Plot
Valentina Ivanova was the daughter of the finance minister to Tsar Nicholas II and an aspiring pianist. She wanted to become a nurse after her younger sister Katya was paralysed from a Bolshevik's bomb. Her father wanted her to marry a Russian Count. Jens Friss was a Danish engineer who came to Russia. He became the lover of a married Countess but later saw Valentina performing at a party and later had an affair with her and fell in love. One of Valentina's father's servants was actually a Bolshevik leader.Characters
* Jens Friis : Lydia's father, a Danish engineer who was lover of Nataile Serova and husband of Valentina. *Valentina Ivanova : Lydia's mother, daughter of Nicholai Inanov who eloped with Jens *Katya Ivanova : Valentina's younger sister who became paralysed after a bomb *Viktor Arkin: a chauffeur to the Ivanov's and a Bolshevik leader *Captain Stepan Chernov: Valentina's fiancee *General Nicholai Ivanov: a finance minister and general and Valentina's father *Elizaveta Ivanova : Valentina's and Katya's mother *Varenka Sidorova : a mother of three whose husband was a Bolshevik *Countess Nataile Serova: an infamous countess, lover of Jens. *Maria: Natile's niece *Nadaia: one of Valentina's maids *Aleksanda: one of Valentina's maids *Liev Popkov: Valentina's friend and Cossack *Simeon Popkove: Liev's Cossack father *Mikhail Sergeyev: Viktor's friend, and a Bolshevik *Andrei Davidov: A friend and coworker of JensExternal links