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- The life of heiress Dariya Saltykova, who for her cruelty went down in history as a bloody lady and can be considered the first Russian serial killer.
- Little Glushchevka is an unusual village. There's an anomalous area where compasses collapse, water flows upstream and, according to legend, a priceless treasure is buried.
- The true story of the most famous and bloodthirsty gang of the Stalin era, 'Black Cat', which kept the post-war Moscow in fear. The bandits were seen, their names were known, but they were elusive, because no one could even imagine that the criminals were hiding among the best Komsomol members. At day, they led a normal life of Soviet youth, studied, played sports. And at night, the gang controlled not only their hometown, but also the whole Moscow. It took investigators a few years to track down and wipe out the gang. Captain Viktor Karatov, the new head of the criminal investigation department, arrives in Krasnogorsk. He meets a daughter of his deceased war comrade Taya and falls in love with her. But the girl has a boyfriend - a shock-worker, exemplary Komsomol member, captain of the local football team Ivan Mishin. Taya breaks up with Mishin and, together with Karatov, moves to Moscow. Soon Victor is placed on a special investigations unit on the case against the Black Cat.
- A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina. The year is 1930. In a small Tatar 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.
- 'On the edge' is a TV drama about three young women who find themselves in the Middle East in the den of terrorists. Based on real events, the series depicts how innocent people are recruited and become living weapons in the hands of militants. A student of a prestigious Moscow university, Lena grew up in a happy well-to-do family. One day she learns about her fiancé's infidelity and then that her own father has a mistress as well. Deeply shocked by this double betrayal, Lena becomes an easy prey for the recruiter Ruslan. A young man quickly conquers her heart. To marry him she converts to Islam and goes to his homeland, while her father desperately rushes to look for his daughter. The traces lead him to the Caliphate - A provincial beauty Katya also falls under influence of Ruslan, whom she met online. The persistent suitor convinces the girl to come visit him in Turkey. Katya packs her belongings and goes to Istanbul, where not a prince charming is awaiting for her. While both Katya and Lena were tricked into coming to the Middle East, Amina goes there of her own will. As a widow of a militant with a little son, she was constantly harassed by her fellow villagers and finally decided to leave for Syria, where her beloved husband died. Now in Syria, in the territory of the Caliphate, all these heroines are prisoners of militants and each of them has her own mission to complete. Having met by accidence, the women decide to escape. For the sake of a chance to return to their own country, they will risk their lives with weapons in their hands.
- The series goes behind the scenes at the famous 'Sklif', the principal Moscow emergency care hospital. The charismatic surgeon Bragin is an emergency care ace, and besides his professionalism, he is also an inveterate womanizer and sometimes a very unpleasant person.
- Alla lives in the village, she has been married to truck driver Vasya for a long time and is raising her son Yura.
- Polina and her little sister became orphans very early - their parents died in a car accident, and the girls had to survive on their own in the crazy 1990s. Polina, barely twenty years old, fell in love with a submariner, who quickly disappeared, leaving her with two newborn babies. The twins were so active that even Polina's large Moscow apartment didn't stop the dad from fleeing. Polina lived on the verge of poverty, and it could have ended very tragically if one evening her neighbor, a young businessman Pavel, did not hear a baby's cry from behind an open door. Polina was lying unconscious on the floor. Pavel took patronage over his neighbor and her boys, paid for a nanny, a doctor, and thought up a 'business' for her - she painted wooden figures as presents for Pavel's foreign partners. Such touching concern for a neighbor irritated Petrov's secretary - calculating, purposeful Elena decided long ago to marry her promising handsome boss. But Pavel chose this 'ameba' Polina - Pavel has never thought a rejected woman could be a time bomb. Now he can lose everything: Polina, children, friends, and his business.
- A wealthy and influential family hires Katya as a nurse for a dying father. Most unexpectedly, the young woman becomes his closest confidant and the only person in his life whom he can trust. Passions run high around Katya as a huge inheritance is at stake. From a modest nurse, whose only task was to care for the sick in the last days of his life, Katya involuntarily turns into an active participant of the family drama with all its hopes, fights and disillusions. It turns out that the seemingly happy and tight-knit family has its skeletons in the closet, and these secrets can come at a price of a human life.
- Anya, a kind industrious girl, lives with her mother Irina in the small village. All her life Irina works hard to ensure a better future for her daughter, but the family is barely making ends meet. Once a son of the head of the village administration - spoiled and self-willed Gleb comes to attend a local holiday. All the girls are crazy about him, but he looks only at Anya, whom he never noticed before - But Anya's romantic dreams suddenly go to the background when the family gets into trouble. Irina, defending herself from the harassment of a bandit, accidentally kills him.
- Lera Gorskaya, aka Lilith, is the star of the popular show. She has incredible abilities and easily solves the most difficult riddles. It is for this that the audience loves her, who unconditionally believe in Lilith's special gift. But the next task in the show turns into a terrible find: in an abandoned well, Lera finds the body of a murdered girl - a student of Professor Molochniy. No one expected such a turn, not even the host of the show himself. The police, led by Captain Roshchin, begin an investigation, and Lera becomes involved in the search for the criminal.
- 1977. Right after graduating from a pedagogical institute, energetic and inspired Katya goes to work to one of the remote military garrisons. However there is no vacancy for her in the local school. The division commander General Kuzin tries to send her back home. He has already had his hands full - hero pilot Chukin landed the military fighter during a training flight to meet his fiancee Yulia, Kuzin's daughter. Now Kuzin is threatened with dismissal, and the division may be headed by his deputy martinet Prikhodko. However Katya refuses to leave. Then Kuzin offers her to work at a switchboard instead. From this moment, life of the division changes dramatically. And it all starts when a district commander comes to the garrison with a newspaper correspondent. The commander is Kuzin's friend, and is ready to do everything to fix his problems. The correspondent is supposed to make a positive report on the achievements of Kuzin's division. But a fatal error occurs. The article is published with a photo of Kuzin and Katya, where she is mistakenly called his bride.
- The story unfolds in the mid 1980s and centers on three dancers of the famous Russian folk dance ensemble Beryozka. A small town girl Varya lives in poverty with a sick father. She attends sewing school until one day she sees Beryozka's performance on TV and falls in love with dance. Every day Varya trains in her tiny apartment trying to master the 'floating step' technique on her own. The girl saves up some money and goes to Moscow to join the troupe. And Beryozka is ready to accept her... but only as a cleaner. However the purposeful girl doesn't give up and keeps training every day. Eventually the artistic director of the ensemble Nadezhda realizes that she has a real nugget washing the floors! As opposed to Varya, Lena has a perfect life. The girl from the Moscow professorial family dances all her life and is easily accepted into Beryozka. Lena's mother who always dreamt of being a dancer herself now actively pushes her daughter to choose career in dancing. But what does Lena dream about? The third girl, beautiful Edita lies to those around her that she is a daughter of wealthy parents, although she grew up in a remote village in Estonia. Edita was lucky enough to make it through the tough selection test and she will never spoil her chances for a new life. That's how the three heroines get into the same troupe and in the same dorm room also. Each of them will have to pave her own way to the big stage. In the meantime, the ensemble is going through hard times. Beryozka's manager will have to prove by hook or by crook that art has to be supported even during the economic crisis. Beryozka's artistic director Nadezha will have to defend her brainchild against the bureaucratic machine of the Ministry of Culture. At that moment she realizes how valuable is the support of her close friend Anatoliy, who has been in love with her for many years.
- Beautiful, kind and modest Gulchatay (or Gulya) lives in a small Asian village. The girl is only 17, she dreams of becoming a nurse and helping people. Once the heroine meets charming Pavel - a Russian soldier from a military unit - and falls in love with him. But just at this time, Rustam, a son of the 'the village landlord' returns from the city. Noticing beautiful Gulay, the spoiled guy decides to marry the girl. Suspecting that Gulya might not like this idea, Rustam cunningly brings the girl's father, the poor shepherd, under a huge debt - The only way to pay it is to marry Gulchatay off to Rustam.
- Anya Anisimova is a gold medalist who, due to the bias of the examiner, does not enter the university. Anya's mother, Liza, offers her daughter to unwind and go to her grandmother in a small town by the sea.
- Arina's hit a rough patch. Her father found a young lover and left the family penniless; a former employer extorts a big sum of money from her mother. The girl kills herself working, but with a salary of courier there is no chance to repay the debt. In total despair, Arina decides to forget about her bright dreams and save her family, trading her beauty.
- Irina Boyarova is an Olympic champion in athletics. She has neither family nor friends - the whole life of the heroine is devoted to sports. Irina has an affair with a doctor Dima at a seaside resort. Both understand that their relationship is serious, but, coincidentally, the lovers part without confessing their love. Soon, Irina realizes that she is pregnant. She comes to Dima's place to tell him good news, but her bright hopes crumble overnight .
- Marina and Dima have a similar problem in the rejection of their lovers by parents. So they try to pretend to be a couple and play the worst bride and groom in the world in front of their parents for solving the problem.
- A young Russian widow, who is also a designer, gets the chance to spend a year in Tuscany and restore an old, luxurious villa. She also gets involved with the rich family who owns the villa and their family affairs.
- Daria is a well-known TV presenter. At first glance, her life is perfect - her father is the owner of a big construction corporation, her mother is a famous sculptor, her boyfriend is a successful businessman - But in reality Daria lives with a constant sense of guilt. The thing is that sixteen years ago she lost her 3-year-old sister Ida in the crowd at the train station. The girl was never found and has been considered dead for many years. The mother is still grieving; she blames Daria and increasingly abuses alcohol. The situation is aggravated by the fact that Daria is not her parents' biological daughter. They adopted her when she was five.
- Spouses Irina and Leonid save a little girl who had a narrow escape from a car accident in the mountains. The couple has no children, and thinking the baby's family died, they decide to adopt her and name Nina. As years go by Nina becomes a real beauty. After the tragic death of Leonid, a former climber, Irina devotes herself entirely to her daughter. The only upsetting thing is that the girl is captivated by the romance of the mountains and dreams of following in the footsteps of Leonid - becoming a rock climber - Meanwhile, in faraway Ossetia, the old monk before his death finds Nina's brother Mikhail and confesses that when he was a doctor he gave the surviving girl to strangers to be taken proper care .
- Maria lives a quiet, modest life in a small town. One day an unexpected happiness breaks her dull routine - she meets charming Alex and becomes his wife in a month. But the happiness ends up just as swiftly as it began. After the wedding ceremony Alex leaves for St. Petersburg. On the same day Maria learns from the news that his helicopter crashed down, but her husband is safe and sound. However nothing is what it seems. Alex tells her that it was his brother Aleksey who died in the catastrophe, and according to documents Maria is married to the deceased and not Alex, whose full name is Alexander. And Alexander turns out to be a scheming monster with a cunning plan in which Maria plays the leading part.
- Masha, a native Muscovite, sells her apartment and gives up work to get her beloved husband out of prison. After his release, the couple remain penniless. To make matters worse, it's impossible to get a job with a criminal past. In search of a way out, the family leaves Moscow for a remote village where Masha's old friend lives. But will the intellectuals from the capital be able to live in new conditions where no one cares about their qualifications and manners? Will they cope with such seemingly simple life?
- Beautiful student Irina is in love and happy. Her loved one Yura is also crazy about the girl, and their relationship goes to the wedding. But as ill luck would have it Irina's friend Zhanna, a capricious daughter of influential parents, feeds unrequited feelings towards Yura, and her brother and Yura's friend rich and selfish Sasha is consumed with desire for Irina. The long-standing friendship turns out to be false, and Sasha and Zhanna start a war against someone else's happiness. It's hard to imagine the extent of villainy and cruelty that their jealousy and unlimited possibilities can bring them to.
- Based on true story of the most famous Soviet counterfeiter.
- Lyuba, a medical student, has just lost her beloved mother. Very soon Lyuba learns that her careless father, a rake and a drunk, is not her biological dad. The desperate girl starts searching for a real father, whom her mother's friend told her about. Contrary to the fears, her father and stepsister Katya warmly welcome her and accept her into the family. In addition, she finds a true love - her new boyfriend Andrey is very serious about their relationship, and in her dreams Lyuba is already walking down the aisle.. However, all plans are ruined by a fateful combination of circumstances: Andrey turns out to be her sister's fiance.
- Everything looks just fine in Natalia's life. The heroine is a school teacher, happily married by a second marriage to a businessman Stas. She also has an adult son Vanya from her previous marriage. However one day Natalia learns that her husband leads a double life and dates with another woman behind her back. The heroine is shocked by the betrayal, but the whole truth literally horrifies her - Stas' lover is the bride of her son.
- It's 1934. The USSR lives brightly. The famine of 1932-33 is already over. The era of the Great Terror has not yet begun. And no one can even imagine a war approaching. It is urgent to buy equipment abroad but where to get gold and currency for industrialization? For these purposes throughout the country work Torgsins - shops for trade with foreigners - oases of prosperity and abundance, which Soviet people have not seen since pre-revolutionary times. In exchange for gold, precious stones, antiquities or currency, wealthy Soviet citizens can buy here delicacies and inaccessible imported goods. The poor come for sweets and cakes for the holiday. And the "disenfranchised", classed in the bourgeois class and deprived of food cards, carry the last rings and earrings to the Torgsin, in order not to die of hunger.
- Good friends Andrey Ganzha and Dmitry Volkov, former hospital boys and now new-made lieutenants, come to a small border town of Sosny to report for duty. Andrey is not new in these places. He was taken from the orphanage to the family of Colonel Reutov, who served in Sosny, and his wife Darya. Andrey is in love with their daughter Polina and hopes for a speedy wedding. But it turns out Polina sees him only as a friend. And soon the girl realizes that her heart longs for Andrei's friend Dmitry.
- Everything changes dramatically for teen-aged Veronica, when a rich businessman Andrey Kostrov comes to her town. Andrey is a former student of her father, prominent scientist Lev Serov. He has grandiose plans: he wants to implement the professor's genius scientific developments into production; it should bring his business to a fundamentally new level, but also might become a real breakthrough in science and change the course of history. Serov starts working and makes final calculations to complete the main project of his life, but all of sudden gets to the hospital with a heart attack. To the doctors' surprise, his condition gets worse sharply and soon he dies, having asked Andrey to look after his underage daughter. Veronica is shocked by the death of her father, but flatly refuses to leave for Moscow with a man she doesn't know at all. However soon she realizes that she is in serious trouble. The thing is that Andrey Kostrov involuntarily dragged her into a cruel game of big money and power. Kostrov's longtime rival, Konstantin Parmenkov, will stop at nothing to destroy him. To do this, he needs to find a notebook with the latest records of Serov, and only Veronica can help him with it.
- Irina Semyonova is one of the best figure skating coaches in Russia. Many envy her, a wealthy beautiful woman who has everything that others strive for all their lives. But yet Irina cannot be truly happy. In each of her talented pupils, she sees her unrealized opportunities. It was these thoughts and years of regret about the lost career that made her cold and harsh even with her loved ones. It would seem that little can change in the stable life of this woman, but one day a young ambitious figure-skater Boris, the same age as her daughter Elena, appears at one of the trainings. For him Irina is the last chance to make a career and he is ready to do it all to get what he want.
- Yulya, a graduate of the school, dreams of becoming a designer, but loses everything overnight when her father Yuriy dies. The apartment and bills are arrested for debts. Yulya's mother Alla has to get a job as a waitress to feed her family. In the restaurant, Alla meets a new man, businessman Oleg, on whom she has high hopes.
- Kira, a charming and young-looking woman, marries her adult son and will soon become a grandmother. She is surrounded by good people, and at her job, too, everything is wonderful - In a word, everything is fine, except for personal life.. At the wedding, Kira presents to her son and his wife a week in an elite hotel, but the circumstances are such that the newlyweds are unable to go. As a result a lonely middle-aged lady checks into a honeymoon suite instead of a couple - the good trip can't go to waste. In this romantic atmosphere, Kira has a passionate and light affair herself. And everything would be fine, but having returned home happy Kira, to her utmost horror, discovers that she is pregnant..
- In the small distant village, happy Angelica is preparing for a wedding. She is the first beauty for miles around, she realizes this well and is sure that there is only happiness ahead. Everyone who knows her would be glad to be in her place. However a week before the wedding, a group of visiting musicians lures the girl into their car, rape her and disappear from the village. Disgraced Angelica overnight loses her beloved fiance and friends and becomes an object of ridicule for the whole neighborhood, and the girl soon realizes that she is pregnant. After much hesitation, she decides to keep the baby and leaves for Moscow to find her offenders and take revenge. In Moscow, the heroine will face new challenges: she will have to learn how it is to be a toy in someone else's criminal game and how much people can hate, envious of beauty. Despite all the pain, she will again be able to believe and love, and again cold calculation and betrayal will be the answer - Will Angelica manage to break this vicious circle?
- To a lovely stranger from a cadet - an honours student in military and political training...' - romantic correspondence occupies minds of girls, pupils of a provincial orphanage school - Tanya corresponded with Konstantine for a year, but lately there have been no letters from him. On the cherished day of coming of age, Tanya leaves the orphanage and goes to the village to settle in an old parental home. A real adult life, finally, is ahead and there is so much to be done - to find a loved one, to go to college, and just to live!.. However this 'adult life' immediately puts serious trials on her fragile shoulders - Having barely recovered, Tanya goes to work as a village postman and gets to know the locals. Their simple human stories excite the kind and sincere girl so much that she cannot remain indifferent and tries to become a life changer for them. In response, her own life is preparing a blow for her.
- Veronica Ryzhova, a girl from an orphanage, lives in a foster family. Her well-established life is derailed by a tragedy: her parents died in a car accident caused by millionaire Kovtun who gets away with it. It's horrifying for her to realize that it is Kovtun who is guilty and she is determined to find the truth. Veronica gets a job as Kovtun's secretary hoping to dig compromising information and 'destroy' her boss.
- A young female-thief, Lyubka, helps a criminal gang to steal a suitcase from a better-off Jewish family on a railway station; she often thinks about the well-dressed girl and dreams of swapping lives with her, living in comfort and care. Several years later, in 1952, fate again brings them together, when pregnant Irina, a young doctor, comes with her mother to a distant Ural city. The Irina's mother dies soon and Irina is forced to decide who'll care for her daughter, Sonya, while she's on duty in the hospital. And then she finds a wayward girl who'd just served her term. She is not like the other criminals.
- Alice is an enviable bride: clever, beautiful and a heiress of a huge fortune. Contrary to expectations, the girl with a delicate taste falls in love with an ordinary guy - Igor has got neither money nor special talents. Alice's father, suspecting the impure intentions of the future son-in-law, does his best to dissuade the girl from the wedding, but in vain. Walking down the aisle, Alice could not think how awful her marriage would turn out and how far Igor could go in an effort to get to the power that he never had.
- Nadya has just graduated from a pedagogical institute and begins her adult life. She dreams of happiness, a good husband and her own cozy apartment. But her dreams, if destined to come true, then not immediately. Betrayal of a loved one, a burnt house, despair and a loss of will to live. She thinks about suicide, but eventually she finds strength to overcome it all and become happy again.
- By age 30, Vasilisa Kuznetsova is independent, free, and set in her ways. She has a great job and nice colleagues. She is still all alone, but he is sure that everything will be fine very soon--after all, her colleague Konstantin has a thing for her. But then Konstantin gets a promotion and forgets about her. Another unpleasant surprise is waiting for her: she must move out of the apartment for the sake of her married sister. Furious, Vasilisa publicly declares that she will get married in three months, and the very next day she puts her plan in motion. Partly because of her relatives' tireless attempts to help, partly because of Vasilisa's inexperience in matters of the heart, the heroine will face many unexpected obstacles, amusing misunderstandings, and annoying disappointments on her way to personal happiness..
- In the morning, Yulia had everything: a gently and attentive husband, wonderful daughter, wealth, quiet female happiness. And, of course, a confidence that it will always be this way. However one phone call turned her whole life upside down. The husband died - and the their small precious world was ruined forever.
- A young small-town girl Tanya has to go through lots of trials. Living in the village, with an alcoholic mother and a quiet depressed father, the girl always sought to break out of this limited world. In dreams, she is a happy wife of a kind rich man who loves her. The beauty contemptuously rejects all the local guys and waits for her prince charming. Finally he appears - the handsome and wealthy businessman Victor. He immediately takes happy Tanya to the city, not even allowing her to finish school. However joy was short-lived as she turned out in a golden cage. Victor needed only an heir from a 'healthy village girl'. As soon as Tanya gives birth to a son, the husband announces to her that he has another woman and files for divorce, taking the child from her. Tanya is trying to get her baby back, but after beatings and threats she is forced to run away to Moscow. On the way, Tanya meets a trucker Fyodor. He feels sorry for the girl and gives her a key mascot, which once helped him himself. Perhaps this particular keychain helps the girl to survive and achieve much. Having become a famous singer, she goes to her native town to return her son Kolya at any cost. But the ex-husband, drunk and bankrupted, reports that the boy has long fled, and he does not care. Will Tanya be able to find her son and personal happiness if there is no hope for anything but a mysterious talisman?
- A simple dressmaker Lidia and her husband Anton are an exemplary family. They have been together for twenty years, raise a teenage daughter and live a quiet level life. But this well-ordered world collapses overnight when Anton, on a business trip to Moscow, meets his old friend Tanya, a beauty and business woman. Seeing the animated pictures of glossy happiness, Anton bitterly realizes that his life is passing by, and for him it's now or never.
- In the after war years from France to motherland returns a soldier with a name Sergei. Giselle his french love is moving with him too. For Giselle it is hard to get used to the lifestyle of a soviet village but she is trying as hard as she can because of her feelings for him. But on the other hand Sergei is a popular man in the village. His neighbour Klavdia is also in love with him and she is trying to destroy the marriage in any possible way. She makes Sergei fall in love with her sister Olga. Unspeakable passion is happening in the village. Which choice will Sergei make?
- 1957. The story takes place in a small military town. Colonel Podolsky and his wife are an exemplary family of strict rules. Their 16-year-old daughter Lera, an excellent pupil and the pride of her family, is preparing for the final exams - a gold medal and a prestigious institute is waiting for her. Her parents have already had a posh candidate for a husband. Meantime the family of Lieutenant Colonel Kuznetsov is transferred to the city. His son Yura, an early-grown handsome guy from Moscow, provokes some juicy gossip in the graduation class. Lera looks at the new classmate with condemnation, but not for long - he easily charms her. First love overwhelms the girl with such force that Lera forgets herself. Soon Yura gets tired of playing love, and Lera does not know how to tell her parents that she is pregnant.
- During the Second World War, Lidia worked in a hospital. She took care of a wounded officer and fell in love with him. After the war, they got married, and some years later her husband became a general. One day the general was urgently summoned to the Ministry, and Lidia went to the theater. On her way home after the performance, she meets her husband's driver. He asks her not to go into the apartment, as there is a search there in connection with the arrest of the general. Lidia is deeply shocked, and the driver takes her to his place.
- Luda is a strong woman who carries an exorbitant burden on fragile shoulders. She fights with her husband's drunkenness, brings up children, helps her friend and patiently stomachs her mother-in-law. But fate seems to test the heroine for strength, and the next blow is not a small-time trouble, but a real tragedy. Luda's husband tragically dies in a fire, and the house burns down. As if running amuck, her close ones drop their masks and betray the heroine - the mother-in-law refuses to give her shelter, and the best friend drives her into the street out of stupid jealousy. Will Luda be able to overcome all misfortunes and start life anew?
- Tonya Soboleva (28) has recently celebrated the 5th anniversary of the wedding with Slava (32), who works as a taxi driver. Tonya and Slava don't have much money, they live paycheck to paycheck, but at least they have their own apartment. Tanya's mother raised her alone and died of a stroke when Tonya was still in college and left her daughter a 1-room apartment. Tonya really wants to have a baby, but Slava convinced her to wait and to save up some money. He works day and night, but there is still not enough money for him. One night Slava awakens Tonya - he looks awful. He accidentally hit a man by car. He is seriously injured, but alive. The stranger lies in a one-bed hospital chamber, his tear-stained girl Alla (23), who requires payment for treatment in Israel, is on his bed. Tonya assures the girl that she and her husband will do everything possible to atone for guilt - Overnight, Tonya is left without money and roof over her head - and deceived by her husband.