Boris Golovin

Boris Golovin
Boris Golovin, early 80s
Background information
Birth name	Boris Golovin
Born	(1955-05-26) 26 May 1955 (age 61) Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), USSR
Genres	folk rock, rock, world music
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, poet, novelist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1976–present

Boris Golovin (Russian: Бори́с Голови́н; IPA: [bɐˈrʲis ɡəlɐˈvʲin]; born 26 May 1955) is a Russian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Golovin published his first book of poetry in Moscow in 1987.

1975–79. Moscow State University, faculty of journalism.

1982–87. Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, faculty of poetry.

Poet, singer-songwriter.

Neoclassicism, modernism

Since the late 1980s readers have ranked Boris Golovin's poetry as one of the more influential in the neoclassical movement. But the poet himself has often emphasized that, strictly speaking, the word 'neoclassical' suffers from tautology. Classical poetry as such descends from the Golden Age; its distinctive and unique feature artificially fits in the remote past and the future, evermore new and old simultaneously. This idea is close to Albert Einstein's statement, that our being does not exist at all, there is only past and future permanently flowing into one another. Boris Golovin has always strongly declined any association with literary grouping.