With the idyllic village of Lopatyny, far from modern civilization, he creates the representative microcosm of an ideal, utopian multinational society. In the novella, Joseph Roth depicts the past almost as if in a fairy tale. The old Austro-Hungarian monarchy by no means died from the hollow pathos of the revolutionaries, but from the ironic disbelief of those who should have been their faithful supporters. The count then goes to the Riviera and doesn’t want to be buried in the family crypt later, but right next to the grave with the bust of the emperor. When the voivode is gone, the bust is buried with the participation of the villagers and buried with all honors. Conclusion of the flying visit: The bust must not remain on the ground in Poland.
One day the voivode of Lvov, formerly known as Lviv, came to Lopatyny on an inspection tour through his sphere of influence. When he got home in Lopatyny, the count had the bust of the deceased ruler put up again in front of his castle. After the war, the Count had to watch in the American Bar in Zurich, like a copy of St. During the war, the count hides the bust in the castle cellar. Soon after, a farm boy from the area delivers a hand- carved sandstone bust of the beloved ruler to the count. On the occasion of an imperial maneuver, His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty spends a few days in the Count's castle. When someone from the aristocratic neighborhood disrespects Emperor Franz Joseph in his presence speaks, he just doesn't associate with the prankster anymore. Coming from an old Polish family - with roots in Italy - the Count feels neither a Pole nor an Italian, but as an Austrian, i.e. Because that violent willingness to help the needy is the only distraction of the grand seigneur. The inhabitants of the east Galician village Lopatyny - located between Przemysl and Brody - respect and love their Count Franz Xaver Morstin.
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