Русские поэты в зеркале стихотворений Николая Рубцова(Russian poets in the mirror of poems by Nikolaj Rubcov)

Abstract

In this paper the author briefly analyzes some poems by the North Russian poet Nikolaj Michajlovič Rubcov (1936-71), in which he is portraying or hinting at earlier Russian masters of poetry - Esenin, Puškin, Lermontov etc. It is pointed out that Rubcov shows a predilection for poets with a tragic fate and that his portraits provide a rather traditional view on these men, among whom Nikolaj Rubcov is trying to define his own position.