The police who escaped from the battlefield return to the fortress, and then the Cossack hundred that escaped from encirclement. Now even Patsevich cannot ignore the fact that the headquarters generals did not want to notice for so long: not far from Bayazet, in the vicinity of Van, up to three thousand well-armed Turks have accumulated. To share his difficult share with her husband, Olga Khvoshchinskaya comes to the fortress. Not wanting to sit idly by, Olga begins working as a nurse in the infirmary. And fate seems to protect her from meeting Andrei: immediately upon returning from the battlefield, Karabanov is sent to Igdir to receive monetary allowances for the garrison.