Jeremi Wiśniowiecki

Cossack rebellion within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648–1657

1649 battle during the Khmelnytsky Uprising

Cossack hetman and leader of the 1648 uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

King of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1648 to 1668, portrayed in the film as the monarch whose forces confront the Cossack rebellion.

The early modern federative state whose Crown of Poland territories are the main political and military setting of the story.