Nikolai Rubtsov is a poet whose works are literally imbued with bright sadness and love in the surrounding nature, which he imbued with while serving in the navy. Although he is not as famous as Pushkin or Lermontov, but his original poems will forever go down in the history of Soviet literature.
When Nikolai Rubtsov was six years old, his mother died, and his father was at the front at that time. Kohl, his numerous brothers and sisters were distributed to boarding schools. Influenced by these experiences, Rubtsov wrote the first poem in his life. Nikolay and his brother changed several orphanages. When their father returned from the war, he re-married and tried to track down the missing children, but because of the confusion with the documents he failed. Rubtsov often claimed that his father died at the front, but in fact he knew about the true fate of the parent – they met when the poet was 19 years old.
Rubtsov studied in several technical schools, and during the break between them he worked as a fireman in the fleet. Failing at the regular exams, he became a laborer at an experienced military training ground. The poem Rubtsov first appeared on the pages of the newspaper when he was 21 years old – then the poet served on one of the destroyers of the Northern Fleet. Having retired from the army, Rubtsov settled in Leningrad, where he alternately worked either as a factory mechanic or as a fireman.
When Rubtsov was 26 years old, he decided to seriously engage in literature, enrolling in a specialized institute in Moscow. Although there were problems with his studies (he was expelled for inappropriate behavior, but then he was taken back), at the university he met many other writers who helped him with his work and the publication of poems. The first collections of works of Rubtsov saw the light in the early 1960s. After graduating, Rubtsov was accepted into the staff of the Vologda newspaper. Talent and literary merit first brought tangible benefits when he was given a separate apartment in the Vologda five-story building. On the eighth of January Rubtsov and his beloved, young poetess Lyudmila Derbina, filed documents in the registry office. Ten days later, the poet died in his apartment during an argument with this woman. Nikolai Rubtsov was only 35 years old.
