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тяжела ты, шапка Мономаха!stresses
gen. heavy lies the crown (напр., в одной из сцен фильма The Departed – imdb.com Aiduza); uneasy lies the head that wears a crown (Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, scene 1 ptraci)
proverb one cannot get far away from the burden and heat of the day; it's more than flesh and blood can bear (used jestingly or with a feeling of self-pity to mean: the burden of one's responsibilities (obligations, duty, etc) is loo heavy to be carried easily (the tsar monomakh's hat was a heavy crown indeed because of heavy jewelry and gold the famous hat was decorated with. the pun is that wearing the crown was a heavy political burden, too)); it's not easy to wear the crown; this crown on my head is heavy as lead