The article considers the song "Oshibka" ("Mistake") (1964), a major work in the poetic heritage of A. Galich. The aim of the work is to recreate the creative history of "Oshibka" ("Mistake"), as well as to identify the key features of this song, which make it one of the central creations in the work of A. Galich. The article consists of two parts. The first part provides an analytical review of works devoted in whole or in part to "Oshibka" ("Mistake"). The interest of scholars mainly gravitates to several issues. The first issue is the historical basis of the work, which revolves around the unsuccessful Leningrad-Novgorod offensive operation of the Red Army in early 1944 and Khrushchev and Fidel Castro hunting trip in Zavidovo. The second issue is the origin date of the song (the poet himself mistakenly attributed it to 1962). The third issue is the literary genesis of "Oshibka" ("Mistake"): scholars consider the poems by N. Mayorov, B. Slutsky, D. Samoilov, A. Mezhirov, the ballads of Zhukovsky and Lermontov as the main sources. The second part of the article confirms the sequential nature of the song: it sheds light on high social relevance of Galich’s military themes and their darker sides, and raises to a new level the theme of social injustice, the gap between the lives of party officials and ordinary people - a topic which was previously addressed by the poet but which received a new level of poetic comprehension of the country's history only in "Oshibka" ("Mistake"). The author of the article also analyzes the rhythm of the song, noting that the use of a hexameter (dactylic hexameter) reminds the listener and reader to the Homeric epic, with its inherent nationwide scale of events, which is also important for the author of "Oshibka" ("Mistake"). The three-beat rhythm also reminds of the waltz music genre: in comparison with Galich’s ironic song "Staratelskiy Valsok" ("Little Waltz of Prospectors"), "Oshibka" ("Mistake") sounds like a statement stained with bitter irony of the loss of historical memory and values of past eras by Galich’s contemporaries.
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