Mikhail Vasserbaum

Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.

The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure...

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics.

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.

Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the director of the factory chooses to send Markerants and Mityagin to deal with the whole business. And here the adventures begin...

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties.

Starting 1970s. Marina Rodionova gives birth to a child from a donor. Grown up son Andrei she tells the legend of the deceased father. It takes many years. Son of a student accidentally discovers that his father is a professor Hlyuzdin who teaches at his institute. Andrew's friend can not get from Ladder strict professor and then Andrew decides to introduce his father and mother.

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.

Srubov é agente da CHEKA, a polícia secreta de Lenin montada após a Revolução Bolchevique. Eles prendem, interrogam por um minuto, decidem em dez segundos, e executam. Executam intelectuais, aristocratas, padres, judeus e suas famílias. No porão do edifício, cinco pessoas são executadas ao mesmo tempo enquanto estão nuas de frente para portas de madeira. Ninguém se lembra de pedir suas últimas palavras; não há mártires, apenas corpos anônimos. Diariamente temos o julgamento rápido, as execuções, o carregamento de corpos para os vagões. Srubov é frio, distante, sexualmente disfuncional, e um pensador profundo, odiado por ex-amigos e por sua família. Enquanto ele tenta argumentar a natureza da revolução e da finalidade da CHEKA, ele lentamente vai enlouquecendo.