Poet Lev Rubinstein died in Moscow

The poet Lev Rubinstein died in Moscow at the age of 77. this on her LiveJournal . reported His daughter Maria

“My dad, Lev Rubinstein, died today,” she wrote.

On January 8 in Moscow, Rubinstein was hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing. The poet was hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in serious condition.

Lev Rubinstein is a representative of the Moscow conceptual school. In the 1970s, he worked in a library and wrote down poems on blank cards, which later became his personal artistic technique - many of Rubinstein's poetic texts are structured like catalogs or lists.

In 1990, the poet compiled the almanac “Personal File No.” Published by the Soyuzteatr publishing house with a circulation of 30 thousand copies, the collection for the first time introduced the mass reader to the Soviet artistic and poetic avant-garde.

Since the mid-1990s, Rubinstein has been engaged in literary criticism and journalism, writing for the Itogi magazines and the Grani.ru website. Since the early 2000s, he has consistently criticized the Russian authorities, opposed the war in Chechnya, the persecution of LGBTQ people, the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine, and supported members of Pussy Riot and Alexei Navalny .