“Hurrah, our Horse-Grenadier Regiment!“ — English subs and translation

Russian Empire, circa 1900 Donate & Support: This song was written as a march of the Life Guards Horse-Grenadier Regiment by its commander Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich in the period from 1893 to 1903. It happened during the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1830-1831. On September 8, 1831, during the siege of Warsaw, the regiment was attacked by four insurgent cavalry regiments and was forced to fight with them. However, the numerical superiority of the Poles was too great. The commander of the regiment, Mj. General Kornilij von Sass, was seriously wounded by a saber blow to the head, almost all the officers were killed, the standard shaft was cut, and the standard-bearing NCOs were killed. Nevertheless, the regiment continued to fight and would have died, having lost its standard, if it had not been for the sudden attack of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment that had saved him, which turned the Poles to flight. For this heroic fight the