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The plot centers on an investigation conducted by the curious and resourceful Petya, despite the entreaties of his friends, family, and local law enforcement agencies, and throughout the entire journey he is "assisted" by his younger brothers, Sasha and Kostya. After a series of failures and setbacks, Petya still does not give up, collects all the evidence together, and learns the truth about who is to blame for the disappearance of the artifacts and helps return these exhibits to the museum.
A young German, Werner Müller, turns out to be a volunteer in the neurological department of an ordinary St. Petersburg hospital. A foreigner, overwhelmed by the impulse to help all the sick and needy, has a long and eventful day ahead of him. Every now and then, finding himself in comical situations and making his way through misunderstandings, the volunteer discovers all the facets of the Russian national character.
Misha's life didn't go well. Overnight, he lost his girlfriend, his job, and his confidence in the future. Having bought an armchair on Avito, he finds inside a folder with documents and a huge amount of money belonging to the right hand of the governor of the city. Thinking about what to do with the find, Mikhail begins to gradually fix communal defects in the yard, which deserves the respect of residents and the status of a people's deputy. However, the governor discovers the loss of documents, and elections are coming soon in the city... Will popular love and a mysterious folder help Misha take the governor's chair?
Nikolay Fomich Ferapontov is a muralist and "classic of socialist realism", who lived a life far from sinless. However, all success has remained in the distant past, and in his old age he has to make ends meet, interrupting by random orders. Everything changes when a young art critic Myasoedov appears on his doorstep and finds paintings in the back room, in which he unexpectedly recognizes masterpieces of fine art. Not really imagining the real origin of the paintings, Nikolay Fomich calls himself their author, and from that moment the hunt for money and fame begins.
Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.
40-year-old provincial Natalya Nikitina has been living in St. Petersburg for the seventh year. She works as a nurse for ailing old people and endures their countless quirks and humiliations. Once in her life, a new friend appears - a masseuse named Love, who plunges Natalia into the abyss of bright and risky adventures in search of love and happiness.
To save his business, formerly successful psychotherapist Kholmogorov is forced to take on his team a new employee, simple janitor Klava who, using her humane warmth and natural empathy, as opposed to Kholmogorov's trendy techniques, really heals people's souls and helps them overcome any, even the hardest psychological problems. Kholmogorov is skeptical at first; he doesn't believe in the success of this enforced experiment, but, after a while, he realized that Klava not only helps him attract new clients but also sort out his own personal problems.
Sergey «Fidget» Yevdokimov returns home after serving 8 years in prison. Here, he has an autistic brother, an alcoholic mother, an ex-wife with a kid, and double crossing friends. While in prison, Sergey was a UFC fighter, but he wants to start over. His father returns at the same time, while actually fleeing from prosecution. Aleksandr «Doc» Yevdokimov is a former UFC champion who’s now a fitness instructor. Doc enters the world of UFC again to win and make money, but this time, with the help of his prot?g?s. He brings his mistress Vera along. Sergey has no desire to patch things up with his father and especially with his lover, but Doc convinces him to join the team and participate in underground fights.
