[1] He opted for independent cultural activity and worked mostly as a watchman, editor of short living leaflets of sanitary education while heading some important institutions of Russian uncensored literature of 1970s, such as «37» and «Severnaya Pochta» samizdat magazines among others.

[1] After the collapse of the Soviet Union Krivulin served as co-chairman of the St Petersburg branch of the Democratic Russia party, where he worked with the reformer Galina Starovoytova murdered in November 1998.

[2] let it be someone good who would come to us and say: it is not scary to live... life — in short — is not a road but a station the place where we bummed between women between columns half dead music in loudspeaker stuck Krivulin's poetic output reflects some features of the postmodern current that has been variously labelled as neomodernism and metarealism.

His first wife was the philosopher Tatyana Goricheva, with whom they organized unofficial seminars and edited the journal 37, named after the number of their communal apartment.

In the 1960s before getting married with Goricheva, Krivulin started a relationship with Masha Ivashintsova, clandestine street photographer whose works were discovered by her relatives in the family attic and made public.