Pugachev

The story of the legendary Don Cossack, who led a peasant uprising against the enlightened queen Catherine II. and the nobility of Russia in the sixties of the eighteenth century. In a palace coup, he rids Catherine II. husband of Peter III. government and he is then killed in a duel by the empress's lover. Yemelyan Pugachev takes advantage of this and declares himself the tsar. Catherine II sends elite soldiers into battle to quell the storms.