You'd give your soul
for the Tsar!
Eh, dog?
You complain the Tsar doesn't
spoil you?
Be off with you!
Do what you have to do. By God's
will, be judge and executioner
And to outstrip the priest
We'll start on some of his
distant relatives, the Kolychevs
Kolychevs are untamed,
but we'll tame them!
By what right do you set
yourself as a judge, Tsar Ivan?
By what right do you wield
the sword of justice?
Let me not drink of this cup
You cannot avoid it... Even
though some cups contain poison!
The cup?
The goblet
They poisoned her!
They poisoned my sweetheart!
Who gave the fatal goblet
to the Tsarina?
She received it from
my own hands!
And who gave it to you?
Efrosinia!
Efrosinia?
Is it possible?
The Tsar's aunt?
My own blood relation?
Silence! Not a word of your
suspicions to anyone
until I have ferreted out
the truth. Come!
In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost
Our Sovereign Ivan Vasilievich
Tsar and Grand Duke of
all the Russias
has pronounced these boyars
of the Kolychev family
to be traitors
the aforementioned boyars
having been in communication
with the king of Poland,
with the aim
of submitting to foreign
domination
Ivan Vasilievich,
Tsar of all the Russias
has condemned them to be
beheaded for high treason
Too few!
By God's power invested in you,
bring the Tsar to heel
I charge you
to excommunicate him
I shall return to my monastery
You daren't. If you don't bring
the Tsar to heel
you will answer for it
before God!
Ah!... my lord!
I ask for justice against
the Tsar, and protection
I ask that the boyars' cause
be defended
No, I do not ask, my lord,
I demand!
That's not all I'm demanding
I demand that the Tsar
be humbled
I do not ask,
I demand!
God be my witness
It is not for myself
nor for the members of my family
who have been executed
that I take up the sword.
It is on behalf of the boyars
Justice must be done against
the Tsar
Beneath my priestly robes
beats the heart of a Kolychev!
And a Kolychev who is a prince
of the Church!
Even the Tsar can do nothing
against the Church
Come tomorrow to the cathedral!
I shall humble the Tsar
I shall crush him with
the weight of the Church
God be praised
Mother... What's the story
of the fiery furnace?
The story tells how a heavenly
angel led three youths
called Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego
out of the fiery furnace of
Babylon
into which a ferocious heathen
Tsar, Nebuchadnezzar,
had thrown them
Now, there are no such angels
Innocent, we were flung into
the burning, fiery furnace
lit by the Chaldeans
for having disobeyed the
heathen Tsar
Chaldean! Hey! Chaldean!
What is it?
Is this the Tsar's work?
The Tsar's!
They disobeyed the Tsar?
They disobeyed!
So, we are going to hurl them
into the burning, fiery furnace!
We are given into
the hands of lawless princes
wretched apostates
into the hands
of an unjust Tsar
who is the wickedest
in the world
With her staff
the old lady...
Hands off the Tsar's aunt!
She's Tsarina in her own house!
So she slapped your faces,
you and your henchmen!
I recognize the family
spirit right enough!
Perhaps this is the right moment
to polish off the Staritskys
with one blow
They've opposed the Tsar's will!
It is not for you, Alexei, to
tell the Tsar what to do
Not for you, Fyodor
to raise your hand against
the Tsar's family
No harm shall come to
Efrosinia
as long as she calls herself
the Tsar's aunt
and does not claim to become
the mother of a Tsar
a Tsar who submits to the boyars
As for you, Basmanovs...
learn to keep your place!
And the poisoned goblet...
have you forgotten that?
Be quiet
Be quiet, Fyodor! Don't mention
that grave charge!
God grant it was not she who
was guilty!
Why, shameless Chaldeans
do you serve a lawless Tsar?
Why, bewitched Chaldeans
do you serve a devilish,
blaspheming and despotic Tsar?
Why do you torment us
with fire?
Why do you burn us?
And now, bear