Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuzminsky (16 April 1940 – 2 May 2015) ( ) was a Russian

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. Born in

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, Kuzminsky emigrated from the

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in 1978. He published "The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry". Other publications include a collection of Russian poetry "The Living Mirror". He appeared in several documentary films, among them two by

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: '' Vasya'', a portrait of a close friend and Russian/

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nonconformist artist Vasily Sitnikov and ''Konstantin and Mouse'' (a.k.a. "Kostya and Mouse"), a double-portrait of Konstantin Kuzminsky and his wife Emma, nicknamed "Mouse". Konstantin Kuzminsky died in the United States on 2 May 2015, aged 75. Poets Hedwig Gorski and Konstantyn Kuzminsky

Poets Hedwig Gorski and Konstantyn Kuzminsky

References

Sources

* ''The Blue Lagoon - Konstantin Kuzminsky and his Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry'' by Ilya Kukuj Academic Studies Press. Newtonville, Massachusetts: Oriental Research Partners; ISBN 9798887190167

External links

Upstate Quest for a Russian Soul; The Avant-Garde, Bearing Bread, Seeks Out a Mentor
By Susan Sachs New York Times
IMDB.com entry referencing K. Kuzminsky as himself credit in the A. Zagdansky documentary"The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry", current on-line version

External links

* Russian male poets 1940 births 2015 deaths American people of Russian descent People from Delaware County, New York 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian male writers {{Russia-poet-stub