| 11 | Introduction |
| IRAKLI ABASHIDZE • IIPAKJIHB AEAIHM/J3E | |
| 16 | [photo & biography.] |
| 18 | [RUSSIAN TITLE HERE.] • To the Poets of India |
| MARGARITA ALIGHER • MAPFAPHTA AJIHFEP | |
| 22 | [photo & biography.] |
| 24 | [RUSSIAN TITLE HERE.] • My Path |
| 28 | [RUSSIAN TITLE HERE.] • The Lucky Two |
| 30 | [RUSSIAN TITLE HERE.] • Yes and No |
| PAVEL ANTOKOLSKY • DABEJI AHTOKOJIbCKMtt | |
| 32 | [photo & biography.] |
| 34 | [RUSSIAN TITLE HERE.] • The Dramatis Personae Have Their Say |
| 38 | [RUSSIAN TITLE HERE.] • My Conviction |
| NIKOLAI ASEYEV • HHKOJIAfl ACEEB | |
| 40 | [photo & biography.] |
| 42 | There Are Some • Folk Who Money Covet |
| 46 | [RUSSIAN TITLE HERE.] • Nightingale |
| BELLA AKHMADULINA • BEJ1JIA AXMA/jyJIHHA | |
| 50 | [photo & biography.] |
| 52 | December |
| 56 | MoTopojuiep • Scooter |
| ANNA AKHMATOVA • AHHA AXMATOBA | |
| 60 | [photo & biography.] |
| 62 | * * * [sacred craft] |
| 64 | This Russian Soil |
| 66 | Thirteen Lines From the cycle POEMS OF MIDNIGHT |
| 68 | * * * [parting today] |
| 70 | Three Poems |
| 74 | The Fourth From the cycle NORTHERN ELEGIES |
| OLGA BERGHOLTZ • OJII>FA EEPITOJlbU | |
| 78 | [photo & biography.] |
| 80 | From a Wayfarer’s Letters |
| 84 | Indian Summer |
| PETRUS BROVKA • riETPYCb BPOBKA | |
| 86 | [photo & biography.] |
| 88 | Life’s Beginning |
| 92 | The Oakleaf |
| OJ&Aoverline;RS V&Aoverline;CIETIS • OHP BAIJHETHC | |
| 94 | [photo & biography.] |
| 96 | Before the Operation |
| 100 | A Valediction |
| AARON VERGELIS • APOH BEPFEJIHC | |
| 104 | [photo & biography.] |
| 106 | A Day of Open Hearts |
| YEVGENI VINOKUROV • EBrEHHH BHHOKYPOB | |
| 110 | [photo & biography.] |
| 112 | * * * [to be myself] |
| 114 | * * * [true to themselves] |
| 116 | * * * [strength of metal] |
| 118 | Music • MyabiKa |
| ANDREI VOZNESENSKY • AH/JPEfl B03HECEHCKHH | |
| 122 | [photo & biography.] |
| 124 | Avia-Introduction From the poem LONGJUMEAU |
| 130 | Parabolical Ballad |
| 134 | Autumn in Sigulda |
| 140 | Antiworlds |
| SAMUEL GALKIN • CAMYHJI TAJIKHH | |
| 144 | [photo & biography.] |
| 146 | * * * [heavy on the waves] |
| 148 | On Days of Stress |
| 150 | * * * [old age] |
| 152 | * * * [time-born merits] |
| RASUL GAMZATOV • TAM3ATOB | |
| 154 | [photo & biography.] |
| 156 | * * * [baited hook] |
| 158 | * * * [three songs] |
| 160 | * * * [hero’s widow] |
| 162 | * * * [happiness] |
| 164 | * * * [five short minutes] |
| 166 | [beacons of mankind] |
| 168 | * * * [o time] |
| IVAN DRACH • HBAH | |
| 170 | [photo & biography.] |
| 172 | The Ballad of the Pail |
| YEVGENI YEVTUSHENKO • EBrEHMM ERTyiHEHKO | |
| 174 | [photo & biography.] |
| 176 | Do the Russians Want a War? |
| 178 | Snivelling Fascism |
| 186 | Envy |
| NIKOLAI ZABOLOTSKY • HflKOJIAll 3AEOJIOHKHM | |
| 190 | [photo & biography.] |
| 192 | Peasant Spokesmen |
| 196 | The Ugly Girl |
| SILVA KAPUTIKYAN • CHJlbBA KAnYTHKflH | |
| 200 | [photo & biography.] |
| 202 | * * * [princesses’ unthinking existence] |
| 204 | Among Sevan’s Mountains |
| 206 | Song of the Way |
| SEMYON KIRSANOV • CEMEH KHPCAHOB | |
| 210 | [photo & biography.] |
| 212 | This World |
| 216 | Hours |
| DAVID KUGULTINOV • HABHJI; | |
| 220 | [photo & biography.] |
| 222 | * * * [o mother-land] |
| 224 | * * * [my soul doth sing] |
| 226 | * * * [friendship on love] |
| ARKADI KULESHOV • APKAftHfl KyjIEfflOB | |
| 230 | [photo & biography.] |
| 232 | * * * [my clock] |
| 234 | * * * [neither stars nor flowers] |
| 236 | * * * [my muse] |
| 238 | * * * [greet the golden age] |
| KAISYN KULIEV • KAHCMH KYJIMEB | |
| 240 | [photo & biography.] |
| 242 | * * * [broken mothers’ hearts] |
| 244 | * * * [when children cry] |
| 246 | * * * [hour of trial] |
| 248 | A Woman’s Bathing in the Stream |
| 250 | * * * [speech of mountain people] |
| VLADIMIR LUGOVSKOY • BJIAflHMHP JiyrOBCKOM | |
| 254 | [photo & biography.] |
| 256 | Introduction To the poem THE MIDDLE OF THE CENTURY |
| 262 | The Woman I Had Known |
| 268 | 0<m>rpa(p • Photographs |
| MIKHAIL LUKONIN • MHXAMJI JiyKOHHH | |
| 272 | [photo & biography.] |
| 274 | My Friends |
| 280 | From the cycle TESTING FOR RUPTURE |
| LEONID MARTYNOV • .TIEOHHfl MAPTI.IHOH | |
| 284 | [photo & biography.] |
| 286 | Echo |
| 288 | * * * [thirsting for song] |
| 292 | Water |
| JUSTINAS MARCINKEVI&Chat;IUS • HJCTHHAC | |
| 294 | [photo & biography.] |
| 296 | Prelude To the poem BLOOD AND ASHES |
| SAMUEL MARSHAK • CAMYHJI MAPUIAK | |
| 300 | [photo & biography.] |
| 302 | * * * [bed under pressure] |
| 304 | [eternity] |
| 306 | Immortality |
| 308 | Lily of the Valley |
| 310 | * * * [lose not one hour] |
| EDUARDAS MIE&Zhat;ELAITIS • 3/iyAPAAC MEJKEJIAMTHC | |
| 312 | [photo & biography.] |
| 314 | Ashes Ileneji |
| 318 | Lips |
| ALEXANDER MEZHIROV • AJlEKCAHflP MEJKHPOB | |
| 322 | [photo & biography.] |
| 324 | Sprites of Music • Mysbiica |
| 326 | February • One step from February to March • NIKOLAI TARASOV |
| SERGEI MIKHALKOV • CElTEli MMXAJIKOH | |
| 330 | [photo & biography.] |
| 332 | The Satyrist and the Sapper |
| 334 | The Crane and the Pig |
| 336 | The Fool • 0 Aypaice |
| SERGEI NAROVCHATOV • CEPFEM HAPOBHATOB | |
| 338 | [photo & biography.] |
| 340 | Those Years |
| 342 | 3a coBCTCKyio • For Soviet Power! |
| BORIS PASTERNAK • EOPHC IIACTEPHAK | |
| 344 | [photo & biography.] |
| 346 | * * * [the aim of art] |
| 350 | EBB • Eve |
| 354 | Kor.ua pa3ry;meTCn • When the Weather Clears |
| ALEXANDER PROKOFIEV • AJIEKCAHJJP nPOKO<DLER | |
| 358 | [photo & biography.] |
| 360 | My Biography |
| 364 | Bosupamoime • Their Return |
| 368 | \JieS • Bread |
| ROBERT ROZHDESTVENSKY • POBEPT POJKAECTBEHCKHB | |
| 370 | [photo & biography.] |
| 372 | llo.iomnia • Halves |
| 376 | Jlyieuan • Radiation Sickness |
| MAXIM RYLSKY • MAKCMM PJ.IJIbCKHH | |
| 382 | [photo & biography.] |
| 384 | KyiepcKaa B JIcnoH Ilo-naiie • Coachman’s Cottage, Yasnaya Polyana |
| 388 | Huiina ajioii H uCJioii poai>i • The War of the Roses Warm rain gas soaked the lawn from hedge to hedge I. BUNIN |
| MIKHAIL SVETLOV • MHXAHJI CBETJIOB | |
| 390 | [photo & biography.] |
| 392 | BeccMepTHe • Immortality |
| 396 | FopH3OHT • Horizon |
| 400 | In Hospital |
| PARUIR SEVAK • CEBAK | |
| 402 | [photo & biography.] |
| 404 | To My Motherland |
| 408 | BepHTCH MHC... • My Belief |
| ILYA SELVINSKY • HJIbfl CEJIbBHHCKHH | |
| 410 | [photo & biography.] |
| 412 | THrp • Tiger |
| 416 | Bepesa • The Birch-Tree |
| 418 | Tragedy |
| 420 | Prelude |
| KONSTANTIN SIMONOV • KOHCTAHTHH CHMOHOB | |
| 422 | [photo & biography.] |
| 424 | TpH CTHXOTBOpeHHH • IlaMamu Bopuca rap6amoea • Three Poems • To the memory of Boris Gorbator |
| BORIS SLUTSKY • EOPHC CJIYUjKHfl | |
| 428 | [photo & biography.] |
| 430 | Horses in the Ocean • To llga Ehrenburg |
| 434 | Grapyx 6i>uio Miioro... • There Were Many Old Women |
| 438 | 0H3HKU II J • Physicists and Lyricists |
| YAROSLAV SMELYAKOV • flPOCJIAB CMEJIflKOB | |
| 440 | [photo & biography.] |
| 442 | Paaronop o nooami • Talking of Poetry |
| 446 | Kapiuan • The Pocket |
| 448 | CTOJIOBBH na oKpamie • Workers’ Canteens |
| ALEXEI SURKOV • AJIEKCEH CYPKOB | |
| 452 | [photo & biography.] |
| 454 | * * * [no higher power] |
| 458 | Moii coBpeiwenHMK • My Contemporary |
| ALEXANDER TVARDOVSKY • AJIEKCAH/JP TBAP/JOBCKMM | |
| 460 | [photo & biography.] |
| 462 | * * * [life’s treasure] |
| 468 | * * * [future generations] |
| 470 | CoopaxbHM no nepy • To My Colleagues |
| 472 | * * * [season’s freshness] |
| NIKOLAI TIKHONOV • HHKOJIAM THXOHOB | |
| 474 | [photo & biography.] |
| 476 | [love one’s native land] |
| 478 | Near Leningrad |
| 480 | ji iio’iiioii Apnrnoii • Before the Aragva at Night |
| MIRZO TURSUN-ZADE • MHP30 | |
| 484 | [photo & biography.] |
| 486 | Cccxpa MOH AcbpiiKa • My Sister, Africa! |
| VLADIMIR TSYBIN • BJIAflHMHP IJblEHH | |
| 492 | [photo & biography.] |
| 494 | Holidays • To Yuri Kazahov |
| SIMON CHIKOVANI • CHMOH <IMKOIiAIIH | |
| 500 | [photo & biography.] |
| 502 | Ha ccHOKoce • Haymaking |
| 506 | The Birth of Song |
| STEFAN SHCHIPACHEV • CTEIIAH | |
| 510 | [photo & biography.] |
| 512 | The Palm of a Man’s Hand |
| 516 | * * * [split the word] |
| 518 | C 3HMOH • Farewell to Winter |
| 520 | He Bcpio! • * * * [river of nations] |
| ILYA EHRENBURG • HJIbfl | |
| 522 | [photo & biography.] |
| 524 | * * * [verdant ...] |
| 526 | The Heart of a Soldier |
| ALEXANDER YASHIN • AJIEKCAHflP flfflHH | |
| 528 | [photo & biography.] |
| 530 | * * * [things that we treasure] |
| 532 | Kind Deeds |
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