Nikolai Glazkov - 90

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Nikolai Glazkov (1919-1979) - Russian poet and translator.
Born January 30, 1919 in the village of Nizhny Novgorod Łyskava lips. And wrote poetry in 1932 From 1938 he studied at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1939, together with Julian Dolgin founded neofuturisticheskoe literary trend "nebyvalizm" and released two typewritten almanac, for which in 1940 was expelled from the institute. In 1941, on the recommendation of Nicholas Aseeva was adopted by the Literary Institute, where he studied intermittently until 1946 since the second half of 1950 lived literary work. In 1960 starred in a cameo "guy flying" Yefim in the film by Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev". He died in Moscow on October 1, 1979
Everyone knows him for "Andrei Rublev" and poetry.
In postwar Moscow, there were no more or less educated person, who does not know Glaskowsky:

«I gaze at the world from under the table.
The twentieth century - a century extraordinary.
Than a century, more interesting for the historian,
themes for contemporary sadder » or:
«I am told that windows TASS
my poetry is more useful.
Useful as a toilet,
but this is not poetry » or:
«I live in his apartment
that Peel firewood.
Arbat, 44,
apartment 22 ».