The film follows Lya, a woman seeking refuge from Cossack soldiers, who finds herself at the palace of Prince Nicholas. She becomes his majordomo and they fall in love, but their relationship is disrupted when Nicholas learns of her past with a Bolshevik leader. Lya is expelled, becomes a terrorist, and later encounters Nicholas again, now disguised as a servant. When Nicholas is sentenced to death, she rescues him and they escape together.
loyalty
forbidden love
banquet
maid
love affair
sexual desire
silent film
russian revolution (1917)
bolshevik
aristocrats
commoner
imminent execution
revolutionaries
czarism
cossacks
melodrama
rediscovered film
melodramatic
stable
waif