Дым отечества. 1974-1985

Poems by Nadezhda Maltseva (b. 1945) were appreciated by Anna Akhmatova, Korney Chukovsky, Vera Markova, Maria Yudina, Ivan Elagin, Valery Pereleshin. These poems could not be published in the USSR, although they were published abroad. Maltseva could not be forced to emigrate, since the late 1980s her poems began to be included in major anthologies, but there was no author's book: her exactingness did not allow her to publish something unfinished. As a result, work on the "Smoke of the Fatherland", covering the last decade of the period of stagnation, stretched out for twenty years. Only now does Maltseva's "first collection" come to the reader.