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A shy guy, due to problems in communicating with girls, invents an android robot and goes with him to a reunion.
It’s 1980s. Anna Savelyeva grew up in an orphanage and always wanted to have a family. After turning 18, she heads to Moscow to find her father, General Pechorsky, who doesn’t even know his daughter exists. Soon, he hires Anna for her stenography skills to work on his memoirs. With access to classified documents and state secrets, the government stenographer finds herself dragged into the world of international espionage. This new chapter of her life is full of danger, head-spinning twists, ruthless betrayals and disappointing love.
Soon after Gogol's death, Binh names him guilty for the deaths of the Cossacks and the young women at the hands of the Dark Horseman, since he was the one who ordered them to be hidden in the barn. Bomgart is unable to perform a post-mortem analysis on the Gogol's body, while Vakula's daughter Vasilina (who secretly has magic abilities) proclaims denial about Gogol's demise.
A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint Petersburg has to take charge of the investigation, but the closer he gets to solving the case, the more fits he has, causing macabre visions. When he learns the next victim is his beloved, Liza, he doubts that he can protect her and resist the murderer. Fortunately, he meets somebody who can help him: Khoma Brut, the witch hunter, martial artist and philosopher. Together they spend three dreadful nights in an old chapel reading the funeral service for Ulyana, the witch, and calling upon the ghastly evil spirit Viy.
Anya, a young academic raised in an orphanage, is on the cusp of success when she’s accused of drug possession. While in limbo hiding from the police, she hits the road with Kristina, another orphan several years Anya’s junior, in search of her possibly mythical grandmother.
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
Winter. A city on the eve of New Year’s. Storefronts decorated for the holidays. New Year’s Eve approaches. We all start to rush, trying to catch up on everything we’ve postponed throughout the year. And just then, at the publishing house where the main character works, a well-known plastic surgeon brings in his ‘masterpiece.’ One story among many — where the characters can’t change everything overnight. And yet, a ruined New Year’s Eve often turns out surprisingly well.
Strange things are happening in an old mansion on Chistye Prudy, which has not been listed in any documents for some time. On a Saturday morning in March, two friends living in this ghost house, Lipa and Lucinda, fall... the corpse of a neighbor. Moreover, the body is wrapped with explosive wires. The residents of the ill-fated house gathered at the scene, neutralizing the blast wave, are saved from death by a new neighbor Pavel Dobrovolsky.
They were once just ordinary people. He was a local police inspector, and she was a journalist writing about all things unusual. But ever since they became agents of a top-secret agency dealing with anomalous phenomena, their lives seemed to shift into another world. Their only connection to the normal world was through the Courier, while their assignments came from the Curator—who also received their reports. In the past, the Agency had many employees. Everyone felt the importance and uniqueness of the missions they carried out. But after a time of upheaval—when funding dried up and the future became uncertain—only four people remained from the original team. Yet neither the budget nor the headcount can influence the unknown forces that give rise to anomalies. These factors only determine the risk and burden placed on the agents who continue doing everything they can to keep anomalous phenomena from disrupting everyday life.
