Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of winter, a dangerous mission. The first-class carriage may be full of spies, and soon after the train embarks, the man in the next compartment searches Obozow's luggage. A beautiful stranger approaches him, a woman older than he, on a concert tour; a game of cat and mouse ensues with patriotism and emotion sometimes on opposite sides. Can Obozow consummate the affair, reach Stockholm, and maintain his ideals?

A young Japanese girl Rin-san comes to the pre-revolutionary Russia with a great and wonderful mission: to understand the mastery of iconography and attach Japan to the Russian Christian culture. She does not know that Russia stands on the verge of tragic change. Terrible years of atheism are coming. Envy of mediocre, intriguing nuns, the tragic love of a terrorist-regicide will turn Rin's life upside down...

It's a good thing to wander through the forest. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the flowers and berries are blooming... It's a good thing! But the Drummer, who was not afraid of anything, found himself in a different forest, where there was no sun, only fog and darkness, and instead of birds, there were ghosts fluttering around, and evil spirits were screaming in inhuman voices! Witches were chasing him, giants were trying to trample him, and a dragon was trying to eat him. The Drummer's bride had been turned into a cuckoo! Anyone else would have run away from such dangers, but the Drummer did not. He had achieved everything he wanted...