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Yevtushenko was born Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus (he later took his mother's last name, Yevtushenko) in the Irkutsk region of Siberia in a small town called Zima on 18 July 1933 to a peasant family of noble descent. He had Russian, Baltic German, Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian, and Tatar roots.
Jul 14, 2024 · Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born July 18, 1933, Zima, Irkutsk oblast, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died April 1, 2017, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.) was a poet and spokesman for the younger post-Stalin generation of Russian poets. His internationally publicized demands for greater artistic freedom and for a literature based on aesthetic rather than political standards ...
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Apr 1, 2017 · Yevgeny Yevtushenko, an internationally acclaimed poet with the charisma of an actor and the instincts of a politician whose defiant verse inspired a generation of young Russians in their fight ...
Learn about the life and works of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a Russian poet who became famous for his anti-Stalinist poem Babiyy Yar. Find out how he challenged the Soviet regime, collaborated with Shostakovich, and taught in the US.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died on Saturday at age 83, lived for the big stage. He personified the cultural “thaw” of the Soviet Sixties, shouting the short, rhythmic lines of his poems in ...
Apr 3, 2017 · LIMBONG: Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born in Zima Junction, Siberia, in 1933. Divorce and war meant he moved a bunch as a kid. And yet he still managed to publish his first poem at the age of 16.
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Learn about the life and works of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a prominent Soviet poet of the Sixties movement who denounced anti-Semitism and censorship. Read some of his poems, such as "Babi Yar" and "Zima Junction," and explore his prose and awards.
