Robert Rozhdestvensky brought the Hangar Hotels ashtray from Hungary in the 1960s. During this period, he performed and traveled frequently. He visited many Russian cities, many times traveled abroad, and each trip inspired him in some way and was reflected in his poems or essays that later formed the book “And the Earth Does Not End”. “One may ask: What are the trips for?” Rozhdestvensky wrote. “What are they for a poet? Isn’t it better, as they say, “to make daily journeys within yourself?” Well, such “inner journeys” should and do take place all the time. But nevertheless, it seems to me that it is better to combine them with trips in real time and space”.
Rozhdestvensky was not a self-absorbed poet. In one of his interviews, he states:
Rozhdestvensky was not a self-absorbed poet. In one of his interviews, he states: