The caustic mockery of Julius Caesar, the beloved of Lesbia, Guy Valery Catullus wrote his "trinkets," without thinking that they would become favorite works for translations of Fet, Pushkin, Trediakovsky, Bryusov and other iconic names of Russian poetry. The legend says that he lived a short (hardly more than thirty years), but bright life, leaving behind several dozen beautiful lyric texts, to this day inspiring people to dreams and philosophical reflections.