La circassienne

About the show

Lieutenant Alexis Zouboff once escaped a Russian general’s advances by disguising himself as Prascovia. When he revives the disguise during an amateur play, he is captured with Olga by a Circassian sultan, but the sultan’s other wives help them escape. Back in Moscow, Alexis wins Olga’s hand, while their friend Lanskoi invents letters that convince Orsakoff that Prascovia has died for love of him.