Stenka Razin

[prawda__]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenka_Razin

[Balamut]

Wikipedia never was and isn't a good source for anything.

[prawda__]

come with something better instead off hating...u dont like razin? maybe becuse he was among the first to uprise against tsar times and the last....what does it take for russians to rise again? couple 100 more years....comies dont count it was just change off people positions and names..

[Admiral_Kolchak]

neprawda, Stenka Razin has never said he was against the Tzar, only against "unjust laws and corrupt boyars"...

Stenka Razin

From beyond the wooded island
To the river wide and free
Proudly sailed the arrow-breasted
Ships of Cossack yeomanry.

On the first is Stenka Razin
With his princess by his side
Drunken holds in marriage revels
With his beauteous young bride.

From behind there comes a murmur
"He has left his sword to woo;
One short night and Stenka Razin
Has become a woman, too."

Stenka Razin hears the murmur
Of his discontented band
And his lovely Persian princess
He has circled with his hand.

His dark brows are drawn together
As the waves of anger rise;
And the blood comes rushing swiftly
To his piercing jet black eyes.

"I will give you all you ask for
Head and heart and life and hand."
And his voice rolls out like thunder
Out across the distant land.

Volga, Volga, Mother Volga
Wide and deep beneath the sun,
You have never such a present
From the Cossacks of the Don.

So that peace may reign forever
In this band so free and brave
Volga, Volga, Mother Volga
Make this lovely girl a grave.

Now, with one swift mighty motion
He has raised his bride on high
And has cast her where the waters
Of the Volga roll and sigh.

Now a silence like the grave
Sinks to all who stand and see
And the battle-hardened Cossacks
Sink to weep on bended knee.

"Dance, you fools, and let's be merry
What is this that's in your eyes?
Let us thunder out a chantey
To the place where beauty lies."

From beyond the wooded island
To the river wide and free
Proudly sailed the arrow-breasted
Ships of Cossack yeomanry.

[Tugay-bey]

The legend of the "good tzar" is a long trdition of Russians,wich endures to this day.Russians always believed that all the bad things come from local autorities,but not from their master.Needless to say,they were and still are wrong.
Stepan Razin was a tipical Don Cossak,one of the original rebels against autority.A bandit.Russian version of Robin Hood.

[Balamut]

Right , Akhmet, that's actually the Putin who gave me a parking ticket.

[Balamut]

***Akmet-Bek, I excude you from the russians.***