Poems

Alexey Koltsov (1809-1842), Russian poet. Born in the family of Voronezh Bezanin. The decisive on the fate of the poet was the influence of V.G. Belinsky: he contributed to the formation of his worldview. The talent of the self-taught poet hotly supported A.S. Pushkin, I.A. Wings, P.A. Vyazemsky, V.F. Odoevsky. Contemporaries attracted the deep nation of poems Koltsov. Dobrolyubov noted that his songs ... We made a very special, new plant of poetry ... The first rings began to present in his songs of a real Russian person, the innovative life of our commoners, as it is, not inventing anything. His fresh and bright language absorbed the wealth of populous creativity. Many songs and poems Koltzow are put on music