A film from the film series Chosen by Time.

The world-famous pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) is the subject of this film.

Kirill and Tatiana are abducted by their little daughter Ulyana. During her release, the girl's car explodes. Police officer Cyril has a hard time suffering grief, is depressed, begins to abuse alcohol, and thus loses his wife and job.

Meanwhile, crimes are happening in the city, people are disappearing, children are being abducted. And former head of Cyril helps him to return to work in the police, in conjunction with him will work the best profiler – his ex-wife Tatiana.

In a provincial town on New Year's Eve, a 30-year-old loser, Lyuska, finds a homeless old man in a shabby red coat at a bus stop. After unsuccessful attempts to take him to the hospital or to the police, the compassionate Lyuska delivers the "find" to her home.

Coming to his senses, the sincere old man declares that he is Santa Claus, who fell from a sleigh racing through the sky. Now he can only wait for his granddaughter Snow Maiden to realize that he is not there and start looking for him. Of course, Lucy perceives this statement as nonsense. However, by a strange coincidence, New Year's miracles begin to happen with the appearance of this "Santa Claus" in Lucy's life.

Based on Osip Nazaruk's story Roksolana.

The action takes place in the city of Rohatyn, where her fiance, Stefan, came to her bride Nastya Lisovska from Lviv. They are preparing to celebrate the wedding, but in the morning a detachment of Crimean Tatars breaks into the town. Some townspeople were killed who were younger - captured and sold into slavery. Stefan manages to escape. An attempt to save Nastya was unsuccessful.

Nastya goes a long way from the famous Safar school of slaves to the suleimans of the Great, the pallbearer of the Ottoman Empire. The spark of true love ignites a feud in the main palace of the Top Cap Empire. Valide is involved in this feud - the mother of the mother-in-law, his first wife Mahidevran, the councilors of the court.

Now in the Top Cap Roksolana is called no different from Christian Roksolana. For the sake of her love, Roksolana decides to embrace Muslims, everyone is preparing for the wedding celebrations.

Movie 63 from the movie Unknown Ukraine. Essays on our history.

Destruction of Zaporizhzhya Sich by Catherine II, transformation of Cossack regiments into Russian regular army. The displacement of the Cossacks to the Kuban, the Nogai to the east, the Crimean Greeks and Armenians to Azov and Don, the Crimean Tatars to Turkey. Distribution of freed steppes to colonists. The emergence of new cities in the south.