Just watched this for the first time!

I actually quite liked it! It had so many humorous elements in it and I didn't expect them! On a Valentino documentary, it was mentioned that Valentino was a very proficient fencer and horse rider. In fact, in this film, he did most of his stunts like the leaping over the wooden gate at the beginning. But a stunt man was used when he had to leap from his horse to another as they wouldn't allow him to do it himself! I was afraid that this was going to end in tragedy and after watching The Four Horsemen, I really wanted a light hearted and fun Valentino film that ended "happily ever after".
I downloaded this version from a torrent, it took a week to download because of poor seeders but it was worth it! The quality was certainly better than the sepia colored The Sheik and the musical score was fun and not common actually. I felt it complimented the scenes!
Watching this and the depiction of the Czarina, I wondered if it was affected by the Russian Revolution, they portrayed her to be very fickle and irresponsible as a ruler but not necessarily a bad person.
My favorite scenes were in the beginning when Valentino is called to supper with the Czarina and you can tell she was eye-ing him, lol! But when he returned after reading his father's letter, I expected him to go back to her (as it was the same day) and implore her by swallowing his pride for his father's sake.
The ending was a bit abrupt, I wish there was some type of caption to what happened to his estate, to the people who worked for that estate? I imagine the estate and people are still under Kyrilla, will he just let that go? And if they are running off to France, how will they live with no money? Does the father know that they are together, married, and moving to France? Will the father accept him as a son-in-law? If he does, will Valentino accept handouts from the father? I imagine not. So many questions, all his problems in the beginning were never resolved unfortunately. I guess, unless the father disowns his daughter and has no other heirs, the estate and its inhabitants will eventually revert back to him.