Rilke. Boldyrev N.

p. M. Rilke is one of the largest European poets who, with his creativity and his personality, powerfully influenced the course of the development of world culture, including Russian. So, Boris Pasternak a year before his death characterized his own creativity as a variation of Rilke's motives. Rilke also had a great influence on Marina Tsvetaeva. At the same time, he himself experienced the equally strong impact of the Russian literary tradition, he was personally acquainted with L. N. Tolstoy, knew the Russian language, read Russian classics in the original. The author of this book, the first Russian biography of Rilke, his translator and a deep researcher. Before us is not only the poet’s life filled with external events, but his spiritual path, his inner increase.