The brilliant scientist Mikhail Rubin ends up in the camp because of a personal conflict with the People's Commissar Beria. But suddenly Rubin is released: his best friend and colleague Kirill Muromtsev recommended Mikhail to a secret project to create a Soviet atomic bomb, and the physicist's candidacy was approved by academician Kurchatov. Mikhail returns to Moscow and finds out that while he was in the camp, his fiancee Anna Galeeva managed to become Kirill's wife. To fulfill the task of the state, young scientists will have to work together, despite the personal drama.
A soldier who was considered dead for six years is quickly becoming the property of the media. The released Bragin is in a difficult psychological and physical condition, he is exhausted by torture and long years of solitary confinement.
In the country of materialists, Messing is listed as a hypnotist and magician, he is both an experimenter and a test subject, and unofficially becomes Stalin’s own astrologer. He survived two dictators and remained here as an “unusual magician,” a strange predictor whose predictions invariably came true. Wolf Messing kept secrets that there was no one to share with him, secrets that died with him. But the greatest secret was himself, the genius and charlatan Wolf Messing.
On June 27, 1942, a caravan of ships, codenamed PQ-17, left Reykjavik for Arkhangelsk. The route of the ships with cargo for Russia lay across the North Atlantic, where they were awaited by chilling winds, stormy seas and deadly attacks by German submarines and bombers.
They fell in love at first sight. But their path to happiness was very long. She will go against her father's wishes and go through a failed marriage. He will lose the closest person - his brother, go to prison, escape from it and almost die himself.
They will have to survive betrayal, the death of loved ones, separation…
In 15th Century Russia, the last Byzantium Princess, Sophia Palaiologina, moves from Rome to distant Moscow to marry Czar Ivan III. Destined to become the first influential female figure of the Russian Empire, Sophia overcomes court intrigue and betrayals, and helps Ivan consolidate the fragmented country, push Mongolian invaders out, and build the Kremlin, the most magnificent symbol of Russia.
Vasilisa Kremneva (Maria Kozhevnikova)-senior employee of the press center of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. She has just been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, but Vasilisa has long dreamed of doing real work. After all, instead of catching criminals, she is forced to work as a "talking head" - to tell the audience about the achievements of law enforcement agencies. However, despite all her requests, the authorities (Emmanuel Vitorgan) refuse to transfer the beauty, who has long become the" face " of the Committee, to operational work. Radically change the life of a girl helps the case.
The story begins in the spring of 1989, in the provincial town of Kasimov. Nina Golubeva graduates from school with a medal and dreams of becoming a fashion designer. The first serious love turns into a difficult ordeal – the guy leaves the girl pregnant. At the beginning of the "dashing 90s" Nina moves to inhospitable Moscow and learns to rely only on herself. She will have both recognition and success ahead of her, but happiness and true love will have to go a difficult way.
Year 1944. Shortly before the start of the Crimean Offensive, the ships of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and the Azov Naval Flotilla are in serious danger: German underwater commandos are preparing a large-scale operation to destroy the main combat units of the Soviet fleet in ports and roads. Aware of the seriousness of the threat, the Soviet command is developing an operation to detect and destroy the main base of the German underwater saboteurs.
Different as a plus and minus, the main characters intersect at first only for work, but soon a warm relationship arises between them. They have a different approach to investigating crimes, but the goal is the same. Sometimes it seems that they cannot exist side by side, but their agency successfully investigates a variety of cases – from spying on an unfaithful husband to solving crimes of national importance.
The year is 1982. Katya Koroleva, an athlete and a beauty, flees from the investigation to her sister in Moscow. Her sister gets her a job as a saleswoman at the Porcelain House store. Here Katya meets a KGB general, not knowing that her sister is cooperating with him. On the eve of Brezhnev's death, a real confrontation begins between two structures - the Interior Ministry and the KGB. Katya finds herself drawn into both this confrontation and a love triangle. And she is also overtaken by a criminal history, from which she escaped from Belgorod at one time.
The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gradually settles into a routine, Zuleikha starts to get to know her companions. The eclectic group includes a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, Zuleikha's husband's killer. A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina.