
A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government.
Ivan

Kateryna

Havrylov, the revolutionary

Svichka Pomishchyk, the colonel
Zhukov, the merchant

Sydorenko, Svichka's manager

Nastasia Markivna

General Ladanskyi

Nicholas I of Russia
Georgian prisoner

Taras Shevchenko

Russian gendarmerie
Dadiani princess