ABSTRACT
As co-convenor and host of the Religious-Philosophical Seminar and co-founder and editor of '37', Viktor Krivulin had the closest ties to the Seminar of the poets. In many ways the author life story is typical of an unofficial poet of his era: he started writing poetry as a schoolboy and continued throughout his time as a student of languages and Russian literature at Leningrad State University. Viktor Krivulin's quest was for a new poetic language a language that would continue along the path of renewal which, according to Krivulin himself, had begun in the early 1960s while also expressing the specific experience of unofficial intellectuals during the 1970s. Krivulin's theoretical writings of the time show that he was highly conscious of the spiritual quest that lay at the foundations of his own work and that of his friends.
