Eldar Lebedev

"O. R.U.ZH.I. E "is the abbreviation of the names of friends: O - Oleg, a military pensioner, R - Roman, a scientist, an employee of a research institute, U - Ulyana, a television correspondent, Zh - Zhenya, a physicist, doctor of sciences, I - Igor, entrepreneur, former reporter, husband of Ulyana, E - Egor, laboratory assistant at the provincial research center. Oleg and Roman experience the latest weapons - a rifle with exceptional range and destructive power. The tests are successful, and Oleg is trying to interest the military with these weapons.

Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.

Viktor Rastorguev, a police colonel, moved to St. Petersburg with his entire family. In Moscow, he crossed paths with a certain official and was forced to leave. He would no longer have been allowed to serve peacefully in Moscow. In St. Petersburg, Rastorguev became the head of the district police department in one of the city's districts. Rastorguev's family moved with him: his wife Olga and 16-year-old son Pavel. They are trying to settle into their new home, but everything in their lives is not turning out the way they would like...

Surgeon Zhenya Koroleva's life changes when a new Moscow manager, Ilya Sokolov, is assigned to the hospital where she works. He starts to build "a new order", while Zhenya struggles to give up her old ways. Despite the conflict, Zhenya and Ilya have to work together, side by side, saving lives; which gradually emerges into a budding romance.

Anna Andreevna, who has spent her entire life working as a schoolteacher, retires and buys a summer house in a small village. Her neighbor turns out to be Taisia, a former milkmaid. Despite the difference in their education and life experience, the two women become close friends — they discover they have much in common in their life stories. Just as strong a friendship develops between their grandchildren, Dima and Masha. They will have to support each other through many difficult moments. When Masha’s mother dies before the eyes of eleven-year-old Masha, Dmitry does everything he can to take care of her. But soon he will need Masha’s care as well: a year later, his parents are killed in a plane crash. Years pass. Masha’s childhood attachment grows into true love — but Dmitry marries someone else…