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Katia? Katia, are you here?

I saw him, Nikolay Aleksandrovich.

How did he know I was here?

Katia, calm down. It might be a coincidence.

Today The Korenevs open the season. Everybody is there.

I need to leave Kiev immediately.

Mr. Chervinsky is dangerous. He won’t leave me alone.

I’m afraid you’re right.

I’ll try to get him to the hotel

and come back.

Then we’ll decide what to do next.

Nikolay Aleksandrovich, thank you.

I just want to be far enough from him.

Fraulein Kitty.

Fraulein, are you here?

It’s almost our cue.

You promised not to leave me.

Fraulein Kitty?

Poor boy. He relied on me.

You can’t go to the ballroom.

Don’t open the door for anyone, even Volodia.

Only to Yelena Aleksandrovna.

She will come for you as soon as I leave with Chervinsky. All right?

Yes.

I’m very sorry for being a nuisance.

Don’t mention it. It’s not your fault.

You should take good care of your health.

Don’t be stubborn.

Go to the hospital with the professor.

It’s... an old wound.

It doesn’t require so much attention.

He is too modest, Yelena Aleksandrovna.

It’s a battle wound.

Mrs. Koreneva,

I saw a girl in the hall just before I fainted.

She was wearing a light blue dress.

Light blue?

Many ladies are wearing that tonight.

It’s in vogue now.

Blonde hair,

subtle build, like a child’s.

I’m sorry. We don't have a guest matching this description.

Maybe your fever

caused a hallucination.

You should have seen her.

Me?

She was going downstairs.

I’m sorry, my friend…

Our bondmaid Katka.

My mother’s favorite.

You saw her in Chervinka.

A runaway bondmaid? A guest at our house?

Of course not. It’s impossible.

Platon Andreyevich. Olga Platonovna.

I’m glad to see you.

Excuse me... One minute.

How is your amazons’ society?

I hope you have plenty of new recruits.

Or should I say, recruitesses?

Our society is open to both men and women.

You can join right now.

Platon Andreyevich, Olia, excuse me,

but I have to steal Nikolay Aleksandrovich from you.

What happened?

Your relative, Mr. Chervinsky, is here tonight.

He had a stroke.

Grigoriy? I hope he’s all right.

Come with me.

Grigoriy Petrovich, hello.

Mr. Korenev told me what happened.

Let me take care of you.

Nikolay Aleksandrovich,

they shouldn’t have bothered you.

I’m much better.

I’m glad to hear it. But Natalie…

She won’t forgive me if I abandoned you in this situation.

She will.

Anyway, you should come with me.

There is a ball in the house. Let’s not overburden our hosts.

-Yes. Of course. -Let’s go.

He can’t be moved now.

Darling, order to get

our best guest room ready for Mr. Chervinsky.

Of course.

I’ll get right to it.

Please feel at home.

If you need something,

don’t hesitate to order the servants.

I am very grateful.

Grigoriy Petrovich,

I have to leave you for a short while.

Of course, go.

Don’t worry. Nothing will happen to me.

As soon as Nadezhda finishes making the bed, bring Mr. Chervinsky here.

Just be careful. His leg is injured.

Yes, ma’am.

Nicholas!

It’s a disaster.

Katia isn’t safe here anymore.

I have no idea what we shall do now.

Dmitriy Vladimirovich will hardly be pleased to know

he was hiding a runaway bondmaid.

I’ll take her away today.

-We can’t delay it. -How?

The ball is in full swing. There are hundreds of guests in the house.

We need to create a distraction.

I think I know what to do.

What’s wrong, Vladimir? Don’t be so upset.

Katerina Stepanovna couldn’t have let you down.

I’m sure she’ll soon be here.

Godfather, it’s an important night for me!

My first ball.

Voldemar, my friend. What happened? Can I help you?

Have you seen Fraulein Kitty?

It’s almost time for our performance.

Volodia, my dear...

Unfortunately, Fraulein Kitty has high fever.

She can’t accompany you.

How can it be?

However...

you still get to perform.

I will play for you.

But you will have to sing the same song

you sang for your godfather that night.

Mother, everybody has heard it already.

Darling,

I don’t know the score

for “A Lonely Sail.”

Say yes, Volodia. You were brilliant that night.

All I know is this

It would be an honor to accompany

this gifted young man.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Listen to his beautiful singing.

Yes. It’s beautiful.

-Andrey! -Hush! Let me listen.

-It’s an urgent matter. -No urgent matters when my godson sings.

Are you going to just stand there? What happened?

I need your help.

Come here.

Come to me...

Come here!

God help me and save me, ward off the disaster,

cover me with Your angel’s wing.

Have mercy for Your servant Katerina and send me patience.

Katia, it’s me. Open up.

Yelena Aleksandrovna, is he gone?

No. He asked about you.

I tried to persuade him you were just a hallucination caused by fever.

What will happen to me now?

Nikolay Aleksandrovich will take you away and hide.

Katia, hurry! We don’t have a lot of time.

Leave it! I’ll send them to you after the ball.

Hurry!

Hey, friend!

-Yes? -Come here.

What can I do for you?

Bring me candles. And hot wine. Be quick about it.

-Yes, sir. -I’ll wait here.

Wait!

-Yes? -Where is the washing room?

Here, sir.

-Please. -Go.

Katia, let’s go.

Don’t turn around.

Quick!

Katia, please don’t look.

Thank you, Yelena Aleksandrovna. Thank you for everything.

I’m sorry for all the inconvenience.

Don’t be. I hope we’ll see each other again.

You have to write to me!

Promise you will.

Of course.

Katia, my good friend will hide you for a week or two.

Meanwhile, I'll get papers for you and try to transport you to Warsaw.

I’m so grateful to you, Nikolay Aleksandrovich!

I recommend that we hurry, if you don’t want

Kiev’s biggest gossip mongers to be aware of our departure.

Here.

Go!

I am grateful to you for agreeing to give me shelter.

Helping you out is becoming my permanent occupation.

If you dislike it so much, why did you agree to it?

Do you require people who help you

to be happy about it, too?

I don’t need anything of you.

-You can let me out at the first turn. -I won’t.

I promised my friend to take care of you, and I’ll stick to my word.

Don’t worry. I won’t be a nuisance.

The smallest room or a closet will be enough.

Capital!

I have a spare closet in my house.

Here.

Your room.

Get comfortable.

Please don’t leave it, not to mention the house,

under any circumstances.

If you need something,

tell Yarina Dorofeyevna.

She is the mistress here.

I will introduce you this morning.

Is Yarina Dorofeyevna your wife?

Do you want to know if my heart is free?

No. I don’t want you to have problems because of me.

Leave my problems to me, Fraulein.

Goodnight.

Zorka has eaten.

And you were going to butcher her for Christmas!

Come on! Have you cured her?

How are you doing it?

Maybe it’s because we’re alike, she and I.

I was a cursed cow, too.

If she holds and brings a calf,

you can have it.

God bless you, Timofey Yosypovych, and your kind heart.

You’re a good worker.

I like everything to be fair.

Who is it so early?

When will he leave me alone?

Galia, don’t cry just yet.

Get into the barn before he sees you.

Go inside!

What the hell is he doing here?

Hello, Yakov Yuhymovych.

How are you doing, Timofey?

Little by little.

I heard you had a good harvest.

Isn’t your lot too small for you?

It is.

I was going to ask the landlord this spring to give me another one.

Why wait till spring?

You don’t need to bother the master.

I have a spare lot.

Remember Panas Pilipenko?

The one that was taken to the army?

Yes, him.

As you know, soldiers aren’t supposed to own land.

But... he has family left.

A wife, a mother, a young brother.

They are useless.

An old lady, a child,

and a pregnant woman.

How can they plough it? And you are a good tiller.

Don’t you dare reject land! Do you hear?

You’ve done enough for her.

-She owes you enough! -Hush!

What? Isn’t it the truth?

Your Galia is barely walking!

What kind of hired hand is she?

Timofey,

didn’t you hear my order?

I told everybody in Chervinka not to hire this slut.

The slut?

The slut?

Tell me, Yakov Yuhymovych, who made me a slut.

You bastard!

By the law, I’m my own master in my household.

I decide whom I hire.

Really?

Come on, Timofey.

Let’s talk about what kind of master you are.

Tell me about your rights.

Let’s go inside.

Let’s go, Yakov Yuhymovych.

Let’s drink some vodka.

Where did he find you?

You’ve been here a week, and still...

I told you to change his bedding when he wakes up.

He must have been out till morning.

No, Yarina Dorofeyevna. The master was at home at one o’clock.

Hush! Didn’t I tell you not to call Andrey Andreyevich master?

I don’t understand.

What is this?

I don’t know how to turn it off.

It’s a complicated mechanism.

Why touch it if you don’t know how it works?

I just wanted to look.

Excuse me. I didn’t say hello.

Hello. My name is Katia.

Yarina Dorofeyevna.

Andrey Andreyevich was going to introduce us today.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to burden you for long.

Why would I worry?

You see, I’m in a difficult situation.

Andrey Andreyevich nobly came to my rescue.

I’m very grateful to him.

Andrey Andreyevich does this thing all the time.

Breakfast is in an hour.

Nobody is being served in this house.

So please just come down without a special invitation.

Thank you, but...

Andrey Andreyevich forbade me to leave this room.

Oh, he did?

Well, stay hungry for all I care.

Is she always this strict?

To put it mildly.

She is his only relative.

Whoever comes here seeking for help…

Demyan! Where the hell are you?

Well?

Timofey Yosypovych....

Timofey Yosypovych... don't send me away.

We can’t cope without this job.

Yevdokiya Polikarpovna, have mercy!

I do everything! I never say no to any work.

Galia.

Here.

For the last week.

I can’t let you stay.

We’re at his mercy.

I can work for ten kopecks.

I’ll sneak in here. I’ll smear my face with soot.

-I’ll wear rags... -Go!

Don’t break my heart.

I feel bad enough.

Go!

Grigoriy Petrovich!

I’m glad you’re back on your feet.

How do you feel?

Thank you, Yelena Aleksandrovna.

I’m all right now.

I’m sorry for all this nuisance.

What matters is that you feel better now.

I’ll order to serve you breakfast in the dining room.

My husband has already left for the office.

Thank you. I’m not hungry.

I’ll just have a cup of coffee,

if you don’t mind.

Of course. Sit down.

Thank God it happened here, at our house,

and not somewhere in the street.

What made you go all this way

in such a condition?

Isn’t it dangerous?

Urgent estate business.

Besides, after the Crimean campaign, I’m not scared easily.

Mother, what is this?

Why didn’t they tell me Fraulein had run away?

Has she abandoned me forever?

Volodia, it happens sometimes. I hope she will be back soon.

Now, go study your German verbs.

I’ll come to test you later.

Have I made myself clear?

Forgive my intolerable son.

His dog ran away during the ball.

He was very attached to it.

I asked everyone to hide it from him

but one of the servants have been indiscrete.

A dog? What a weird name for a dog...

Fraulein Kitty.

Weird? It was a German Spitz.

Never mind the dog.

We’ll buy a new one if she doesn’t come back.

Nikolay Aleksandrovich promised to come get you at 11.

Shall I send a note to urge him on?

No, no. You shouldn’t bother him for me.

I’m not a child to need a nanny.

Yelena Aleksandrovna,

thank you for your help and giving me shelter.

Good morning, Auntie.

Well, if that’s what you say.

I wanted to introduce you to someone

and ask for your help.

Don’t waste your words.

I have already met your new protégé.

Everybody in this world needs your help.

Who will help them if not you?

Why not help if it’s in my power?

Besides, this girl is in big trouble.

What happened?

She is on the run.

A convict?

A bondmaid.

All right, you give out money left and right.

You buy all this garbage to save your painters

and thinkers from starving.

But this!

What are you talking about?

Don’t you remember you were a bondmaid, too?

I remember.

I never escaped from my masters and created problems for other people.

God knows how and why He tests people.

And you try to prove that you’re wiser than Him!

All right.

The girl stays. That’s a done deal.

Call her down for breakfast.

Your protégé refuses to leave her room

without Andrey Andreyevich’s special permission.

So send the food to her room.

Nikolay Aleksandrovich, hello.

Hello, Prokhor.

They’ve just brought this in.

-Is my carriage ready? -Of course.

Just like you ordered.

“I am happy to inform you that, by Lord’s grace,

Mr. Reshetnikov is out of danger for now.

You can visit and talk to him if that’s your desire.”

When do I get to shoe a horse?

I can do it, Uncle Nazar!

-Just say a word… -Hush. Easy.

Whoa.

God, why are you doing this to me?

Galia! What happened?

Did you fall? Is your leg broken?

Can you walk?

What?

Yashka was in Zalesye.

I lost my job.

Let’s go to the smithy. You need to get warm. Come on.

No. I’m not going to the masters’.

I don’t want to get you or Oleksa in trouble.

Oleksa! Run to the smithy.

Tell Orysia to make a warm drink and find a duvet.

We’ll wait for you at the old mill. Got it?

-Yes. -All right, get up.

Easy, easy. Come on.

Easy.

Come on.

He is much better after taking his morning medication.

His fever has broken, and he even remembered his name.

So I sent for you at once.

Thank you. I’d like to talk to him in private for a few minutes.

Do you think he can handle it?

Just a while ago I thought he wouldn’t survive.

But today he called me by my name and asked for food.

Everything is in God’s hands.

Yegor Kuzmich!

Yegor Kuzmich!

Your benefactor is here.

You’re conscious now because of him.

Please sit down.

Thank you.

Hello, Mr. Reshetnikov.

I’m Nikolay Aleksandrovich Doroshenko.

Glad to meet you.

How do you feel?

Like a stranded fish.

Thank you for the medicine and the doctor,

but I don’t believe in good will.

I’ve never met you in my life.

What do you want?

Why, we have met before.

At the Nezhin jail, if you remember.

Have you been waiting long, brother Gregory.

I came to see Mr. Kosach.

The drunken bastard mixed up the doors.

You must be Aleksey’s friend.

As fate would have it, we are cellmates.

I hope you will do me a favor

and give me a few minutes of your time.

I’m listening.

I intend to clear the name of my late friend,

and you will help me in it.

Tell them to have my things packed.

I’m leaving in half an hour.

Mr. Chervinsky, it’s impossible.

One of your horses is limping and needs to be replaced.

So have it replaced!

Where is my coachman? Let him take care of this.

Put it on my bill.

We don’t have spare horses.

All guests who were here for the ballroom season opening are now going home.

You will have to wait like everybody else.

What the hell are you talking about? Do you know who I am?

I need to go back to Nezhin immediately. So be so kind to find me a horse.

How much do I have to pay for it?

Two hundred?

Three?

Four? Five? Tell me!

I assure you, Mr. Chervinsky, if we had the smallest chance…

Please excuse me...

I accidentally overheard your conversation.

I can help you.

Here.

Thank you.

Allow me to introduce myself.

Merchant of the first guild, Nikita Alekseyevich Rayduga.

Nice to meet you. Grigoriy Petrovich Chervinsky.

Do you have a spare horse?

I’ll pay as much as you say.

No. I’m going to Chernigov province, too.

I’m riding back home from my trip.

You could harness your horse together with mine

and replace it at the next post office.

If, of course, you don’t mind my presence in your carriage until then.

I wouldn’t mind the devil himself

if it gave me a chance to get out of this hellhole.

Thank you, Nikita Alekseyevich.

I feel sorry for Kosach.

He was so young, hotheaded, and honest.

A good man, in a word.

Grishka could have very well killed him.

He never had any honor or conscience.

What do you know about Chervinsky?

Never mind how you lived before.

There must be at least one good deed in you.

You think it will earn me some favors up there?

Lies. Nobody cares.

There’s nothing there except for the darkness.

Nikolay Aleksandrovich, he can’t overexert himself.

He is too weak. Come back tomorrow.

Yes.

Of course.

No! Don’t let the Grim Reaper take me! Doroshenko, please.

I will tell you everything about Grisha,

enough for two trials.

Just don’t let me die, okay? Not now.

I’ll do everything I can.

I’ll come back tomorrow.

Call the doctor again if needed.

He must survive.

So that’s how I waste away my life.

You wouldn’t understand.

Your house must be filled with the patter of little feet

and women’s emotions.

You’re mistaken. I live alone.

My mother died last summer.

My father went abroad for good.

And my marriage...

It’s a long story.

I know what you mean.

Solitude is a burden.

Sometimes you walk around your big house

and your conscience keeps reminding you of all the times

you didn’t do the right thing.

You’d be happy to shut it up,

but there is no way, because you’re alone in this palace.

Your thoughts are haunting you, and you can’t hide from them.

They have spare horses.

Let me harness them, and we’ll go home.

Thank you, Nikita Alekseevich.

Don’t mention it.

I was happy to be of help.

Please stop by if you ever are in our area.

If fate ever brings you to Nezhin, ask anyone for directions to Chervinka.

I’ll be happy to see you.

Have a safe journey, Grigory Petrovich.

God willing, we’ll meet again.

Thank you.

At least someone is doing good.

When is the wedding?

After the winter holidays.

Maybe the day after Epiphany.

If our masters allow.

If they don’t, we’ll run away.

It’s better than suffering like this.

What are you going to do now, Galia?

If I were alone,

I’d just go wherever the road takes me.

But I can’t abandon Oleksa and my mother-in-law.

This bastard is standing in my way wherever I try to go.

Maybe Nazar could beat him up.

Uncle Nazar, you’re strong. You can do it.

No way!

He would flog Nazar to death

or send him to jail for this.

And he’ll get away with it, too.

Also, what use would it be?

You can’t beat golden coins out of him to buy out Taras.

Maybe we can’t beat them out of him.

What if Yashka brings them to you himself

and beg you to take them?

What would you say then?

Darka, are you out of your mind?

What are you up to?

We’d have to convince Aunt Pavla, though.

I don’t think she’ll mind.

I need Mr. Moliboga.

Don’t worry, Frol Kuzmich, everything will be fine.

-Don’t call me by that name. -Of course.

Good evening, ma’am.

Come in.

What can I do for you?

What a torture!

How can Turkish women survive in their burqas? I almost choked to death.

Thank God we have different traditions.

I wouldn’t want to lose the chance

to see your beauty.

Olga Platonovna Radzevich, I presume.

How do you know who I am?

I know many things.

There is no need to burden your pretty head with this.

Well?

I’m listening.

-I intend to get married. -Congratulations.

No later than Christmas.

I’m not asking for the reason of such rush.

You can ask.

It’s not what you think.

My parents want to marry me to a gentleman I... despise.

I want to choose my own husband myself.

How modern of you.

I have already made up my mind.

Andrey Andreyevich Zhadan will be my husband.

So, your parents are against him,

and you want me to help you elope?

No. You are to make him propose to me.

Listen...

-You should go to a matchmaker. -Stop mocking me!

If a matchmaker could help me, I’d go to her.

They told me you were a man able to solve problems.

Is it true? Or was I misled?

I’m flattered with this description of myself.

I can do anything,

but it might cost you.

Goddamned girls!

I’ll kill them when I catch them!

Are you crazy?

What happened to your decency?

-Who? -Who what?

Who made my bed?

I…

You bitch…

Let go! What did I do?

Get off me!

What’s this?

-What? -Did you make my bed?

I was doing my best.

What’s wrong with your bed?

-What’s wrong with it? -Why are you raving?

Don’t you see? It’s...

-What? -Crumpled!

Yakov Yuhymovych, stop messing with us.

Let’s go, Orysia.

-Come in. -May I?

I wanted to talk to you, Andrey Andreyevich.

I’ll come later if you’re busy.

No, please come in!

Come in!

You will see a miracle.

Is this Laterna Magica?

You are the first lady

who knows the correct name for the magic lantern.

I saw one like this when I was in Kharkiv

with my godmother.

It’s not just a magic lantern.

This is a phenakistiscope.

You’re in for a surprise.

I don’t see anything.

It’s all right. Wait a second.

Your frock! It’s on fire.

Here, I put it out.

Are you all right?

Are you?

Apart from the bruises you gave me in the heat of the moment…

I’m sorry if I hurt you.

I was just scared for you.