 Filmed in the manor and on the grounds of the spacious country  estate of Colonel Ignat Galagan, the cossack officer who, fighting  for the side of Russia during the Great Northern War, destroyed the  rebellious Zaporozhye fortress on the Dnepr River in 1709. Located  near the small village of Sokirintsy, about 125 miles outside of  Kiev, Ukraine, the estate was given to him by Czar Peter the Great  of Russia.