Lev Rubinstein, Russian poet and war opponent, dies – Culture




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The Russian avant-garde poet and war opponent Lev Rubinstein died on Sunday in Moscow at the age of 76.

The poet was hit by a car on January 8th and has been seriously injured in hospital ever since. Lev Rubinstein died on Sunday in Moscow. His daughter Maria announced this in the Live-Journal network. The police are investigating the driver.

Rubinstein, born in 1947, belonged to the unofficial art movement of Conceptualism in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. The librarian wrote the verses of his poems all individually on index cards.

His works have also been published abroad, most recently in Germany in 2021: “A whole year. My calendar”.

Appeal against war

After the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine began in February 2022, Rubinstein and other authors called on Russia to tell the truth about this war.

In an essay from that year, he criticized the Russian leadership, which denounced any criticism of it as hostility towards the entire country, as Russophobia.



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