Challenge

How would you translate "бью челом", "не вели казнить"?
Literary translation? :)

That is what Lingvo says about the first phrase

чело - forehead, brow •• бить челом кому-л. — или to ask smb. humbly; to go cap in hand to smb


не вели казнить - not oreder to panish capitally

Spasibo za ideju.
Perevod pravil'nij, no...ne zvuchit in English tak kak po-russki :(

Pitajus' perevesti frazi iz fil'ma "Ivan Vasiljevich menjaet professiju" dlja Amerikantsev, i ne poluchaetsja smeshno :(

Ilona