to the Tsarina!
Take me with you!
You?
What would you do there?
I wanted to...
We are going, mate, to talk
about our own affairs
to the Tsarina.
Do take me, gentlemen!
Let us take him, mates!
Yes, let us!
Put on the same dress
as we are wearing, then.
What decorations!
They say
the stories tell lies.
The devil a bit they do!
My goodness!
What workmanship!
- Are you all here?
- All, Father!
- Don't forget what I taught you.
- We will not forget.
Is that the Tsar?
Tsar, indeed...
It's Potyomkin himself!
Get up!
We will not get up, Mother!
We will die, but we will not get up!
His Excellency
has promised to make me
acquainted today with my people
whom I have not hitherto seen.
Are you well cared for here?
Yes, thank you, Mother. The provisions
they give us are excellent...
Though the mutton here
is not all like
what we have in Zaporozhye.
But we are getting along...
What is it you want?
Now is the time!
Your Majesty! Do not command me
to be punished! Show me mercy!
- What are you doing, Vakula?
- Leave him alone!
Well?
Of what, be it said without
offence to your Royal Grace,
are the slippers made
that are on your feet?
If only my wife
could wear slippers like that!
Indeed, his simple-heartedness
greatly pleases me.
- Where's the other sack?
- I don't know.
This one will be enough.
What the devil is it?
Why are you running about
as though you were all possessed?
There is someone
in the sack!
- What sack?
- That big sack!
- Where did you get it?
- Vakula left it on the road.
- The blacksmith Vakula?
- Yes.
- What are you afraid of?
- It's so frightening!
- Someone is grunting there.
- Who?
We don't know.
Let us look!
Let us look!
Come now!
My man!
I beg you won't be offended
at our not addressing you
by your proper name -
crawl out of the sack!
I'm the Head!
I expect
it is a cold night?
Yes, there is a bit of frost.
Allow me
to ask you
what you rub
your boots with,
goose fat or tar?
Tar is better.
Well, good night!
Good night!
Why was I such a fool as to ask him
what he rubbed
his boots with?
Well, Solokha is a fine one!
Why was I so cruel
to Vakula?
So unkind?
How he loved me!
In the whole world it's hard to find
as fine a fellow
as Vakula.
My love!
Wait a bit, friend!
I haven't thanked you yet!
Oh, there is no, no
justice in the world,
While injustice is in might.
If your heart wants
to live by truth,
For the truth it must fight.
- He has hanged himself!
- He is drowned!
- He has hanged himself!
- He is drowned!
- May I never leave this spot!
- Am I a liar then?
Have I stolen anyone's cow,
that I am not to be believed?
- He is drowned!
- May I never want to drink water!
Pereperchikha saw with her own eyes
the blacksmith hanging himself!
You had better say,
may you never want to drink vodka!
He had need to be as mad as you
to hang himself!
He drowned himself. I know that as
well as I know that you were...
...in the tavern just now!
You hussy!
See what she throws up against me!
You had better hold your tongue,
you wretch!
- You think I don't know that...
- What?
That the sacristan comes to see you
every evening!
What about the sacristan?
Whom does the sacristan go to?
The sacristan? I'll show you
the sacristan! Who said, the sacristan?
This is the hussy the sacristan visits!
So it's you, you bitch!
So it's you who give him a foul
potion to make him come to you!
- Get thee behind me, Satan!
- Oh, you cursed witch!
How disgusting!
Ah, nasty woman, mate!
Very nasty!
- So the blacksmith is drowned?
- Yes...
My goodness!
What a fine painter he was!
So that is the end of the blacksmith!
He was, and now he is no more.
And I was going to have
my dapple mare shod!
Bless Your birth,
Christ our Lord,
Shine over the world
for the sake of reason.
A bright star in the sky,
Our guiding star,
We bow down to You,
our sun of truth...
Vakula!
My beloved Cossack!
Vakula,
will you