The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.
Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Briukhovetsky
Hetman Somko
Shram
Cherevan
Cherevan's wife
Lesya
Polish princess
Gvintovka
Kirilo Tur
Shramenko
boyar
Pugach
