Film from the series Game of Fate.

Part 1

In December 1595, Bohdan was born into the family of nobleman Mykhailo Khmel. He spent his childhood and youth at the Brotherhood School and the Jesuit College. He completed his education at the Zaporizhzhia Sich. The first steps of Centurion Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (1596-1657) in military campaigns and his marriage to Hanna Somko.

Part 2

In 1638, Khmelnytskyi was elected clerk of the Zaporizhian Army. Soon after, he and the Cossacks carried out a special mission for the Polish king, fighting against the Turkish sultan on Cossack ships. During this military expedition, Khmelnytskyi rescued a beautiful captive. The beautiful Helena appeared in Bohdan's life.

Part 3

Later, the King of Poland summoned Khmelnytskyi to Warsaw again and entrusted him with leading a new campaign against the Turks. Bohdan took Helena from Warsaw and brought her to his family in Subotiv as his daughter.

Part 4

For almost ten years, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's wife was ill and bedridden. Hanna Zolotarenko looked after the children. Mrs Khmelnytska's days were numbered, and she soon passed away. Bohdan mourned his wife for a year. But the beautiful Helena gradually took Hanna Khmelnytska's place and drove Hanna Zolotarenko out of the farmstead.

Part 5

During one of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's military campaigns, his farmstead in Subotiv was attacked by mercenaries of the Polish deputy governor Chaplinsky. When Bohdan returned, he found that his son had been killed, Helena had been taken captive, and the farmstead had been destroyed. But neither the court nor the king defended his rights. Khmelnytsky began to prepare for an uprising and received the blessing of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla.

Part 6

Hanna Zolotarenko returned from the monastery to her children in Khmelnytskyi. And Helena became Chaplinsky's lawful wife. Bohdan gathered the people for an uprising. He became the leader of the Zaporizhzhia Sich. He turned to Islam-Girey for help. The Poles also went to war. A new act of the great tragedy of two nations was beginning.

Part 7

Khmelnytsky took up the mace and created a powerful army. He won victories at Zhovti Vody and Korsun, where the son of Polish hetman Potocki was killed. Helena learns of Bohdan's victories at the Lithuanian estate of Chaplinsky. Khmelnytskyi's next victory was the Battle of Pyliavska.

Part 8

For several months, Khmelnytskyi besieged the fortress of Zbarazh. Helena returned to him from the fortress. And near Zboriv, Bohdan attacked the Polish army and signed a treaty with King Jan Kazimierz, in which Ukraine was recognised as a state. Khmelnytskyi returned to Kyiv as hetman of both sides of the Dnieper.

Part 9

Khmelnytskyi married Helena. Anna Zolotarenko left Bohdan's estate in Chyhyryn again. Khmelnytsky prepared for war, but he lost the battle of Berestechko. Helena was executed by Bohdan's son Tymish for adultery.

Part 10

Khmelnytskyi establishes Ukrainian statehood. He marries Hanna Zolotarenko and marries his son Tymish to the daughter of Moldavian ruler Lupul. Tymish dies in the battle of Suceava. Exhausted by the war, Bohdan signs the Treaty of Pereyaslav with Muscovy. Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's last efforts to preserve Ukraine's independence take place shortly before his death.