Anastasia: (Spoken)
Gleb...
Gleb:
An underhanded girl
An act of desperation
And to my consternation,
I let you go
(Spoken)
Well not this time. Paris is no place for a good, and loyal Russian.
Anastasia: (Spoken)
We are both good and loyal Russians.
Gleb: (Spoken)
I've come to take you home.
Anastasia: (Spoken)
My home is here now.
Gleb: (Spoken)
Stop playing this game, Anya! I beg you.
Anastasia: (Spoken)
We both know it's not a game, Gleb.
Gleb: (Spoken)
If you really are Anastasia, do you think history wants you to have lived?
Anastasia: (Spoken)
Yes. Why don't you?!
Gleb: (Spoken)
The Romanovs were given everything, and gave back nothing.
Until the Russian people rose up and destroyed them!
Anastasia: (Spoken)
All but one. Finish it. I am my father's daughter.
Gleb: (Spoken)
And I am my father's son! Finish it I must.
(Sung)
My father shook his head told me not to ask
My mother said he died of shame
Anastasia:
In me you see them, look at their faces in mine,
Hear their screams, imagine their terror, see their blood!
Gleb:
But I believe he did a proud and vital task
And in my father's name...
Anastasia:
Do it and I will be with my parents and my brother
And sisters in that cellar in Ekaterinburg all over again
Gleb:
The children, their voices. A man makes painful choices
He does what's necessary, Anya!
For Russia, my beauty. What choice but simple duty?
We have the past to bury, Anya!
Ensemble:
The Neva flows, a new wind blows
Gleb and ensemble:
And soon it will be spring. The leaves unfold, the Tsar lies cold!
Gleb:
Be careful what a dream may bring. A revolution is a simple thing!