XVIII century.Peter I commands his young Guardian officer, Ivan Demarin, to go to the then Siberian capital, Tobolsk, and bring knowledge of gold in distant lands.He has formed a team of 200 people from local recruits and young officers who arrived with him, and he searches for the gold of far-flung Jarkend. A treacherous conspiracy of local dukes, a peaceful expedition to a military invasion. I. Demarin and his regiment fall into the captivity of thousands of cruel and wild jungarians.
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