Расул Гамзатов. Таинственность

The People's Poet of Dagestan, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, Hero of Socialist Labor Rasul Gamzatov is a deputy of the highest government body and a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

The poet travels a lot - both abroad and in his native country. He also has poems dedicated to the fraternal republics - Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan... Quite recently, when this collection was being prepared for publication, Rasul Gamzatov began work on a new poetic cycle “From a Belarusian Notebook”. The poet calls Belarus “the address of ageless love”, says that in his soul

...merged forever

The noise of birches and the silence of mountains,

Mogilev blue rivers

And the green Caspian expanse.

Several poems from this cycle open this poet’s book.