The poetic collection of Oleg Ladyzhensky is called "The Ballad of Soldiers". The genre of the ballad is lyrical-epic. It combines the incongruous: an objective narrative and a subjective view from the inside. In fact, this is what we are now trying to do, having fallen into conditions that were thought impossible. "If only there was no war," we said for many years with the subtext "well, of course, there won't be, this can't be, because it can never be." But there is a war. And now you need to re-know everything: God, the world, people, yourself. See inside and out. This painful comprehension is Ladyzhensky's poetry.