Nikolai Kotrelev died © IMLI RAS On July 25, in Moscow, at the age of 80, a philologist, translator, poet, historian of Russian philosophy and literature of the Silver Age, Nikolai Kotrelev, died. This was announced by literary critic Oleg Lekmanov. Nikolai Vsevolodovich Kotrelev was born in 1941 in Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University (1968). In the 1960s he was published as a poet in the almanac “Syntax” and the journal “City”.