«Above the church there are blue clouds, / A crows' cry... / And pass — the color of ash and sand — / Revolutionary troops... oh my / Blue-blooded, my kingly angst! They don't have a face, don't have a name — / Nobody sings! / You got lost, the Kremlin ringing / In this banner fo...»
«1 Winds have gone to sleep — with golden dawn, / Night comes — with a mountain of stone, / And with his princess from hot land / Rests the rabid chieftain. Having gathered his youthful shoulders in a sack / He listened, his forehead leaning back, / How over his hot tent it thunders ...»
«2 Over Volga — night, / Over Volga — sleep... / Ornate rugs they have laid down, / And on them the chieftain has laid / With a Persian princess — black brows. One can't see the stars, one can't hear the waves, / Oars and darkness extreme, this is all! / And the shuttle bears aw...»
«3 (Dream of Razin) And Razin dreams a dream: / Like a cry of a heron of the swamp. / And Razin dreams a ringing: / Like silver droplets drop. And Razin dreams of the bottom: / With flowers, like a kerchief, covered. / And he dreams of one face — / Forgotten, with black brows. He si...»