Husli, ring out...

Maria Vasilyevna Semyonova (b. 1958) is a Russian writer, a masterful creator, a mythmaker who creates her worlds and describes them "with the precision of an ethnographer and the entertaining allure of an illusionist." She has been awarded the prizes for "Best Children's Book of the Year," "Aelita," the magazine "World of Fantasy," "RosKon," and the Belyaev Prize. The cycle of novels about Volkodav is today considered a classic of modern Russian fantasy — a subgenre that owes its birth to Maria Semyonova; also in the universe of "Volkodav," the story of heroes from the later cycle "Brothers" unfolds. These and other books cannot be imagined without the beautiful poems — lyrical, memorable, profound, touching, and philosophical. In this collection, in addition to the poems already beloved by readers, new poems by Maria Semyonova are published in the section "I picked up the husli by the road..."