For the sake of mischief, Lizonka agrees to a secret wedding with her sister’s unloved fiancé, Alexei Izmailov. And then a family secret is revealed to the young: they are brother and sister, happiness is impossible between them. Fleeing from the family curse, Elizabeth runs wherever she looks - and fate does not spare her dangerous adventures: the passion of a robber chieftain, kidnapping by the Kalmyk king Elbek, slavery, the harem of the Crimean Khan Giray - and a new, truly fatal meeting with Alexei on board a Turkish galley... . Will Lisa overcome the vicissitudes of evil fate?