Olga Levadnaya

Olga Levadnaya

Olga Levadnaya is a world-famous Russian poet, Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation (2008), laureate of all-Russian and international literary awards (2007-2022), member of Russian and international literary unions (1997-2022), Ambassador of Peace (2021), artistic head of the Kazan Poetry Theater “Dialogue” (2016).
Author of books: “I live in anticipation of snow” (1992), “Go through the vicious circle” (1998), “In free fall up” (2003), “Close to our past” (in Russian and Tatar, 2003), “Rising on the ladder of thoughts” (2005), “Memories grow from the cry of birds” (in Russian, English, Tatar and Turkish, 2005), “Stargate” (2010), “Wind of the heart” (2014), “Vocal works on verses Olga Levadnaya” (2020), “Selected” in two volumes (2022), “Wind of the Heart” (in Russian and Tatar, India, 2022), “Wind of the Heart” (in Tatar, USA, 2022).
O. Levadnaya is the creator of the music and poetry festival “Handshake of the Republics” in the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation (2017-2021).

THE DIVINE BREATHING OF MEMORIES

Today we didn’t think of anything bad.
Life seemed to us easier and longer…
No one shared sin with themselves,
no one spared the days that flew by.

I heard voices of the past,
the river impetuously rushed into the distance
and the heavens breathed in slowly
the clouds, cold as pieces of ice.

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