The poet Naum Korzhavin died

In the United States, at the age of 92, the Russian poet Naum Korzhavin died after a long illness. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the family of the deceased.

The real name of the poet is Mandel. He was born on October 14, 1925 in Kyiv. In 1945, he entered the Literary Institute in Moscow. At the end of 1947, he was arrested and the following year was sentenced to exile on charges of “counter-revolutionary activity” and as a “socially dangerous element”.

Until 1951, Korzhavin served a link in Siberia, then in Karaganda. In 1954, he was amnestied and returned to Moscow. In 1956, rehabilitated. In 1959 he graduated from the Literary Institute.

In literary magazines, the poet published his poems since the mid-1950s. I gained fame after participating in the Almanac "Tarusa Pages" (1961). In 1963, he released the first collection - "Years". In 1967, theater named after Stanislavsky staged a play by the poet "Once in the Twentieth."

In the second half of the 1960s, Korzhavin defended the Politseks: first Andrei Sinyavsky and Julia Daniel, later - Yuri Galanskova and Alexander Ginzburg. After that, the poet ceased to be published; His verses were distributed in Samizdat.

In 1973, Korzhavina was interrogated in the prosecutor's office. After that, he filed an application for emigration, explaining his decision "lack of air for life." The poet went to the USA and settled in Boston. In exile, he released collections of poems "Times" (1976) and "plexus" (1981). He was a part of the Paris magazine "Continent".

Already the end of the 1980s, Korzhavin repeatedly came to Russia, performed with verses. In Russia, he came out collections of poems and poems “Letter to Moscow” (1991), “Time Given” (1992) and “On the Sleep of the Century” (2008).

The poet spent the last years of his life in the university city of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.