They were not. Gentlemen, volunteers

The action of the novel “were and not” takes place in the seventies of the XIX century in Russia and in the Balkans, where at that time there was a liberation war of the Bulgarians and Serbs against Turkish rule. Hundreds of Russians, covered by a patriotic impulse, went to the aid of the Slavs brothers, to fight with the invaders shoulder to shoulder. Among them are the young nobles of Oleksins who have to go through many trials...