Starshinov - Shcherbakov S.

The poet Nikolai Starshinov refers to people unforgettable, whose biography has absorbed all the signs of the era - its greatness, dramas, paradoxes and contradictions. A front-runner who wrote classic lines about the war ("When, breaking the oblivion, / The guns voted, / No one shouted: "For Russia!.." /And went and perished for her"), a wonderful lyricist, long-time editor of the young Guards almanac "Poetry", tireless mentor of several generations of young poets, a gambling collector of folk pieces, an unsurpassed fisherman, he is still present today in literary life with a bright memory of him. Many cases of his eventful life have already been mythologized, many of his jokes (and the man he was cheerful and life-loving) have become aphorisms, his literary and fishing stories still live among writers and fishermen ...