The daughter of the poet Lev Rubinshtein reported about ego death

Poet and publicist Lev Rubinstein died in Moscow at the age of 76. His daughter informed him about this on the morning of January 14.

On January 8, Rubinstein was hit by a car in Moscow. Rubinstein was taken to the Sklifosovsky Research Institute with multiple injuries, operated on and put into a drug-induced sleep. On January 12, mass media reported the poet’s death, but his relatives denied it.

A criminal case was opened against the 63-year-old driver of the car that hit Rubinstein. For causing serious harm to health as a result of violating traffic rules, he faces several years of imprisonment.

Lev Rubinstein is one of the brightest poets of Moscow conceptualism. He created his own genre of poetry at the intersection of literature, visual art and performance. Since the mid-1970s, he has been published in the Soviet “Samizdate” and abroad. He was close to the artistic and literary underground.

Since the 1990s, Rubinstein has been actively published in mass media, including Kommersant, Itogy, Ezhenedelny Zhurnal, Republic.

Rubinstein is an active public figure. He spoke against the war in Chechnya, in defense of Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, against Russia’s support for separatists in Ukraine.

In 2017, he resigned from the Russian PEN Center, stating that the center does not fulfill its obligations to protect writers who are persecuted for their work. In March 2022, he signed an open letter condemning Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Rubinstein is a laureate of the literary awards “NOS” and the Andrey Bely award. His works have been translated into many languages.