Naum Moiseevich Korzhavin was born in 1925 in Kyiv. At the end of the war he came from evacuation to Moscow. In 1947 he was repressed: he spent eight months in the Lubyanka prison, then - exile to Siberia. Returning to Moscow, the poet graduates in 1959 from the Literary Institute. Gorky. In the late fifties - early sixties, a lot was published in periodicals, in 1963 the first book of poems by N. Korzhavin was published in the publishing house "Soviet Writer." In 1967, at the theater. Stanislavsky staged his play "Once Upon a Time in the Twenties." In 1973, the poet was forced to emigrate. Currently lives in the USA (Boston). Publishing house "Sowing" published two of his books - "Times" (1977) "Plexuses" (1981, 2nd ed. 1988). "Letter to Moscow" is the fourth book by N. Korzhavin. It includes poems and poems written already in the United States.