The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two solitudes. Chance brought two persons of disorderly lives together in a railway terminal.... kindling the hope for a normal, pure human life, the kind others have...
akusherka
Zotikha
In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined.
A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
Katia Zelentsova
Zina
공장에서 일하는 노동자들을 대상으로 러시아어와 문학을 가르치는 티티아나는 자신의 수업을 듣는 공장 노동자 샤샤를 만나게 된다. 샤샤는 첫눈에 티티아나를 사랑하게 된다.