Vladimir Vishnevsky. An Anthology of Satire and Humor from 20th-Century Russia

A large collection of poems by the satirical poet Vladimir Vishnevsky for the period from 1976 to 2001.

"There's a legend. Timur the Iron Lame, having once besieged a city, demanded tribute from its inhabitants. The first time, the inhabitants wept, the second, they screamed, and the third, they laughed. In this city, besieged by a century that pays all its bills but doesn't believe in tears, grew up its laughing lyricist, Vladimir Vishnevsky."

Leonid Zorin