Alyosha Ptitsyn, a third-grader decides that he wants to improve his personality and immediately starts to act.

The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a confident and promising colleague. Yelizaveta Maksimovna has one patient, a manly, full-energy ship builder Yershov, chained to the bed with a paralysis of both legs. All doctors recommend him rest, and Elizaveta Maksimovna advises to work and not feel sorry for herself. Yershov with all his heart falls in love with his doctor, and she loves him, but she does not dare to say her feelings. Ershov thinks that he has no hopes, but...

The positive assessment of the work of young historian Nadezhda Kovrova went to her head. Confident in her infallibility, she makes a mistake.

The film is about the sailors who fought on torpedo boats in the Great Patriotic war.

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel.

Soviet film based on "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol.