In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.
Bulat-Batyr
Asma
Asfan
Derzhavin
General Potyomkin
Elena von Brandt
Pugachyov
Von Kanitz
Suleyman Murza
Timur
Murat
Beloborodov
Victory Genius
Kayum (uncredited)
