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No, really, what happened?

Yelena Aleksandrovna, please excuse me.

What happened?

Katia was kidnapped.

When? How did you let it happen?

-My coat, now! -Yes, sir.

-We have to find her! -Bogdan Yuryevich, good evening.

Andrey Andreyevich, what’s going on? Where are you going?

-On an urgent business trip. -What business? What is this nonsense?

Do you want my public humiliation?

What...

Katerina Stepanovna was kidnapped an hour ago.

-Her life is in danger. I want to go. -The guests! What shall I tell them?

That you left your engagement party to save the runaway bondmaid.

I’m sure you will come up with something believable.

You do have vivid imagination, Olga Platonovna.

Ladies and gentlemen, a minute of your attention.

Andrey Andreyevich sends his apologies.

He had to leave on a very important business trip.

However, he requests us to continue with the celebration because of him.

I hope you will understand.

Music!

Business on the day of his engagement?

Excuse me, but this is too much even for Mr. Zhadan.

Godfather, please.

If Andrey Andreyevich did this, he must have had a good reason.

I don’t judge him, and neither should you.

I hope Mr. Zhadan understands

what a treasure he found in you.

Godfather...

I’m a little tired.

Let’s go, darling.

Could Chervinsky have tracked her? But how?

Excuse me, but could your fiancee...

Olga Platonovna? She got all she wanted.

The craftsman Lukyan!

The one from the auction?

Yes! He knew everything!

The advertisement,

the place where Katia was hiding.

Stop!

I’ll find him wherever he is.

Why did you find this engagement strange?

Because of Zhadan’s escapade?

He never cared about social niceties.

Andrey kept himself aloof as if he was struggling.

Olia doesn’t look like a happy bride, either.

Even if the rumors about their hasty engagement are true,

people who are so close wouldn’t...

Dmitriy Vladimirovich!

What’s wrong?

Help me!

My vinaigrette! Come on!

Dmitriy Vladimirovich!

Professor, I don’t have to ask you anything.

I see it in your face.

Is it that bad?

I won’t get out of it this time, will I?

Alas, Your Illustrious Highness.

I’m so sorry Professor Tishchenko is out of town.

I wouldn’t want to be the one to break the sad news.

They’ll bring it in a minute, Mstislav Yuryevich.

I sent a man to the drugstore for the medicine you had prescribed.

Is it fatigue?

You have to talk to Dmitriy Vladimirovich.

He wouldn’t listen to me. He works all night long.

Yelena Aleksandrovna doesn’t know.

Your colleague respected my will,

and so should you.

What is it I don’t know?

I won’t object, Mr. Vice Governor.

It’s your decision.

But would you want someone to hide such a thing from you?

What are you hiding from me?

I’m dying, Lena.

I thought I’d live to see Yuletide,

but looks like I won’t.

ANDREY ZHADAN’S OFFICE

Andrey!

None of the Kyiv hotels... has heard about Chervinsky since November.

This one also swears to God

he has no part in what happened to Katerina Stepanovna.

Tell me the truth, you damned soul!

Whom did you tell about Katia living in my house?

I’d never! I would do anything for her... for you.

Am I...

Andrey! Andrey, leave him. You’ll strangle him.

He doesn’t know anything.

I swear to God I didn’t do it.

You can flog me to death if you want.

Andrey. Maybe it’s not Chervinsky.

Some hothead saw the girl in your house and decided to kidnap her for ransom.

Let’s wait for a day or two.

They’ll contact you.

No, I’m not going to wait.

I have...

to go talk to stagecoach drivers, go to the inns.

If they changed the horses, someone had to have seen them.

The sun will rise in a couple hours.

We can start then.

Let me come with you.

I can help.

I’m sorry I...

It’s all right.

I understand.

Anyone would go crazy in your place. It’s because of love.

Are you awake?

So...

I won’t beat you if you don’t scream.

Don’t even think about escape. Got it?

Let me go.

You’ll be paid handsomely.

Who?

Zhadan?

Andrey Andreyevich is getting married. He has no time for you.

What would he pay for a bondmaid prostitute?

What do you want from me?

All right.

If you don’t do anything stupid, everyone will be happy.

I’ll get my reward, and you - your life.

If you try something or utter a sound...

Wake up!

Then I’ll let him have his way with you.

Got it?

What are you waiting for? Go. We need to be there by morning.

It’s so cold

I had to break the ice on the bucket with a pickaxe.

Sit down, son. Eat.

I cooked you kasha.

We have milk, too.

I don’t know...

who told you these things about Galia,

but don’t listen to them.

You should see her grieving for you,

working her back off, not sparing herself or the baby.

Enough, Mother.

I told you yesterday...

not to mention her again.

If not for Galia, you wouldn’t be home now.

Shut up!

You listen to anyone but your own family.

You’re too young to understand.

Where will she go in the middle of the winter?

NEZHIN CITY JAIL

He is here, Your Nobleness!

He’s alive.

Why did you chain him to the wall? You have grates on the windows.

What if he tries to escape?

I need to talk to the convict alone.

I will be right outside.

Makar Yevseyevich,

I have an offer for you.

I hope you will listen to me and take it.

Really?

You must need me really bad, my dear sir,

if you took me out of the noose and call me by patronymic.

This summer, you were an accidental witness

of my friend’s murder

at the old mill in the Chervinskys’ estate.

I can make sure they commute your death sentence to imprisonment.

On one condition:

you will tell me everything you saw and heard that night.

How do you know about the mill?

I’m Nikolay Doroshenko, a friend of Katerina Verbitskaya.

Katrusia’s friend?

Can you really negotiate on my sentence?

Word of honor.

Actually, I didn’t see anything.

I heard some things, though.

Two men were arguing real hard.

One was asking the other about some stuck bullet, whose it was.

English or ours?

Then they were talking about some awards.

What was the name of the hero

buried without his well-deserved orders because of you?

One of them was limping and tapping his stick on the floor.

Then they started fighting, and then... a shot.

Where did Grigoriy Petrovich want these important guests to be placed?

In Anna Lvovna’s room?

I couldn’t believe it, either.

They are already carrying their luggage in.

Aunt Pavlina, what will happen to us?

They say they are the Skopets sect.

They have already ensnared Grigoriy Petrovich.

We will become beggars,

if we survive at all.

Marko!

Hold your tongue.

Malanka, watch the kasha.

I’ll be right back.

Long live the Bright Helmsman!

I’m praying for you,

brothers.

I’m glad you’re with us now,

due to our brother Grigoriy’s benevolence and generosity.

I don’t praise you often, Brother Grigoriy, but today is the day.

I see all the more clearly that...

your soul deserves salvation.

I can see the devil is trying to persuade you to turn us out

and... go back to your whirlpool of sin.

I also see you resisting his entreaties and helping the brothers.

You will be rewarded for your patience.

My leg hurts again, Helmsman.

I can not stand it.

You said prayer and humility will overcome everything.

They will.

Just don’t lose your faith.

Excuse me, Grigoriy Petrovich. Can I talk to you for a minute?

I have to ask you a personal favor.

He won’t become a Pigeon, Helmsman.

He doesn’t have a lot of money left, either.

I looked through the papers we took from the steward.

He is head over heels in debt.

Did I say I’m going to make Chervinsky a Pigeon?

Let him...

make over the estate to the brothers,

and then I’ll send him on his way.

If it leads him to the debtors’ prison,

so be it.

Don’t you hear me?

Did this adder get into your head?

Grigoriy Petrovich, for God’s sake!

-Turn these God’s people out of-- -Shut up!

Kick them out, and let’s get back to our old life.

Old life?

We can’t go back to it, you old fool!

Mother is gone!

Everything...

and everybody are gone.

There is only the devil hiding in the corners.

-God help us! -The Helmsman promised me to catch it.

Listen, Grigoriy Petrovich...

I don’t know about your demon,

but the peasants will soon scatter away.

And if these people stay in your mother’s room till the morning,

I’ll leave, even if I promised to take care of you.

Sunflower seeds!

KIEV

Andrey Andreyevich! I found something.

Come in!

I know it wasn’t our master who kidnapped Katia.

What is it you found out? Explain. Who is this?

It’s Klim the cabman. He told me everything.

-Yes. -Tell him.

Looks like it’s One-Eyed Kolka’s cab.

Who is this One-Eyed Kolka? Where can I find him?

A cabman.

He will take any work. Yes...

This guy hired him. A shady character.

He came for Kolka today after lunch.

I haven’t seen Kolka today or last night.

Where does Kolka live?

I don’t know. Kolka doesn’t talk much.

-When Kolka shows up... -Yeah.

...let us know.

He doesn’t need to know someone was asking about him.

Of course, of course.

Good day, gentlemen.

Andrey,

could she have escaped?

After...

your engagement announcement.

Maybe she had a beau...

who helped her out.

Mr. Zhadan, Your Illustrious Excellency.

Show him in.

Hello, Yelena Aleksandrovna.

Hello, Andrey Andreyevich.

Excuse me of my lack of tact.

Are you all right?

Dmitriy Vladimirovich is ill.

Has been for a while.

He is dying, Andrey Andreyevich.

And nothing can be done about it.

Oh God.

Maybe it’s too early to give up.

Let’s call Tishchenko, Pirogov, any doctor from abroad.

Alas.

He is beyond medical help.

But...

you didn’t come here to watch... me crying.

What brought you here today?

While Olga Platonovna and I were celebrating the engagement,

a carriage took Katerina Stepanovna away to an unknown location.

Was she kidnapped?

Looks like she was.

I wanted to ask

whether she got close to anyone in your house.

You mean, could she have eloped?

I was just looking for clues.

Nikolay Aleksandrovich... did he mention someone?

Had he talked about something like this before he left?

No.

Mr. Doroshenko

didn’t have time to talk to me.

I... need to go out.

Dream on!

I’m begging you. I really need to go.

What?

What are you waiting for?

How am I supposed to do it?

Come on, be quick about it.

At least turn away.

Be quick!

Yarina Dorofeyevna, you used to like me.

Why can’t you be happy for Andrey Andreyevich now?

Happy?

Because you got him into harness against his will?

Do you think you’ll grow on him?

Don’t.

He will never forgive something like this.

He is fed up with clever ladies like you.

Do you know why Andrey wanted to buy himself out so much?

He fell in love with his master’s daughter.

She would flirt with him and sigh, "It’s a pity you aren’t free."

That’s why he was jumping over his head.

Why didn’t he marry her after getting his freedom?

This lady laughed at him in public when he came to propose.

A country bumpkin wasn’t good enough for her.

Since when, Andrey forbade himself to love anyone.

His heart has just started to thaw.

I was hoping he would be happy after all.

And then you came up with your scheme.

Don’t you want happiness for yourself?

Andrey! Did you find her?

No.

Andrey Andreyevich, good evening. I’m glad to see you.

Olga Platonovna, it’s good you’re here.

Please...

don’t bother me with anything concerning the wedding.

I’m sure you can manage without my help.

But you need to talk to my father.

Just let me know when and where I should be for the ceremony.

Now, please excuse me.

I had a long day.

Goodbye.

-Well? How much longer? -Stupid women!

Enough!

Shoot!

There she is!

Stop!

You... You bitch!

I was trying to do right by her!

She needs a lesson.

They’ll teach her when we arrive.

NEZHIN

Hello, Mr. Suslov.

Bon appetite.

Who are you?

You don’t remember me, Amvrosiy Yuryevich?

I’m the Chervinsky’s steward. Former steward.

What do you want, former steward?

I have a lucrative business offer for you.

I want to be your steward.

Why would I need you?

I have a steward,

and I’m not going to expand my estate.

What if I told you...

Chervinka will be soon sold at an auction?

You can buy it if you’re fast enough.

Nonsense.

Piotr Ivanovich’s estate is the most prosperous in our district.

Piotr Ivanovich left back in the summer.

His son mortgaged the estate in the bank,

and he had been failing to pay the interest for two months.

How did you let your master go bankrupt, you dog?

I wish he listened to me,

but he relies on his own reason.

He doesn’t have much of it, though.

I’m not doing it for myself.

I worry about the estate.

Every barn, every house in it was built due to my efforts.

All right.

You’ll get the job.

But only after I get Chervinka.

Grigoriy Petrovich!

What do you want?

Someone is waiting for you in the back yard.

Send them away. I don’t expect anyone.

He said it was very important. It concerns your property.

Your temper is clouding your judgment,

Brother Grigoriy.

You can’t refuse to talk to a well-wishing man.

The valet said it was about my property.

I’ll tell you at once:

I’m not selling or buying anything.

Not at all, Mr. Chervinsky.

That’s not about this. Let me introduce myself.

Boris Ivanovich Moliboga, a lawyer from Kiev.

I only want to return to you something that belongs to you,

something you have been looking for.

Are you really going, Aunt Pavlina? How come?

Let these monsters cook his kasha.

-Aunt Pavlina! Go to the yard, quick! -What is it now?

Come on, you have to see it!

Go, quick!

Why are you making this fuss?

Send her away!

The Devil stands behind this girl’s back!

Don’t let him in!

No!

She belongs to me!

It’s not you who’s speaking!

It’s your pride and lust, Brother Grigoriy.

She will stay here!

Katrusia!

My baby!

My darling girl.

Step away from her.

This girl needs to be watched closely.

She likes to run away from her masters.

Brother Anisim will keep an eye on her.

She won’t be able to move him to pity.

Pavlina!

Show Katerina’s room to Brother Anisim.

Give her something to eat so that she doesn't die of hunger before time.

I’d prefer you to pay me off at first, Mr. Chervinsky.

Mr. Moliboga, don’t worry.

I’m prepared to pay the entire amount right now.

Come with me.

The Chervinskys don’t go back on their word.

Don’t yank her, you monster!

Four...

You promised five.

The Chervinskys don’t go back on their word, as you said.

Are you trying to offend me?

Grigoriy Petrovich, this money was promised to the brothers.

Helmsman,

I will make up for it by Christmas.

Chervinsky’s word!

We’ll figure it out.

One more thousand.

Five.

The scary one, their boss.

He said...

Brother Anisim would keep an eye on her.

They took...

Katka inside.

Is it true, Yakov Yuhymovych,

that these Skopets are calling the shots now?

And that Grigoriy Petrovich has also...

got himself castrated?

What?

They won’t be there for long.

Vodka.

Coming up.

You should eat something.

Panas!

He’s back!

Where did Galia get the money to buy you out?

She...

must have been singing carols.

You know to whom.

Carols...

Panas, what are you doing?

Leave him! You’ll kill him!

I never touched your Galia! I didn’t! I swear!

Oh God.

Panas!

Let him go.

Get off me!

-Come out. -Get off me!

What are you looking at?

Soon you’ll regret it,

when Yashka comes back to run Chervinka.

Don’t just stand here.

Give me vodka.

You bitch!

Are you tired of freedom, Panas?

Do you want to go to jail?

Panas!

Thank you.

Didn’t your mother and wife cry enough?

Don’t start about Galia.

When I picture her with Yashka...

You think you know everything?

Did you know he forbade the whole village to hire her after you went to the army?

He said he’d flog them to death.

Lovers’ quarrels.

Idiot!

You’re an idiot to think that.

Do you know Galia would walk...

three verst every day and work for peanuts to buy you out?

He was going to sell Oleksa, so she gave him her mother’s necklace.

She only has eyes for you,

and you believe in gossip.

-Why didn’t she tell me all this? -Would you listen?

You told her to go away as soon as they released you.

I thought she and Yashka...

Do you know where she is?

I do.

That’s why I was looking for you.

Wait.

Easy, baby, easy. Hush.

Be strong.

Hang in there.

Come on, darling.

It’s too early.

Will it survive?

Pray, Galia. Pray.

Don’t think bad thoughts. Your baby will be fine.

I couldn’t find him.

Mom doesn’t know where he is, either.

Galia.

My darling, forgive me! I was blind.

Get out of here!

Nothing to look at. Don’t you see...

Galia, do you hear?

Get out of here! You have nothing to do here. Go.

Why is she screaming? Galia!

You fool. She’s having a baby.

Why is she screaming like this?

It’s our women’s fate, giving birth in pain.

Galia isn’t the first or the last one.

Maybe... Maybe I can do something?

Just say what I can do to help.

Good idea. You shouldn’t just stand here.

Cut some wood and bring water.

We need a lot of warm water.

-The barrel... -What are you waiting for?

-What? -Water.

Water.

Take the bucket. Follow me!

I need to see Mr. Moliboga. It’s urgent. Tell him Miss Radzevich is here.

I’m sorry, ma’am, it’s impossible.

Mr. Moliboga went away on an urgent business trip.

He left three days ago.

Three days, you said?

Do you know where he went?

Chernigov Province,

some village in the middle of nowhere in Nezhin region.

Come on in.

Come on,

come on.

A girl?

I’ll call her Natalka,

after my mother.

Galia, my dear. I wanted to tell you. I was a fool.

I had all these stupid ideas...

Galia, darling,

I love you more than my life. Do you hear?

Can you ever forgive me?

I don’t want anyone but you.

So...

Natalya Panasovna?

Sounds good.

So, am I Uncle Oleksa now?

I’m telling you, he isn’t here. No sense to wait for him.

Andrey Andreyevich, I know you’re there.

Come down! It’s urgent.

Olga Platonovna, please.

Olga Platonovna.

Is it your new hobby, making scenes at my house?

I know where Katia is.

What?

She is being taken to her masters

in Chernigov province.

-Is it your doing? -Of course not.

But I’m afraid it’s partly my fault.

I hired a horrible man to find out everything about Katia and her past.

He probably took advantage of what he had learned and kidnapped her.

Demyan.

Run to Bogdan Yuryevich

and tell him to get ready, take Lukyan, and come here.

We’re going to Nezhin.

Andrey Andreyevich,

I absolve you from your promise.

There will be no wedding.

I am very sorry.

It was a stupid and cruel idea.

I hope you will forgive me one day.

Anyone can make a mistake,

but few can admit it.

I hope it isn’t too late.

Let’s go.

Where?

Let me at least get dressed.

Who are you?

Katerina Verbitskaya.

Who are you?

Mr. Chervinsky’s bondmaid.

Who are you?

What do you want from me?

Peace!

In your soul and your master’s.

Please let me go!

No matter how far you are,

you will always be...

bonded with him.

We need to cut this bond,

or you both will never find peace.

Repent...

and cleanse...

your body

and soul from devilish taint.

Let me go!

No!

No!

Brothers! Look at this woman.

She is a fool of sin!

Her body is filthy...

and her soul even more so.

Let us pray...

to cleanse her.