Polish Blood

Polenblut is a German-language operetta in three scenes by Czech composer Oskar Nedbal with a libretto by Austrian playwright Leo Stein. It is allegedly loosely based on the short story "Mistress into Maid" from The Belkin Tales by Russian author Alexander Pushkin; although Stein himself did not say this. It was one of the most popular operettas in Eastern Europe during World War I, but anti-German sentiment prevented the opera from finding a place on stages elsewhere other than in the United States where it was performed in a heavily modified adaptation under the name The Peasant Girl.