Vladislav Shkerin

The failed hero-lover Kolya is locked in a closet, and the closet ends up at the epicenter of a joint operation between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Drug Control Service.

In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest in the personality and creativity of the writer-introvert. Adults and young readers waiting for new books, but Shubin them does not want to write.

Une jeune fille, Abigail vit dans une ville dont les frontières ont été fermées il y a de nombreuses années en raison d’une épidémie d’une maladie mystérieuse. Le père d’Abby était l’un des malades et il a été enlevé quand elle avait six ans. Allant à l’encontre des autorités pour retrouver son père, Abby apprend que sa ville est en fait pleine de magie et découvre en elle des pouvoirs magiques extraordinaires.

Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force.