Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Messenger.
Commentary to the song “I Abandoned My Deal”.
As the epigraph to this song, there can be used the words of Porphyry Ivanov, peace be upon him, which he wrote about himself: “I was 35 years old, when I began to leave everything that I did like other people.”
The presented text is adapted from Sergey Roy and George Tokarev’s translations.