The book “Echo of Love” includes poems by Robert Rozhdestvensky translated into Farsi. They were translated by a Tajik poet Mirzo Kenjayev. He grew fond of Rozhdestvensky’s poems as a pupil and even dedicated a lot of his own poems to him.

The translator wanted the poems and songs he loved so much to be available in Farsi. His first attempt was the translation of this collection of poems, displayed in the museum. It was published in Dushanbe in 2013. The book begins with a foreword by a famous Tajik writer Mumin Kanoat, a People’s Poet of the Republic of Tajikistan and a friend and translator of Rozhdestvensky. The introductory article about him was written by Yevgeny Sidorov, a literary critic and professor at the M. Gorky Literary Institute, where Rozhdestvensky had studied.

Nowadays, there are several varieties of the modern Farsi language — one of them is spoken in Iran, the other — in Afghanistan, the third — in Tajikistan. However, the literary (standard) Farsi language has not changed much over the centuries. And Mirzo Kenjayev translated the poems of Robert Rozhdestvensky into literary Farsi, the language in which Omar Khayyam and other great poets of yore composed. This circumstance allowed the translator to introduce Rozhdestvensky’s poetry not only to the people of Tajikistan but also to readers from other countries. Translations by Mirzo Kenjayev are understandable to the Tajiks, the Iranians, and the Afghans.

The presentation of the “Echo of Love” collection was held in September 2013 at the Dushanbe Plaza Palace. At the event, Rozhdestvensky’s poems were read in two languages — Russian and Farsi. Later, they were also read during the 8th Rozhdestvensky Readings in the Altai Territory in 2014 by Mirzo Kenjayev himself.