Andrey Sharypov

Grandpa Slava is the oldest of the Midland vampire family. They live quietly. They live by the law. They live the unremarkable life of an ordinary Russian family and they never kill humans – ever. Although, of course, everyone knows they drink blood. And when some lifeless corpses are found in a birch grove near Smolensk... their peaceful life falls under threat.

After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel and the death of an intelligence agent, a new cunning plan is being developed to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent, Elena Golubovskaya, is appointed to this case. In Crimea, Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet. Her task is to eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the white movement, as well as control the operation to steal gold. Her plans are thwarted by Maximilian Ermler, a local newspaper journalist who turns out to be a British intelligence agent.

Moscow journalist comes to the Pervomaysky farmstead to interview Efrosinya Semenova, a heroic mother who lost nine sons in the war, on assignment from the editorial office. During long conversations, he discovers the courage and heroism of each son, as well as the indestructible strength of spirit of Efrosinya.

The Great Patriotic War, winter 1941. Food supplies ran out and supplies were blocked. Besieged Leningrad was dying of hunger: 125 grams of bread per day were given to employees, dependents and children. It was then that a gang appeared in the city, engaged in fraud and robbery. The criminals were mainly engaged in forgery of food cards. The name of their gang, ZIG ZAG, stood for "Defenders of German Interests —The Banner of Adolf Hitler."

Ekaterina Martynova, at the age of fourteen, became a victim of Viktor Mokhov, nicknamed the "Skopinsky maniac". The criminal held Ekaterina and her seventeen-year-old friend Elena Samokhina for almost four years in the basement of a garage on his property in the city of Skopin, Ryazan region.

A burglar-safecracker Sasha breaks into a house where he witnesses a crime: the owner of the house, Chernov, has killed his wife. Chernov begins to pursue the escaped witness. Meanwhile, Sasha has to make it to his son's party, because the future of his marriage, which he is trying to save with all his might, depends on it.