The record where the best songs of Novella Matveeva are collected still retains all the characteristics of the Russian Bards series. The only thing that sets this disk apart from the others from the series is the song selection, which again only helps those who are new to the genre in their orientation in the work of this exceptional poet. Listening to the record, you once again understand how the esthetic of Russian "authors-composers- performers" is formed. Unfortunately, the naively poignant, unpretentious folklore intonations have been lost over the decades. But from the start, the esthetic consisted of that.