The music for this opera alludes also to the German patriotic song "Die Wacht am Rhein"

Publication History

This work was published by Jurgenson in full score, piano-vocal score, and a (flawed) piano-solo arrangment (by another hand).
In addition, Jurgenson published some passages as separate numbers:

1. Arioso of the Abbé: "Мне бог судил"
2. Little Song of the Captain: "Дорогой размытой"
3. Quartet: "Полной чашей" (adapted from Marschner's Soldatenliederbuch)*
4. Little Song of Amanda: "Как я шла через поляну" (adapted from Tiersot's book of songs from the Metz region)
5. Song of Rachel: "Дом разрушен"

Operas by César Cui
Neuhausen Castle (1859, unfinished) Prisoner of the Caucasus (1857–58, rev. 1881–82, 1885) The Mandarin's Son (1859) William Ratcliff (1861–68) Mlada (1872, Act I only) Angelo (1871–75) Le flibustier (1888–89) The Saracen (1896–98) Feast in Time of Plague (1899~1900?)	Undina (1900–04?, unfinished) Mademoiselle Fifi (1902–03) The Snow Bogatyr (1905) Mateo Falcone (1906–07) The Captain's Daughter (1907–09) Little Red Riding-Hood (1911) Ivan the Fool (1913) Puss-in-Boots (1913)