&ldquo;Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress&rdquo; is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.<br /><br />&ldquo;Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress&rdquo; is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1917.<br />The play is obviously influenced by the Russian Revolution that year. It takes place in an imaginary country which has recently experienced a similar revolution. The two main characters are the daughter of the ruler, who once ran away to join the circus as a girl, and now supports the revolution, and an army officer who opposes it.