Roman Ladnev

Max is a successful sculptor. He's a confirmed bachelor . He has no end of girls and profitable orders. The usual course of life is disrupted by Max's own right hand. She stops obeying him and behaves like the hand of a spoiled girl. Friends, clients, and fans think Max is crazy. But that's not the reason, the soul of a stranger has taken possession of his hand. Can the hero cope with one left hand?

Moscow, 2020. The media warn that a dangerous meteorite will soon sweep near the Earth at great speed. But the wealthy restaurateur Vadim does not care, so he does not change his plans and hurries to celebrate the purchase of a new establishment. On the way to the restaurant, Vadim calls his friend Nina to invite her to a banquet. But due to a time anomaly associated with a meteorite, another Nina, a thirteen-year-old girl who is dying of starvation in cold Moscow in 1942, picks up the phone on the other end.

Dans un Moscou futuriste des années 1930, cette adaptation du roman de Boulgakov suit un écrivain célèbre, déchu après la censure de sa pièce sur Ponce Pilate. Rejeté, il rencontre Marguerite, une femme mariée qui devient sa muse et l'inspire à écrire un nouveau roman. Dans son récit, Satan visite Moscou et y provoque des événements surnaturels. Marguerite, transformée en sorcière, retrouve son amant après la mort, dans un ballet macabre entre réalité et magie.

The main characters are ordinary 30-year-old men who live in an ordinary Russian village, where it is always bad to work, where there is always no money, where they drive moonshine, for which they pay with food or firewood. They did not study at institutes, do not speak foreign languages, do not understand politics and consider the words “Internet” and “glamor” as curses. For such words, they can give in the face. They see life mainly on the TV screen. Yes and that - black and white.

A young man from the noble Bezsonov family — Nikolai — by chance and at the behest of his heart becomes an ordinary official of the detective police. His colleagues receive him coldly, and only an experienced official, Pyotr Romanovich Shchukin, sees in the young man the future star of the investigation. Together they are trying to uncover a chain of mysterious and dangerous crimes committed either in the city slums or in the boudoir of a socialite.

The story of Fyodor Chaliapin is a man who grew up in a peasant family, but was able to break into the brilliant world of theater and conquered heights that no one had ever reached before. Did he find the love of millions, could not achieve personal happiness on his own and make a choice between two beloved women? About how the strength of character and talent can lift a person to the stars and give them the opportunity to shine all over the world.