Xenia, the Sacred Lady of St. Petersburg
Ksenia, Pietarilainen
The Sacred Lady of St. Petersburg is a ballad of 18th-century St. Petersburg with the ornate palaces of Czarina Catherine and the gloomy taverns on the outskirts of the town. The film focuses on a beautiful noblewoman, Xenia Grigoryevna Petrovna, married to a conservative military officer. Their marriage comes to a tragic end and the widowed Xenia cuts off her hair with a razor, gives away her inheritance to beggars and dresses herself in her husband’s uniform.