Journalists Victoria Ivleva and Masha Slonim reported the death of Lev Rubinstein. The poet's daughter Maria and his attending physician denied this.
“Someone started some rumor that should not be believed at all. I can tell you that he is now in intensive care, he is fighting for his life there, and the doctors are helping him with this. I ask you not to believe any rumors,” Rubinstein’s daughter told Izvestia.
On January 8 in Moscow, Rubinstein was hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing. The poet was hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in serious condition.
Lev Rubinstein is a representative of the Moscow conceptual school, which, in addition to him, usually includes the poet Dmitry Prigov, artists Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, prose writer Vladimir Sorokin and others. In the 1970s, he worked in a library and wrote down poems on blank cards; later this became his personal artistic technique — many of Rubinstein’s poetic texts are built like catalogs or lists.
In 1990, he compiled the almanac “Personal” case no. Published by the Soyuzteatr publishing house with a circulation of 30 thousand copies, the collection for the first time introduced the mass reader to the Soviet artistic and poetic avant-garde of the 1970s-80s.
Since the mid-1990s, Rubinstein was engaged in literary criticism and journalism, writing for the magazines Itogi » and the website «Grani.ru». Since the early 2000s, he has consistently criticized the Russian authorities, opposed the war in Chechnya, the persecution of LGBTQ people, the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine, and supported members of Pussy Riot and Alexei Navalny.
Updated at 19 :42. Mediazona also reported the death of Lev Rubinstein, we apologize to the readers and relatives of the poet.