«The Victory will be my gift to you!». This is the promise, which the 17-year old volunteer soldier makes to a very young hospital nurse, with whom he is madly in love. Many years later following a tragic accident the protagonist of our story will get hold of the volunteer’s diary. He lives is a bustling vicious city sparkling with steel and other expensive tinsel. He has achieved almost everything that a modern citizen might dream of – ha has successful career, a striking well-groomed wife and other attributes of his status. From time to time he shares his success formulas with hundreds of students of a business school dreaming of making a similar career.

Nastya is an ambulance doctor, which means that at crucial moments she should not lose control of feelings and emotions. She has a kind heart and a sympathetic character. But one day Nastya still loses her head, falling in love with Sergei Ignatiev. The heroine met him when she came to a call to the daughter of the owner of a large construction company, Mark Knyazev. A chance acquaintance develops into a stormy romance with a beautiful courtship, flowers and gifts. And, a week later, the man makes Nastya an offer. The girl does not believe her happiness. It seems to her that she has drawn a lucky ticket: her chosen one is a worthy and noble person. However, subsequent events and an accidentally overheard conversation will completely destroy the illusions... What will Nastya choose – to run away from a dangerous groom or to pretend and play the role of a happy bride?

1745. The reigning Empress Elizabeth Petrovna is infertile. The only heir is her feeble-minded nephew Peter III. Elizabeth cannot allow Peter to ascend to the throne, so she decides to marry the tsarevich, wait for the birth of her son, and then take the boy and raise him as a real Russian emperor herself. Brides are coming to St. Petersburg. Among them is the lovely Fike - the young Princess Sofia Frederica from the impoverished branch of the Prussian kings.

Romance, in Russian

Based on the novels and stories of Eduard Limonov.