This book is the first biography of the outstanding Russian poet Yevgeny Boratynsky in the series “The Life of Remarkable People.” “My gift is poor and my voice is not loud...” - he once wrote about himself, but this is only an overly modest self-assessment of one of the best poets Russia, probably the quietest genius of Russian poetry. Boratynsky's life passed in the very heart of the golden age of Russian literature. An interlocutor of Gnedich and Zhukovsky, a friend of Delvig and Pushkin, a warm comrade of Vyazemsky and Ivan Kireevsky, Evgeny Boratynsky was one of those who made his literary age golden.A. S. Pushkin considered Yevgeny Boratynsky “our first elegiac poet.” In terms of “thoughtfulness into life,” depth of analysis of feelings, penetration into the “hidden movements of the human soul,” Boratynsky is one of the first in his generation. Together with Alexander Pushkin, he passes the baton of spiritual quest to Fyodor Tyutchev and Mikhail Lermontov, and then to Alexander Blok, poets of the 20th and our 21st centuries. sign of information production 16+