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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 8

It's getting cold.

Cannon. Fast.

What was it?

Who gave the order?

Who's having fun? Who shot?

Alert!

Load!

Step aside.

What is there?

Load.

Load!

Up. Stop.

Let me.

Right.

Fire!

Don't stand still. Shoot!

Go and shoot!

Where are you going. Fall back.

Fall back!

Turn it around, faster!

Fire!

Damn gunner!

Let the Swede deal with him.

Come here, fast!

Come on! Turn it around.

Step aside!

Colonel, sir.

The explosion destroyed the armory.

We're out of gunpowder.

- Take cover. - But there're wounded ones.

We can cope without you.

Was it all of our gunpowder?

Only powder bags on the redoubt left.

And ammunition in the soldiers' bags.

If the attack is tough, we won't last long.

Dzungars are on the redoubt. Tell Bukhgoltz.

- Come on. - Hold on.

Formation!

Cut the ropes!

Forward!

Come on, brothers, faster!

Cut!

Block the gates!

Fire!

Faster!

Shoot the gate!

Go and shoot!

I've done my job.

The gates are open.

Push them with the wagons!

Shoot or we'll kill your woman!

Go!

Closer!

Stop!

Come on, faster!

Use fire arrows!

Take him alive!

Stay there!

Vanya!

You see now whose gunners are better?

I'll show you whose better.

There he is!

Step aside.

I see now.

Hey, pals!

Dear Maria, run away.

Run.

You are good, Maria.

You're very good.

Onkhuday doesn't need you anymore.

Why have you come here?

For gold?

I've come to kill you.

But I want you to know why you'll die.

I was whipped because of you!

Because of you!

Because of you! Because of you!

Because of you,

I can't come back home anymore.

You won't see your home either.

You aren't afraid of dying, Russian?

Onkhuday!

Hey!

You forgot your cannon.

Stop!

We're leaving!

Don't shoot!

Everybody!

Fall back.

I don't understand you, Dzungar.

At first you attack us after we made truce.

Then you leave in the middle of the fight.

What does this all mean?

God is a witness it wasn't me who started.

But I'll finish it.

We're leaving.

Dad.

Maria, my dear daughter.

You're alive.

What are you doing to me, huh?

What if something happened to you?

You're my only daughter.

I am. Don't cry, dad.

It's all over now.

Can I go to Vanya?

Of course. We can't do without him now.

Go, if your dad isn't dear to you.

Go.

Go already.

What a restless...

Johan!

Johan!

Brigitta!

Brigitta.

Faster, guys!

Come on. We're going home.

How is Vanya?

He has a fever.

He's being delirious and shouting

that a soldier doesn't need a family.

OK then.

Maria.

Where are we?

We're going home.

- What's wrong? - Nothing.

You're being delirious and shouting.

- What am I shouting? - That a soldier doesn't need a family.

And about some Paiza.

What is it, huh?

He has a fever.

He's talking nonsense.

Semyon,

What?

If I don't die,

please...

can I marry your daughter?

You see? He's being delirious again.

Come on, Vanya. Get well.

We'll see then.

Don't you want to ask me?

Maria,

I love you.

Hold tight, Vanya!

A wild girl.

I wish I had such a wife.

Too late. She's not alone anymore.

PYOTR REMEZOV

Tobolsk. 1718.

Why are you frozen?

Come here. Lift it up.

Why are you lying alone? Any relatives?

Sergeant, put those who are alone on wagons and take them to the barracks.

I'm over-snitch Nesterov.

Why have you come back?

- It's not your business, over-snitch. - I'm the Tsar's eye. All is my business.

What happened, Colonel?

Our campaign is over, Governor.

No army left. We didn't get through.

This will be your responsibility, Governor.

Don't jabber. I want to listen to the report.

I've written a detailed note on the events

occurred during the campaign to the Senate.

I can give you a list, if you want.

It is clear.

- But you have to execute the order. - It's impossible, your lordship.

We can't be equal to their power.

Dzungars have 10,000 men.

They are right on the Silk Road where Yarkent is.

You had to explain to them,

that you'd come in peace!

You presume I didn't do it?

I wouldn't like to presume, Colonel,

that you're just a coward.

Governor,

I'm ready to take full responsibility. I'm not afraid of death.

But I refuse to lead men to certain death.

I'll write to the Tsar about your decision.

As you wish, sir.

I'll write to him too. The honor is mine.

That's good that he's a moron.

We won't have to spend money on recruits.

The treasury is empty.

Shut up, you fool.

Why am I a fool?

Get out!

The Colonel doesn't respect you, Matvey.

He doesn't.

Don't shake.

Levonty, bring a wagon.

Help him, Senya.

So, wife,

accept our new family member.

I've done everything you asked for.

I lit the candle, prayed at Pyotr's grave

and here, give me that.

I've brought Pyotr's drum.

Thank you.

Thank you, Semyon.

Colonel, I still have to interrogate you

about the equipment.

Interrogate then.

Did you have enough food, armory, fodder?

Due to quick loss of horses and men,

we had enough of those.

I heard the epidemic pestilence was due to lack of drugs.

There's no drug for epidemic pestilence.

It means you got all the supplies as they were listed?

As listed, I checked.

Was the real price of supplies adequate

to the money spent?

It was Lieutenant Ozharovsky's task.

- Call him. - He's killed.

I need the army's expenses books.

Listen, Nesterov.

The Governor has the supremacy in military.

Ask him for them.

Gagarin is a thief.

Give me the books until he corrects them.

If I find his stealing in them,

you'll be less blamed for the failure.

An officer shouldn't shift blame.

Hello, Semyon,

I'm glad to see you safe and sound.

I'm sorry, Knyaz Matvey. We have to take Vanya home. He's very sick.

Come on, Levonty.

Don't rush. Don't shake him.

Semyon,

the brightest Knyaz gave money.

10,000 rubles.

You're lying.

I cross my heart! I keep my word.

Gather your design drafts, estimates.

We'll finish building the Kremlin.

Kapiton, why the hell I need the snitch here?

I've been studying

the old expenses books.

- And? - I summed up the numbers.

They don't match.

Sum them up in a way they match.

I tried this and that way,

they still don't.

And it's not just a gap, but an abyss.

The shortage of 40,000.

What? What shortage?

- Can you prove it? - I wouldn't come otherwise.

Do you remember the ransom

for the Tsar?

- I do. - That's it.

Back then, you earned 55,000 by fur-skins,

15 of them you gave for the ransom,

and 40 of them...

Fourty...

You left for yourself.

We paid the ransom, right?

I didn't steal those 40,000.

I spent them on building.

If it hadn't been enough?

And your 40,000 would be in need?

Huh?

You put yourself above the Tsar, Matvey.

- What a nonsense! - Really?

Fifteen for the Tsar and fourty for yourself.

Peter didn't accept the Chinese embassy

but you're a dear friend with the Emperor,

they say.

Armed captive Swedes joined the military campaign.

You're building a stone Kremlin

despite the Tsar's ban.

Who do you think you are? The Siberian Tsar?

- Are you insane? - Isn't it so?

You're a Rurik's descendant. He's just a Romanov.

Where did you come from?

Huh? Nesterov.

My work got me the position.

Hard work, Knyaz.

What kind of work is it? Snitching.

A dirty one.

I belong to a foul estate.

I started as a serf at a Moscow stable.

I did. I was whipped,

put in a cell, I got my teeth knocked out.

I remember all.

I see, a smerd got a position.

So he fights the lord.

I'm a lord too now, thanks to the Tsar.

Yeah. My wife is a noble,

and my son is married to a noble.

Not only you Knyazes can eat

from silver dishes.

You're just a horseshit.

What am I?

I got it.

Hold on.

Hold on a sec.

Here.

10,000 rubles.

I would give even more.

But I don't have it yet.

Forget about the numbers.

Give it standing on one knee.

Huh?

Give it standing on one knee!

And ask me for mercy.

What?

I'm waiting.

You don't know what it's like

being under the Tsar's axe.

Accept this gift, respected Nesterov.

Show me your mercy.

Conceal my guilt.

That's much better.

That's good.

You should go and confess to the God.

You've sinned, Matvey.

Hello, Knyaz Matvey.

They say you were given money

for finishing the Kremlin.

They are estimates, inventory.

I've told the salesmen at the docks

to put the best logs

into the woods warehouse.

I've sent workers to gather clay.

- Some nuts? - No, thanks.

It's not the time for nuts. There's a lot of work waiting!

Calm down, Remezov.

There will be no works. Maybe later.

When we get the tributes.

Why so?

That's none of your business.

But the brightest Knyaz gave the money.

Money...

is gone.

Listen, Matvey.

I'm...

not a bond slave for fun and orders.

I'm a city master. An architect!

It's not about you, Remezov.

About you then?

The left hand stole from the right one?

Mind what you say.

You're a shallow Governor, Gagarin.

You don't finish things.

Cherkassky voivode, who was before you,

built the Sophia court, the merchant court.

Surrounded the city with the defensive wall.

You only managed a half of the tower

and a half of the Kremlin.

Get out, Remezov.

I will get out.

But I won't forgive you this, Gagarin.

I'm old already.

I'll die soon.

I wanted to wash away my sins

with the Kremlin.

You know what you've done?

You've stolen my redemption.

I'll write to the Tsar on you!

I'll stand against you by word and action

for everything you've done.

Let our father the Tsar see

what an ugly face

our Siberian Governor has.

What a disgusting face

our Siberian Governor has.

Ditmer, take the soldier by the porch

and put the old fool to the casemate.

This one is for Narim.

This is for Ishim men.

This one is about bread salary.

This one is to Yakutsk.

I'm Lieutenant Nikonov, Governor.

I've come from Saint Petersburg

with the order of the Senate.

Make yourself at home, Lieutenant.

Wait a bit, Efimka.

Take this. A note of urgent summons.

What's the urgency?

Due to the Tsar's order, Governor,

the Senate committee on Tsarevich Aleksey's

treason is gathered.

Saint Petersburg. 1718.

Tsarevich Aleksey Romanov

concealed a rebellion against his father

and Tsar.

He has been deliberately trying

to seize the power for a long time.

He tried to do it with ruses

and using mob of common people.

He wished soon death for his father

and Tsar.

For these acts

he must be sentenced

to death.

Please, tell your opinions.

Whether he's guilty

or not.

Knyaz Menshikov?

Guilty.

Knyaz Gagarin?

Guilty.

Count Golovkin?

He's guilty, Tsar.

Count Musin-Pushkin?

Guilty.

Count Apraksin?

Guilty.

Count Matveyev?

Guilty.

Baron Shafirov?

Guilty.

Knyaz Golitsyn?

Guilty.

Knyaz Cantemir?

Guilty.

Count Tolstoy?

Guilty.

- Your... - I'll summon you later.

Bring the Colonel Bukhgoltz.

Don't write a thin down

till I command.

Your Majesty!

Did you, Ivan,

become a coward?

I didn't, my Tsar.

Then why are you alive?

You failed the order then die in the field.

Like count Bekovich in the Khiva campaign.

It's not a hard task to die, Tsar.

Bekovich didn't just left his life there,

but the banners granted by you as well.

I saved the banners and my honor.

Where did you lose six cannons?

They went out of order during the fight.

They were destroyed before leaving.

Who can be your witness?

Anyone who left alive.

Sit down, Vanya.

Why didn't you head to Yarkent in spring?

One a third of men had left by the spring.

Fourty men a day died due to pestilence.

You could take 10,000.

If 2,000 died, 8,000 would be able to go.

I took as many as were given, my Tsar.

Gagarin gathered the recruits.

Was it Gagarin's fault?

I can't judge the other men's duties, only mine.

You think as you've taken the guilt I must admire your honor?

I should cry and show your mercy?

Your soldier shouldn't ask for your mercy.

It's all in God's hands.

- And in your Majesty's. - Get him out of sight!

You'll be under arrest till the trial.

Let me speak. It's not his fault I can prove it.

I'm sorry, Colonel.

For getting scared and not telling at once.

Tsar, our lives are in your hands.

It's up to your. I'll just tell how it was.

How straightforward you are.

The state can't do without the truth.

What does this mean?

Everything is OK, Matvey. As I promised.

Nesterov got a kick in his ass.

The Senate closed the file.

Thank you, Knyaz Menshikov.

I owe you one.

Come on, where are even.

We're in the same boat.

I'd like to discuss

the trading caravans.

What about them?

Tell me your secrets

in trading with Chinese.

If we did it together...

It would be good for the treasury and us.

Then I'll tell you what to do.

What?

They can wait.

It's impossible, the Tsar's order.

Get out!

So what, Matvey?

Can I be your partner?

It's better together.

Don't take offense, Aleksandr.

We'll go on.

We'll go on, Matvey.

- Knyaz Matvey Gagarin? - It's me.

Due to the Tsar's order you're under arrest.

I'll escort you to the casemate.

Please, follow me, Knyaz.

Saint Petersburg. 1721.

Your Majesty.

Lieutenant Demarin, reporting as ordered.

Not a lieutenant now,

Captain Demarin.

- I serve the motherland. - I'm glad to see you, motormouth.

Silence, you all!

He's the bright future of Russia.

Not you,

court dancers.

Where would you like to serve?

Leib Guard, at the court or at war?

I'm not used to the palaces.

Send me back to the Tobol.

There's no war there.

And I want it never to be there.

That's what I've been thinking and dreaming about my whole life.

When everyone understands that the state is strong

with our renunciation.

When we fight not for ourselves,

but for the friend and the state.

While there're such people

in the Russian state,

it'll live and prosper.

Making enemies jealous.

That's our basics.

From now on till the end of time.

To the loyal sons of Russia

now living and already dead,

and to Captain Demarin in particular...

Matvey,

confess to me.

I'll punish but save your life.

No one can hear you.

Say "I'm guilty".

I never even thought about it, Tsar Peter.

I've done all for the state.

And I've gone to far.

Send me to a cloister.

Let me wash my sins.

Well, as you wish.

Hang him!

Vivat!

Vivat, vivat, vivat!

Why the building site is so quiet?

You must have stole all the money.

Want to be next to him?

I gave you dinner, drinks

and you grab me by the throat. It's not worth a Tsar.

I swear not a single penny stolen.

Why do you have seven Swedes in the palace?

My order was to set all the captives free

after the peace treaty with Charles.

They are not Swedes, mein Herz.

- I bought them from the cloister in Pskov. - You think I can't tell

a Russian from a Swede?

You can't, Tsar.

I have a denunciation of you.

They say you keep their passports.

Mein Herz, it was you order not to rush

with the Swedes if they are skillful.

It was about ship builders and armorers.

Not about yours musicians.

I'm sorry.

I thought seven musicians were not a big deal.

You know what Gagarin told me before death?

What?

He said he'd gone too far.

Savvy, Aleksandr?

You, even after death!

Thief! Traitor!

- Mein Herz... - Get away!

Lift him up!

And hang again!

And let him hang for three years.

Tobolsk.

Hush.

Hello.

Where's Pyotr?

He's running somewhere here.

Let's have dinner.

- What about him? - Let him sleep.

Quiet.

Dad, I've found a drum.

- Save us from the bad, our dear God. - Quiet, Pyotr.

Save us from the bad, our dear God.

Quiet, Pyotr.

I'll hit you...

Quiet, Pyotr.

...on your ass with a stick.

Save us from the bad, our dear God.

I was having such a nap!

Dad, look, an angel!

Angel, Vanya.

Where?

Over there, grandpa, look.

BASED ON ALEKSEY IVANOV'S NOVEL "THE TOBOL"