The history of Russia of the 18th century through the life and work of the outstanding scientist and writer Mikhail Lomonosov.

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

The village orphan, Dunyasha first sight fell in love with the buffoon-bully Mitrokha. Love was unhappy, because Mitrokha was rude. For that and was expelled from the village. Dunyasha felt sorry for Mitrokha, and she went after her lover…

During the formative years of Soviet power, the first commune was organized in a remote Siberian village. The task of the counter-revolutionaries becomes its destruction…

Soviet television feature film of 1981, a three-part historical detective. In January 1918, one of the most notorious crimes of the first years of the Revolution took place - the Patriarchal sacristy of the Moscow Kremlin was robbed. The investigation is conducted by the young Soviet police in cooperation with an "old-regime" investigator-professional. But the unique diamonds and icon frames seem to have fallen through the ground. The investigators have only one thread - dropped by someone under the windows of the sacristy snuff box with the family coat of arms Messmerov.

Vikings attack Kuksja's village, and end up bringing him along on their ship because they believe he is good luck. After proving himself in a battle against the dreaded Danes, chief Torir bestows upon him the name of Einar and takes him in as his son. Back home in Norway the men are received as heros, but new trouble arises when Kuksja falls in love with the beautiful Signy, who is already betroth to the vicious Sigurd.

The question is what to build — palaces designed to last for centuries, or cheap concrete blocks that offer a quick fix to the housing crisis. Behind each of these choices stand scholars, architects, and Party officials.

A story about a colonel Denis Davydov - hero of the 1812 war.

Petr Korolev is a metallurgical engineer and a runner member of the Soviet Union Olympic team. Thanks to his perseverance and willpower, he earned the right to participate in international competitions in athletics. During his preparation for the Moscow Olympic Games, an unforeseen event during a race caused his rival, a world record holder in long distance running Rolf Schmidt to leave the race. When realizing the accident, Korolev also leaves and helps Schmidt to get up. From that behavior is born his friendship with the rival runner. Korolev's consecration takes place right at the Olympic Games in Moscow, where he gets the gold medal, beating his world-record friend.