INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Poet, writer and social activist Lev Rubenstein, age 76, succumbed to injuries sustained when he was hit by a car in a Moscow intersection
Russian independent media were flooded with memorials to Rubenstein
Journalist Sergei Parkhomenko wrote on his Facebook page: "Lev Rubinstein, an amazing, one-of-a-kind poet, essayist and wise man, died
His poems, his short stories, his thoughts about what makes people tick, his attempts to understand and explain the world around him will
Sklifosovsky Emergency Hospital
The accident was reported by his friend, poet and journalist Igor Irtenyev, who said Rubenstein had suffered broken bones and was in
TV Rain reported that he suffered a traumatic brain injury
After surgery he was put in a medically induced coma.Rubenstein was born and grew up in Moscow, where he studied language and literature at
Moscow State University and then worked as a librarian
In the 1970s and 1980s he was part of the underground literary scene in Moscow and is considered one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism
His first works were published in the Soviet Union only in the late 1980s.In the 1990s he began to write essays and other materials for the
press, including Kommersant, the journal Itogi, and many other periodicals
He published dozens of books and in 1999 was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize
important social activist who took part in demonstrations against the persecution of writers and artists, against repressions in Russia and
Belarus, and against the war in Ukraine."Any war is terrible, and not only because wars are easy to begin and very hard to stop
War is terrible not only because people are killed and cities destroyed
Especially curiosity about what is different, incomprehensible and new
articles available here.At present there is no information about funeral services.An earlier version of this article was published on
