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- While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
- Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal. When Zhurov introduces his friend Prince Bartinsky to the family, both young women soon fall in love with the dashing but irresponsible prince. The prince is in love with Nata, but because of his enormous debts, he decides to marry Musya to get her dowry, and he allows Nata to marry Zhurov. All the while, Mrs. Khromova remains very uneasy, fearing that marriage is unlikely to cause the self-indulgent prince to change his ways.
- A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
- A provincial landowner, no longer a young man, is hopelessly attracted to a beautiful young girl at sunset. Realizing the futility of this novel, the hero returns to his empty house with , experiencing the collapse of his hopes.
- The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.
- Opera singer Yuri Nagorny is a famous celadon and ladies' man. He breaks women's hearts easily and with impunity. But retribution catches up with him.
- The famous wrestler Carlo de Milano possessed extraordinary strength. Together with his adopted son, he bought an old house with a vineyard and a deep basement, where a rotten staircase led.
- Story about Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- A criminal drama in 4 parts. Part 1 - The Yellow Devil's Web Part 2 - Monk's system of happiness "Iron Hand" Part 3 - Mysterious graybeard Part 4 - Revenge of the pitiable.
- Nicolai Orloff, a horse dealer, is swayed in the management of all his affairs by his selfish mistress, Glasha. His daughter Sonia, returning from school, discovers the other woman strangely antagonistic toward her, particularly when she meets and falls in love with Prince Alexis. Desiring the prince herself, Glasha prevails upon Orloff to forbid his daughter continuing her romance with him. Later, Glasha disappears and the prince is accused of murdering her. It develops in the end, however, that she was killed by enraged peasant women who objected to the harsh treatment accorded them by Orloff, who they knew was influenced by Glasha.
- Story about Albert, king of Belgium.
- Destiny of a poor unhappy woman in pre-revolutional Georgia.
- Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.
- Dissatisfied with the profits of his gambling house, the Busy Inn, Bessyne resorts to robbery at night. Eugenia, his wife, who does her share in extorting money from those who visit the Inn, persuades her husband to force Anna, his sister, who has been reluctant up to now, to take part in the scheme. As a result of her participation Anna falls in love with Prince Myloff, one of the frequenters of the Inn, and with whom Eugenia is also fascinated, and in revenge, Eugenia poisons the mind of the prince against Anna. Disheartened, Anna drinks what she believes is poison, and, feeling that she is dying, summons the prince, who has called at the Inn, and assures him that she really loves him. Convinced, the prince has Anna taken to his home for treatment, and declares that their betrothal will be announced at once. But Bessyne relieves the tension by revealing that what Anna drank was only a sleeping potion.
- Social drama. After the novel of the same name of Ibrahimbay Musabayov.