About the book: 2011 / Sergei Vladimirovich Petrov (1911–1988), a poet of enormous scale, was known to the general reader for a long time only as a translator. His creative legacy is stunning both in volume and artistic significance. The poet himself saw only two dozen poems published in the last six years of his life; Petrov's first author's collection was published nine years after his death. This publication continues the collection of poems published in 2008 in two books. It includes poems from the 1930s to the 1980s, which for various reasons were not included in previous volumes; poems combined into cycles; poetic works written in musical genres; poems.