Songs. Poems

Vysotsky’s confessional verse, associated with a folk sense of justice, is addressed to all of Russia with its past and present. His spiritual responsiveness and spiritual ups, the demanding word and the exacting conscience were reflected in hundreds of poems, songs, ballads. Vladimir Vysotsky is a phenomenal phenomenon in Russian culture. He belongs to those few poets who were given to feel the rhythm of time, involving millions of readers and listeners in the power field of their work.

Vladimir Vysotsky has not been with us for more than 40 years. During this time, two generations of readers who never went “on potatoes” did not grow up at the “lectures on the international situation”, did not sit on crackers in foreign business trips so that they would cut out on a tape recorder or jeans from a strictly limited amount of currency. Young no longer know such concepts as “OPROVER”, “BRIGAGEMIL” and even “pioneer leaders”. How to help them understand and love Vysotsky’s work as much as their parents love him? In this book, Vysotsky’s best poetic works are accompanied by an extensive comment that will help to evaluate how true the Great Bard reflected his era - and at the same time the eternal problems of being