Telephone Conversation

Textile town, I will get off at the next station, How good it is to be a general, Black cat... Such different, yet invariably soul-stirring songs. Their author — Mikhail Tanich — lived a difficult life. He fought, reached Berlin, returned with victory, enrolled in university — and due to a denunciation received six years in camps. Here he was lucky — he did not die, endured, returned indeed, with the mark of being deprived of rights. He worked as a foreman on a construction site, and as a literary collaborator in a district newspaper... And all this time, starting from childhood, he wrote