Bulat Okudzhava (1924-1997) was a Russian poet, writer, and musician. His 1987 concert was the first of its kind during the upheaval period in the Gorbachev era of Glasnost and Perestroika. Okudzhava was the originator of the Russian Bard's style and was the first to express his nation's disillusionment over the country's political system and government in a new way. He sings his poetry with hi...
