Anton and Nadia fall quickly in love. Sadly, their love is not to be and they are forced to opposite ends of the Russian Empire. After three years of tumultuous change, loss of noble status, and no sure means of making a living, they reunite in avant-garde Irkutsk Siberia. Anton is an orphaned Zaporizhian Cossack secretly adopted by a childless noble couple. He is unaware of his Cossack roots. Anton enters the military and must travel from St. Petersburg...