We are a long echo of each other

The brightness of words, the beauty of language, the accuracy of formulations, sincerity, and the ability to speak simply even about the most complex things helped Robert Rozhdestvensky become a people's poet. His works were distinguished by a special lyricism and melodiousness, which turned them into songs that sounded in the most popular films of that time. 

The themes of Robert Rozhdestvensky's poems are relevant at all times: love and friendship, fidelity to duty and honesty before oneself, the blows of fate and the challenges that ordinary people, strong and weak at the same time, have to respond to…