The first three seasons were absolutely the same as the American ones, and only the name of celebrities and sport matches were changed. Their outfits, and even apartment, are very similar to those in the American series, which is weird because a struggling Russian family certainly doesn’t have a 2-floor apartment. And they are absolutely like their American originals. All they talk about is a lack of money, food and sex. He has a loafer wife, a sexy but dumb daughter, and a horny teenage son. Gena Bukin, a shoe salesman from Yekaterinburg, watches football and drinks beer. Six seasons of the Russian version were adapted, while the 7th season, aired in 2008, was written specially for the Russian nanny. The series was very popular in Russia, aired 2004-2006, five years after the original Nanny finished, and it brought fame to the nanny actress, Anastasiya Zavorotnyuk. In Russia, the Jewish-American nanny is instead a young Ukrainian woman with a strong accent and bright outfits. Does it remind you of anything? Sure, it’s the Russian version of The Nanny, an American sitcom aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999. She tried to sell cosmetics going door-to-door, but then was offered a job as a nanny in the home of a successful music producer. She broke up with her boyfriend, and then he fired her from her job.
