In a famous scene from A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese (as Archie Leach) speaks some Italian words. “But it’s such an ugly language.” Co-star Jamie Lee Curtis (as Wanda Gershwitz) has a different opinion. Archie doesn’t see it and suggests something better. “How about… Russian?”

Герой нашего времени (Hero of Our Time) is a novel (from 1840) by Mikhail Lermontov, but you probably already knew that, and if not, check Wikipedia. If you change the й to и, you turn the hero into heroes (an explanation of plurals in the nominative case can be found here), and we’re right where we need to be: with the song (from 2018) with a striking video by НАИВ (or NAIV, Naïve).

A poem by Mikhail Lermontov ( Михаил Лермонтов), written long ago (1841), shortly before his life came to an end. It was set to music by Elizaveta Shashina in 1861 and has since been performed by many.