Vanya Revzin, in his thirties, despite a gold medal at school and a red diploma from Moscow State University, was at the bottom: his wife went to the CCM in boxing, she was fired from a miserable job in a bank, and before the mortgage for a small studio was closed in a human case, there were years of pain and suffering . In a moment of desperation, Ivan learns that his cunning classmate Kolya has become a successful businessman and announced a competition for high school students with a multi-million dollar prize fund. Vanya, who looks much younger than his years, and to whom even alcohol is sold only with a passport, decides on a scam. He shaves off his beard, forges documents and goes to the competition with the confidence that life experience will easily overcome youth.
How to understand - where is good and where is evil? Who can be trusted, and who needs to be circumvented per kilometer. Elder Ivan, who was revered as a saint, turns out to be a murderer. And the city beauty Adelaide with strange habits is a ray of light in the village kingdom. Ordinary residents, peasants and serfs of the 19th century faced a difficult choice - is everything really, as they see it, or is there something more hidden behind obvious things?
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip across all of Russia. Along the way, they will have adventures, various tests and a test of their relationships for strength. But the most important thing they will understand only at the end of this extraordinary trip.
There’s a new member in the mysterious knitting club for mature men. On his first day he sees that there’s someone who wants to seize power over the club. He decides to bring back justice. The bad guy has already mastered the skill of knitting but our hero has resolve and best intentions. But… are they that good after all?
What is real life? This is when even death you can transform a part of life. This is exactly what Igor Alekseev, a doctor and writer from Saratov, did. In the face of imminent death from cancer, he began to keep an online diary and share with readers the experience of struggle and ... dying.
