Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
Maximov and Katya work for the Profile detective agency. They are completely different, like a plus and a minus, they have a point of contact only in the fact that both are detectives. They have a different approach to investigating crimes, but the goal is the same - that's why they make some concessions to each other.
Larisa is a young woman in her early thirties with a successful career in a travel agency. She has enough money but leads a monotonous lonely life. One day Gera, a man from her past, reappears, tells her that he had divorced his wife and wants them to get back together. Larisa though doesn't want to plunge back into the relationship that hurt her so badly in the past and therefore escapes on a spontaneous business trip to Crimea. There she nearly gets into an accident on water but is fortunately saved by a mysterious handsome Stranger...
Major Sarmatov, commander of a special-purpose unit, has been on assignments in almost all hot spot regions. Now he receives a particularly important assignment: to kidnap the American secret agent Matlow in the neighboring eastern state.
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.
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