The Independent on Sunday, July 28, 1991, by Michael Billington.
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"Tovarich" is a 1930s success by Jacques Deval disturbed 
from its long slumber to provide a vehicle for Natalia 
Makarova. When it wakes up, which takes time, it allows her 
to exude a ravishing "hauteur" while twirling about in a 
maid's uniform and to fill the theatre with romantic 
longings for a White Russian past. She and her Grand Dukal 
husband (Robert Powell) are forced into domestic service 
with the bourgeoisie through poverty and loyalty, and some 
of their encounters with their dazzling Parisien employers 
are very funny. The evening then starts leaning on sentiment 
and charm, but the two stars supply both. 



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