The theme of Vadim Pugach - a modern urban intellectual, sandwiched between eternity and everyday life, between a formidable history and his own spiritual discomfort - would be completely unbearably tragic if not for the irony, a little sad, but helping the reader enter the difficult world of the modern poet . He is not afraid of verse experiment, just as he is not afraid of strictly following the high poetic tradition. Nikita Eliseev Vadim Pugach is a notable representative of the St. Petersburg poetic tradition, which he learned from his direct teachers - Vyacheslav Leikin and Nonna Slepakova... His poems maintain a harmonious balance between high poetic culture (including the culture of versification, attention to poetic technique) and semantic and emotional richness. Evgeniy Lukin