Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. Serving the Elements.
Commentary to “A Ballad of the Abandoned Ship”.
To all appearances, this ballad supplements the poems and songs of the section “There Was Once a Man”.
There is a close in spirit song by Vladimir Vysotsky, it is “I’ve gotten into a scrape, now I can’t leave the earth...” (1971).
The ballad was written for the film “The Sannikov Land” (1973).
The presented text is adapted from Sergey Roy and George Tokarev’s translations.