You Will Never Be Mine

David Samoilov is one of the brightest Russian poets of the second half of the 20th century. As a twenty-year-old young man, he volunteered for the war, went through the entire difficult soldier's path from Vyazma to Berlin, and after Victory, he entered the Literary Institute and dedicated his entire later life to creativity. Samoilov is the author of such famous poems as "The Forties," "I am small, throat in angina," "Queen Anna," "Boldin Autumn," "Duet for Violin and Viola," collections "The Second Pass," "Voices Behind the Hills," "Message," and others. His poems resonate in films and from the stage, they are read by famous actors, they are sung around the campfire with a guitar, quoted in conversations, often without remembering the author of childhood familiar lines. The poetry of David Samoilov is characterized by penetrating lyricism, subtle psychology, philosophical depth, remarkable irony, and humor. The range of themes is vast — war, love, homeland, history, man and woman, human life in all its diversity. His language is figurative, bright, concise, plastic, yet simple and clear, close and understandable to any reader. On the pages of his collections, "cursed questions," reflections on the meaning of life coexist with jokes, ironic, elegant essays, tender lyrical melodies. It is precisely this multifacetedness of David Samoilov's poetry that allowed him to become one of our most well-known and beloved poets.