A peasant rises through the ranks to become a Lieutenant in late Czarist Russia, but faces resentment from aristocratic officers who make his life difficult. He falls for a princess who rejects him, and after being caught in her room, he's demoted and imprisoned. However, the rise of the Red Terror reverses fortunes, and he finds himself on the opposite side of power.
Tempest
A 19th-century Russian officer's life is transformed when he falls deeply in love with a beautiful princess, incurring the scorn of the aristocracy.