The story is based on the true story of a Lviv antique collector who collaborated with the KGB in the postwar years in Western Ukraine. The property seized from the masters was deposited in his collection and, at his will, after the owner's death, was transferred to the Hermitage.
По мотивам повести Василия Барки «Жовтий Князь». В основе сюжета исторические события 1932-1933 годов, когда преступления сталинского режима привели к трагедии - тотальному голоду на Украине.
The action takes place during the time of Ukrainization, at the end of the 1920s. Kharkiv employee Myna Mazaylo decides to change his ukrainian surname to the russian Mazenin, as he considers it more solid.
