The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...
1300년대 몽골 평원, 우즈베크의 아들 티비베크는 프랑스 아비뇽에서 찾아온 평화를 갈망하는 두 사신에게 전쟁을 선포하고, 그 순간 함께 저녁을 들던 동생 자니베크의 손에 죽음을 당한다. 형을 죽이고 칸의 자리에 오른 자니베크는 어머니 타이둘라의 인정을 받아 다음 칸의 지위에 오른다. 어머니 타이둘라가 실명하자 러시아의 성자로 칭송받던 성자 세바스찬을 데려오지만 큰 차도가 보이지 않자 러시아를 피로 물들이는 모습을 그에게 보여주겠다며 잔인한 복수를 다짐한다. 성자 세바스찬의 고행이 계속되는 와중에 기적처럼 타이둘라의 시력이 돌아오고 자니베크는 성자에게 감사를 표하고 그를 러시아로 돌려보내고 축제를 즐기던 와중에 그의 아들 베르디베크의 음모에 휘말리고 마는데…
Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son. Nina occasionally travels to Moscow to see her partners in the publishing industry. Ilya sometimes comes to St. Petersburg on business. But more often they are in the train between St. Petersburg and Moscow just to see each other. Because they have an affair.
