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Specimens of the Russian poets, vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 2 — Zhukovsky.

John Bowring translation

These words are attributed by the old Russian historians to the great Duke Svatoslav Sgorevich, and are said to have led to one of his most brilliant victories over the Greeks. “Let us not shame our Russian land—Let our bones lie here—There is no disgrace in dying!”

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