Warlord Vasiliy Buturlin is initially a vassal of the Muscovite Tsardom.
He is based on a historical figure of the same name. The historical Buturlin was a Russian envoy who met with Bohdan Khymelnitsky in Pereyaslav in 1654 as the Cossacks shifted their allegiance from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Russian Tsar.