Plot Summary

Hetman Mazepa asks the hand of Mary, daughter of Kochubey, and gets rejected. Mary, defying the wishes of his father, runs away with Mazepa. Kochubey sends Tsar Peter the denunciation of Mazepa

Did You Know?

The film is based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin "Poltava" (1828).

The second (after "Song about merchant Kalashnikov"), the film's "historical series" of kinoatele Khanzhonkov.