:58:13
Bravo! Bravo!
:58:33
Ah, Brother Vladimir,
you don't love me
:58:37
You don't care that
I am so alone,
:58:42
that I'm just a poor, abandoned
orphan whom no one pities
:58:49
It's not right for the Tsar to
fraternize with the landowners
:58:54
and above all not with the
Staritskys!
:58:57
It is not for you, Alexei
to teach the Tsar his business
:58:59
nor to raise your hand
against the Tsar's relations
:59:03
But it was you who taught me
to weed them out
:59:07
The Tsar's connections outshine
all other connections
:59:11
As the celestial tamarind
outshines homely oak
:59:17
Aren't we the new forest growing
about you?
:59:23
I don't hack down oaks to make
room for wretched aspens
:59:32
Don't touch the Tsar's
relations!
:59:35
The ties of blood are sacred!
:59:42
Aren't we who are closest to you
bound to you by other blood-
:59:49
blood which has been shed?
:59:52
You're no relation of mine
:59:58
You are my slaves