Bayazet

A former cavalry guard of the Life Guards from St. Petersburg survives as a Cossack centurion, and hurries to the location of the Russian troops near the Russian-Turkish border, dr...

A column of Russian troops sets out on a campaign. Khvoshchinsky stops at a roadside cross: here the Russian land ends, ahead is the Turetchina. But half a century ago, in 1829, th...

Bayazet is surrounded by an invisible wall of hostility and treachery. At night the sentry disappears. In the morning, a bag containing the severed heads of soldiers is found on th...

Karabanov goes on a desperate spree, drinking and rowdying in the city dukhan. Exhausted, he falls asleep to the seductive dance of an oriental beauty. Only animal instinct and ins...

The police who escaped from the battlefield return to the fortress, and then the Cossack hundred that escaped from encirclement. Now even Patsevich cannot ignore the fact that the...

The Turks steal the only sheep herd from Bayazet, thus completely depriving the fortress of meat supplies. And this is happening only because, on the orders of Patsevich, soldiers...

The Bayazetites begin to “lose their nerves”... Karabanov mercilessly beats his orderly, who encroached on government property, after which he himself receives a slap in the face f...

The withdrawal of Russian troops to Bayazet is complicated by the appearance of new detachments of Faik Pasha.

The Turks, who have been besieging the fortress for several days, decide to send the first deputation to Bayazet. Former sutler Aga-Mamukov conveys to the Russians an offer to lay...

Bayazet is in fire and smoke. The distraught Patsevich secretly negotiates with the spy to surrender their weapons and the Russians to leave the fortress, but the general will of t...

The garrison's forces are running out. The last hope is for the approach of the army of General Ter-Gukasov. But there, apparently, they do not imagine the true position of Bayazet...

Faik-pasha, who had long avoided a large-scale assault on the fortress, finally made up his mind: the Turks had a long-range Krupp cannon of great destructive power. One of its fir...