Na Nizhnem Dnepre, na granitse territoriy, zanimayemyh lyahami, tatarami i turkami, pochti tri veka stoyala krepost' vol'noy Rusi - Zaporozhskaya Sech'. Ukrepleniya bastiona byli slaby, pushek nedostavalo, no silen byl dukh ee garnizona - slavnykh russkikh rytsarey, zashchitnikov very pravoslavnoy, yazyka i imeni russkogo. Otkuda oni prishli? Pochemu pogibla Zaporozhskaya Sech' i gde teper' zhivut potomki otvazhnykh rytsarey?