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Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.

1961, Daniel Pokrovski, un médecin intelligent qui se distingue par son anticonformisme, est chargé de superviser l’entraînement des premiers cosmonautes. Envoyé sur la base de Baïkonour, il se sent déchiré entre son devoir et ses doutes; entre la peur qu’il a de perdre ses hommes dont la vie est en jeu, et l'amour et la compassion qu’il éprouve pour les deux femmes qui lui sont proches. Mais il finit par se consacrer à sa tâche, au risque d’en perdre la raison.

Une famille italienne vient dans une ville provinciale russe pour adopter un enfant. Le petit Vania, âgé de six ans, leur plaît, et ils l'adoptent. Mais les copains de Vania lui donnent le surnom "l'Italien". Une vie en Italie sans malheurs et sous le soleil attend le petit garçon, mais il décide de trouver sa vraie mère et part à sa recherche. Le directeur de la maison de l'enfance comprend que l'adoption pourrait être compromise. Avec une femme d'affaires, que l'on appelle "la Dame ", ils tentent de retrouver Vania.

When a beautiful new student, Angelina Aistova joins Liosha Agafonov's group at college, he feels an instant attraction to her. However, after several unsuccessful attempts at catching her attention, he decides the best way forward is to arrange a small collision with their cars. As a result Liosha finds himself at Angelina's house reporting the 'accident' to her father. Very soon Liosha realises that he has fallen in love with the daughter of an oligarch - Angelina's father is a business magnate but whose company has been suffering because of a long-standing feud with an old rival. In order to somehow hush up the car accident, Liosha is hired as a gardener at the Aistovs' house. In his line of duties he is required to make a number of visits to a florist's shop where he befriends Katia the sales girl.

The story unfolds in St. Petersburg during the season of White Nights, when night becomes curiously indistinguishable from day. Masha has struck it lucky: she is about to wed an American, Tim, eager to bring home a beautiful Russian wife. This marriage can take her light-years beyond her simple provincial roots, but for now Masha has a family to take care of, and she dutifully sends all the wages she earns to them. To save money she even dupes her fiancée by returning the expensive wedding dress he has bought for her to the boutique and sawing an identical one for herself. The night before the wedding Masha hastens to meet Tim, but fails to make it to the other side of the River Neva before the drawbridge is raised. The betrothed find themselves standing on the pavement with the mighty river between them...

The history of the formation of the personality of the autocrat Catherine the Great from the moment of her arrival in Russia as the bride of Grand Duke Peter Fyodorovich to her ascension to the Russian throne. Almost 20 years of palace intrigues, conspiracies, power struggles and personal dramas.