Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. A Song of Rossia.

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Commentary to the poem “There is no more beautiful country...”

Over the years, this poem-prayer has become more and more relevant.

One of close in spirit poems is Stanislav Slutsker’s “A Prayer” (2018).

Here also comes to mind Joseph Dzhugashvili’s poem “A Morning” (1895) (the word “Geor­gia” was re­placed with the word “Rossia”):

Next to her sister Viola, Rosa opened her petals, Lilium also woke And with the morning dew freshed up. High in the sky Lark was flying, Putting his bliss into trilling, And Nightingale the Magician Warbled self-forgetfully to children, “May our dear Rossia be sound! May her florescence be timeless! Friends, do embellish and gladden Our fathers’ land with your studies.”

In 1912, this poem was included in the “Textbook of the Native Language” for primary classes in Georgia, and it would be good to include it today in the “Textbook of the Na­tive Language” for primary classes in Rossia.

The original text of the poem consists of two final lines.

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