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- While growing up, Voznesensky pursued interests in the arts, especially painting, but he did not focus on poetry until 1957, the year he completed a degree from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Then, in a strange twist of fate, a fire at the institute destroyed his thesis project.
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Andrei Voznesensky was born in Moscow in 1933. He was one of a small group of poets to achieve great prominence in the Soviet Union during the cultural "Khruschev Thaw." Voznesensky, along with Yevgeny Yevtushenko , Bella Akhmadulina, and others, frequently gave multi-hour readings and performances to sports stadiums full of listeners.
Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky was a Russian poet who was one of the most prominent of the generation of writers that emerged in the Soviet Union after the Stalinist era. Voznesensky spent his early childhood in the city of Vladimir.
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Andrei Voznesensky. Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Вознесенский, 12 May 1933 – 1 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of ...
While growing up, Voznesensky pursued interests in the arts, especially painting, but he did not focus on poetry until 1957, the year he completed a degree from the Moscow Institute of...
Andrei Voznesensky (voz-nuh-SEHN-skee) is known primarily for his lyric poetry; however, he produced a body of experimental work that challenges the borders between literary forms. For example,...
In 1963, Nikita Khrushchev personally warned Andrei Voznesensky to get out of Russia. The warning came too late. Public readings by writers including Voznesensky and Yevtushenko had already grown to the point that huge stadiums could hardly contain the audiences clamoring to hear the new poetry. Voznesensky’s reply was something new as well.
Voznesensky’s heyday was in the 1960s, when he was, with Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the “officially left-wing” poet, allowed to tweak the Soviet masters, but only to a point. They were intended to be proof that the Soviet powers allowed “freedom of speech” — but again, only to a point.
