The country is my dear country... Lebedev-Kumach V.I.

“My dear country is wide...”, “It’s easy to my heart from a cheerful song...”, “Morning paints with delicate light...”-these songs on the verses of Vasily Lebedev-Kumach in Soviet times sounded in every house, they became symbols of the era, they became symbols of the era, they became symbols of the era. inspiring optimism and faith in a bright future. The young poet, having annexed the pseudonym Kumach to his surname, began as a satirist, published in a periodic press. But he brought real fame to him songs written in a creative alliance with the composer Isaac Dunaevsky for Grigory Alexandrov’s films “Funny Guys”, “Circus”, “Volga-Volga” and Vladimir Weinstock “Children of Captain Grant” and “Treasure Island”. Many Lebedev-Kumach’s poems managed to survive his time-created by a truly talented author, they still carry a life-affirming mood and cause a smile.