Velémila, the beauty and youngest daughter of the Ladoga warlord, is promised to be married to the young adventurer Volga—but the groom and bride don’t have each other in their hearts. After all, even her sister, Ognedéva Divlyana, is the first and only chosen one of Volga—and she went to Kyiv under no one’s will. For young Velémila there is no one dearer than the foreigner Steин. Is fate really determined to separate the lovers?