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More than 10 thousand Swedish captives

were sent to Siberia after the defeat of

Charles XII's army at the Battle of Poltava.

Meantime in the East, Dzungar Khanate

defeats the Chinese army.

Now, China needs an ally more than ever.

Many attempts of drawing Russia

into war against Dzungars failed.

This bar of gold is called "Paiza".

It is granted only to the heads of states.

The ruler who's taken the Paiza

has to enter the war on the side of China.

THE CONQUEST OF SIBERIA

EPISODE 4

Tobolsk. The winter fair.

Maria, I've enlisted in recruits.

And I'm going to the campaign for gold.

We'll marry as soon as I come back.

I'll be waiting for you, my love!

- Enough watching. - They're kissing.

Let's go.

Please, buy.

Buy toys!

Hot pies!

Get aside!

- Why such a beaty is walking alone? - I'm looking for Vanya.

Let me guard you.

What Vanya got so lucky for, I wonder.

I'd give my life away!

Easy, easy!

Vanya is on guard. I'll escort you.

Yossy, Yossy.

Where's Johan?

Where's he?

Have you called me in, dear Knyaz?

I have, Khaja.

Do you know why?

I don't, Knyaz.

Is it possible for an unassuming merchant's mind to comprehend

the Governor's thoughts in advance?

Your mullahs turn Ostyaks into muslims.

And then these Ostyaks kill my men.

I don't get it. I'm not the Caliph for mullahs.

You're lying! You pay them.

It was your own order to buy fur-skin only from muslims.

If your mullahs go to the minors again,

I'll send soldiers to tatar villages.

They'll take all the mullahs from the musques

and drown them in the Irtysh. You got it?

You want my coreligionists to hate me?

I want you to know your place, Kasym.

It's at the trade stall. Not any further.

The Russian Tsar himself gave us the right for free trade!

If he learns about your arbitrariness,

he'll punish you severely, Governor.

And if he learns about your deals

with pagans, will he award you?

Or maybe he'll exile you to Yakutsk

to sell shackles?

Listen, why should we fight?

Wise people always can find the right way out.

I'm ready to share.

I'll give you personally

every tenth fur-skin that I get.

Oh, Khoja,

you want to bribe me again?

You're punching above weight.

Enough of that.

Everything you got from the Ostyaks,

you have to give to the treasury at the fixed price.

From now on, I allow you to buy fur-skins only from my salesmen

in the merchant court.

Ditmir will write down the order.

That's all. Go, Bukharan.

Shaitan.

Hello, Ivan, I've brought you some pies.

Say hello, Vanya.

Good afternoon.

Why are you disgracing me in front of the rectuits?

Seriously, Vanya? Good afternoon?

She's such a beauty, and you...

Treat yourselves, I've baked them myself.

- I can't, I'm on duty. - And I'm not.

- What are these? - This one is with mushrooms.

This one is with fish.

Good ones. Delicious!

Maria, you've conqured my heart,

and these pies took my mind away.

You've never had it.

Thanks for escorting me, Lieutenant.

Here, one to go.

Thanks.

- Well, I'm leaving now. - What about me?

You're on duty, Vanya.

Vanya, taste one at least.

Johan,

I miss you.

...forever and ever.

- Go in peace, good man. - I want to confess, Father.

Take your hands off!

Let's go to a pub.

Let's go.

I want to kiss you, Johan.

Me too, Brigitta.

They are turning me out of church!

Come on, let's go.

Get away!

You're the devil!

Don't do it!

Get your hands off my wife!

Whore!

Brigitta!

Stranger scum!

Beat the Swedes!

The Swedes are mutinying!

Soldier, go to the Major, quick!

- I'm going with you. - You can't!

I'll go anyway!

OK, let's find a weapon for you.

Chose one!

Soldier, come here!

Guard the door!

Open up!

I'll kill you, kid!

- Where are the Swedes? - Near the church!

Pyotr!

- Come on, man! - You scum!

Leave the place!

Pyotr!

I'll finish you!

Good bye, soldier.

Don't kill me, soldier.

Re-formation!

Stop the fight!

Easy, easy.

Everyone, move aside!

Are you protecting them?

Calm down!

Get away!

Easy, easy.

Easy, Vanya.

All together!

Aim!

Fire!

The second rank, prepare the weapon!

Stop, there's the army behind!

Fire!

Silence, everyone!

Silence!

Are we having a battle of Poltava here?

Aren't the Swedes mutinying?

A drunken fight, Mister Governor.

This Swedish pig stated the fight!

You men did a good job, Colonel.

- You've made a good army. - They're not a real army yet.

But they'll do for the peaceful expedition.

Send all the trouble-makers to the prison. Both ours and the Swedes.

Wait, Knyaz! Why prison?

Well, have you learnt who started it?

Everydody says the Swede, Johan Rennet did.

Okay, hang him.

Mister Governor, please! I'm begging you.

It's not his fault.

- We'll set your husband free. - I'm asking to free Johan Rennet.

What? Johan Rennet? He's started the mutiny!

- Go away! - No, I'm begging you!

I love Johan.

We want to come back home together.

I'm begging you, please!

So, you made them fight.

It's my fault.

Gypsy, not German.

We should have locked her up instead.

- You really love him so much? - Very much!

OK, I'll figure all out. Go.

- Thank you. - Go.

Colonel, come in, have a seat.

It's not a funny talk we're about to have.

Your drunken scums killed 7 Swedes

and injured 20 of them.

And you are a mutineer.

The instigator, what's more important.

I dismiss you from the position.

And your men too.

What the hell are you doing?

We got drunk and fought, so what?

You can't stand in Siberia without us.

I will be able somehow.

The guard, get him away.

- Wait, Knyaz. - Get him away.

Let me go!

Knyaz, you shouldn't do this to my men.

They'll cover you back.

Get him away!

Mister Governor, I'd like to have his men

as my recruits.

You've taken a half of my army. Otherwise, I won't be able to go to the expedition.

Okay, take them.

- Can I speak, Colonel? - Yes, you can.

I offer to enlist in recruits

all the Swedes caught for the fight.

- The Swedes? - Right.

If they pledge loaylty, we can take them with us.

They have many officers, and I saw the way they fight.

- Take them. Less trouble for me. - Wait, what?

You want to give our enemy weapons?

- I said take them. - Tsar Peter did the same.

All right then.

You'll be in charge of the Swedish troops

during the expedition.

Come on, take them.

Yes, sir.

Your grace, the girl was very angry,

she was knocking on the door the whole day. Now she's silent.

- Have you kept her there all day long? - As you ordered.

Good job, soldier. Dismiss.

Yes, sir.

Maria,

let's go for a walk, huh?

Take a walk with a dog.

You can leave it anywhere you want

and go do your business.

If someone does her harm,

you can always have a new puppy.

Maria, wait.

Wait, I want to talk.

Talk.

I don't know how to be with girls.

I became a soldier at 14,

then I was sent abroad to study.

I don't know anything about girls.

But I really like you.

Prove it.

- How? - Kiss me.

Are you afraid, soldier?

I like you, but I'm a soldier. Duty is the first thing for me.

I offended you not because I don't care, but because of the duty.

So marry a cannon, then!

I'm on duty, Maria.

- Strict as a deacon with hangover. - That's the way the things are in army.

And kissing is forbidden, right?

Go on doing you duty, then.

Maria,

Is he bothering you?

He won't leave me alone and is trying to kiss me.

Hey, cocked hat!

Are you trying to get Maria?

We don't care that you're an officer.

- We'll beat you easily. - Easily, you say?

Easily.

Come on, get up.

Let him go!

I said let him go!

Go away! Or I'll beat you up!

Go home!

Does it hurt much?

Not at all. I could cope with them alone.

You're stupid, Ivan. Otherwise being a lieutenant.

You have nothing to be looked at

except for the shiny buttons and the hat!

You hear what happened in Sviyazhsk, right?

Your Swedish kind wanted to incite a mutiny

and escape via Poland.

The instigators were kept imprisoned for more than a year.

It was corporal Johan Rull. I know it.

You're right. In Sviyazhsk they just disscussed.

But we had hell of a fight

and 10 people dead. You're the instigator.

No, I'm not.

Though I started it, it wasn't a mutiny.

It's up to me to decide what was it.

It's hard to prove a thing hanging in a noose.

You know what? I'll send you somewhere far.

To Yakutsk. And you'll never

see your woman again.

I know about you two.

Kapiton, leave.

Do you want to be free?

Are you joking, Mister Governor?

No, I'm not. I want to help you.

Listen closely!

You'll enlist in the regiment heading to Yarkent.

I don't want to be a recruit.

Don't interrupt. You'll enlist in recruits,

as you reach Dzungars, you'll change sides.

And you'll give their commander Zaisang,

the gold which I'll give you.

- The gold? - Yeah.

Tell him you stole it from Gagarin himself.

They'll be really happy.

I'll send you your woman

along with the first caravan.

- Dzungars? - Yeah.

Are they nomads in the steppe?

Why being their captive is better?

In exchange for the gold,

you'll ask them to send you to Kalmyks,

then you'll get to Turkish, and they are your King's ally.

From there, you'll come back home.

It's not a reliable way home.

Really?

Then go to Yakutsk.

I'm sick and tired of you fools.

- Mister Governor, - To the prison.

- Mister Governor, - Kapiton!

I agree.

The Ob. Ostyak settlement Pevlor.

Summer of 1715.

What are these boats?

It's Master Felafey.

The hell got him here.

Pull faster than, don't stand still! Pull!

Faster!

- Help! - Shut up!

Row faster!

They've got us!

- They'll hang our voivode now. - They won't.

Get inside, quick!

Come on!

Faster, faster!

- What's going on here? - We're fishing.

- Let me look inside. - It's dirty there and stinks like fish.

I'm not afraid of stink.

Help us, old man.

Get them.

Come on, what are you doing?

First rank, 2 steps forward.

Forward march!

About face turn!

Grab!

Stance!

First rank, stab!

Second rank, stab!

First rank, stab!

Soldier, you are dead. Pay attention!

Maria, wait.

Maria, why do you go past every day?

- I go to the mill. - Why?

I'm in love with the miller.

Why do you care?

Find some other path.

It's a military garrison here!

- You distract the recruits. - I walk where I wish.

Don't command me.

What a general we're having!

"Why", "why"?

I come to look at you, heartless fool.

You've lost weight.

No one treats me with pies anymore.

Come over, I'll bake some.

There's no way for me to come.

You could find a way if you wanted to.

Lieutenant, why are you attacking girls kissing at the daylight?

- I'm not. - How come? Yes, you are.

Before kissing a girl,

you should woo and ask for the parents' blessing.

Maria, we start the campaign soon.

- Why have you kissed me, then? - I didn't want you to cry.

You asked me to kiss you, back in winter, I remember.

So you've pitied me. It's sad, Vanya.

- Maria... - Go, then.

Good bye, Lieutenant.

- Maria... - We won't meet anymore.

Maria!

Don't come here anymore! Do you get it?

Remember, Pyotr. If anything happens to you, your mother...

Semyon, I wanted to ask about the Dzungars.

- How many are they? - As many as you want.

- A thousand, 10 thousand. - Oh, my God.

- What about the army? - They only have riders, that's all.

These riders can destroy everyone.

Taishes and Zaisangs are in charge.

The army absolutely obeys them.

Brigitta!

I know about you and that Swede.

But he's leaving today,

and you'll never see each other again.

I'm sorry. It's my fault.

But let's have a fresh start.

I swear, I'll quit drinking.

You've already drunk today.

Today is a celebration.

- Which one? - Every day with you is a celebration.

Take this and go celebrating.

It's the last time, I swear. I love you.

- It's the last one. - I know.

- This is the way to Tara. - Show me the Dzungars' disposition.

Dzungars' land is on that side.

- What's here? - You'll spend the winter here.

Be careful with the boats!

Don't ruin them before time.

Hi, Swede.

- Have you said good bye to your love yet? - Not yet, Governor.

That's good.

He's the gold that you'll give to the Zaisang of Dzungars.

- What does the sign mean? - I have no clue.

Some Chinese letters.

Hide it well. It's your key to freedom.

What about Brigitta?

With the first caravan. I keep my word. And you should do the same.

- Good luck, Juhan. - It's Johan.

Okay, okay, Johan.

Brigitta,

come here.

- Brigitta. - Johan.

I'll never see you again.

You must leave Tobolsk

with the first caravan.

What? Why?

- Do you want to be together and free? - I do.

Then do as I say.

I don't get anything, but I'll do everything you say.

- Everything? - Yeah.

Then kiss me, Brigitta.

- Come here, come on. - What's there?

Get away!

My dear Lord,

let me go to Kashgar together with your soldiers' caravan.

You've learnt about the gold, right?

You've deprived me

of all the benefit here.

This caravan will help me fix the things.

Aren't you afraid of Dzungars?

My brother Yusuf lives in Kashgar.

He gets along with them very well.

He's very respected there.

If I go with your army,

Dzungars will never attack us.

But, it's not an army, Bukharan.

It's a peaceful expedition.

- But... - So, come back to your stall, Kasym.

Go.

We'll do without you and your brother.

Shaitan.

Vanya, I can be waiting for you.

I'm on duty.

Take this warm shawl.

- It'll warm you up. - It's against the articles.

Come on, give it to me. Vanya, articles don't work

when it's freezing cold.

Kuzmichev, set sail!

Set Sail!

Remember, Pyotr,

all Remezovs served well.

Don't put a shame on us.

You, on the rudder! You're turning wrong!

Look after Pyotr, he's too green.

I will. I'll look after him as after my own brother.

Maria, if you saw me off

I wouldn't leave without a kiss.

Maria, are you...

Why are you disgracing me?

Vanya, keep up!

Go home, Maria.

Come on!

Ozharovsky!

Maria,

go home, please.

How many kilometers to Yarkent?

I don't know, Father.

I won't see those who'll come back.

I'll be dead by then.

I only know, there will be few of them.

It's an evil prophecy, Father.

It's not mine.

A thunderstorm is coming.

Let's go. Becoming wet is bad for you.

You look like

the forest lady Misne.

Are you Nahrach?

From Vaentur?

Yes. I know who you are.

You are a half of Ahuta's daughter.

You have a dead man on you.

The man with a cross is coming after you.

I know what you want.

Are you a knyaz? Or a shaman?

I have a stove in my house.

Take this fish and bake it.

Later, I'll take you to the shelter,

if you want.

Mister Governor,

I'm Aleksey Nesterov, over-snitch.

The Tsar sent me to extirpate the bribery

of his subjects.

Well, okay.

Extirpate.

Please, lodge me in a room,

due to my rank.

And prepare the expenses books of the Governorate.

I start tomorrow.

How nimble you are.

Take a rest, over-snitch.

Go to a bath house, you must have got dirty along the way.

I'm used to distresses.

When there's a need in bath,

I can do it on my own.

Knyaz Matvey,

go and take a look at the mammoth!

It's done.

Semyon.

Let's go, you can see it too.

Here, feast your eyes upon it.

- Oh my God, what a beast! - It is.

I think, mammoths are devils' horses. Bucephaluses.

- Semyon. - What?

I believe they are not horses, they're wild boars.

And these are not horns, but fangs.

Fangs? They are horns, can't you see?

Look, when angels

fought with devils, the devils, who lost,

fell down straight to the hell.

But the Bucephaluses got stuck in the soil.

God bless!

But it was before Adam. At the beginning of the Genesis.

How will I send this Indrik-Beast to the capital?

I don't know. My job was to assemble it.

I've done it.

You're having a good time here.

Who is he?

It's our local Leonardo.

Da Vinci.

Master!

I see you've come to us.

- Will you bless us? - Take your dirty dogs with you!

Agapon, tell me.

Why have you enslaved the newly baptized?

Everything is legal.

You've baptized them, right? Right.

You've released them from the tribute for three years.

It means now they are not pagans with tribute,

but baptized men.

Corvée, then.

I'll set them free in fall.

When they finish their work.

They are dying

because of your greed, Agapon.

No. Because of your eagerness.

You have a cruel heart.

Make a religious service

to make my heart kinder.

I want to go with you.

Why?

I'll listen.

Good bye, Father. I hope to not see you soon.

How are you doing at the building site?

Everything is great. Everyone is working.

I guess my wife has brought me dinner.

She doesn't love you, Senya.

She could change her mind with the God's help.

So, the Swedes are building the chambers.

They are. And I'm the architect.

Have you heard the Tsar's order forbidding stone building?

We have. Knyaz Matvey sent all the masters

to Saint Petersburg immediately.

Whose order was to continue the building? Gagarin's?

We had prepared enough materials.

Waste not.

Plus, it's a loss for the treasury.

Dissenters and captives have to do something.

The Governor wrote a message to the Tsar,

so he could let finish the building.

- I haven't read the message. - But it was to the Tsar...

- What kinds of work are still to be done? - Almost none.

Just whitewashing. All the rest is on the top.

Quadrangles, octagons and the spire.

As it's a tower. It will be called Dmitryevskaya.

Because Yermak defeated Kuchum

on Dmitry's day.

- It's... - Where are the exits?

There and there.

- On Dmitry's day... - I got it.

You have to brick in that exit.

All the spaces in the arches too.

That door has to be bound with iron from the outside.

So no one could break into.

And build a guarding house with a furnace.

Why is that?

It'll be a storage for the state's fur-skins.

- How many keys are there? - Just one.

Give it.

Come on, give me the key, Semyon.

Good bye, then.

Yeah, okay.

Take it all under you command, okay.

We'll get a casemate out of it.

Just one door and it's guarded.

- Why is that? I don't get it. - I know why.

Nesterov's a snake.

He'll remove all my fur-skin treasury there.

And then he'll start comparing it with

the expenses books.

But I have no idea what Bibikov has done.

- You shouldn't have temporized. - I shouldn't have! But if I hadn't,

you wouldn't have been building.

And we wouldn't have had neither the channel nor the Kremlin.

And the Master would have been

in the cloister instead of baptizing.

You think the Tsar gave me much money?

- You know how the things should be done. - Really?

Maybe we should bribe the guards?

Afonia, a soldier who came with Nesterov

is among them.

He's honest.

- Make him drunk then. - He doesn't drink.

What a hell!

Absolutely no use from those righteous ones.

But when there's a need of putting a spoke

in the wheel, they are right on cue.

Take a pie, Semyon.

Thank you.

Eat pies, and your hunger dies.

My granny used to say that.

Nesterov says it's inconvenient for him

to count the fur-skin treasury this way.

A part of it is in the government chamber, a part is in the merchant court,

the rest is in my chest in cellar. So he wants to have it

in one place which I can't get to.

It's not my place to teach you, but just correct the books.

He took them!

His men are copying them.

He'll give them back in 3 days and then

he can compare them with the treasury.

Semyon, I really need to get into the place

where the treasury is held.

Maybe it's possible to...

Stop eavesdropping, go away!

Maybe it's possible to dig a tunnel from the other side?

What?

- It's possible. - So?

But it's impossible. It has to be secret.

Maybe from the church that we're building? No one will see us.

- Well, if we make the well deeper. - Go on.

- Then make our way to the wall. - Right.

- Disassemble the stonework... - How much time will it take?

If we work day and night...

a week.

Plus, the exiled and dissenters live there.

Where should we relocate them to?

No need.

Let them live.

Got it!

They can dig the tunnel.

Semyon,

they'll do it in 3 days.

You can't find better workers.

Save me.

- Save me, Semyon! - Okay.

Kapiton!

- Sit down. - I'll stand.

Sit down, I said. You're always unhappy.

Why shouldn't I be?

I did my best and got exiled to steppe.

Isn't it a reason?

I guess, you're not too happy either.

It's not for us to decide.

We do whatever the Tsar orders.

If everyone becomes happy here,

we'll lose the country.

- I get it all, sir. - Not enough yet.

Why did you offend the girl?

She hugged you, kissed, promised to wait,

but you turned the nose up.

- I think that soldier... - It's obvious you love each other.

You should've married her without thinking. Soldier style quick.

A soldier doesn't need a family.

Enough crying.

Don't stay in, go for a walk with the girls.

The whole house is wet already.

Why are you suffering?

I'd understand if he was wealthy.

But he has nothing except for his hat.

You hope father doesn't learn it.

Let him learn.

How many good boys there are.

Nikita is a great guy!

He's always around the house,

and the family is good.

He's a fool.

Oh, yeah. Only you're smart.

You are a big fool, Vanya!

Though you've studied abroad.

- A soldier is not a man for you? - Do you have a family?

I'll tell you a story.

We were at Narva. The Swedes were tough on us.

We were standing knee-deep in blood. I thought it was the end.

I suddenly felt like someone dear to me

was standing behind not letting me fall.

And I heard my wife's voice.

"Hold on, Vanya".

I even looked back.

If Vanya gets killed

I'll kill myself.

Don't you dare saying that!

Holy Mary.

Why should he get killed? He's not at war.

Moreover, you don't need that kind.

I wasn't killed thanks to that voice.

You say "a soldier doesn't need a family".

Well, with such a rear, you'll survive even the worst fights.

You'll have sorrow with him.

Our father is similar, why did you marry him?

What do you mean "why"?

I was in love.

So much, I could follow him anywhere.

Even barefoot.

And I'm in so much love too.

My dear daughter.

That stupid love!

But where's this fight?

You didn't get a thing. Go.

Command you Swedes.

Don't try to cheat me.

I see you leaving traces and signs.

But I'll remove them on my way back.

Only I know the road to En-Pugol.

It's my temple.

There's a house there.

You can live there.

I want to live among people.

When I trust you, I'll let you come to us.

The Russians are coming after you.

You gave your soul to the man with a cross.

Your soul leads him to you.

I'm afraid of living among Gods.

En-Pogul is an island in the swamp.

There's Numi-Aki idol there.

The idol has Yermak's chain armour.

You'll guard it. But I don't give you this shelter.

You must deserve it.

Deserve? How?

An old man with claws appeared in En-Pugol.

A bear?

This old man with claws is a man-eater.

He came to us and killed.

But you should kill him.

- I can't kill a b... - Quieter!

I can't kill a bear. Even men couldn't.

They couldn't, but you can.

A woman has four souls, but you're a half,

you have only two.

You gave one soul to the man with a cross. You have one left.

The old man with claws won't be able to smell you.

There's too little of you. Go further alone.

The old man with claws...

can hear me.

BASED ON ALEKSEY IVANOV'S NOVEL "THE TOBOL"