This song takes place ten years after the revolution and the fall of Imperial Russia. The people of St. Petersburg are describing how their lives seem so much more dull now, and that there isn’t anything of interest to keep them entertained from day to day. However, a rumour has a surfaced that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov might have survived the murder of the royal family ten years prior, and that she lives on to this day. While the people of St. Petersburg rejoice at the prospect of new gossip, two con men, Dmitri and Vlad, begin planning their next big act: to take the reward of 10 million rubles by having a young girl impersonate the Grand Duchess.