This is a summary of the first episode of **The Sniffer**, a Russian crime drama series.
- The episode begins with a ceremony where the German Ministry of Culture returns a painting by Ilya Repin, a famous Russian artist, to Russia as an act of goodwill.
- A man with a heightened sense of smell, who identifies himself as an SBI (Special Bureau of Investigation) expert, interrupts the ceremony and claims that the painting is a fake.
- The man is actually a private investigator who uses his olfactory abilities to solve cases. His name is **The Sniffer** and he works with his friend **Victor Lebedev**, a colonel in the SBI.
- The Sniffer's claim causes an international scandal and he is hired by the German Embassy to prove his allegation. He also faces a lawsuit from the Germans for slander.
- The Sniffer and Victor investigate the origin of the fake painting and discover that it was made with a special oil paint that ages rapidly and cracks. They trace the paint to a Scientific Research Institute where they learn that it was commissioned by a former Ministry of Transport official named **Zasmagin**.
- Zasmagin changed his identity to **Pankov** and opened an art gallery where he sold forgeries of famous paintings. He worked with **Surikov**, a headmaster of an art school who painted the copies, and **Tropinin**, the Deputy Minister of Culture who orchestrated the scheme.
- The Sniffer and Victor expose Tropinin and Pankov and recover the original Repin painting. They also find out that there are many other forgeries in Russian museums that need to be replaced.
- The Sniffer becomes an official civilian liaison for the SBI and continues to work with Victor on other cases. He also develops a romantic interest in **Svetlana**, a psychologist who studies his condition.
Some possible facts that can be extracted from the text are:
- The text is a transcript of a Russian TV series called "The Sniffer".
- The main character of the series is a man who has an enhanced sense of smell and uses it to solve crimes.
- The text covers the first episode of the series, in which the sniffer exposes a forgery of a painting by Ilya Repin.
- The sniffer works as a private investigator and collaborates with his friend Victor Lebedev, who is a colonel in the Special Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
- The sniffer also visits a psychotherapist named Svetlana, who is interested in his condition and his personal life.
- The forgery was orchestrated by Tropinin, the Deputy Minister of Culture, who used a special paint that aged quickly and cracked.
- The sniffer was hired by the German Embassy to investigate the case, but was later sued by them for slander.
- The sniffer managed to prove his claim with the help of Lebedev and a former Ministry of Transport official named Zasmagin, who changed his name to Pankov and opened an art gallery.