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Name: Evgenii Evtushenko
Birthday: July 18, 1932
Place of Birth: Station Zima, Irkutsk region
Date of death: 2017-04-01 (aged 84)
Zodiac sign: Crayfish
Eastern horoscope: A monkey
Activity: writer, director, screenwriter
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Biography Evgeny Evtushenko
Evgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko - Soviet poet and prose writer, director, screenwriter, actor, public figure, nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963. Author of dozens of collections of poems, the poem "Babi Yar", the novel "Do not die later than death."
early years
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932 in Siberia. According to the passport, the year of birth is 1933. Both Baltic and German blood flows in Yevtushenko's blood through the father of the geologist, amateur poet Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus. Mother Zinaida Ermolaevna Yevtushenko is a poet, geologist, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. After the birth of Evgeny, Zinaida Ermolaevna specifically replaced her husband's surname with her maiden name. She also changed the year of birth of her son, since at the age of 12 it was necessary to receive a pass.
From childhood, Yevtushenko was attached to books. Parents helped to know the world with the help of books, regular communication. Yevtushenko recalls: “Father could spend hours telling me, still an unintelligent child, about the fall of Babylon, and about the Spanish Inquisition, and about the war of the Scarlet and White Roses, and about William of Orange ... Thanks to my father, at the age of 6 I learned to read and write, I read in one gulp indiscriminately Dumas, Flaubert, Boccaccio, Cervantes and Wells. There was an unimaginable vinaigrette in my head. I lived in an illusory world, did not notice anyone and nothing around ... ".
In the future, the father leaves his mother and Eugene, goes to another woman. With her, he forms his family. Despite this, Alexander Rudolfovich continues to raise his son. He took Evgeny to an evening of poetry at Moscow State University. We went to the evenings of Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Svetlov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Pavel Antokolsky. The mother allowed the father to see his son. She understood that their communication was only for the benefit of Eugene. Zinaida Ermolaevna often sent letters to Alexander Rudolfovich containing poems written by her son.
She kept all the manuscripts of Eugene. There was even a notebook containing nine thousand rhymes. But it was not possible to save it. Mother also instilled in Eugene a love of art. Zinaida Ermolaevna was a soloist of the Stanislavsky Theater. She also had a musical education. Her frequent guests were artists who in the future became famous on the pop stage. Zinaida Ermolaevna constantly toured the country. During the war years, she even suffered from typhus while on tour.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko on videoNaturally, with such parents, Eugene mentally developed rapidly. He grew up as an erudite, literate child. Many of his peers envied him. Zinaida Ermolaevna was only glad that such wonderful poets as Vladimir Sokolov, Evgeny Vinokurov, Grigory Pozhenyan, Bella Akhmadulina, Mikhail Roshchin and many others visit their house. Yevtushenko lived, studied, worked in Moscow. He was a regular guest of the House of Pioneers. He studied at the Gorky Literary Institute, was soon expelled for "incorrect" statements.
Creativity Yevtushenko
The first book written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko was Scouts of the Future. It contains slogan, pathos poetry of the 50s. In the year of the release of the book, Yevtushenko also publishes his poems: “The Carriage” and “Before the Meeting”. This marked the beginning of his future serious creative work. In 1952, Yevtushenko became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, and he was the youngest in this community.The future fame of Yevgeny Yevtushenko is brought by collections of poems, which he writes further: “The Third Snow”, “Highway of Enthusiasts”, “Promise”, “Poems of Different Years”, “Apple”.
Yevtushenko takes part in poetry evenings that were held at the Polytechnic Museum. His partners were those known to us and dearly loved: Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava.
Yevtushenko understood that, thanks to his works, he was becoming a poet of the next generation. They were then called "sixties". He dedicates the poem "To the Best of the Generation" to the new generation.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko about patriotismYevtushenko begins to perform with his poems from the stages, conveying the depth of his thoughts to the viewer. For the first time he performs on the big stage in Kharkov in the central lecture hall. Yevgeny was invited then by a fan of his work, and the entertainer of this event was Livshits L.Ya. The audience was captivated by his work. Each work of Yevtushenko is filled with its own life, they are diverse in their own way. Either he writes about intimate lyrics, which can be traced in the poem “A dog used to sleep at his feet”, then he proclaims an ode to beer in the work “Northern Surcharge”, then he touches on a political theme in the poems: “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”, “Corrida”, "Italian Cycle", "Dove in Santiago", "Mom and the Neutron Bomb", "Distant Relative", "Full Body" and others.
Many critics did not understand and did not accept the works of the poet. He was always at the head of some scandals, provocations. Among the scandalous poems were: "Stalin's heirs", "Pravda", "Bratskaya hydroelectric power station", "Ballad of poaching", "Wave of the hand", "Morning people", "Father's rumor" and not only.
His works are also noticed in journalism: “Notes to the autobiography”, “Talent is a non-random miracle”, “Tomorrow's wind”, “Politics is the privilege of all”.
Eugene writes easily, rhyme goes by itself, he plays with words and sounds.
Yevtushenko continues his creative path, reading his poems from the stage. Full halls of listeners come to his evenings. He is a huge success. Eugene releases books, CDs, where he performs his works. Among them: "Berry Places", "Dove in Santiago" and many others.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko's memoirs are well known: "Wolf Passport", "Sixty Men: Memoir Prose", "I Came to You: Babi Yar".
He is also known as an excellent director and screenwriter. So, Yevtushenko is the director and screenwriter of the military drama "Kindergarten" and the melodrama "Stalin's Funeral"
With musical groups, Yevtushenko's works are also available: Rock opera “White snows are falling ...”, his poems are present in “The Execution of Stepan Razin”.
Music was superimposed on Yevtushenko's poems, wonderful songs were obtained: “And it's snowing”, “Motherland”, “This is what happens to me”, “When the bells ring”, “Under the creaky, weeping willow”, but this is just a small part.
Yevtushenko was appointed secretary of the Writers' Union. He later becomes Secretary of the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions. He is also chairman of the April Writers' Association. Became a member of the Memorial Society.
Elections to People's Deputies of the USSR were held in Kharkov. So, Yevtushenko won, bypassing other candidates, leaving in a huge, unattainable gap. There he worked until the collapse of the USSR.
In 1991, Yevtushenko signed a contract to teach at a university in the United States. Actually, Eugene takes his family and leaves for permanent residence in America, where he lived until his death.
Personal life of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was officially married four times. The first wife is the famous poetess Bella Akhmadulina, with whom he was in a creative union in his youth.
In 1961, the second wife of the poet was Galina Semyonovna Sokol-Lukonina, the former wife of his friend Mikhail Lukonin. In 1968, the couple adopted a boy named Peter.
Yevtushenko's head was turned by his admirer from Ireland, who, as a result, became his third wife, Jen Butler. From her, the poet has two sons: Anton and Alexander.
In 1987, Evgeny Aleksandrovich entered into a legal marriage for the fourth time. The poet's wife was Maria Vladimirovna Novikova, who also gave him two sons: Eugene and Dmitry.
Awards
"Badge of Honor", "Order of the Red Banner of Labor", "Order of Friendship of Peoples", medal "Defender of Free Russia", honorary member of the "Russian Academy of Arts" is just a small list of the poet's awards. Yevtushenko was even a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poem "Babi Yar". In 1978, a minor planet in the solar system was discovered at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, which was named after the famous poet.Death of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
On April 1, 2017, there were reports in the press about the hospitalization of 84-year-old Yevgeny Yevtushenko in serious condition, but fully conscious. On the same day, he died in his sleep from cardiac arrest, calmly and painlessly, surrounded by loved ones. Later, his son Eugene explained that his father suffered from kidney cancer, which returned after six years of remission.According to Yevtushenko's will, he will be buried in the writer's village of Peredelkino, next to Boris Pasternak.