In the year 1721 from the Nativity of Christ, junior clerk Artemy Kondratyev, who at that time was a clerk at the police yard of Vasilyevsky Island in the city of St. Petersburg, was sent to the Volga lands in order to catch the thieves' chieftain Galaktion Grigoriev, nicknamed Galanya. But young Artemka did not know, did not know what terrible and amazing adventures awaited him in the free Volga expanses. For many years now, the terrible Galanya has been instilling fear in the merchants transporting goods along the Volga, and until now there was no one willing to contact this robber. And on top of that, some people in the Russian capital itself were not interested in Galanya falling into the hands of the police...