Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. The performance of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky based on the novel of the same name by L. N. Tolstoy, staged for the stage by one of the founders of the theater V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Nowhere have they so deftly slandered and arranged intrigues, as in the salon of Lady Sniruel. Young lady Tizl quickly enters the taste of high life, taking the gentleman's wooing. She does not suspect that a serious test awaits her.

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

One day the usual order of one of the country's major airports is disrupted: pilot Zubov lands his plane during the fog accurately and beautifully, but contrary to regulations. Another daredevilry of Zubov ends with the fact that he sinks the plane in a swamp, almost killing himself and the adopted son of the airport engineer - Gvozdik. Zubov is deprived of his pilot's license for six months, but is retained in the team.