“The lines are pearls. String them as a keepsake” is a collection of poems, which includes mainly lyrical works - poems, romances, ballads, some of them have already been set to music and performed by such songwriters as Elena Bogdanova and Gennady Abramov. Some were published (with notes) in the book “Yan-Yin”, which is currently a bibliographic rarity. In addition, this edition includes new lyrical poems, romances, ballads written in the period 2003–2013. The carefully selected works of the collection form a single whole - a poetic book of the spiritual life of the lyrical hero.