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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.
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Born 18 July 1932 · Died 1 April 2017 · Q297736
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2026· 2 entries
“And he really was more than a poet – he was a citizen with a pronounced civic position.”
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2017· 3 entries
Dayton Daily News: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who saw life and poetry as a bowl of borscht
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Northcountrypublicradio.org: The Poetic Legacy Of Russia's Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Died 2017-04-01.
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Order "Polar Star" (Yakutia) (2016).
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2011· 1 entry
“Golden Chain of the Commonwealth”
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2008· 1 entry
Asserted that "Yevtushenko's politics have always been a complicated mixture of bravery, populism, and vulgar accommodation with dictatorship
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2007· 1 entry
Was awarded the Ovid Prize, Romania, in recognition of his body of work
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2001· 1 entry
His childhood home in Zima Junction, Siberia, was restored and opened as a permanent museum of poetry
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1998· 1 entry
At the University of Houston's Moores School of Music, under the baton of Franz Anton Krager, with Yevtushenko present
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1995· 3 entries
“I like very much the University of Tulsa. My students are sons of ranchers, even cowboys, oil engineers. They are different people, but they are very gifted. They are closer to Mother Nature than the big city. They are more sensitive.”
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Published his huge anthology of contemporary Russian poetry entitled Verses of the Century
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“My students are sons of ranchers, even cowboys, oil engineers. They are different people, but they are very gifted. They are closer to Mother Nature than the big city. They are more sensitive.”
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1993· 2 entries
But refused in protest against the war in Chechnya)
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Received a medal as 'Defender of Free Russia,' which was given to those who took part in resisting the hard-line Communist coup in August 1991
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1991· 2 entries
The American Liberties Medallion, the highest honour conferred by the American Jewish Committee
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Supported Boris Yeltsin, as the latter defended the parliament of the Russian Federation during the hardline coup that sought to oust Gorbachev and reverse "perestroika"
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1989· 1 entry
Yevtushenko was elected as a representative for Kharkiv in the Soviet Parliament (Congress of People's Deputies), where he was a member of the pro-democratic group supporting Mikhail Gorbachev
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1987· 1 entry
Yevtushenko was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Brodsky himself led a flurry of protest, accusing Yevtushenko of duplicity and claiming that Yevtushenko's criticism of the Soviet Unio
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1983).
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1968· 1 entry
Kingsley Amis, Bernard Levin, and the Russian-Hungarian historian Tibor Szamuely led the campaign against him, arguing that he had made life difficult for his fellow Soviet writers
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
Of "anti-Soviet activity" for the views espoused by their fictional characters
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1965· 1 entry
Yevtushenko joined Anna Akhmatova, Korney Chukovsky, Jean-Paul Sartre and others and co-signed the letter of protest against the unfair trial of Joseph Brodsky as a result of the court case against him initiated by the S
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1963· 1 entry
Was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poem Babiyy Yar
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1962· 2 entries
Knowing that there was backlash against the anti-Stalin campaign, Yevtushenko wrote Nasledniki Stalina (The Heirs of Stalin), in which he stated that although Stalin was dead, Stalinism and its legacy still dominated the
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Yevtushenko was featured on the cover of Time magazine
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1961· 1 entry
Wrote what would become perhaps his most famous poem, Babiyy Yar, in which he denounced the Soviet distortion of historical fact regarding the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population of Kyiv in September 1941, as well
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1957· 1 entry
Was expelled from the Literary Institute for "individualism"
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1956· 1 entry
For joining the defense of a banned novel, Vladimir Dudintsev's Not by Bread Alone
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1955· 1 entry
Yevtushenko wrote a poem about the Soviet borders being an obstacle in his life
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1954· 1 entry
Married Bella Akhmadulina, who published her first collection of poems in 1962
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1952· 1 entry
Joined the Union of Soviet Writers after publication of his first collection of poetry
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-07-18.
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