Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.
A young master, Vladimir Dubrovsky, comes to the estate to visit his father, who has long been in litigation with his neighbor, the despotic landowner Troekurov. Having seriously insulted Dubrovsky Sr., Troekurov tries to go to peace, but the proud old man is adamant.
Paleographer and writer Anton Glebovich Kosmich finds in the binding of an ancient book a parchment with encrypted information about treasures hidden in the dungeon of the castle. It gradually becomes clear that the last scion of the family of the Olshansky princes, who collaborated with the Nazis...
A murderer is using every possible trick in his efforts to escape from justice. He is extremely crafty in his ways of infiltrating the government. He becomes a politician with growing status and influence and an official immunity from prosecution.
Gambling in "Vint." Strange and yet captivating with its unexpected twist, which was started one dreary autumn night by the officials Andrei Stepanovich Peresolin, Serafim Zvizdulin, Stepan Kulakevich, Yeremey Nedoyekhov, and Ivan Pisulin.
When a story is hard to say, because on planet Earth "has the time", mixed age... Sir Lavoie, a typical scholar-hermit, leave the Capital and went to a colleague in another city. The house is hosting merry trio of servants: the maid, the Dol, the footman Face and the Butler SATL.
