With fiery flare-ups, the flame of a terrible rebellion grows in the Volga lands. Emelyan Pugachev, who seized the name of the deceased Emperor Peter III, stirred the souls of serf peasants with promises of freedom. And the soul of the nobleman Stepan Krotkov— a former soldier of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, who escaped from St. Petersburg from his creditors— is troubled by thoughts of Pugachev’s buried treasure. Stepan believes that the priceless treasures left by the leader of the peasant uprising were left personally to him…