I was born in eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

1. I was born in eighteen hundred and forty-eight, ; I had no father, yet I was raised, ; I grew up like a rose on a bush, ; I became a hussar when I was twenty. ; ; 2. I am a hussar, not a soldier in boots, ; Because boots do not fit my feet, ; They are not for the feet of a Martosh lad, ; Only a wild horse is suitable for them.