A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

I, Hetman Ivan Mazepa have declared this beautiful country an independent state... and for this I've received an eternal curse, an anathema, from the one who raped my land the worst of all — from Moscow Tsar Peter I.

During an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power, Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.

Cast

Bohdan Stupka

Hetman Mazepa

Lyudmila Efimenko

Liubov Kochubei

Nikita Dzhigurda

King Charles XII

Viacheslav Dovzhenko

Tsar Peter I

Viktor Demertash

Judge General Kochubei

Serhii Romaniuk

Cossack Leleka

Pylyp Illienko

Young Mazepa

Les Serdyuk

Hetman Samoilovych

Ostap Stupka

Chancellor Orlyk

Mikhail Golubovich

Zaporozhian Leader Sirko

Oleh Drach

Prince Vasili Golitsyn

Rayisa Nedashkivska

Gypsy Sorceress