Now you do have to suspend belief a bit with this as neither Roger Livesey nor Anthony Bushell make for especially convincing Cossacks, but once the brothers “Peter” and “Andrew” (not “Andrei”) return from their educational sojourn to Kiev, the scene is swiftly set for a mixture of betrayal, rebellion and romance. The Poles are in charge and it’s the prince “Zamnitsky” (Frederick Culley) who comma...
