Pavel Petrov-Bytov

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

The film shows the struggle of the Chuvash people for their rights at the beginning of the 20th century.

About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....

1773. The film tells the story of one of the most devastating events in the history of the Russian Empire—the Cossack uprising led by Emelyan Pugachev, which escalated into a civil war for the imperial throne, with Pugachev proclaiming himself Peter III.

The 1890s. One of the cities on the Volga River. The young wife of a merchant falls in love with Artem, a “Volga bogatyr,” a man of enormous strength and violent temper. She dreams of leaving with him for the countryside. Her jealous husband bribes hooligans to kill Artem.