Moscow, 1890.
At a high-society hunt near Moscow, Prince Borovsky is killed by an accidental shot—his partner, a young Afanasy Kulebyakin, drank too much before the hunt and set the scope incorrectly.
Given the noble status of the culprit and the unintentional nature of the crime, the killer faces only a fine and church penance.
But an accidental witness—the gamekeeper Antip Sapryka—after the fateful hunt goes to the police…