Comrade Stalin, you are a big scientist... Aleshkovsky Yu.

Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022) - a Russian writer and poet, author of popular “camp” songs that were not performed on the Soviet stage, nevertheless gained fame among the people: “Rains”, “Song about Stalin”, “Behind the rains”, “Soviet Easter”, “Okurochk” - they were lovely loved and sang, not even knowing the name of the author. However, Aleshkovsky himself, composing his “songs”, could not have assumed that they would gain such popularity and would “sang people with cleansing laughter and sadness of the heart”.

Aleshkovsky, other works that won folk love (“Nikolai Nikolaevich”, “Kangaroo”, “Masks”, etc.), although in the homeland of the writer most of them was published only years after the creation of. This edition presents an almost complete collection of poetic texts of Yuza Aleshkovsky, written in different years of life, starting with the early - ironic, compassionate, mocking poems and songs, in which the absurd world of Soviet reality was reflected - and ending with poems written in the last years of life and with unexpected depth and power revealing the author’s lyrical gift.