Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko - Russian writer, screenwriter, director, was born on July 18, 1932 in the Irkutsk region. During his life, the poet published more than 130 books, acted in films, and a huge number of musical compositions were written based on his poems. Yevtushenko's works have been translated into 70 languages. At birth, the writer bore the surname Gangnus; it was inherited by the prose writer from his father, a native of the Baltic states. In 1932, the family was evacuated in Siberia.
Early years
Zhenya was born in the station village, and later the child was registered at Zima station. The future writer's parents were geologists; his mother also wrote poetry, sang and acted in the theater. She had the title of Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR.
In 1944, the family returned to Moscow. There was a deliberate mistake in the documents; the parents indicated the year of birth of their son in 1933. This was done so that there was no need to issue a special pass. Zinaida Ermolaevna and Alexander Rudolfovich divorced when Evgeny was still a child, as a result, the son remained with his mother and her relatives.
After moving to the capital, Zhenya began going to school, and at the same time he attended the poetry studio of the House of Pioneers. Together with his father, he attended the creative evenings of Pasternak, Akhmatova and Tvardovsky. Thanks to his mother’s creative activity, the future poet had the opportunity to personally communicate with Bella Akhmadulina, Evgeny Vinokurov, Vladimir Sokolov and other writers. They regularly came to visit the Yevtushenko family.
Evgeny read a lot, he especially liked poems by Russian and foreign poets. From childhood, his father instilled in his son a love of literature. Together with their mother, they read aloud and retold interesting facts from history. The boy grew up on the works of Dumas, Cervantes and Flaubert. Already at the age of five he began to write poetry. In 1949, the young man managed to publish his poetry in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”.
Success in poetry
In 1951, Yevtushenko became a student at the Gorky Literary Institute, but was soon expelled. The official reason is failure to attend lectures, but in reality the problem was the poet’s statements, which were contrary to the politics of the time. The last straw was the support for Vladimir Dudintsev’s novel “Not by Bread Alone,” released in 1954.
A year after his admission, the writer published his first collection, “Scouts of the Future,” and then became the youngest member of the USSR Writers’ Union. It is noteworthy that the young man was already fluent in several foreign languages, despite the lack of higher education. His first book contained pathetic, slogan poems. Shortly after its release, the poetry “Wagon” and “Before the Meeting” were published; it was they that launched Yevtushenko’s serious career.
Over the following years, several of the poet’s books appear on bookshelves. The collections “The Third Snow”, “Apple”, “Poems of Different Years”, “Highway of Enthusiasts” and “Promise” brought him popularity. Thanks to the poems published in these collections, the writer begins to be invited to poetry evenings at the Polytechnic Museum. He shared the stage with such legends as Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina and Bulat Okudzhava.
The works of Evgeniy Alexandrovich were often criticized. The public did not understand some of his scandalous poems, including “Truth”, “Stalin’s Heirs”, “Father’s Rumor”, “Morning People” and other poetry. Since 1987, Yevtushenko has been an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1991, the writer was invited to the University of Tulsa in the USA, where he taught courses in Russian poetry.
Achievements in various fields
Since the sixties, the writer has been collaborating with composers. They happily write melodies based on his poems, and Dmitry Shostakovich even created the famous thirteenth symphony based on the poem “Babi Yar.” The rock operas “White Snow is Coming” and “The Execution of Stepan Razin” were written based on Yevtushenko’s poems. The last of them was presented in 2007 at the Moscow Olympic complex.
The writer inspired such popular musicians as Evgeny Krylatsky, Yuri Saulsky and Eduard Kolmanovsky to write songs. The most famous compositions based on the poet’s poems were “When the Bells Ring,” “Motherland,” and “And It’s Snowing.”
In 1964, Yevtushenko wrote the script for the film “I am Cuba.” In 1983, he directed the film “Kindergarten” based on his own script. In 1990, the film “Stalin’s Funeral” was released; the writer also became its screenwriter. In 1979, the poet tried his hand as an actor. His debut was the role of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the film “Take Off” by Savva Kulish.
Since the second half of the 80s, Evgeniy regularly writes journalistic articles; in 1989, he was even elected as a deputy from the Kharkov-Dzerzhinsky district. The most outstanding journalistic works were the articles “Notes to an autobiography”, “Politics is the privilege of everyone” and “Talent is a miracle not accidental”. Since 1986, Yevtushenko served as secretary of the board of the Writers' Union.
For his creative activity, Evgeniy Alexandrovich received an impressive number of awards. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Tefi Prize and the USSR State Prize. The writer is the owner of the medal “For Services to the Fatherland.” One of the planets in the solar system is named after him. Yevtushenko is also an honorary professor at universities in New York, Queens and Pittsburgh.
Family and personal life
The writer was married four times. Back in 1954, he tied the knot with his friend and colleague Bella Akhmadulina. But after 7 years the couple decided to separate. Shortly after the divorce, Evgeniy married again, this time Galina Sokol-Lukonina became his chosen one. She bore her husband a son, who was named Peter. But this union did not last long.
Yevtushenko’s next lover was the Irishwoman Jen Butler, she was a fan of the poet’s work. In their marriage, they had two sons, Anton and Alexander, but this relationship was not destined to last forever. The last time Evgeniy Alexandrovich married Maria Novikova, she is engaged in medicine and has a philological education. Now the couple is raising two sons, Evgeny and Dmitry.
Today, the poet continues to write; in 2012, his collection “Happiness and Retribution” was published; a year later, the book “I Can’t Say Goodbye” appeared in stores. Several discs were released on which Yevtushenko reads his poetry aloud. The most popular of them were the recordings “Berry Places” and “Dove in Santiago.” Evgeniy is also currently writing memoirs. He is working on several books at once, including “Wolf Passport”, “I Came to You: Babi Yar” and “The Sixties: Memoir Prose”.
Russian poet and writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died in the United States. The poet turned 84 years old. Yevtushenko’s death was announced by his wife Maria Novikova. She wrote that Evgeniy died in his sleep, peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends. The cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Earlier, on March 31, Yevtushenko was hospitalized in serious condition. The writer's posthumous wish was to bury him in the town of Peredelkino near Moscow. The poet's last wish will be fulfilled.
Biography of Evgeny Yevtushenko
Evgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932 in the Irkutsk region. His father, the German Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus, was an amateur poet and geologist. Mother, Zinaida Ivanovna Yevtushenko, was also a poet and geologist, as well as an Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR. The creative environment in which the boy grew up did not pass without a trace. Since childhood, Yevtushenko loved to read, and therefore grew up as an incorrigible romantic and idealist.
In 1944, the Yevtushenko family moved to Moscow. After some time, the father leaves the family and creates a new one with another woman. However, he continued to raise his son; however, the breakdown of the parents’ relationship still influenced Yevtushenko. The boy missed his father very much and often wrote poetry to him. My mother carefully kept all these poems. Evgeniy grew up as a very erudite boy and communicated with many famous poets who visited their home.
In 1951, Evgeniy entered the Gorky Literary Institute, but the young man was soon expelled. Officially for not attending lectures, but the real reason was that Yevtushenko could afford statements that were indecent for that time. Yevtushenko will receive a diploma of higher education only in 2001.
In 1952, Yevtushenko published his first collection, “Scouts of the Future,” which consists of pretentious slogans and praising poems. The poems “Wagon” and “Before the Meeting” gave a start to a serious career. Yevgeny was immediately accepted into the USSR Writers' Union, and Yevtushenko became the organization's youngest poet.
Over the course of several years, Yevtushenko achieves such recognition that he is invited to speak at poetry evenings. In addition to poetry, Yevtushenko writes prose.
In the early 90s, the poet moved to the USA, there he taught courses in Russian poetry at universities, and published his works. During his creative life, more than 130 books were published, his works were translated into 70 languages of the world. The poet has countless awards. He was a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Tafi Prize. He has a “Badge of Honor” and a medal “For Services to the Fatherland.” The poet's poems inspired many musicians to create songs and musical works.
Personal life of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was married four times. The first marriage took place in 1954. The poet's wife was the famous poetess Bella Akhmadulina. However, the creative union did not last long.
In 1961, Yevtushenko married again. His chosen one was Galina Sokol - Lukonina. The writer's first son, Peter, was born into the marriage. Yevtushenko’s third wife was his Irish fan Jen Butler. In his marriage to a foreigner, Evgeniy had two sons, Anton and Alexander. But the marriage also broke up.
The fourth and last chosen one of Yevtushenko was the philologist and doctor Maria Novikova. He lived with her in marriage for 26 years, raising two sons Evgeniy and Dmitry.
early years
Evgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932 in Siberia. According to the passport, the year of birth is 1933. Yevtushenko’s blood flows both Baltic and German through the father of the geologist, amateur poet Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus. Mother Zinaida Ermolaevna Yevtushenko is a poet, geologist, Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR. After the birth of Evgeniy, Zinaida Ermolaevna specifically replaced her husband’s surname with her maiden name. I also changed my son’s year of birth, since at the age of 12 he had to get a pass. 
Since childhood, Yevtushenko was attached to books. Parents helped us understand the world through books and regular communication. Yevtushenko recalls: “My father could spend hours telling me, still a foolish 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, I already learned to read and write at the age of 6, I read indiscriminately Dumas, Flaubert, Boccaccio, Cervantes and Wells. There was an unimaginable vinaigrette in my head. I lived in an illusory world, I didn’t notice anyone or anything around...”
Later, the father leaves his mother and Evgeniy and goes to another woman. With her he forms his family. Despite this, Alexander Rudolfovich continues to raise his son. He took Evgeniy to a poetry evening 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 Eugene’s benefit. Zinaida Ermolaevna often sent letters to Alexander Rudolfovich, which contained poems written by her son.
She kept all of Eugene's manuscripts. There was even a notebook containing nine thousand rhymes. But it was not possible to save it. His mother also instilled in Evgeniy a love of art. Zinaida Ermolaevna was a soloist at 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.
Evgeny Yevtushenko on video
Naturally, with such parents, Evgeniy developed mentally rapidly. He grew up as an erudite, literate child. Many peers envied him. Zinaida Ermolaevna was only glad that their house was visited by such wonderful poets as: Vladimir Sokolov, Evgeny Vinokurov, Grigory Pozhenyan, Bella Akhmadulina, Mikhail Roshchin and many others. Yevtushenko lived, studied, and worked in Moscow. He was a regular guest at the House of Pioneers. He studied at the Gorky Literary Institute and was soon expelled for “incorrect” statements.
Yevtushenko's creativity
The first book written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko was “Scouts of the Future.” It contains slogan, pathos poetry of the 50s. In the year the book was published, Yevtushenko also released his poems: “The Wagon” and “Before the Meeting.” This marked the beginning of his future serious creative work. In 1952, Yevtushenko became a member of the USSR Writers' Union, and he was the youngest in this community.Yevgeny Yevtushenko's future fame comes from the collections of poems that he writes further: “The Third Snow”, “Highway of Enthusiasts”, “Promise”, “Poems of Different Years”, “Apple”.
Yevtushenko takes part in poetry evenings that took place 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.
Evgeny Yevtushenko about patriotism
Yevtushenko begins to perform his poems from the stage, 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. Evgeniy was then invited by a fan of his work, and the organizer of this event, Livshits L.Ya. The public 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 seen in the poem “There used to be a dog sleeping at your 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”, “Bullfight”, “Italian cycle”, “Dove in Santiago”, “Mom and the neutron bomb”, “Distant relative”, “Full growth” and others.
Many critics did not understand and did not accept the poet's works. He was always at the head of some scandals and provocations. The scandalous poems included: “Stalin’s Heirs”, “Pravda”, “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station”, “Ballad of Poaching”, “Wave of the Hand”, “Morning People”, “Father’s Hearing” and more.
His works have also been noted in journalism: “Notes to an autobiography”, “Talent is a miracle that is not accidental”, “Tomorrow’s wind”, “Politics is the privilege of everyone”.
Evgeniy writes easily, rhyme follows rhyme by itself, he plays with words and sounds.
Yevtushenko continues his creative path, reading his poems from the stage. Full houses of listeners come to his evenings. He is a huge success. Evgeniy publishes books and CDs where he performs his works. Among them: “Berry Places”, “Pigeon in Santiago” and many others.
The memoirs of Yevgeny Yevtushenko are well known: “Wolf Passport”, “Sixties: Memoir Prose”, “I Came to You: Babi Yar”.
He is also known as an excellent director-producer and author-screenwriter. Thus, Yevtushenko is the director and screenwriter of the military drama “Kindergarten” and the melodrama “Stalin’s Funeral”
There are also Yevtushenko’s works with musical groups: the rock opera “White Snows Are Coming...”, his poems are present in “The Execution of Stepan Razin”.
They put music on Yevtushenko’s poems, resulting in beautiful songs: “And it’s snowing,” “Motherland,” “This is what’s happening to me,” “When the bells ring,” “Under the creaking, weeping willow,” but this is just a small part.
Yevtushenko was appointed secretary of the Writers' Union. Later he becomes secretary of the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions. He is also the 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, beating other candidates, leaving a huge, unattainable margin. He worked there until the collapse of the USSR.
In 1991, Yevtushenko signed a contract to teach at a university in the USA. Actually, Evgeniy 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. His first wife is the famous poetess Bella Akhmadulina, with whom he had a creative union in his youth. Evgeny Yevtushenko and Maria Novikova, 1986Awards
“Badge of Honour”, “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 of 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, reports appeared in the press about the hospitalization of 84-year-old Yevgeny Yevtushenko in serious condition, but fully conscious. That same day, he died in his sleep from cardiac arrest, calmly and painlessly, surrounded by loved ones. Later, his son Evgeniy 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.
Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (at birth - Gangnus). Born on July 18, 1932 in Zim, Irkutsk region - died on April 1, 2017 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Soviet and Russian poet.
Evgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932 in Zima, Irkutsk region. According to other sources - in Nizhneudinsk.
Father - geologist and amateur poet Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus (Baltic German by origin) (1910-1976).
Mother - Zinaida Ermolaevna Yevtushenko (1910-2002), geologist, actress, Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR.
In 1944, upon returning from evacuation from Zima station to Moscow, the mother changed her son’s surname to her maiden name. When filling out the documents to change the surname, a mistake was made deliberately in the date of birth: they wrote down 1933 so as not to receive a pass, which they were supposed to have at the age of 12.
He began publishing in 1949, his first poem was published in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”.
From 1952 to 1957 he studied at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky. Expelled for “disciplinary sanctions”, as well as for supporting Dudintsev’s novel “Not by Bread Alone.”
In 1952, the first book of poems, “Scouts of the Future,” was published; the author subsequently assessed it as youthful and immature.
In 1952, he became the youngest member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, bypassing the stage of candidate member of the joint venture.
“I was accepted into the Literary Institute without a matriculation certificate and almost simultaneously into the Writers' Union, in both cases considering my book to be sufficient grounds. But I knew her worth. And I wanted to write differently,” he said.
The 1950s, which were a time of poetic boom, saw R. Rozhdestvensky and E. Yevtushenko enter the arena of enormous popularity. The performances of these authors attracted huge stadiums, and the poetry of the Thaw period soon began to be called pop poetry.
In subsequent years, he published several collections that became very popular: “The Third Snow” (1955), “Highway of Enthusiasts” (1956), “Promise” (1957), “Poems of Different Years” (1959), “Apple” (1960) , “Tenderness” (1962), “Wave of the Hand” (1962).
One of the symbols of the thaw were the evenings in the Great Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum, in which Yevtushenko also took part, along with Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava and other poets of the wave of the 1960s.
His works are distinguished by a wide range of moods and genre diversity. The first lines from the pathetic introduction to the poem “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Plant” (1965): “A poet in Russia is more than a poet,” is a manifesto of Yevtushenko’s own creativity and a catchphrase that has steadily come into use. The poet is no stranger to subtle and intimate lyrics: the poem “A dog used to sleep at my feet” (1955). In the poem “Northern Surcharge” (1977) he composes a real ode to beer. Several poems and cycles of poems are devoted to foreign and anti-war themes: “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”, “Bullfight”, “Italian Cycle”, “Dove in Santiago”, “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”.
Yevtushenko’s extreme success was facilitated by the simplicity and accessibility of his poems, as well as by the scandals that often arose from criticism around his name.
Yevtushenko's literary style and manner provided a wide field for criticism. He was often reproached for glorification, pompous rhetoric and hidden self-praise.
“Self-glorification cannot take the form of calm, self-confident narcissism, nor can it be an expression of an authentic personality. Ambitions are exceptionally great and have long surpassed the scale of talent. The genre turns out to be fiercely polemical in every word, in every statement, and most importantly, the speaker cannot stop for a minute; having entered into a dispute with time and the world, he is forced to continuously manifest,” wrote literary critic Nikolai Gladkikh about his poem “Fuku!”
Counting on the journalistic effect, Yevtushenko alternately chose topics of current party politics for his poems, for example, “Stalin’s Heirs” (“Pravda”, October 21, 1962) or “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station” (1965). Or addressed them to a critical public (for example, “Babi Yar”, 1961, or “The Ballad of Poaching”, 1965).
In 1962, the Pravda newspaper published the widely known poem “Stalin’s Heirs,” timed to coincide with the removal of Stalin’s body from the mausoleum. His other works “Babi Yar” (1961), “Letter to Yesenin” (1965), “Tanks are moving through Prague” (1968) also caused great resonance. Despite such an open challenge to the then authorities, the poet continued to publish and travel throughout the country and abroad. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is published in the magazines Yunost (he was also on the editorial board of this magazine), Novy Mir, and Znamya, which were reputed to be oppositional in Soviet times.
In 1963 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
On 08/23/1968, two days after the introduction of tanks into the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, he wrote a protest poem: “Tanks are moving through Prague” (1968).
His speeches in support of Soviet dissidents Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, and Daniel became famous. Despite this, Joseph Brodsky did not like Yevtushenko (according to Sergei Dovlatov, his catchphrase “If Yevtushenko is against collective farms, then I am for it”) is known and sharply criticized Yevtushenko’s election as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987.
In an interview from 1972, published in October 2013, the Nobel Prize laureate spoke extremely negatively about Yevtushenko as a poet and person: “Yevtushenko? You know - it's not that simple. He is, of course, a very bad poet. And he is an even worse person. This is such a huge factory for reproducing itself. By reproducing himself... He has poems that, in general, can even be remembered, loved, liked. I just don’t like the general level of this whole thing. That is, mostly. The main one... the spirit doesn't like this. It’s just disgusting.”
Yevtushenko’s stage performances have become famous: he successfully reads his own works. He has released several discs and audiobooks in his own performance: “Berry Places”, “Dove in Santiago” and others.
From 1986 to 1991 he was Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since December 1991 - Secretary of the Board of the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions. Since 1989 - co-chairman of the April writers' association. Since 1988 - member of the Memorial Society.
On May 14, 1989, with a huge margin, having received 19 times more votes than the nearest candidate, he was elected as a people's deputy of the USSR from the Dzerzhinsky territorial electoral district of the city of Kharkov and remained so until the end of the existence of the USSR.
In 1990, he became co-chairman of the All-Union Association of Writers in Support of Perestroika “April”.
In 1991, having signed a contract with an American university in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he and his family left to teach in the USA, where he currently lives.
In 2007, the Olimpiysky sports complex hosted the premiere of the rock opera “The White Snows Are Coming,” based on the poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko by composer Gleb May.
Some sources attribute P.A. Sudoplatov’s statement that E. A. Yevtushenko collaborated with the KGB, playing the role of an “agent of influence.” However, in the memoirs of Sudoplatov himself, this is described as a recommendation from Sudoplatov’s wife, a former intelligence officer, to KGB officers who turned to her for advice regarding Yevtushenko: “to establish friendly confidential contacts with him, under no circumstances recruit him as an informant.”
On July 18, 2010, Yevtushenko opened a museum-gallery in Peredelkino near Moscow, coinciding this event with his birthday. The museum presents a personal collection of paintings donated to Yevtushenko by famous artists - Chagall, Picasso. There is a rare painting by Ernst, one of the founders of surrealism. The museum operates in a specially built building next to the poet’s dacha.
Evgeny Yevtushenko's height: 177 centimeters.
Personal life of Yevgeny Yevtushenko:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was officially married 4 times.
The first wife is a poet. They have been married since 1954.
The second wife is Galina Semyonovna Sokol-Lukonina. Married since 1961.
The third wife is Jan Butler, Irish, his passionate fan. Married since 1978. The marriage produced sons Alexander and Anton.
The fourth wife is Maria Vladimirovna Novikova (born 1962). Married since 1987. The couple had sons Evgeniy and Dmitry.
Illness and death of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In 2013, the poet underwent a complex operation. In the USA, in a clinic in Tulsa (Oklahoma), 81-year-old Evgeniy Aleksandrovich had his right leg amputated. Yevtushenko’s leg problems began back in 1997. His ankle joint wore out and he was fitted with a titanium one. At first everything went well, but then the poet began to suffer unbearable pain - it turned out that the titanium joint in his leg did not take root. Ultimately, the situation went so far that doctors had to amputate the limb.
On December 14, 2014, during a tour in Rostov-on-Don, Evgeny Yevtushenko was hospitalized due to a sharp deterioration in his health. Next, the poet was transferred to the Burdenko Research Institute of Neurosurgery, and then to the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration in Moscow. Then the poet ended up in the hospital after he slipped and hit his head while getting out of the bathroom. In addition, information appeared in the press that Yevtushenko’s hospitalization was directly related to suspected acute heart failure and a fracture of the temporal bone.
In August 2015, in Moscow, doctors at the Central Clinical Military Hospital named after P. V. Mandryk performed an operation on Yevtushenko’s heart. To eliminate problems with the heart rhythm, the poet was given a pacemaker during the operation.
On March 31, 2017, the poet was hospitalized in serious condition. “Evgeniy Aleksandrovich was hospitalized in serious condition, I can’t talk about the details yet. I can only say that this is not a routine examination,” said wife Maria Novikova.
According to reports from relatives and friends, . “He had irreversible cancer. After studying the tests, doctors gave him three months to live, but he lived less than a month,” said a close friend of the family, Mikhail Morgulis. This diagnosis was made by American doctors about six years ago. At the same time, the poet underwent surgery and part of his kidney was removed. A month before his death, doctors diagnosed the fourth and final stage of cancer.
“He passed away quite calmly, painlessly. I held his hand for about an hour before his death. He knew that we were loved,” said the writer’s son Evgeniy.
The poet left a will in which he expressed his desire to be buried at the Peredelkinskoye cemetery next to Boris Pasternak.
April 10 was held in the Church of the Holy Blessed Prince Igor of Chernigov in Peredelkino. The funeral service was performed by the former head of the press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, publicist and literary critic Vladimir Vigilyansky.
Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko:
1953-1956 - “Station Winter”
1961 - “Babi Yar”
1965 - “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station”
1965 - “Pushkin Pass”
1967 - “Bullfight”
1968 - “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”
1970 - “Kazan University”
1971 - “Where are you from?”
1974 - “Snow in Tokyo”
1976 - “Ivanovo chintz”
1977 - “Northern Surcharge”
1974-1978 - “Dove in Santiago”
1980 - “Nepryadva”
1982 - “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”
1984 - “Distant Relative”
1985 - “Fuku!”
1996 - “Thirteen”
1996-2000 - “Full growth”
1975-2000 - “Proseka”
2011 - “Dora Franco”
Novels by Yevgeny Yevtushenko:
1982 - “Berry Places”
1993 - “Don’t Die Before You Die”
Collections of poems by Evgeny Yevtushenko:
1952 - “Scouts of the Future”;
1955 - “The Third Snow”;
1956 - “Highway of Enthusiasts”;
1957 - “The Promise”;
1959 - “Bow and Lyre”;
1959 - “Poems of different years”;
1960 - “Apple”;
1962 - “Wave of the Hand”;
1962 - “Tenderness”;
1965 - “Bratskaya HPP”;
1966 - “Communication Boat”;
1966 - “Pitching”;
1966 - “This is what’s happening to me”;
1967 - “Poems and poem “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station””;
1967 - “Poems”;
1969 - “White Snow is Falling”;
1971 - “I am of Siberian breed”;
1971 - “Kazan University”;
1972 - “The Singing Dam”;
1972 - “Road No. 1”;
1973 - “Intimate lyrics”;
1973 - “A poet in Russia is more than a poet”;
1975 - “Father’s Hearing”;
1976 - “Thank you”;
1977 - “Full growth”;
1977 - “Glade”;
1978 - “Morning People”;
1978 - “Oath to space”;
1978 - “Compromise Kompromisovich”;
1979 - “Heavier than the Earth”;
1980 - “Welding by explosion”;
1981 - “Poems”;
1982 - “Two pairs of skis”;
1983 - “Mom and the Neutron Bomb” and other poems”;
1983 - “Where I Come From”;
1985 - “Almost at last”;
1986 - “Half a Vintage”;
1987 - “Tomorrow’s Wind”;
1987 - “Poems”;
1988 - “The Last Try”;
1989 - "1989";
1989 - “Citizens, listen to me”;
1989 - “Darling, sleep”;
1990 - “Green Gate”;
1990 - “The Last Try”;
1990 - “Belarusian blood”;
1990 - “Poems and Poems”;
1993 - “No Years: Love Lyrics”;
1994 - “My Golden Riddle”;
1995 - “My very best”;
1995 - “Last Tears”;
1997 - “Slow Love”;
1997 - “Nipper”;
1999 - “Stolen Apples”;
2001 - “I will break through into the 21st century...”;
2007 - “The window looks out onto white trees”;
2007 - “Anthem of Russia”;
2008 - “Poems of the XXI century”;
2009 - “My Football Games”;
2011 - “You can still save”;
2012 - “Happiness and Retribution”;
2013 - “I don’t know how to say goodbye”
Songs by Evgeny Yevtushenko:
“Still, there is something in our people” (Al. Karelin) - performed by Nat. Moskvina;
“And the snow will fall” (G. Ponomarenko) - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko;
“And the snow will fall” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev;
“Grandmothers” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina;
“Ballad of Friendship” (E. Krylatov);
“The Ballad of the Fishing Village of Ayu” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. A. Gradsky;
“Even with every effort” (A. Pugacheva) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva;
“You will love me” (N. Martynov) - Spanish. Victor Krivonos;
“Eyes of Love” (“There is always a woman’s hand”) (Brandon Stone) - Spanish. Brandon Stone;
“Eyes of Love” (“There is always a woman’s hand”) (Mikael Tariverdiev) - Spanish. Galina Besedina;
“God willing” (Raymond Pauls) - Spanish. A. Malinin;
“Dolphins” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. VIA "Watercolors";
“Child is a villain” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“Envy” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Valentin Nikulin;
“Ingratiation” (I. Talkov) - Spanish. Igor Talkov; (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“Spell” (I. Luchenok) - Spanish. Victor Vujacic;
“Spell” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets;
“Will the clover field make noise” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Eduard Khil, Lyudmila Gurchenko;
“Like a hollow ear” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Valentin Nikulin;
“Recording kiosk” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“When the bells ring” (V. Pleshak) - Spanish. Eduard Khil;
“When Your Face Came Up” (Brandon Stone);
“When a man is forty years old” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Alexander Kalyanov;
“When a person comes to Russia” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“When a man betrays a man” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov;
“I understood something in this life” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets;
“Bell” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
"Wallet" (Brandon Stone);
“Darling, sleep” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Valery Obodzinsky, Leonid Berger (VIA “Jolly Fellows”), A. Gradsky;
“Love is a child of the planet” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. VIA “Jolly Guys”;
“There are no uninteresting people in the world” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin;
“Metamorphoses” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina;
“Our difficult Soviet man” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Georg Ots, Muslim Magomaev;
“No need to be afraid” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov;
“Don't rush” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev, Anna German;
“No Years” (Sergei Nikitin);
“Am I really mortal” (S. Nikitin, P. I. Tchaikovsky);
“Nobody’s” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Zaur Tutov, A. Gradsky;
“Russian Songs” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“My Song” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gene. Trofimov;
“Crying for a brother” (S. Nikitin);
“Crying for a communal apartment” (Louise Khmelnitskaya) - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova, Joseph Kobzon;
“Under the creaking, weeping willow ("How to make your beloved happy")" (G. Movsesyan) - Spanish. Georgy Movsesyan, Joseph Kobzon;
“Let me hope” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Vladimir Popkov;
“Confession” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Sofia Rotaru, Ksenia Georgiadi;
“The Princess and the Pea” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“A simple song of Bulat” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“Professor” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“Child” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina;
“Motherland” (B. Terentyev) - Spanish. VIA "Blue Bird";
“Spring” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“Romance” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets;
“The fresh smell of linden trees” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. A. Kalyanov;
“Save and preserve” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Valentina Tolkunova;
“Old Friend” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. A. Kalyanov;
“Your traces” (Arno Babajanyan) - Spanish. People Zykina, Sofia Rotaru;
“Til” (A. Petrov) - Spanish. Ed. Gil;
“You are leaving like a train” (M. Tariverdiev) - Spanish. VIA "Singing Guitars";
“By the Sea” (B. Emelyanov) - Spanish. Vakhtang Kikabidze;
“My beloved is leaving” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin;
“The Church must be prayed for” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“Ferris Wheel” (Arno Babajanyan) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev;
“What does love know about love” (A. Eshpai) - Spanish. Lyudmila Gurchenko;
“I am a citizen of the Soviet Union” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev;
“I love you more than nature” (R. Pauls) - Spanish. Irina Dubtsova;
“I stopped loving you” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin;
“I want to bring it” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov;
“The river runs” - Spanish. People Zykina, Lyudmila Senchina, Maria Pakhomenko;
“Waltz about Waltz” - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Maya Kristalinskaya;
“Long farewell” - Spanish. Lev Leshchenko;
“White snow is falling” - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova, V. Troshin;
“Sooner or later” - Spanish. V. Troshin;
“My Motherland” - Spanish. People Zykina;
"Ancient Tango" - Spanish. Vit. Markov, Joseph Kobzon;
“Comrade Guitar” - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko;
“Killers walk the earth” - Spanish. Arthur Eisen, Mark Bernes, Alexandrov Ensemble;
“Do Russians want war?” (dedicated to Mark Bernes) - Spanish. Yuri Gulyaev, Mark Bernes, Vad. Ruslanov
Filmography of Evgeny Yevtushenko:
Actor:
1965 - “Ilyich’s Outpost” (Yevtushenko appears in a documentary insert about a poetry evening at the Polytechnic Museum)
1979 - “Take Off” - K. E. Tsiolkovsky
1983 - “Kindergarten” - chess player
1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral” - sculptor
Director:
1983 - “Kindergarten”
1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral”
Screenwriter:
1964 - “I am Cuba” (with Enrique Pineda Barnet)
1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral”
Songs:
1961 - “Career of Dima Gorin.” Song “And it’s snowing” (Andrey Eshpai) - Spanish. Maya Kristalinskaya. The song was also performed by Zhanna Aguzarova, Angelika Varum;
1975 - “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, directed by Eldar Ryazanov. Song “This is what is happening to me...” (Mikael Tariverdiev - performed by S. Nikitin);
1977 - “Office Romance”, director Eldar Ryazanov. Song “We are chatting in crowded trams...” Andrey Petrov;
1977-1978 - songs from the series “And It’s All About Him” (based on the novel by Vil Lipatov). Music by E. Krylatov: “Alder Earring” - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov, Eduard Khil;
“No need to be afraid” - Spanish. A. Kavalerov;
"Steps" - Spanish. Gene. Trofimov;
1981 - “Night Witches” in the sky. Song “When you sing songs on Earth...” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Elena Kamburova.
Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932 (the date of birth indicated in the passport is 1933) in Siberia, at the Zima station (according to other sources, in the village of Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk region). At birth, the future writer's surname was Gangnus.
Father - Gangnus Alexander Rudolfovich (1910-1976) - geologist, amateur poet; mother – Yevtushenko Zinaida Ermolaevna (1910-2002) – geologist, actress, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. Evgeniy did not grow up as the only child in the family; he has two younger brothers (Gangnus Alexander Alexandrovich (born 1939) - writer, journalist, editor and Gangnus Vladimir Alexandrovich (born 1943) - engineer) and one sister - Elena Yevtushenko Vasilyevna (born 1945) – actress. They all live in Moscow.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko has a large family: his wife, Maria Vladimirovna Yevtushenko (born in 1961), is a doctor, philologist, and four sons: Peter (born in 1967), an artist; Alexander (born 1979) - journalist, lives in England; Anton (born 1981) - lives in England; Evgeniy (born 1989) - studies in high school in the USA; Dmitry (born 1990) - studies in high school in the USA.
From early childhood, Evgeniy Aleksandrovich considered and felt himself to be a Poet. This is evident from his early poems, first published in the first volume of his Collected Works in 8 volumes. They are dated 1937, 1938, 1939. Not touching verses at all, but talented attempts at the pen (or pencil) of a 5-7 year old child. His writing and experiments are supported by his parents and then by school teachers, who actively participate in the development of his abilities.
Despite the fact that his parents separated when Zhenya was still a child and his father already had another family, they spent a lot of time together, Alexander Rudolfovich constantly studied with his son, told fascinating stories from antiquity, and taught him to read. When the son grew up, they attended literary evenings. Zinaida Ermolaevna did not interfere with this communication.
In 1944, immediately after the evacuation from Zima station to Moscow, the poet’s mother changed her eldest son’s surname to her maiden name. When new documents were drawn up for Evgeniy under the surname Yevtushenko, his mother deliberately made a mistake in the date of birth (instead of 1932, 1933 was indicated). This was done so as not to receive a pass, which was required at the age of 12.
The poet grew up and studied in Moscow, attending the poetry studio of the House of Pioneers. Evgeniy Aleksandrovich began publishing back in 1949, when he was only 16 years old, his first poem was published in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”.
Since 1952 he studied at the Literary Institute named after. M. Gorky. In the same 52nd year, the first book of poems, “Scouts of the Future,” was published - the author himself assessed it as youthful and immature. In 1957, he was expelled from the institute for “disciplinary sanctions” due to his speech in defense of V. Dudintsev’s novel “Not by Bread Alone.”
In 1952, he became the youngest member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, bypassing the stage of candidate member of the joint venture.
In subsequent years, he published several collections that became very popular (“The Third Snow” (1955), “Highway of Enthusiasts” (1956), “Promise” (1957), “Poems of Different Years” (1959), “Apple” (1960) , “Tenderness” (1962), “Wave of the Hand” (1962)).
One of the symbols of the thaw were the evenings in the Great Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum. At these evenings, Yevtushenko took part together with Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava and other poets of the 1960s wave.
Yevtushenko’s works contain a wide range of moods and genre diversity, which distinguish him from others. The first lines from the introduction to the poem “Bratskaya Hydroelectric Power Station” (1965) (which some consider pretentious): “A poet in Russia is more than a poet,” is a kind of manifesto of the work of Yevtushenko himself, as well as a catchphrase that has steadily entered our everyday life. compatriots. The poet is also no stranger to subtle and intimate lyrics: the poem “A dog used to sleep at my feet” (1955). In the poem “Northern Surcharge” (1977), Evgeniy Aleksandrovich composes a real ode to beer. The poet touches on a wide variety of topics, including openly and acutely political ones. Several poems and cycles of poems are devoted to foreign and anti-war themes: “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”, “Bullfight”, “Italian Cycle”, “Dove in Santiago”, “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”.
From 1986 to 1991 he was secretary of the board of the USSR Writers' Union. Since December 1991 - Secretary of the Board of the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions. Since 1989 - co-chairman of the April writers' association. Since 1988 - member of the Memorial Society.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union (May 14, 1989), he took personal part in political life. With a huge margin, having received 19 times more votes than the nearest candidate, Yevgeny Yevtushenko was elected as a people's deputy of the USSR from the Dzerzhinsky territorial constituency of the city of Kharkov and remained so until the end of the existence of the USSR.
In 1991, Evgeniy Alexandrovich entered into a contract with an American university in Tulsa, Oklahoma and left with his family for the USA, where he teaches with Maria Vladimirovna to this day. The poet and his family now live in two houses (about the same time period) - in the suburban dacha village of Peredelkino and in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Yevtushenko teaches Russian literature and Russian-European cinema at the University of Tulsa, and he often gives poetry readings at other universities and colleges in the United States. He does not forget his admirers in his homeland.
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