Eduard Bagritsky

The name of the poet Eduard Bagritsky until recently was perceived by one -sidedly - as a tribune poet, an active participant in the revolutionary battles, glorifying the conquest of October and exposed his enemies. The book proposed to readers involves documentary materials, memoirs and poetic evidence, allowing you to take a fresh look at the life and work of a talented romantic poet, to separate legends about it from real events. The author recreates the image of a man awakened by the February revolution, its democratic conquests and therefore painfully perceived the straightforwardness and cruelty of the imposed ideology. “If you read Bagritsky’s poems,” the poet and critic Georgy Adamovich rightly noted, “you will understand that the“ politics ”was not at all significant and characteristic that, occupying one or another position in this area, he was only inferior to the requirements of the environment. Naturally, it was for him to occupy