The poet Alexei Tsvetkov died

In Israel, the poet and writer Alexei Tsvetkov died. He was 75 years old.

His death was reported on Facebook by the poet Bakhyt Kenzheev. “Sorrowful news. Just in the Israeli hospital, Alexei Petrovich Tsvetkov, my beloved friend and great poet, died, ”he wrote.

Tsvetkov reported in social networks about his illness at the end of April. He wrote that he probably has inflammation of the lungs with a negative test on coronavirus. The last post - already from the hospital - he published on May 7. “Resuscitation, but a nice doctor. He believes that since how many people from all over Israel do me, I did something good in their life, ”he wrote.

In the 1970s, Tsvetkov together Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenzheev and other poets was a member of the Moscow Time group, who also released the Samizdat almanac. In 1975, he was arrested and sent from Moscow; Soon after, he emigrated to the United States, later lived in Europe and Israel. From 1989 to 2004, Alexei Tsvetkov worked for Radio Liberty .

“Fantastic poet, <...> translator Shakespeare and Nietzsche, the author of the novel about ancient Rome, a magnificent essayist. Poetry, created in different countries in Russian in recent decades, owes it to a lot - including new ways to talk about death, ”the project“ Regiment ” writes about Tsvetkov.