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Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003)
  • Certificate from the artist’s personal archive
  • Photos
  • Landscapes
  • Still lifes
  • Sketches
  • Drawings
  • Historical paintings
  • Etudes
  • Portraits of Ukrainian writers
  • Archive
  • Memories (1997)
  • Memories (2001)
  • Poems
    • To a Budding Genius
    • Talents and Scoundrels
    • The Dream the Elephant Had
    • Bel Canto and the Frying Pan
    • Talent and envy
    • On the Perils of Letter-Worship
    • The Queen Crow
    • An Epochal Era
    • On a Gentle Pink Morning
    • I love you no more.
    • Ah, I Would Give!
    • Domestic Matters
    • Love Comes in Many Forms
    • New Year’s, Festive
    • To the Student and Friend Viktor Khilkov
    • At Seventy
    • To Dmitry Kremin
    • To Alexander Vycherov
    • Happy Holiday to You, Inna Konstantinovna
    • To Y.A. Makushin, Sculptor
    • To A.P. Zavgorodniy, on His 70th Birthday
    • To Anatoly Malyarov
    • Ballad of the Unknown Soldier
    • Lead March
    • For Those Who Are With Us
Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003) Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003)

An Epochal Era

An epoch grand, and daring we,
While women shine so gloriously.
It’s strange, it’s cruel, it’s all above—
There’s nothing in us worthy of love.

So raise your glass, let spirits flow,
To her we cherish, and we know:
Stubborn, sly, and yet desired,
Love’s burning flame can’t be retired.

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