Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. We Have Gone.
Commentary to the song “HUNTING FOR WOLVES”.
Mikhail Shemyakin is a painter and a sculptor, he was a friend of Vladimir Vysotsky. He left the Soviet Union for France, then moved to the United States.
The song “Hunting for Wolves” was written in 1968, the song “Hunting from Helicopters” — in 1978, the song “As for today, I’ve passed initial phases...” — in 1972.
The song “Hunting for Wolves” was performed in the play of the Taganka Theater “Take Care of Your Faces!” (1970).
The translation of “Hunting for Wolves” was inspired by Vadim Astrakhan, Thomas Beavitt, Vyacheslav Chetin, Bruce and Kathryn Hamilton, Eugeny Koshelev and George Tokarev’s ones. The translation of “Hunting from Helicopters” was adapted from Bill Everett’s and Eugenia Weinstein’s ones. The translation of “As for today, I’ve passed initial phases...” was adapted from George Tokarev’s one.