The Italian musician and brawler Pietro Mira, fleeing persecution for murder in a duel, came to Russia in the winter of 1735. In St. Petersburg, he intended to get a job as a musician in the Italian chapel of the Empress. But the head of the chapel, the all-powerful Senor Francesco Araya at the court, hated Pietro because of the singer Maria Dorio, who preferred Pietro to the court musician. The road to a musical career was ordered for Pietro. However, he accidentally meets the chamberlain of the court, Ernest Biren. And he helps him join the staff of the famous tumble-college of the All-Russian Empress. So the musician Pietro became Anna Ioannovna’s jester...