Where are you, troika, rushing, where are you heading?
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The coachman again got drunk on vodka, or just lay down to take a nap,
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The wheels were handed over to the museum, the whole museum was taken out,
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In every house there is either a song, or a moan,
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As predicted by the saints, everything hangs by a thread,
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I look at this case in ancient Russian longing...
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There are no spears or bones on the ancient battlefield,
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They went to souvenirs for tourists and guests,
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Dobrynya spit on Russia and repairs gas in Milan,
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Alyosha, even though Popovich sold the entire iconostasis.
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One Ilya scares the girls, jumping in one sock,
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And I look at this case in ancient Russian longing...
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Yaroslavna's business is bad, she has no time to cry,
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She's been in the office since half past six, she's got a briefing at five sharp,
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And all the boyars in Toyotas publish PlayBoy and Vogue,
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Having sold timber and oil to the west, SS20 to the east.
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Prince Vladimir, cursing, steers into the sea on a board,
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I look at this case in ancient Russian longing...
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There is again a big commotion at the walls of the monastery,
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A fourteen-armed god swam to them along a shallow river.
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Monks with obscenities wave their stakes, run to save him,
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And God sees that things are bad, and shouts "let go, let go",
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The abbot in a woman's dress jumps on the sand,
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I look at this case in ancient Russian longing...
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And above the stoned Moscow, forests climb into the sky,
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The Turks build dummies of Holy Russia in half an hour,
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And the guardians of the shrine have a finger dancing on the trigger,
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The sign of a gold piece shows through instead of a face on the board,
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Hare Krishna walk in formation along the Arbat and Tverskaya,
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I'm afraid that I'm fed up with old Russian longing... |