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...this musical remake of the 1936 play, she is the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna, a 1920s Parisian exile from the Winter Palace of Czar "Nicky." With her is her consort. General Mikhail Ouratieff, played with the suppleness of a tin soldier by Jean Pierre Aumont. For food, resourceful Tatiana steals artichokes; for fun, the local White Russians have dances in their peasant pantskis-Kazachoks. waltzes, soft shoe, maxixe, tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar...
...mixture of first-rate humor and first-rate drama. The situation of the old Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff, to be delivered to the new tsar whenever he should ascend the imperial throne...
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