vladkurakov

The 17th century. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is engulfed in flames, sparked by a quarrel between the Orthodox colonel Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Pan Chaplinsky, who flogged the colonel's son to death. Insulted, Khmelnytsky raised the Zaporozhian Sich, called upon the Crimean Tatars led by Tugan Bey, and defeated King Vladislav's forces. Amidst the rampant looting, pogroms, and epic battles, the noble nobleman Skrzetuski and the ruthless Cossack chieftain Bogun vie for the love of a beautiful Polish woman...