Théo Bergerat

The Dark Russian Tragedy. The unspeakable sufferings of an entire tyrannical people are evoked in an impressive synthesis, and the visions of horror follow one another almost without interruption. a martyrdom without precedent in the history of the world.

A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the Egyptian embalmer done his work that the face is perfect in all its beauty, and the susceptible young man falls deeply in love with this belle of old Egypt, takes the mummy home to his estate in England and there it occupies his whole mind, to the exclusion of all else. Even the proposed visit of a beautiful American girl does not arouse his interest.