“Russian Songs and Romances” is a book from the “Classics and Contemporaries” series. Poetry Library”, published in 1989 by the publishing house “Khudozhestvennaya Literatura”. The publication contains works of Russian poets of the 18th – early 20th centuries, which became songs and popular romances. Along with outstanding poets, little-known and forgotten authors are widely represented here, whose poems have firmly entered the history of Russian vocal lyrics.