Vasili Buslai Quotes in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

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!

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: [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.

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.