Nikolai Pajitnov

12 Chairs

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a s...

Midshipman Panin

It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenc...

Drama on the Hunt

Kremlin Courier

Bolshevik Mravin, under the name of engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Lednev, risking his life, takes V.I. Lenin’s “Lett...

Red Cavalry

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality...

A Thousand Souls

Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals...

Christians

At one court hearing, a witness, who is engaged in prostitution, refused to take the oath, cause she didn't con...

Much Ado About Nothing

Leonato, governor of sunny Messina in Sicily, warmly welcomes Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, to his home. Don Ped...

Clever

The king married an intelligent and beautiful peasant girl, but he was not very smart himself, and his wife's s...