Соловьи / Nightingales

📕 His elder colleague, Nikolai Tikhonov, wrote of him: "Mikhail Dudin travelled a long road of war-time toil and hardship, and the education of his feelings can by no means be called sentimental. The right to speak the high-sounding word he won on the fields of battle, not fearing any kind of dangers... Now, when the writer has many collections of verse and longer poems to his name, we see before us a real lyrical poet, with his own character, and upright life-history, and with it a great diversity, and a true love of his country, in line with the great classics; a good-hearted poet, a jolly good fellow, and a good companion on life's journey. He is always seeking, and his voice.