Fire and sword

Seventeenth century. The speech of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is enveloped in fire provoked by a quarrel between Orthodox Colonel Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Mr. Chaplinsky, who spoiled the colonel’s son to death. Insulted Khmelnitsky raised the Zaporozhye Sich, summoned the Crimean Tatars under the leadership of Tugan-bey, defeated the troops of King Vladislav. Against the background of wild robberies, pogroms, grandiose battle scenes, the noble noble nobleman Skshetusky and the cruel Cossack ataman Bogun achieve the love of a beautiful Polish woman