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After a raspberry-picking contest, Balladyna murders her sister Alina to win Prince Kirkor’s hand. She rises to power through further crimes, kills her lover and seizes the Polish throne, then is forced to judge the murders she committed; divine punishment ends her reign.
The nymph Goplana interferes in human affairs, setting in motion the brutal fate of the sisters Balladyna and Alina.
After romantic rejection and a suicide attempt, fifteen-year-old Kordian travels through Europe and searches for purpose. Inspired by the November Uprising, he resolves to assassinate Tsar Nicholas I, but his moral qualms thwart the plot; the drama ends ambiguously.
After a raspberry-picking contest, Balladyna murders her sister Alina to win Prince Kirkor’s hand. She rises to power through further crimes, kills her lover and seizes the Polish throne, then is forced to judge the murders she committed; divine punishment ends her reign.
The nymph Goplana interferes in human affairs, setting in motion the brutal fate of the sisters Balladyna and Alina.
After romantic rejection and a suicide attempt, fifteen-year-old Kordian travels through Europe and searches for purpose. Inspired by the November Uprising, he resolves to assassinate Tsar Nicholas I, but his moral qualms thwart the plot; the drama ends ambiguously.