there as punishment. This delights his wife and daughter. Elsewhere, vast mobs of women who are his past conquests line the streets to bid Alexis goodbye, as does a horde of young children who call him Daddy.

Act II

On the sleigh ride to his new posting, Alexis is pelted by a snowball by a young woman. When he gets out of the sleigh, he is surrounded by armed men, part of a gang of feared robbers nominally led by Claudius, but in reality under the bidding of his daughter, Rischka. Rischka forces Alexis to take off his uniform.

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