music festival songs of the year compositions on the elements of the vologda poet nikolai rubtsov gornitsa. later this work was re-sung. yashino, vologda city. the defendant granovskaya la committed the murder of nikolai mikhailovich rubtsov by strangling the latter. behind with these dry lines of the verdict of the vologda court of april 7, 1971, a tragedy in which lyudmila granovskaya, accused of murdering the famous poet rubtsov, cannot put an end to it even after half a century. i have been oppressed for 53 years, i am unjustified. the truth is behind me, behind me. on epiphany morning in 1971, lyuda granovskaya, a young poetess and rubtsov’s lover, ran to the police station. i think i killed a man. these fatal words immediately formed the basis of the indictment. the investigation was quick, the trial was quick, but closed. complete lie. judgment seat some, 8 years further. the secrecy surrounding the rubtsov case. gave rise to incredible rumors about the reasons for the poet’s death, and that the kgb was involved in his death, and that the ritual murder of the heir to the russian poe