Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Nikolai Okhlopkov: Vasili Buslai

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Quotes 

• Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother : [helping the wounded Buslai walk]  You've shamed your mother. I wanted to celebrate your wedding.

  Vasili Buslai : And so you shall.

  Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother : [grumbling]  Why couldn't you have been first in battle?

  Vasili Buslai : Well, I wasn't the last.

  [he reaches out and takes Vasilisa by the hand, pulling her to him] 

  Vasili Buslai : Accept as your daughter-in-law this maiden in armor.

  Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother : [looks Vasilisa over, then smiles broadly]  Eh! A beautiful maiden!

  Vasili Buslai : We've always been able to take care of our own.

• Vasilisa - a Maid of Pskov : [in the middle of the Battle on the Ice]  Should we move the baggage sleds back?

  Vasili Buslai : No! Die where you stand!

• Vasili Buslai : I've had my fill of slaughter... one day fighting, two days moping. I thought of going down the Volga to give my ax some play, but melancholy overtook me.

  Gavrilo Oleksich : [unimpressed]  You should enter a monastery.

  Vasili Buslai : [annoyed]  I've an affair of the heart in mind! If nothing comes of it, then I will join the monks!

  Ignat - the Master Armorer : [to Gavrilo]  The bear enters the monastery to steal the offerings from off the altar!

  [They both laugh at Buslai] 

• Vasili Buslai : [sulkily because Alexander has previously scolded him]  Who will command the vanguard?

  Alexandr Nevsky : You will! You ran all night, now by day you'll make a stand!

• Vasili Buslai : [referring to women in general]  They won't let a man live or die in peace!

• Olga Danilovna - a Maid of Novgorod : [she has found both Buslai and Gavrillo seriously wounded but alive]  You're alive, my dearest ones! Both of you alive!

  Vasili Buslai : Where are the Germans?

  Olga Danilovna - a Maid of Novgorod : Defeated, all of them! Some have fled, some sunk beneath the ice!

  Vasili Buslai : [slowly, with wonder]  Then we've won the day. Glory to the Prince and to all of us! Our blood was not spilt in vain.

• Alexandr Nevsky : Isn't there enough space here for you to stand and fight?

  Vasili Buslai : These parts are unknown to us and covered with darkness. It will be easier to fight on our side. Withdraw your forces from the lake, Prince.

  Gavrilo Oleksich : Hurry, Prince, he's talking sense. We shall return to our side of the lake before sunrise. It will be easier to fight standing on our own soil. Every stone there is a friend, every ravine a brother.

  Alexandr Nevsky : One who won't fight on enemy soil has no need of his own! We shall fight on foreign soil. Understood?