Ep 18. Episode 67

Zhadan offers Stefan freedom if he promises not to seek contact with Katia. Katia agrees to return Chervinka to Piotr if he lets Larisa live there with her son, doesn't buy serfs anymore, and gives Galia her job back, he accepts. Katia finds out that the newspaper mudslinging campaign against her was ordered by Stefan but when she finds out about his arrest, she comes to jail to have him released.