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Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003)
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  • 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)

To Y.A. Makushin, Sculptor

What is sixty? Three times twenty.
So such dates are nothing to fear.
On the hill stands a soldier of steel.
He shouts—listen—
Sent into battle
By General Makushin.

And if we count
All that Yura has done,
It’s time to grant
The Marshal of Sculpture his crown.

Grief is no trouble for us.
The main thing is to survive.
Remain forever
Young and red-haired.

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