Mikhail Kuzmin

Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin - Poet of the Silver Century, Prose, translator, composer. Until now, there are many legends about his life and work, and the most important of them is the opinion of it as an adherent of "beautiful clarity", the preacher "of the attributive ease of mindless life", the author of frivolous stylized verses and leads. But with attentive reading, this lightness turns into a deep tragedy, the painful experiences are completed by farce, low and even "dirty" life determines the fate - and understand how it happens is unusually difficult. As almost all Russian intellectuals, Kuzmin welcomed the revolution, but in the future the unwillingness and inability to adapt to it almost to complete isolation in the literary life of the end of the twentieth and all thirties of the 20th century, but he did not even admit the thoughts about emigration. About the life, creators, the tragic fate of the poet tells the authors, with scientific scrupulsity exploring his creative heritage, the significance of which is indisputable, and with a large human tact of a narrative of the privacy of a complex, controversial person