This book is about the life of the incredible Russian poet Nikolai Zabolotsky. As the last link in the Russian Futurist tradition and the first significant poet to come of age in the Soviet period, Zabolotsky wrote poetry which was both highly experimental and classical. His life, however, ended in tragedy. In 1926, he was attacked by a Bolshevist critic and arrested in 1938 as a participant in a antipatriotic writer"s group. After being tortured in prison and serving in a camp, he returned both to Moscow and poetry. This book, written by his son, gives a very detailed account of the author"s life. IN RUSSIAN.