The Ballad of Pugachev


Far, far away
Steppe beyond the Volga left,
To the wide steppe
Raging will live.

Where in the past century
Russia pressed yoke
Where in the past century
Lived Cossack with Burlacu,

Where, without touching the villages,
According fires cities
Wild willy passed
Emelyan Pugachev.

He picked up the cudgel
On the king, in the nobility.
Whistled, hooted
Worldly people - the ocean.

So Remember now
How, for hundreds of years,
Wild willy passed
Emelyan Pugachev!