Baptized by blood. Chinnkov A.

The civil war is blazing. The young Orenburg Cossack Averyan Kalachev, who served as a orderly in the army of Ataman Dutov, is seriously injured. He is saved and nursed by Ivan Safronov, a former merchant, and now - the head of the Skoptsy sect. Grateful Averyan believes everything that Safronov says, and gradually becomes his faithful ally. Ivan has large views on the new adherent of the sect, and at some point Safronov is forced to devote Kalachev to the secret of the skopic treasury, which he kept for many years. But the same secret after years, brought Averyan and his relatives only death and suffering...