In our literature, there are many great writers who have brought immortal values to Russian culture. The biography and work of Nikolai Rubtsov are important in the history of Russia. Let's talk more about his contribution to the literature.
The childhood of Nikolai Rubtsov
The poet was born in 1936, January 3. It happened in the village of Emets, which is located in the Arkhangelsk region. His father was Mikhail A. Rubtsov, who served as a political worker. In 1940, the family moved to Vologda. Here they met the war.
The biography of Nikolai Rubtsov has many sorrows that fell to the poet. Little Kolya was orphaned early. Father went to war and did not return. Many believed that he was dead. In fact, he decided to leave his wife and moved to a separate house in the same city. After the death of his mother in 1942, Nikolai was sent to the Nikolsky orphanage. Here he studied at school until the seventh grade.
The youth of the poet
The biography and work of Nikolai Rubtsov are closely intertwined with his hometown of Vologda.
Here he met his first love - Henrietta Menshikova. They had a daughter, Lena, but the joint life did not work out.
The young poet entered the Forestry College of Totma. However, he studied there for only two years. After he tried himself as a stoker in the trawl fleet in Arkhangelsk. Then he was a handyman at the training ground of Leningrad.
In 1955-1959, Nikolai Rubtsov served in the army as a senior sailor in the Northern Fleet. Demobilized, he remains to live in Leningrad. He is taken to the Kirov Plant, where he again changes several professions: from a locksmith and a stoker to a chargeman. Carried away by poetry, Nikolai in 1962 entered the Gorky Moscow Literary Institute . Here he meets Kunyaev, Sokolov and other young writers who become his real friends. It is they who help him to publish the first works.
At the institute, Rubtsov has difficulties. He even thinks of quitting school, but his like-minded people support the poet, and already in the 60s he is releasing the first collections of his poems. The biography and work of Nikolai Rubtsov since the time of college life clearly convey to the reader his feelings and emotional attitude.
Nikolai graduated from the institute in 1969 and moved to a one-room apartment, his first separate housing. Here he continues to write his works.
Published works
Since the 1960s, Rubtsov’s works have been published at a rather enviable rate. In 1965, a collection of poems "Lyric". Behind him, in 1969, the Star of the Fields was published.
With a break of one year (in 1969 and 1970), the collections Soul Keeps and Pine Noise are published
In 1973, after the poet’s death, the Last Steamboat was published in Moscow. From 1974 to 1977, three more editions appeared: "Selected Lyrics", "Plantains" and "Poems."
Songs to verses by Nikolai Rubtsov received great popularity. Every inhabitant of our country knows “I will drive a bicycle for a long time”, “It is light in my room” and “In the moments of sad music”.
Creative life
Poems by Nikolai Rubtsov have something in common with his childhood. Reading them, we plunge into the calm world of Vologda life. He writes about home comfort, about love and devotion. Many works are dedicated to the wonderful season - the autumn season.
In general, the poet’s work is filled with truthfulness, authenticity.
Despite the simplicity of the language, its poems have scale and power. Rubtsov’s syllable is rhythmic and has a complex thin structure. In his works one can feel love for the Motherland and unity with nature.
The biography and work of Nikolai Rubtsov break off suddenly and ridiculously. He dies on January 19, 1971 during a family quarrel at the hands of his bride Lyudmila Derbina. The investigation established that the poet died from strangulation. Derbina was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Many biographers express the opinion that Nikolai Rubtsov predicted his death by writing about this in the poem "I will die in Epiphany frosts."
A street in Vologda is named after the writer. He erected monuments in several cities of Russia. Rubtsov's poems are still very popular among readers of different ages. His works remain relevant in our time, because love and peace are always needed by man.