Rubai - Omar Khaiiam

Omar Khayyam's famous quadruple-rubai (about 1048- about 1123) has been translated into Russian for more than a hundred years, but with particular success since the 1970s. The collection you hold in your hands includes rubai, translated by the wonderful poet and translator of Oriental poetry Herman Plisetcki. "Khayam Herman Plisetsky convinces first of all because in his translations the old Iranian sage is a really great poet" (B. Slutsky). The introductory essay by Samuel Lurie "Binhom Khayyama", the preface of the poet-translator and the afterword with the story of his fate give additional value to the collection.