Yelizaveta Uvarova

Пёстрые рассказы

Тим Талер, или Проданный смех

Young man Kesha starts working in the Kindergarten.

After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.

During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years.

How can anyone take a person seriously when his last name is Zaychik (Little Hare). Everyone can manipulate and make fun of him. And Zaychik never strikes back just because he is too shy. But to the surprise of everyone love makes a lion out of little hare.

A finding of an old briefcase in a ruined house in 1970s leads to a treasure, hidden in the 1920s.

In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the farm: she becomes chairman of the kolkhoz, courageously coping with the difficulties of collectivization, the distrust of some fellow villagers, and family conflict.

Devil With a Briefcase

Alexey Severtsev, who came to enroll at Leningrad University from Siberia, is cleverly deceived by experienced criminals. At the station, they manage to lure Severtsev into a deserted place, beat him and rob him. A young police sergeant Nikolai Zakharov is assigned to investigate this incident. Zakharov will show resourcefulness and courage, and, of course, will detain repeat offenders.

Funny adventures of a young girl Katya and her friends in a land of magic.

War Under the Roofs

The action takes place in the autumn of 1942, when German army was approaching Stalingrad and a group of Belarussian partisans decides to make a disruption in the rear of German's troop trains. Having found themselves without equipment, they send the young Mikhas to mechanic Bugreev. He is accompanied by Sazon Ivanovich, who is also cooperating with Germans - by the secret task of partisans. They come to the lodge, where equipment is hidden, build a fire and start to clarify explosive. Sudden arrival of Germans crushes the heroes' plan.

About the friendship of a boy Taborka with a dog named Vulcan and their adventures. The boy lives in Brest and his friends play the war in the Brest Citadel, where the echoes of World War II are alive...