
Helena Kurcewicz
Helena Kurcewiczówna, later Skrzetuska, is a beautiful orphaned princess living with her aunt and cousins in Rozłogi. She is courted by the dashing Cossack colonel Bohun, but she falls in love with Jan Skrzetuski, a young Polish nobleman. The two lovers are forced to flee from Bohun's wrath, and they embark on a thrilling adventure that takes them across the war-torn Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.