Gleb Gorbovsky died

Today, February 26, in St. Petersburg at the age of 87, the poet Gleb Gorbovsky died.

This was announced by the director of the publisher "Anichkov Most" Evgeny Zhukov.

Gleb Yakovlevich Gorbovsky was born in 1931 in Leningrad, his father was repressed in 1937, during the Great Patriotic War he was separated from his mother, wandered around orphanages, and got into the colony for minor criminals in the Volga region. Having escaped from the colony, he went to Kineshma to his father, who lived in exile, where he finished the seven -year -old.

He studied at the Leningrad printing college, from where he left two years later. He was engaged in literary associations in the Palace of Palace of Professor with David Dara and at the Mining Institute at Gleb Semenov. For several years he worked as an explosor in a geophysical expedition on Sakhalin.

At 16, he began to write poetry, in the army he wrote songs, one of the most famous - “I am sitting on the bunks, like a king on the name day.” Since the mid-1950s, he was published in the press, in 1960 he released the first book of poems, since 1974 he wrote prose.

The author of 25 poetry collections and seven prose books, as well as the operetta libretto “Gori, Gori, My Star” to the music of Stanislav Pozhlakov (1978), the winner of many literary awards, including the new Pushkin Prize (2000) and the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize (2016).

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