Year 1609. Not far from Smolensk, the Polish army, led by King Sigismund III and Hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski, is encamped. The king expects to take the city within a few days and then move on to Moscow. At night, the camp of the Poles is discovered by two boys - the orphan Sashka and the Fyodor, who help the baker Filimon in his work.—Bazza the Beast