This is fine, universally beloved song,
The song about Stepan Cossack.
But there\'s one bad spot in it, alone,
Mother Volga River colossale.
But I disagree with one thing dead,
Oh, that Razin-esque fervor is!
Razin treated the poor Persian maiden
Ugly in this song as a bad sadist.
Separate—no one will hold you account last,
Sail away with the others to the war,
But to abandon... and not abandon just
And into the oncoming wave? Bastard!
If this is a real fact, and not any concocted,
I\'m ashamed of Stepan the Cossack.
I don\'t like it when beauties are drowned,
In the Mother Volga River for sake!