Who is Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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.

Biography

Early life

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. His maternal great-grandfather Joseph Baikovsky belonged to szlachta, while his wife was of Ukrainian descent. They were exiled...
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poems

• The Mail Cutter
  The ice had not even begun to break,
  no boat could possibly sail yet,
  but the letters lay in a pile at the post office,
  with all their requests and instructions....
• My Universities
  I learned not only from those
  who brightly beam out of golden frames,
  but from everyone whose ID photo
  didn't come out quite right....
• Final Faith
  Is it possible that we are so twisted
  there is no salvation for any of us,
  and that ideas have become wingless
  in an age of winged rockets? ...
• Girl Beatnik
  This girl comes from New York
  but she does not belong.
  Along the neon lights, this girl
  runs away from herself....
• Assignation
  No, No! Believe me!
  I've come to the wrong place!
  I've made a god-awful mistake! Even the glass
  in my hand's an accident, ...

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