And to send me to Ustyúzhna Zheléznaya, To make me, princess, a nun, To place me behind a walled garden? Why must I grieve, As they take me to the dark cell, And the abbess gives me her blessing?” THE RETURN OF PATRIARCH FILARÉT TO MOSCOW[120] The tsarate of Muscovy was happy And all the holy Russian land. Happy was the sovereign, the orthodox Tsar, The Grand Duke Mikhaíl Fedórovich, For he was told that his father had arrived, His father Filarét Nikítich, From the land of the infidel, from Lithuania. He had brought back with him many princes and boyárs, He had also brought the boyár of the Tsar, Prince Mikhaíl Borísovich Sheyn. There had come together many princes, boyárs, and dignitaries, In the mighty tsarate of Muscovy: They wished to meet Filarét Nikítich Outside the famous stone-built Moscow. ’Tis not the red sun in its course,-- ’Tis the orthodox Tsar that has gone out, To meet his father dear, Lord Filarét Nikítich. With the Tsar went his uncle, Iván Nikítich the boyár.-- “The Lord grant my father be well, My father, lord Filarét Nikítich.” They went not into the palace of the Tsar, They went into the cathedral of the Most Holy Virgin, To sing an honourable mass. And he blessed his beloved child: “God grant the orthodox Tsar be well, Grand Duke Mikhaíl Fedórovich! And for him to rule the tsarate of Muscovy And the holy Russian land. FOOTNOTES: [116] Having destroyed almost the whole of Moscow by fire in 1572, Devlét-Giréy made again an incursion the next year. He was so sure of an easy victory, that the streets of Moscow, so Kúrbski tells, were alotted in advance to the Murzas. He came with an army of 120,000 men, and left on the field of battle 100,000. [117] Either churches or images of the apostles; a similar interpretation holds for the next line. [118] She was shorn a nun by order of the False Demetrius, and was sent to a distant monastery. [119] _Rozstríga_ means “he who has abandoned his tonsure.” [120] Filarét Nikítich, the father of Mikhaíl Fedórovich, returned from his Lithuanian captivity in 1619 and was at once proclaimed Patriarch. Yúri Krizhánich. (1617-about 1677.)