Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. What I Hate.

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Commentary to “A Song of the Old House”.

Another title of this song is “A Song-Tale of the Old House on New Arbat Avenue”, this avenue is one of the major streets in Moscow.

The song was performed by an anonymous artist in the film “Sasha-Sashen’ka” (1966).

A number of lines of the translation were inspired by Alex Sokolov’s one.

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