I.                 Prologue

II.               King of Cimmerian Descent. Scythian Funeral Rites

III.             Svantovit’s Thunder over Tsargrad

 

we, the Slavs, stand on this field

and gods, who look at us

demand our victory or death

we, the Slavs, feel no pain and fear no bloodshed

as long as the wolves are still our brothers

and the birds sing their songs with us

we, the Slavs, have travelled through the Pripet marshes

our fires burn above Baltic Sea

defending our clan, being led by the gods

we have met Varyagi blades

and covered the fields with the corpses of our enemies

our battle-cry you will hear in your last hour

for we are one with the cold winds that chased us

when we raced through the forests of north

and thus we are undefeatable

 

IV.            Discipline of the Golden Horde

 

Ahoy!

war has arrived into the land of Rus

the Great Khan has led the Horde to a new campaign

Ahoy!

great Yasa shall not be defied

laws of the Golden Horde imposed by riders without mercy

Ahoy!

the grey wolves are running as if the ground burnt their feet

woe to those who find themselves on the way

Hail the Great Khan!

Hail the grey heavens, black sea and Don coloured red with blood!

Hail the eternal laws whose messengers we were chosen to be!

Into death and glory ride!

 

V.              Battle on Lake Peipus. The Ice Massacre.

VI.            Cossack Party

VII.          Oprichnina

 

do you see the smoke rising from the ashes?

do you hear the silence undisturbed?

maybe it is Death herself, who came down

to that village and dwelt there?

do you understand her necessity?

without death life won't go on.

without torture, one won't see death is painless.

without dreams, one won't see what's there beyond its borders.

this truth is not for the weak.

this is the truth of gods.

and God can not be weak

God does not tolerate the disobedient

He pities those, who are weak.

and you pity those, who are dead?

pity yourself, for between you and the smoke

there is but a thin strand, called life.

 

VIII.        The Burial Fires of Avvakum

IX.            Minin and Pozharskii

 

Hail Russia!

she is victorious once again

over those who tried to flood her veins with falseness

conquer her lands with lies

and threaten her people into submission

the spirit of this land is free and it shall never

be captured by the hands of those

who wished harm to it

defending, it will rise high,

and shake off the dirt to the earth below.

swords and spears

are shining in the sun,

being carried by valiant warriors.

by heroes, who arose to defend their motherland

in the hard times,

in the times of great sorrow.

 

X.              The Northern War

XI.            Waiting for His Return

 

Oh how the Volga is silent

how time seems to have been stopped

since he left to far-away land

and I stayed behind, only wishing to die

but the years pass on and the grain grows

so many wars are fought with reasons unknown

people are paying taxes, friends and kinsmen are dying

all is as it was

before

yet he is not here

his voice has faded from my memory

it sounds now in the place where only the dead can hear it

his face I drew on the moist earth

where the grass he slept on, once grew

but time has erased its lines.

 

XII.          Winterwind on Stalingrad Plain

 

to the stars… on the wings of frozen breath

silent, as the shades of twilight.

clear, as snow-crystals in the nightsky.

a soul, that long since lost the hope.

now burns with a different fire.

the fire, which doesn't heal the wounds,

but gives strength to the tired body.

strength, that is enough only to kill.

cold wind caress the tormented bodies

and out of nowhere throws sharp thorns into them.

thorns, which make them move.

 

XIII.        Siberia

XIV.        The Hidden War I

XV.          Sputnik

XVI.        The Hidden War II

 

I am the president!

 

XVII.      Glasnost

XVIII.    Spetsnaz

XIX.       Kursk. Crucified by Ice Cold Water

XX.         Epilogue