The poet Naum Korzhavin died

The poet Naum Korzhavin died at the age of 92. This was reported to the "Echo of Moscow" by the poetess Veronika Dolina.

Korzhavin died in the USA, where he lived since the 1970s, reports TASS.

• Naum Korzhavin (the real name of Mandel) began to be published in the late 1950s and was also known thanks to publications in Samizdat. One of his most famous poems is “Herzen’s memory” (“What bitch woke Lenin?”).
• Korzhavin was known as a dissident. In the late 1940s, he, a student of the Literary Institute, repressed (in his verses they found “pessimism, disbelief in the creative work of the party” and “obsessive thoughts about the arrests of 1937”); In his own words , in exile, he became an “anti -Stalinist”.
• In the 1960s, Korzhavin spoke in support of the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Julia Daniel, who were tried for anti-Soviet agitation. In 1973, he emigrated to the United States.