Tsuren the Truthful

Tsuren the Truthful was a poet in the Kingdom of Arkanar. A few lines of his poems are quoted in "Hard to be a God". The most widely known is the first line of his farewell sonnet: "Like a withered leaf falling onto the soul" ("Как лист увядший падает на душу").

Several fans of Strugatskys have written sonnets of their own using this line to imitate translations of the sonnet.