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Yuri Bragin, after a year-long business trip, where he, as part of an investigation team, was investigating a high-profile case, returns to St. Petersburg. When he returns, he learns that the current head of the First Investigation Department of the First Directorate of the State Investigation Department, Vadim Maltsev, is retiring. With a high degree of probability, it is Bragin who will be offered his place. But Yuri is not a careerist and the position of the boss is not the goal of his life. A talented investigator likes to do "live work" more. And now he is again sent on a business trip. This time in one of the cities of the Leningrad region, where two girls were killed with a difference of a week. Here, in a small town, everyone knows each other, and this complicates the search for the criminal.
The end of the 19th century. Ivan Khvatov is a former military man with a stern character who knows the value of human life. He works as a probation officer and is already thinking about leaving the service when his small town is shocked by the brutal murder of an entire Okhapkin family.
The series is set in the Russian Empire during the second half of the 19th century, against the backdrop of social upheaval and the Russo-Turkish War. At the heart of the story is the romance between Sofya, a student at the Institute for Noble Young Ladies, and the married Count Vorontsov.
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Thirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.
Biography of the outstanding statesman and commander Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin.
April 1959. Tanya Meshcherskaya, who grew up in an orphanage, goes to Moscow to her father, academician Viktor Ryabinsky. She has a letter with her and an antique brooch left over from her mother, which is being stolen. Vikenty is happy to find a daughter, as he loved her mother, but his wife takes Tanya with hostility. She tries to find out the details from Vikenty's sister, but she doubts that Vikenty is Tanya's father.
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. An eight part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" from Vronsky's point of view.
The KGB of the USSR is alarmed by the CIA's attempts to penetrate the secrets of the laboratory of Nobel laureate Nikolai Basov, which develops lasers for missile defense. KGB Colonel Valentin Simagin recruits Kim Nikanorov, a former laboratory employee turned currency speculator. It should become a channel of disinformation for Americans about the laboratory's activities.
Ivan Demarin, a young officer of Peter the First’s new guards, follows the Tsar’s order and goes to the frontier town of Tobolsk, deep in the Siberian forest. There Ivan falls in love for the first time and he and his regiment happen to be involved in conspiracy of local princes who hunt for gold in the town of Yarkand. His fort is surrounded by hordes of wild Dzungars and there is no one to call for help…
The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.
By overthrowing Napoleon, the Russian army changed the world. The time has come to change Russia itself. But the winners were divided. The authorities are slow, and a conspiracy is brewing among the young officers of the military elite. The opportunity to negotiate is decreasing every day. Their own become enemies. There comes a time of anger.
The film tells the story of the final years of the life of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia. It follows his devoted wife, Empress Alexandra; his son, Tsarevich Alexei; his daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia; and his brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich. The love and loyalty of those closest to Nicholas accompanied him through the most difficult years of his life. But they could not protect him from betrayal. The treachery and cowardice of members of the Romanov dynasty, politicians of every kind, and generals who had sworn allegiance to the throne ultimately led to the collapse of the empire. The story of the imperial family unfolds against the backdrop of a tragic turning point in history.
The year is 1983. Yulia Morozova studies foreign languages at Leningrad University, plays sports and does not even imagine that in the very near future she will have to work in the KGB. She looks very much like the deceased wife of American spy Jim Wheeler, who arrives in Leningrad to meet with an agent working at a secret research institute. Counterintelligence agents led by Volokhov are playing a complex espionage game, intending to identify a "mole" in the defense industry. To do this, they plan to introduce Yulia into the American's inner circle, hoping that he will take the bait.
Ivan Demarin, a young officer of Peter the Great's new guard, is sent by the tsar to the depths of Siberia — the border town of Tobolsk. Here, Ivan, along with his regiment, finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy of local princes hunting for the gold of Yarkand. Meanwhile, the fortress is surrounded by hordes of wild jungars, and there is nowhere to look for help.
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.
