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For any questions about the book, suggestions on price, or offers to buy several books (additional discount is possible), as well as if you want to purchase it, you can contact me! Also, there are various books by Vita Nova that are not yet available =) See my other listings about selling various books of different series of Vita Nova! Year of publication: 2019 ISBN: 978-5-93898-672-5 Pages: 592 Illustrations: 35+51 Print run: 700 copies. ABOUT THE BOOK Biographical chronicle and commentary by P. V. Matveev Text preparation by G. A. Mikhnov-Vaitenko and A. Yu. Chernov Illustrations by D. M. Plaksin The work of Alexander Galich (1918-1977), poet, playwright, and songwriter, became one of the symbols of the tragic epoch of insight and resistance of the Soviet intelligentsia in the 1960s and 1970s. Galich's songs, which in their time were distributed in thousands of tape copies, had an extraordinary power of influence on several generations of compatriots. The last almost three and a half years of Galich's life were spent in the West in forced emigration. During this time he continued to compose poems and songs, performed concerts. On his return to his homeland he wrote: "My only dream - hope, faith, happiness, satisfaction - is that I will always return to this land. And if I am dead, I will return to it for sure." This edition is an almost complete collection of Galich's poetic heritage. The texts are printed (with corrections and clarifications) according to his first posthumous book, published in 1981 and republished in 1986 by the emigre publishing house "Posev" - "When I Return: A Complete Collection of Poems and Songs". Illustrations by the famous graphic artist David Plaksin were created especially for this edition. The appendix contains extensive commentary and a chronicle of Galich's life, written by St. Petersburg literary scholar Pavel Matveev. For this, the second edition of the book, A. Galich's texts have been verified from additional sources and clarified, and corrections have been made in the appendices section. ABOUT THE ARTIST David Moiseevich Plaksin was born in 1936 in Leningrad. In 1957, he graduated from the Serov Art College. Since 1975 - a member of the Leningrad City Committee of graphic artists. Since 1980 member of the Union of Artists of Russia. In 1990 joined the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the International Federation of Artists (IFA). Participant of the exhibition at the Nevsky Cultural Center (1975)