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.
as Bulat-Batyr
as Asma
as Asfan
as Derzhavin
as General Potyomkin
as Elena von Brandt
as Pugachyov
as Von Kanitz
as Suleyman Murza
as Timur
as Murat
as Beloborodov
as Victory Genius
as Kayum (uncredited)
