed to give Masha such advice that it literally made Maxim Viktorovich's hair stand on end.