Lev Valerianovich Kuklin (1931-2004) was born in August 1931 in the small town of Novozybkov in the Bryansk region. After graduating from the Mining Institute in 1954, he worked as a geologist for about ten years. In a literary sense, Kuklin is a typical sixties person; his first book of poems, “To Neighbors in Life,” was published in 1958, and soon our whole country began singing his songs. Many of his generation will remember the famous “Blue Cities”, “Song of First Love”, “Swings, Swings...” or “What do you guys have in your backpacks?”, and the song “One, Tru, Free!” in the late 70s, children from England to Japan were singing. In total, more than 200 songs were written based on the words of Lev Kuklin. Over the last decade of the twentieth century, the author worked as a critic and literary critic. This work is an essay about the poet Alexander Kusikov (1896-1977). Kusikov, together with S. Yesenin, V. Shershenevich and A. Mariengof, entered the “Order of Imagists” in the spring of 1919, becoming one of its most active participants. In just over two years (1920 - early 1922) he published five of his books. Together with Shershenevich, he opened the bookstore “The Poets’ Shop.” He was elected deputy chairman of the All-Russian Union of Poets (the chairman at that time was Bryusov).