More than a hundred years after the publication of the novel, nothing seems to have changed in St. Petersburg. It's the 1990s. The characters we've known for a long time — Rodion Raskolnikov and Sonya Marmeladova — are forced to eke out a miserable existence against the backdrop of universal squalid poverty. Will history repeat itself again? Or will things be different in Russia in the 1990s?
More than a hundred years after the publication of the novel, nothing seems to have changed in St. Petersburg. It's the 1990s. The characters we've known for a long time — Rodion Raskolnikov and Sonya Marmeladova — are forced to eke out a miserable existence against the backdrop of universal squalid poverty. Will history repeat itself again? Or will things be different in Russia in the 1990s?
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.
Chronicles the lives of four generations of an upper-class family of stockbrokers, set against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving late-Victorian world.
Step into a thrilling chapter inspired by For All Mankind. Same alt-history universe. Different perspective: the Soviet Union's. Go behind the Iron Curtain with the cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers who risked it all in the race for the Moon.
The Idiot (Идиот) is a 2003 Russian costume drama television serial written by Vladimir Bortko, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel of the same title. In corrupt 19th-century St Petersburg, Christ-like Prince Myshkin becomes entangled in the lives of the self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna and the romantic Aglaya Epanchina.
Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker, Ptolemy Grey is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn. When they learn about a treatment that will restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths.
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Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.
Victor Gromov, once a legend of Moscow’s criminal underworld known under the nickname “Butcher”, has since retired and now spends his days enjoying life on his farm. One day, Victor’s former “colleagues” show up and tell him that he must store the mafia’s common fund in his offshore bank account. Victor has no choice but to help them. Several months later, on the day when he is supposed to give the money back, Victor gets hit on the head by a falling billboard. As a result, he forgets the password to his bank account. Fleeing for his life from his former cronies, Victor decides to hide in a freight train’s boxcar but ends up getting locked inside. The train departs, and several days later he finds himself thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, in a small northern town called Polyarny, which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get out of...
A mid-life crisis tale about the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.