Vasili Kachalov

Lash of the Czar was one of several English-language titles for the Russian film Belyi Orel. The film was based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Czar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life.... (imdb)

By hot August, to the tsarina, with a hetman deed send in the capital of cossack. On a road he leads an acquaintance with the rakish Zaporozhian cossack. On a halt a new friend told that sold the soul to the devil and waits atonement. At night a cossack did not become lies down to sleep, decided to look that will be farther. As grew dark, a devil came into place of halt, and with her and tsar's deed. It had to the messenger to search a loss in the forest overwhelmed with impure force.