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Dramatis Personae / Patiomkin / A Cossack Sergeant / Varinka / Captain Edstaston of the Light Dragoons / Catherine II, Empress of Russia / The Princess Dashkoff / Naryshkin, the Chamberlain / Claire / Guards and courtiers
1776. Patiomkin in his bureau in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg. Huge palatial apartment: style, Russia in the eighteenth century imitating the Versailles du Roi Soleil. Extravagant luxury. Also dirt and disorder.