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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.
Apr 16, 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 ...
Born in Siberia in 1932, Yevgeny Yevtushenko was a Russian poet, novelist, actor, and director who achieved great fame in the Soviet Union during the cultural “Khrushchev Thaw” that occurred following the death of Stalin in 1953. Yevtushenko rose to prominence following the publication of his long…
Yevtushenko was a prominent member of the Sixties movement in the Soviet Union, a group of poets, writers, and artists who came to prominence during the “Khrushchev Thaw.”. He was known for his poems of protest, and his hopeful and defiant verse inspired future generations of Russian writers.
Apr 1, 2017 · Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко) (July 18, 1933 - April 1, 2017) was a Russian poet. He also directed several films.
Apr 1, 2017 · Acclaimed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died Saturday of heart failure in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he taught at the University of Tulsa. He was 84 years old. Born in the city of Irkutsk in...
May 14, 2018 · Overview. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is the Soviet Union 's most publicized contemporary poet. He became the leading literary spokesman for a generation of Russians in the post-Stalin era, and he is often considered one of the first dissident voices to speak out against Stalinism.
Apr 1, 2017 · OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Acclaimed Russian poet Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko, whose work focused on war atrocities and denounced anti-Semitism and tyrannical dictators, has died. He was 84. Ginny Hensley, a spokeswoman for Hillcrest Medical Center in the eastern Oklahoma city of Tulsa, confirmed Yevtushenko’s death.
Apr 1, 2017 · The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died of heart failure in the United States at the age of 84. Yevtushenko was the last surviving major poet of those who came to prominence in the USSR...
Apr 2, 2017 · 2 April 2017 • 6:21pm. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Credit: AP/Dave Pickoff. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who has died aged 84, was the most precocious and provocative of the Russian poets from the...
