Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Briukhovetsky
Hetman Somko
Shram
Cherevan
Cherevan's wife
Lesya
Polish princess
Gvintovka
Kirilo Tur
Shramenko
boyar
Pugach
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.