About this publication.
The publication, except poems and songs by Vladimir Vysotsky, presents poems and songs by Vsevolod Abdulov, Harold Adamson, Iosif Aleshkovsky, David Bates, Valery Belozerov, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Vladimir Chuevsky, Nikolay Dobronravov, Joseph Dzhugashvili, Sergey Galganov, Alexander Galich, Rasul Gamzatov, Igor Girkin, Alexander Gorodnitsky, Sergey Grebennikov, Petre Gruzinsky, Rudyard Kipling, Igor Kokhanovsky, Raisa Kudasheva, Yury Kukin, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Mikhail Lermontov, Sergey Lyubavin, Paul McCartney, Stanislav Markevich, David Markish, Novella Matveyeva, Akbar Muhammad, Mikhail Nozhkin, Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Pushkin, Robert Rozhdestvensky, David Samoylov, Konstantin Simonov, Stanislav Slutsker, Yaroslav Smelyakov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rabindranath Tagore, Gabdulla Tukay, Ivan Turgenev, Eduard Uspensky, Yury Vizbor, Nikita Vysotsky, Sergey Yanaev, Sergey Yesenin, Alexander Zharov, Anatoly Zhigulin, Leo Zingertal and anonymous authors.
English translation by Fakrul Alam, Marc Almond, Stanley Altshuller, Walter Arndt, Vadim Astrakhan, Tatiana Avash, Vadim Baranovsky, Thomas Beavitt, Dina Belyaeva, David Bennett, Edward Bonver, Vyacheslav Chetin, Vyacheslav Chistyakov, Eugeny Derbarmdiker, Julie Deshtor, Jack Doughty, Arthur Durando and Irina Popova, Serge Elnitsky, Bill Everett, Eugenia Fuchs, Boris Gendelev, Svetlana Gulin, Vladimir Gurvich, Bruce and Kathryn Hamilton, Andrey Kneller, Eugeny Koshelev, Edward Leitman, Julian Henry Lowenfeld, Olga Mona, Rupert Moreton, Akbar Muhammad, Ants Oras, Stas and Margaret Porokhnya, Ludmila Purgina, Oleg Roderik, Sergey Roy, Eugeny Sarkisyants, Pavlo Shostak, Dmitry Sivan, Alex Sokolov, Yevgeny Sokolovsky, George Tokarev, Alex Tolkachev, William Toynbee, Mika Tubinshlak, Natalia Tverskova, Alec Vagapov, Tamara Vardomskaya, Daria Verzhbovsky, Eugenia Weinstein, Ilya Yakubovich, Dmitry Yefremov, Anna Zaigraeva, Louis Zellikoff, Irina Zheleznova and anonymous authors.
Russian translation by Niyaz Akhmerov, Vasily Betaki, Samuel Bolotin, Tatiana Chernyshova, Vladimir Derzhavin, Roman Dubrovkin, Venera Dumaeva-Valieva, Dmitry Yermolovich, Sultan Ganiev, Naum Grebnev, Alexander Gribanov, Isidor and Tatiana Gringolts, Mikhail Gutner, Elena Kisterova, Dmitry Lensky, Semyon Lipkin, Konstantin Lipskerov, Mikhail Lozinsky, Samuil Marshak, Ruvim Moran, Akbar Muhammad, Gleb Semyonov, Anatoly Sendyk, Sergey Severtsev, Alla Sharapova, Nikolay Sidorenko, Tatiana Sikorskaya, Valeria Sklyarova, Nonna Slepakova, Sergey Stepanov, Veronika Tushnova, Alexander Zagoskin, Vera Zvyagintseva and anonymous authors.
Compilation, redaction, foreword and commentaries by Akbar Muhammad.