Vadim Sosnin

Albina's life changes in an instant: under threat of arrest, her oligarch husband leaves her, taking all the money with him. All that remains of the spouse are two children and a Russian factory on the verge of bankruptcy. Now Albina is forced to forget about the luxurious life in a London mansion and remember what she was told in business courses. Just to start life from scratch in a provincial town without a penny in her pocket, no one taught her.

The Klyachev family lives in the picturesque town of the Golden Ring of Russia: writer Anton Pavlovich, his son Leonid, a blacksmith, and grandson Prometheus, who works as a lifeguard. The Larin family lives in the same city: active taxi driver Valentina Petrovna, her daughter Sveta, a tour guide, and an enterprising granddaughter, artist Yulia. Prometheus is convinced that Julia is a fraud. He uncovers one of her scams and turns Julia over to the police. The meeting of young people becomes fateful not only for themselves, but also for their relatives, who no longer hoped for personal happiness.

Budding metropolitan investigator Oleg Khlebnikov kills a criminal during detention. Oleg is sure that the villains should be punished not only by the court. The deceased turns out to be a media person, and in order to hush up the scandal, his death is called an accident, and Khlebnikov is sent to the taiga city to sit out the watch, and soon return to Moscow. It won't work on a quiet business trip.

In the center of the story are three main characters - Lieutenant Colonel Soshnikov, Captain Muravyov and Major Zakharov. Three ages, three different characters, three different destinies, which are destined to meet at the Khmeimim military base.

Sisters Maria and Anastasia are best friends, and they cope not only with a grumpy mother, but also with ancient magic, because of which winter has not come in their village for many decades. The girls manage to overcome all obstacles, drive away the evil witch, melt the heart of the Lord of Cold, and also find love.

Shortly before the collapse of the USSR, Marina and Ivan Schastykh had triplets and began life in a separate apartment number 13. But the naive 1980s are being replaced by the hungry 1990s, and the mood in the family is no longer rosy. Ivan, once the youngest and most promising candidate of sciences at Moscow State University, is forced to become a tutor and a homemaker while Marina earns money on the market. And then 2012 comes — the energy of the new age.

The city of Kalyazin is small and picturesque, in general, like many such cities. Nothing unusual, except for a secret institute dedicated to... the study of magic. One day, the strongest witch, the Mistress of the elements, escapes from the laboratory. Driven by hatred and a desire to avenge her imprisonment, she cuts off the city from the outside world and begins to turn the inhabitants of the city into goblins and mermaids, striving for one thing — to cleanse the real world of people and fill it with fabulous creatures. Alexey Popov decides to defeat the Mistress of the Elements in order to save his loved ones and liberate the city. Nikita Dobrynin, a blacksmith, and Ilya Muromtsev, a programmer, join him in the fight against evil. However, the Mistress of the elements is putting up serious resistance — a serious struggle for family, love and the right to remain human is unfolding in Kalyazin.

The story of one day - August 12, 2012. The Earl's Court Exhibition Center in London is filled with fans. Millions of viewers around the world are waiting for the start of the broadcast of the final volleyball game among men's teams, which will determine the winner of the XXX Olympic Games. The Russian team that has never won gold. And the Brazilian national team, caressed by contracts, victories and loyal fans. Many people think that the outcome of the game is predetermined. But few people yet know what place this final occupies in the life of each of the Russian athletes.

A group of young people journey to rural Russia, only to find themselves being mercilessly ground by monsters from Slavic myths.

The story of Chelyabinsk shashlik maker Pasha, who, together with his father and son Kostya, went south to inherit half of a winery. The other half belongs to the aesthete winemaker, a fanatic of his craft, Sergey Gordeev, his daughter Oksana and granddaughter Mila. In order to save their common business from collapse, representatives of two different families will have to become partners. But how can they do this when for Sergey wine is art, and for Pasha it is "tasteless sourness"?