The trailer for the fourth season of "Bridgerton" shows a woman in a Russian kokoshnik: a scandal erupts

A wave of outrage swept the web after Netflix published a trailer for the fourth season of the popular TV series "Bridgerton."

Thus, the official Instagram of the series showed footage from the set of the new season. Obviously, the action takes place during a masquerade ball. Ukrainian users were outraged by the appearance of a woman in a Russian kokoshnik.

"In case you didn't know, but in addition to useful 'quotas' like inclusivity, such as a guy in a wheelchair as a completely ordinary character in Sex Education, Netflix has one absolutely f*cking thing. Netflix shoves Russian culture everywhere. On topic and off topic. More often – off topic. It constructs a reality for you where you have to love Russian to fit in with Western civilization," Ksenia Semenova, acting rector of the National Aviation University, wrote on her Facebook page.

In the same post, Oksana Romaniuk, director of the Institute of Mass Information, noted that this particular episode should not be taken as a reflection of Netflix's official position on the aggressor country.

"Most likely, these are just random decisions of individual screenwriters who have fallen under historically strong Russian suggestions that have flourished in the West for decades," she said.

Under the trailer itself, angry comments have already appeared on the social network demanding that "this character" be cut from the series.

"Kokoshnik is a romanticization of the culture of a country that is committing genocide against the Ukrainian nation. It is very sad that the creators of this series do not understand this. I hope they will cut this character out," they wrote.

However, there has been no official response from the platform yet.

Earlier, OBOZ.UA reported that earlier the star of the "Bridgerton" series Nicola Coughlan, who played the main role in the third season – Penelope Featherington, aka Lady Whisledown – appeared in a luxurious look, which was completed by a hat from Ukrainian designer Ruslan Baginskiy.

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