Count Lef Fyodor and his wife Anna, a gifted opera singer, perished in Russia during the late 1700s after the Count expressed his disagreement with the Tsar. Their daughter, Rosalinda, was adopted by a couple who worked on a farm. Later on, Cossack Adrian revealed Rosalinda's ancestry and brought her to Saint Petersburg. However, her arrival coincided with the arrival of a perilous group led by "Black Hawk" that aimed to undermine the Tsar's rule.