A young French woman comes to St. Petersburg to find material for her dissertation, but falls in love with a handsome lawyer...

Boris Zhadanovsky, a hereditary nobleman and officer who was predicted to have a brilliant military career, sides with the rebellious people. In 1905, Zhadanovsky is sentenced to death for his revolutionary activities. However, a powerful strike movement organized in response to the court's decision forces the tsarist government to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. After the revolution, Zhadanovsky joins the Red Army and dies fighting the White Army.

The men stole a barrel from the basement of the main depot of table wines, but failed to deliver it home. They did not hold the barrel on a hillock and, in front of numerous witnesses, it fell into the river. All attempts to get her out of the water failed.

A story of two arctic aviation pilots in the Soviet post-war times. The younger one is a son of a man repressed and killed by the Stalin regime, who also was a friend of the captain.

Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France...

The young scientist Vladimir Bantikov creates his double - the robot Yasha. But Yasha quickly learns and starts living his own life.