Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov is a Russian poet who lived a very short life. Like a magnet, he attracted trouble. His fate is deeply tragic, and the verses are unusually beautiful and lyrical.
Military childhood and youth
Nikolai Rubtsov was born on January 3, 1936 in the city of Yemetsk, Arkhangelsk region, in a large family. Before the war, the family moved to Vologda, where Nikolai's father received a promotion and the city party committee. However, in June 1942, his father was called up for war, despite the fact that a terrible tragedy occurred in the Rubtsov family. Nikolai’s mother, Alexandra Mikhailovna, suddenly died. It turns out that all four young children remain orphans: the mother is not alive, and the father is at the front.
Nikolai's father asked his sister Sofya Andrianovna to take the children to her, but she agreed to give shelter only to the eldest of the daughters, and the younger ones were scattered wherever. Nikolai, along with his younger brother Boris, went to the Kraskovsky orphanage.
Life in an orphanage has never been easy, especially in times of war and famine. It is hard to imagine how hard it was for Nikolai to get used to a new life. More recently, he lived in a large and friendly family, next to a loving mother, and now complete loneliness. After some time, he was separated from Boris. They were assigned to different orphanages.
Little Nikolai still hoped that his father would return from the war, and life could get better, but a miracle did not happen. His father married a second time and got new children. The fate of the children from his first marriage did not bother him anymore.
Having finished the seven-year plan, Nikolai left the orphanage and went to enter the naval school in Riga, but here he was disappointed. They were admitted to the school from the age of 15, and he was only fourteen and a half. Hopelessness had to go to a forestry college.
Restless life
After graduating from college, Rubtsov goes to Arkhangelsk, where he settles in as an assistant stoker on an old minesweeper. Nicholas did not abandon his dream of the sea. On the ship he worked only one year. After this, Rubtsov came to the city of Kirov and decided to continue his studies, but he also lasted only one year at the mining technical school.
Long-term wanderings of Rubtsov began. He was alone in the whole world. In 1955, Nikolai made an attempt to establish relations with his father, but their meeting did not lead to anything. They did not find a common language, and Rubtsov goes to the village of Priyutino to his older brother Albert.
At the end of 1955, Nikolai Rubtsov was drafted into the army in the Northern Fleet, where he began to write poetry, which began to appear more often in print.
In 1962, the first collection of poems by Nikolai Rubtsov "Waves and Rocks" was released. In the same year, he successfully passes the exams and enters the Literary Institute, where he meets the future mother of his only daughter. In Moscow, Rubtsov very quickly became known among young poets. Unfortunately, after a year he is expelled from the institute for a fight in which he was not the instigator. It is restored after some time, but after a year they are expelled again.
A complex, quick-tempered character, and even a fatal addiction to alcohol - all this interfered with Rubtsov's life. He constantly got into scandalous situations, and always made him guilty.
In 1965, his family life cracked. The wife is tired of his drunkenness and lack of money. Rubtsov was published from time to time, but his fees were not enough to support his family.
Rubtsov again leaves to wander around the country. For some time he lived in Siberia, and in 1967 his book Star of the Fields was published, which brought him great fame. He was accepted into the Writers' Union. And finally, he still graduated from the Literary Institute.
