'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; the Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that the Ukraine was given its independence.
Bogdan Stupka | Hetman Mazepa | |
Lyudmila Yefymenko | Liubov Kochubei | |
Nikita Dzhigurda | King Charles XII | |
Vyacheslav Dovzhenko | Tsar Peter I | |
Victor Demertash | Judge General Kochubei | |
Serhiy Romaniuk | Cossack Leleka |
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