1. My kingdom fills a sixth of the earth
I have spread freely in it, giving and withholding

2. In it are all the great peoples
And all the victorious warriors

3. Yet it has few mountain passes
Far from the land are the seas

4. I was not satisfied with what I had in the Baltic
Compared to what I could gain elsewhere

5. And my black fleets are useless
As long as they're trapped by the Lion's army

6. So I cannot travel the route
As long as the Turks control the strait

7. The East eludes my control
I must fulfill my ambition in the Far East

8. And I see no land more fertile for my prosperous people
Than the land of China

9. If its Mongols and Tatars submit to me
I will go where Alexander never went

10. There will arise among them another Timur
To be my mighty warrior of destruction

11. I will then conquer the world
As my grandfather Peter the Great wished

12. It is enough that the Caucasus and the Cossacks
Form the belt of my ever-growing kingdom

13. But I beware the guile of foreign powers
Unless I trick them with my strongest cunning