 The song is referenced in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace", where Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky sings the first verse of the song to his son Prince Andrei after hearing Russia's military strategy (Part One, chapter XXIII).The song is referenced in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls", when Major Nozdryov's playing of the mazurka devolves into the common tune in Chapter 4.The song is referenced in Patrick O'Brian's novel "The Fortune of War" in chapter 8 when Captain Jack Aubrey hears it being sung by French soldiers in a bar in a hotel from which Aubrey helps Stephen Maturin and Diana Villiers escape.