A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore...

Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.

Kostya, a young man who is deeply in love with Veronika is going to introduce her to his parents. But not everything is going according to the plan...

A fateful accident predicts the future of the main character, Andrey. Meeting a lonely girl Lilya transforms his life. She is so different from the women Andrey knew before her. Lilya lives in the world of grandmother's dreams and believes in miracles. The incorrigible cynic Andrei is madly in love. He wants to become her husband, but Lilya postpones the wedding, not daring to say that a heart defect is unlikely to allow her to have children. They just live and love, not thinking about tomorrow...

Nadia lives in a city by the sea. She is a wonderful cook who has found herself in her profession, but not in her personal life. One day, a friend decides to introduce Nadia to her social media pen pal, Konstantin, a wealthy Greek yacht owner. However, she does not specify that Konstantinas needs a cook. Nadia gets a job as a cook instead of a sick neighbor on a ship bound for Greece. The special services send their agent to the same ship, because there is a suspicion that someone from the team is transporting diamonds...

1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any day. He must persuade peasants to hand over the surpluses. But men are hesitating, some lend an ear to a wealthy peasant Mokey Zhlobin, unwilling to give away his hided corn. The only one person, backing up Fyodor is a local self-made inventor, living in the outskirts with his beloved beauty-wife, having equipped his house with electricity, power-saw bench and other gimmicks. The inventor takes him as a close friend and his young wife falls in love with Fyodor. The love triangle appears, but their ideals are above all. Together they manage to find the hidden corn and survive in uneven battle with bandits who rushed into a village.

A performance by the Alexandrinsky Theatre based on the eponymous play by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The production is based on the stage version by Vsevolod Meyerhold and M. Korenyev (GOSTIM, 1926), directed by Valery Fokin.