Vladislav Tsenev

Raised by his grandmother, Empress Catherine II, who saw in her eldest grandson the direct heir to the throne, and the European teacher Lagarp, Alexander adheres to liberal views and admires the first years of Napoleon's rule: he dreams that Russia will one day have a republic. After Catherine's death, during the reign of Paul, Alexander continues to hope for reforms. However, he soon becomes disillusioned with Pavel both as a father and as a statesman. As a result of the conspiracy, Emperor Paul the First is killed, and Alexander, haunted by guilt over his father's death, is forced to ascend the throne in order to resist the new intrigues of the aristocrats and his domineering mother. At the same time, Alexander understands that Russia is under threat: war with the invincible Napoleon is inevitable, it's only a matter of time.

Anna is an educated and bright young woman, with lots of friends and a successful career in marketing. The tragic death of her tyrannical husband a year ago hasn’t broken her – indeed she vowed that nothing would stop her from living her life to the full. Despite having many admirers, Anna takes time to start new relationships and rethink her values. Until she meets Matvey. A young surgeon working at a luxury clinic, he initially seems to be an ideal candidate for Anna. However, Matvey soon reveals himself to be a professional manipulator, well versed in a variety of the most dangerous psychological techniques. Anna quickly realizes that this has happened to her before. She intends to end this cycle of unhealthy relationships and defeat Matvey at his own cruel game.

Having suffered a fiasco in the hotel business and saying goodbye to the Eleon Hotel, Eleanor retreats to Tuscany. Everything changes when the ex-fiance Dmitry Nagiyev, who is guilty of her bankruptcy, begins construction of the grandiose Resort complex in Sochi. To take revenge on the showman for all the insults, Eleanor buys a hotel that Nagiyev has his eye on, hires her ex-husband, chef Viktor Barinov, their daughter Katya and manager Mikhail Dzhekovich.

About what leads to sex, and what happens immediately after it. In one of the novels, a guy agrees to have a child with his best friend, unaware of her insidious plan. In another, a casual acquaintance makes a vegan wonder if sex contradicts her beliefs. And the dispute between two strangers about feminism is resolved in bed, where a woman is not going to remain in debt to a man. The heroes of the stories tell not about sex, but about what surrounds it.

Andrey is a professional negotiator. When people can't agree, he helps them to — for a lot of money. For each dispute, he changes himself beyond recognition. Andrey can convince anyone of anything, anytime and anywhere, but he seems to have a hard time accepting his own self. This twisted psychological thriller tests the limits of how far people can go to get what they want. Cruel, dark, and shockingly manipulative, Andrey proves to be extremely efficient. But is it all worth it in the end? And what is the real cost of his abilities?

Charming secular adventurer Sasha escapes from Moscow to Krasnaya Polyana, where she is attracted by the proximity of the sea and mountains, palm trees and snow, ambitious majors and reckless adventurers. In an attempt to settle into a new place and profit from relaxed vacationers, she immediately falls into the clutches of the head of the resort's security service, Mikhalych.

A middle-aged man named Victor many years ago, he was forced to move to Italy to avoid persecution. Life is well established abroad: there is money, work is disputed, pasta carbonara, pizza abounds in mounds of parmesan. Despite this, Victor decides to return to Russia. The man had a wife and three children at home, who had grown inexcusably over the past 25 years, and his father was seen only in photographs from his mother's mezzanine. Victor's plan is as reliable as a Swiss watch: to establish relations with his offspring, to communicate with his wife and eliminate the man who caused the poor man's life to go downhill a quarter of a century ago. The family is discouraged by the sudden appearance of the priest. Sharp-tongued children do not accept him, but they quickly realize that daddy is rich, and each of them is awkwardly balancing on the verge of financial bankruptcy.

A lecturer at a provincial institute, PhD in Economics, is desperately trying to put his theoretical knowledge into practice. However, "reliable" business schemes constantly fail, and it does not work to change worn-out trousers from the GDR to brand-new jeans from America. And then there's the son, caught stealing at school, forcing him to go to extreme measures and seek help from bandits. As a result, the main character finds himself embroiled in a murky scheme with dangerous creditors and obscene goods that he will have to sell just to stay alive. After all, now he is the owner of the first sex shop in his hometown, and he urgently needs to make sure that such outlandish products for the local population as "Aladdin's Cave" and "Banana Bully" are properly sold so that his son does not end up in a juvenile colony, and his wife is a "model" at the men's club.

Ilya, a St. Petersburg guide and translator, is used to hiding his feelings behind quotes and witticisms and opening his soul only to imaginary characters from the world of museums. Everything changes when, after his mother's death, he has to take care of his younger sisters. And now the introvert, accustomed to the bachelor life, will have to reconsider his relationship with the outside world, relive childhood resentments, fall in love and finally grow up.

A group of former classmates rent a country house to relax like in the good old days. The modern chalet has everything for a comfortable and fun vacation, including the smart speaker "Alyona". "Alyona" knows how to entertain her guests, she has many "skills". She can solve puzzles, manage the house, and she also knows all the "skeletons in the closet" that friends are hiding. The device invites the company to play the game "Find the Killer" and find out the circumstances of the death of their best friend, who died less than a year ago under strange circumstances.

Ancient Rus. The hero Svyatogor defeated the evil Sorcerer who wanted to conquer Rus - to do this, he used magic to turn into a Dragon. Svyatogor hid three artifacts (the claw, eye, and vein of the Dragon) in the modern world so that evil would never return. But because of the schoolboy Vanya, the Sorcerer's beloved enters our time. She wants to find these artifacts, resurrect the Dragon, and bring her betrothed back to life. Together with two heroes from ancient Rus, Vanya must find the villain and prevent her from carrying out her plan.

Grisha, who has successfully managed projects to correct spoiled brats, now faces a difficult task – reeducating not just one person, but an entire family.

Nadya is a successful otolaryngologist-surgeon, but by the age of 40 she suddenly realized that she didn't know anything about herself at all. Every day at work, she examines the sensory organs of patients, but she has forgotten how to hear her own feelings, or maybe she has never heard them. Her husband Boris left her two years ago, unable to stand the routine, although the couple is still not divorced. Nadya brings up her daughter Oliviya and continues to live in her mother-in-law's apartment. Nadya needs changes to see that there really is a lot of love in the world. And in her life there are six "lessons of tenderness", each of which will help her to find herself again, her own voice and her new hope.

During a small get-together with her close friends for her birthday, Jane finds a seriously injured stranger on her doorstep begging for help. She decides to help him and in doing so, lure the two killers after him to her country home.

Underground dancers — Alice, Arseny, Stepan, Timur, Kirill, Lyosha and Kristina — are engaged in free creativity. They dream of getting recognition, but staying true to themselves. One day they get a chance to turn the game around: take part in a big documentary project and a TV show. Everyone will have to answer the question of why they dance — for the sake of popularity or at the call of their hearts.

The author of the technology able to copy human mind secretly creates a digital copy of his brother's wife, and convinces the replica he is her husband.

After losing her parents, Masha falls in love with her guardian Sergei Mikhailovich. Masha is young, Sergei Mikhailovich is much older, and they have to go through a difficult path to understanding each other.

Victor, tired of his worries and problems, runs away into the forest and begins a new life in his solitary house. But a tragedy struck, Victor suddenly lost his sight during the hunting. Now he has to blindly pass through a forest and not fall into the clutches of predator…