A manuscript by Karl Marx once characterised the forces of the Order as "Reitershunde" - meaning something like a "pack of knights". Russian readers of Marx translated the phrase over-literally as "dog-knights", and () became a widespread (and pejorative) label for the Order in the Russian language - especially after the 1938 release of Eisenstein's film "Aleksandr Nevskij", which fictionalised the Knights' defeat in the Battle on the Ice of 1242 .