During carnival there were many deaths due to excessive drinking and the extreme cold, for it was then that all had licence to drink and make merry. The Tsar Vasili Ivanievich (1505-1533) gave permission to some of his courtiers to drink at any time, but in order that their habits might not corrupt the people they had to live apart in a special suburb, which was appointed them on the south side of the river, where for a time all the dwellers were known by the name of Nali or "Drinkers." "Folke fit to be of Bacchus train, so quaffing is their kinde, Drinke is their sole desire, the pot is all their pride; The sob'rest head doth once a day stand needful of a guide, And if he goe into his neighbour as a guest, He cares for little meat, if so his drinke be of the best." TURBERVILLE, 1568. The Muscovites knew not how to dance. At their merrymakings they made Tartars and Poles dance to amuse them; their music was obtained from brass hunting horns, trumpets, cymbals and the bagpipes. Kotoshin states that the boyards were "dull, ignorant men, who sit in silence, stroking their beards and making no reply to anything said to them." The common people amused themselves on the "sway" or sea-saw; they loved to assemble in crowds and to sing and drink together. Some were drawn up and down in chairs, others went round and round in flying-chairs affixed to wheels pivoted, some perpendicularly, others horizontally; in short, the prototypes of the "merry-go-rounds" and "high-flyers" of pleasure fairs in Britain and elsewhere. In winter they sped down ice hills on their small sledges (tobogganing), and few only took pleasure in field sports, trapping birds and animals being part of the business of the lives of most; coursing and falconry the privilege of the Tsar and his suite. In winter when the boyard stirred out of doors it was always in his sledge, where he lay upon a carpet in the skin of a polar bear. The sledge was drawn by a single horse "well decked," a little boy astride its back, and servants of the boyard stood upon the tail of the sledge.