648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytskyi gathers the army of defenders of the motherland.

Hetman Zynovii-Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
Colonel Ivan Bohun
Colonel Maksym Kryvonis
cantor Havrylo
Helena Chaplynska, the Hetman's wife
Tuvka, Lizogub henchman
Colonel Afanas
Murza Tugay-Bey
Cossack Dovbnia, Shaitan's son / boyar Pushkin, Moscow ambassador
Clerk Lyzohub
Cossack Shaitan
old Cossack Tur