Natalya Bogoyavlenskaya

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

About an old Cossack Gavril, who saved a Red Army soldier and loved him like a son.