A TREMENDOUS PICTURE of modern Russia, romantic yet more than a romance, melodramatic, yet vastly bigger and finer than mere melodrama- a human story of the love of a Princess and a plebeian boatman, filled with tragedy, appeal, humor, remarkably gripping, swift-moving, fascinating, absorbing. Incomparably the greatest film achievement of the decade-Cecil B. DeMille's screen masterpiece. (Print Ad- Daily Journal-Herald, ((Delaware, Ohio)) 13 January 1927)