How young we were

Who doesn't know the songs "How young we were", "I can't do otherwise...", "Hope", "Bird of Happiness", "Melody", "Bialowieza Forest", "Russian Waltz"!..
Songs to the poems of Nikolay Dobronravov are sung all over the world. They were made famous by Muslim Magomaev, Maya Kristalinskaya, Anna German, Valentina Tolkunova, Iosif Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko... and of course, the music of Alexandra Pakhmutova.
Generations of people have grown up on the poet's verses. Today, his lines are often quoted without even thinking about who their author is. He has long become a beloved and truly popular poet.
The book includes well-known and beloved poems about love, friendship, and life. They reflect different milestones in the history of our country of the past century and the present.