Daddy's Daughters/Characters

Sergei Vasnetsov (Andrei Leonov)


The family patriarch, a therapist trying to raise five daughters by himself.


 * Bumbling Dad
 * The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: The family psychotherapist's own family is dysfunctional.
 * Disappeared Dad: Briefly.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: His face says it all.
 * Doting Parent
 * Henpecked Husband
 * He's Back: Returns for Dasha's wedding.
 * Kavorka Man: He may not be attractive, but women sympathize with him, and he often become close to his clients.
 * Love Will Lead You Back
 * Parent with New Paramour
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Put on a Bus: When Ludmila returned and he went to Krasnoyarsk.
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Wife

Ludmila Vasnetsova (Nonna Grishaeva)


Sergei's wife, who left him years ago. She returned, and they are now back together.


 * Bourgeois Bohemian
 * Christmas Cake
 * Doting Parent: When she returns.
 * Hot Mom
 * Love Will Lead You Back
 * Missing Mom
 * Mysterious Parent: Until she returned.
 * Parent with New Paramour
 * Parental Abandonment
 * She's Back: Returns for the New Year.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
 * Willy Wonka Divorced Parent

Maria Vasnetsova (Miroslava Karpovich)


The eldest daughter, considered a beautiful heartbreaker. Her dream is to become an actress and marry a rich man.


 * All Women Love Shoes: Shoes and jeans.
 * Alpha Bitch: Initially.
 * Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Has worn all three hair colors at various times.
 * Brainless Beauty: At first.
 * Character Development
 * Damsel in Distress: Here.
 * The Ditz
 * Dumb Blonde: For a while.
 * The Chick
 * Hidden Depths: Becomes a teacher at the school.
 * Informed Attractiveness
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Motor Mouth
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Non Royal Princess: The bitchier kind.
 * Poster Gallery Bedroom: Posters of her favorite singer.
 * Princesses Prefer Pink: Well, since Masha thinks of herself as the princess of the family....
 * Sensual Slavs
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Unlimited Wardrobe

Darya Vasnetsova Vasilieva (Anastasia Sivaeva)


The second daughter, a Goth who later goes through an identity crisis. She marries Venik and now has a daughter.


 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Venik.
 * Companion Cube: Her hamster.
 * Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle: Goths are not common in Russia, and Darya's Gothic fashions show the audience just how much Daddy's Daughters borrows from American TV shows.
 * Emotionless Girl
 * Fairytale Wedding Dress: She finally wears white.
 * Granola Girl: Briefly.
 * Hot Mom
 * In-Series Nickname: Tarantula.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Perky Goth
 * Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Left the Goths when they became an official movement, was briefly a hippie, and has since become more conventional.
 * Shiny Midnight Black
 * Shout-Out: She used to dress like Kiss and listened to Rammstein a lot.
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Will They or Won't They?
 * Woman in Black

Eugenia Vasnetsova (Darya Melnikova)


The third daughter, initially a rough and athletic Tomboy, but she later met a boy and smoothed out. She has become the press secretary of the Prime Minister.


 * Bifauxnen: In her athletic outfit.
 * Demoted to Extra
 * Green Eyes
 * Hair of Gold
 * The Ladette
 * Mouthy Kid
 * One of the Boys
 * Put on a Bus: Went to America, then more recently became press secretary of the Prime Minister.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: See here.
 * She's All Grown Up
 * Sweet Polly Oliver: Dressed as a boy in Episode 35 to help the school team win a football match.
 * Tomboy
 * Unkempt Beauty

Galina Sergeyevna Vasnetsova (Liza Arzamasova)


The fourth daughter, a Child Prodigy who knows several languages. She was going to study at the police academy, but later decided to study science instead.


 * Adorkable
 * Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Dresses like someone from the 1990s or earlier.
 * Child Prodigy: IQ of 173.
 * Cool Shades: Worn during her robot dance in Episode 14.
 * Cute Bookworm
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Hair Decorations
 * Extreme Multilingual: Knows ten languages, including Russian, English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Latin, and Icelandic.
 * Fair Cop: Here.
 * Full-Name Basis: A Russian variation - she is nearly always referred to, even by her parents, as "Galina Sergeyevna", a form of address normally reserved for authority figures.
 * Glasses Girl: Here.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hollywood Tone Deaf
 * Iconic Item: Glasses and a book.
 * Insistent Terminology: Galina Sergeyevna.
 * Kawaiiko
 * Moe Moe
 * Motor Mouth
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Nerd Glasses
 * Nice Hat: Worn at the police academy.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Smart People Wear Glasses
 * Teen Genius
 * Wise Beyond Her Years
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Here and here.

Polina Vasnetsova (Katya Starshova)
The youngest daughter, nicknamed "Pugovka" ("button"). She often inadvertently comes up with witty sayings to help the adults resolve the plot of the episode.


 * Cheerful Child
 * Children Are Innocent
 * Constantly Curious
 * Hair of Gold
 * Moe Moe
 * Kawaiiko

Pavel Sergeevich Vasnetsov (Yevgeny Kolpakov)
The long-awaited son of Sergei and Ludmila, Pavel was born in early 2011.


 * Babies Ever After
 * Babies Make Everything Better

Alexei Vasnetsov (Mikhail Kokshenov)
Sergei's father.

Nina Vasnetsova (Nina Ruslanova)
Sergei's mother.


 * The Danza

Pavel Alexeevich Vasnetsov (Actor not known)
Sergei's brother, who has five sons.

Anatoly Tyutchev (Fyodor Dobonravov)
Sergei's cousin, a poet/singer who is often in and out of prison.


 * Drop-In Character
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: He visits the girls in school and gets them to sing a criminal song.

Antonina Semyonova (Olga Volkova)
Mother of Ludmila.

Ilya Polezhaykin (Mikhail Kazakov)
Galina's classmate and boyfriend. He is a big, strong, cheerful young man who enjoys sports. However, he is the worst student in the class, and has been held back. It is only thanks to Galina that he can pass the class, and he also is quick to protect Galina. Later on, he and Galina split up, and he falls in love with Katya.


 * Book Dumb
 * Dumb Muscle
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He looks to be nearly twice the size of Galina.

Benjamin "Venik" Vasiliev
Dasha's boyfriend, now husband, and father of their child.


 * Belligerent Sexual Tension
 * Hot Dad
 * Will They or Won't They?