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
