On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and...

A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old...

Once upon a time there lived a crazy sculptor who tried to make a sculpture of God, but the statue lacked something. As it turned out, it lacked a...

A heartbreaking story about the tragic love between a young soloist named Andrey Dymov and an equally young, but more experienced "Priestess of...

A retired KGB colonel, having collected at his country house a file cabinet of people who had cooperated with the Committee in previous years, calls...

When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love...

The tragic story of the life of revolutionary and romantic Nikolai Bukharin and his failed attempt to refute the charges against him. In parallel...