About the book: 2017 / Who doesn’t know the songs “Goodbye, Moscow!”, “The main thing, guys, is not to grow old in your heart”, “Nadezhda”, “Bird of Happiness”, “Melody”, “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”!..Songs based on poems by Nikolai Dobronravov are sung all over the world. They were made famous by Muslim Magomayev, Maya Kristalinskaya, Anna German, Valentina Tolkunova, Joseph Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko... and of course, the music of Alexandra Pakhmutova. More than one generation of people grew up on the poet’s poems. Today his lines are often quoted without even thinking about who their author is. It has long become beloved and truly popular. The book of poems included about two hundred new works written over the past few years. These are poems about our reality, changed life, about faith in Russia, in its revival.