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Evgeny Yevtushenko has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The initiator was the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jews. The author of "Babi Yar" can become a laureate of one of the most prestigious international awards along with Pasternak, Bunin, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky or Sholokhov. The decision to nominate poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who is now in Israel, for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature was made in the Israeli parliament, at a meeting of the Commission on Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora. Almost all Russian-speaking members of the Knesset came to the meeting with the poet. “Perhaps it will sound a little pathetic, but for me Yevgeny Yevtushenko is not just an outstanding poet, novelist, screenwriter, director, actor, photo artist, public figure, - said Knesset Deputy Mikhail Nudelman. - For me he is a kind of spiritual tuning fork of that time, that the era in which we were born, grew up and took place. I deliberately do not speak of him as a Russian or Soviet poet. His work is beyond borders. Yevgeny Yevtushenko can rightfully be called a citizen of the world, since he writes about the most painful points of the whole world, and not just Russia And it is no coincidence that his poems have been translated into 72 languages. " Professor Nudelman expressed the hope that one of the Israeli public organizations will nominate the poet for the Nobel Prize: "It is a matter of honor for the world's Jewish public organizations to achieve just such an assessment of his contribution to the treasury of world literature." The World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jews responded to the proposal, Jewish.ru reports. “Our congress unites in its ranks Jews living in 27 countries of the world, - said the chairman of the Israeli branch of the organization, Yuli Kosharovsky, referring to Yevtushenko. - Your creativity warms our hearts. Considering your great services to world literature, artistic excellence, and courageous position that you have been demonstrating for half a century, we have made the decision to nominate you for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. " Speaker of the Knesset Dalia Itzik, in turn, called this initiative very important and timely. The Nobel Prizes are among the most prestigious international prizes. They are awarded annually for outstanding scientific research, revolutionary inventions, or major contributions to a culture or society. According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the prizes are awarded in five areas: physiology and medicine, literature, physics, chemistry and assistance to the establishment of world peace. Since 1969, on the initiative of the Swedish Bank, prizes in economics have also been awarded. The amount of the Nobel Prize in each nomination is SEK 10 million ($ 1.43 million). Russians most often won the Nobel Prize for achievements in physics (I. Tamm, P. Cherenkov, I. Frank, L. Landau, N. Basov, A. Prokhorov, P. Kapitsa, J. Alferov, A. Abrikosov, V. Ginzburg) and literature (I. Bunin, B. Pasternak, M. Sholokhov, A. Solzhenitsyn, I. Brodsky). The Nobel laureates in chemistry were N. Semenov, in physiology and medicine - I. Pavlov, I. Mechnikov, in economics - L. Kantorovich. A. Sakharov and M. Gorbachev were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Recall that the British 88-year-old writer Doris Lessing became the Nobel Prize laureate in literature for 2007. Yevgeny Yevtushenko began publishing in 1949. In 1952, his first collection of poems, Scouts of the Future, was published. In 1962 he took part in the Soviet delegation at the 7th World Youth Festival in Helsinki. His poems "Stalin's Heirs" and "Babi Yar" became a sensation. Among the most famous are also the poem "Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station" (1965), "Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty" (1970), collections of poems "Highway of Enthusiasts" (1956), "Intimate Lyrics" (1973), novels "Berry Places" (1981 ) and "Do not die before you die" (1994). Yevtushenko directed two films based on his own scripts: "Kindergarten" in 1984 and "Stalin's Funeral" in 1991. On the verses of the poet, Dmitry Shostakovich wrote the 13th Symphony (Babi Yar), as well as the vocal and symphonic poem The Execution of Stepan Razin.
Vladimir Krupin on the nomination of E. Yevtushenko and V. Pelevin for the Nobel Prize in Literature ...
Nobel Prizes in Literature are awarded solely for artistic merit, said Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. He categorically rejected the suggestion that major events of the current year, such as the "Arab spring" or natural disasters in Japan, could play a role in the selection of the current laureate, ITAR-TASS reports. “We strive to completely exclude all factors not related to the work itself, including the international situation, the author's activities outside of literature, the degree of his popularity,” he said. "The decision is made only on the basis of the merits of the work."
This year, according to RIA Novosti, the list of the most likely candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011, compiled by bookmakers from the British company Ladbrokes, included Russian writers Viktor Pelevin and Evgeny Yevtushenko. However, they noticeably lag behind foreign authors. Topping the list of favorites is the 77-year-old poet Adonis from Syria, the second is the poet from Sweden Thomas Transtremer, the third is the Japanese prose writer Haruki Murakami. Pelevin, who first entered the list of candidates for the most prestigious prize in the world, shares places from 50th to 58th out of 77, and Yevtushenko, who has repeatedly found himself among the candidates for the Nobel Prize, takes places from 60th to 71st.
We asked the famous Russian writer Vladimir Krupin to express our opinion on the declared apolitical nature of the Nobel Committee and the candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from Russia.
Vladimir KrupinAlthough they claim that they are alien to political motives, they have put forward the most politicized poet Yevtushenko, who, as they say, "hesitated along with the party line." He was for Khrushchev, and for Brezhnev, and for Gorbachev, and for Yeltsin, and now, of course, for Medvedev and Putin. I do not blame him at all for this, because everyone chooses his own path, but at the same time, it is impossible to imagine that Yevtushenko's poetry is in its level next to Rubtsov's poetry. In addition, it seems to me that Yevtushenko's concern about popularity exceeds his talent.
Pelevin in his work is simply depraved. Nomination of him for the Nobel Prize causes only misunderstanding and surprise, this does not go into any gates. If they declare that only the artistic merits of the works are taken into account, then I simply do not see them in Pelevin. I honestly tried reading his books but couldn't.
In my opinion, the nominated candidates will only disgrace Russian literature if any of them actually receive the Nobel Prize. However, the Nobel Prize compromised itself long ago. I advise you to read the article by Vadim Kozhinov about the Nobel Prize, in which he proves that all the most significant writers of the twentieth century passed this award. And those to whom it was awarded are forgotten long ago. Therefore, the Nobel Prize in itself has long meant nothing in the literary process.
But I am completely calm about genuine Russian literature. She is alive and significant, she is leading in the world, because she was raised by Orthodoxy.
Two high-profile deaths happened last week.
And each meant the end of an entire era.
And both happened in America - which, in my opinion, is also a landmark event in itself.
Older people probably remember the February 1987 issue of Ogonyok, the "flagship magazine of perestroika," where the cover depicted - against the background of a winter landscape in Peredelkino, in fashionable fur hats at that time - four poets whose names began to thunder during the Khrushchev era. "Thaw", from right to left - Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bulat Okudzhava, Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
In the same order, they died down and left. First Rozhdestvensky, then Okudzhava, then Voznesensky, and last Saturday, April 1, Yevtushenko died - in distant Tulsa, in Oklahoma, where he taught at a local university - by the way, one of the best in America, despite his seeming provinciality ...
The death of Yevtushenko recalled that his brilliant generation had practically dried up. Those others who were not in that picture, but who, together with the four poetic musketeers who gathered whole stadiums for their performances, made up the elite of Russian culture at the end of the twentieth century, did not survive.
First of all, I have in mind the Nobel laureate in literature, Joseph Brodsky, who, in my opinion, is equal in contemporary Russian poetry to Pushkin in the Russian classics of the 19th century. I mean Vasily Aksenov, Bella Akhmadulina, Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Maksimov, Alexander Galich, Pyotr Weil - and more broadly, Neizvestny, Tarkovsky, Lyubimov, and many, many others.
Who is behind them? Zakhar Prilepin? Sergey Minaev? Vladimir Soloviev? Or maybe Vladislav Surkov, they say, is publishing his literary exercises under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitsky? Or Revenko with Skabeeva, Popov and Semin?
The Soviet socialist homeland once threw almost the most outstanding writers and artists out of the doorstep. This is our national tradition, such a "spiritual bond". The best, the most talented are supposed to spread rot. The motherland should treat thinking, independent, outstanding sons not as a loving mother, but as a wicked stepmother.
Yevtushenko, by the way, was an exception here - the authorities forgave him a lot, but in the end he also chose to live on an American university town for the last quarter of a century of his life - perhaps the most comfortable, calm and happy.
And two days before Yevtushenko's death in California, in Palo Alto - the city where Stanford University and the headquarters of almost all the most advanced high-tech companies in the world are located: Apple, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Tesla Motors - died genius theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, student of the great Landau, academician Alexei Abrikosov, who also moved from Russia to the United States almost a quarter of a century ago and in 2003 received the Nobel Prize in physics, already being an American scientist.
In an interview with Radio Liberty on the occasion of awarding him the Nobel Prize, Abrikosov then said a piercingly bitter thing:
“In Russia, when I was there, I had enough endured. And on this occasion, I am proud that this award is considered America's. ” I thought and repeated: "I'm proud of it."
What do you want? The stepsons pay the wicked stepmother a hundredfold.
The death of the 88-year-old academician Abrikosov in the United States is a sign that the generation of outstanding scientists who inherited the great ones - Yoffe, Semenova, Kapitsa, Landau, Tamm, Zeldovich, Sakharov, Khariton, is also passing away. And behind them - also no one. All the best have been in the West for a long time. The Russian Academy has been destroyed by the ambitions of people from Putin's inner circle. Fundamental science is dying.
The next Russian winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics - 2010 - who were also born, raised, educated and took the first steps in science in the USSR and in Russia, Sir Andrey Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov, were knighted for their scientific merits by the British Queen Elizabeth II, have long lived in Manchester and work at the university there.
Alas, the half-forgotten poet Herman Plisetskiy once wrote:
We handed out our glory for free:
Apparently, she is not in our barns,
As you can see, we have no end of it -
As if they are too rich in talents!
How many people who have already glorified or could still glorify our country now live far beyond its borders? Scientists, writers, musicians, businessmen, lawyers, doctors, artists, filmmakers, journalists, athletes. Just representatives of an educated and active middle class. The bill goes to the millions.
This is called a brain drain. Its result in any country is the degradation of science, culture, education, the ever-increasing backwardness of the country in all areas, the archaization of intellectual, public political life.
The reason for the brain drain is not only the lack of adequate funding for science, culture and education. It is also a lack of freedom. Neither science, nor culture, nor education can exist for a long time in conditions of lack of freedom. Even Stalin and Beria understood this, who were ready to forgive the Soviet scientists who worked on the creation of atomic weapons, any freethinking - if only there was a result. It is no coincidence that the creator of the hydrogen bomb, Academician Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, later turned into perhaps the most outstanding fighter for freedom and democracy in the USSR.
As for freedom, another great Russian man who left Russia to remain a free man, writer Vladimir Nabokov once wrote:
“Perhaps not a single nation has known such freedom as we know it. In that special Russia, which invisibly surrounds us, lives and holds us, permeates the soul, colors dreams - there is not a single law except the law of love for her, and there is no power except our own conscience. We can say everything about it, write everything, we have nothing to hide, and no censorship puts us in the way, we are free citizens of our dreams. Our scattered state, our wandering power is strong with this freedom, and someday we will be grateful to the blind Clea for giving us the opportunity to taste this freedom and in exile piercingly understand and feel our native country
Let us not blame the exile. Let us repeat these days the words of that ancient warrior, about whom Plutarch writes: "At night, in the desert fields, far from Rome, I pitched my tent, and my tent was Rome to me."
90 years have passed, but how relevant it sounds!
Legendary writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born in Siberia in 1932, and from the very birth his whole life was associated with changes. Evgeny's mother, Zinaida Ivanovna, changed her husband's surname to her maiden name and recorded her son as Yevtushenko. This is not surprising. The head of the family, Alexander Rudolfovich, was half German, half Baltic and bore the name Gangnus. A little later, during the evacuation of the Great Patriotic War, in order to avoid problems with documents, the mother had to change the year in Yevgeny's birth certificate to 1933.
Evgeny Yevtushenko grew up in a creative family: his father was an amateur poet, and his mother was an actress, who later received the title of Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. From an early age, his parents instilled in him a love of books: they read aloud, retold interesting facts from history, teaching the kid to read. So, at the age of six, dad taught little Zhenya to read and write. For his development, little Yevtushenko chose authors who were not at all for children, reading the works of Cervantes and Flaubert.
In 1944, Eugene's family moved to Moscow, and after a while his father left the family and went to another woman. At the same time, Alexander Rudolfovich continues to engage in the literary development of his son. Eugene studied at the poetry studio of the House of Pioneers, attending poetry evenings with his father at Moscow State University. Yevtushenko attended creative evenings, Alexander Tvardovsky,. And mother, being a soloist of the theater. , often gathered artists and poets at home. Mikhail Roshchin, Evgeny Vinokurov, Vladimir Sokolov and others came to visit little Zhenya.
Poetry
In such a creative atmosphere, young Zhenya was developed beyond his years and tried to imitate adults, also writing poetry. In 1949, a poem by Yevtushenko was first published in one of the issues of the newspaper "Soviet Sport".
In 1951, Eugene entered the Gorky Literary Institute and was soon expelled for not attending lectures, but the real reason lay in public statements that were unacceptable for that time. By the way, Yevtushenko received a diploma of higher education only in 2001.
The lack of higher education did not prevent the young talent from achieving success in creativity. In 1952, the first collection "Scouts of the Future" was published, consisting of praising poems and pretentious slogans. And the start of the poet's serious career was given by the poems "Before the meeting" and "Wagon". In the same year, Yevtushenko was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR, and the twenty-year-old boy became the youngest member of the organization.
Such works as "The Third Snow", "Poems of Different Years" and "Apple" bring real fame to the young poet. In just a few years, Evgeny Yevtushenko achieves such recognition that his name is called to speak at poetry evenings. The young poet read his poems along with such legends as Bella Akhmadulina.
In addition to poems, from under his pen came out the prose, beloved by the readers. The first work "The Fourth Meshchanskaya" was published in 1959 in the magazine "Youth", later the second story "Chicken God" was published. Yevtushenko released his first novel "Berry Places" in 1982, and the next, "Don't Die Before Death," eleven years later.
In the early nineties, the writer moved to the United States, but he did not stop his creative activity there either: he read courses in Russian poetry at local universities and even published several works. Evgeny Yevtushenko still publishes his collections. So, in 2012 "Happiness and Reckoning" came out and a year later - "I Can't Say Goodbye".
During his creative life, more than one hundred and thirty books have been published, and his works are read in 70 languages of the world.
Evgeny Aleksandrovich not only received recognition among readers, but also earned countless awards. Thus, Yevtushenko was a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the State Prize of the USSR and the Tefi Prize. The poet was awarded the "Badge of Honor" and the medal "For Services to the Fatherland" - and this is only a small part of the awards. A minor planet of the solar system, which bears the name 4234 Evtushenko, is named after the writer. Evgeny Aleksandrovich is also an honorary professor at King's College in Queens, the University of Santo Domingo, the university of the new school in New York "Nonoris Causa" and at the University of Pittsburgh.
Music
The poet's poems inspire many musicians to create songs and musical ghosts. For example, on the basis of Yevtushenko's poem "Babi Yar", the composer created the famous Thirteenth Symphony. This work has won worldwide recognition: "Babi Yar" is known in seventy two languages of the world. Evgeny began working with composites back in the sixties, working with such celebrities as Evgeny Krylatsky, Eduard Kolmanovsky, etc.
Songs based on the poet's poems became real hits. Probably, there is no person in the post-Soviet space who would not know the compositions "And it is snowing", "When the bells ring" and "Homeland". The poet also managed to work with musical groups: his poems formed the basis of the rock operas "The Execution of Stepan Razin" and "The White Snows Are Falling". The last work was premiered at the Olimpiyskiy sports complex in Moscow in 2007.
Films
Yevtushenko managed to prove himself in the cinema. The script for the film "I am Cuba", which was released in 1964, was co-authored by Evgeny Yevtushenko with Enrique Pineda Barnet. In the film "Takeoff" by Savva Kulish, the poet played the main role.
The picture was released in 1979. And in 1983 the writer tried himself as a screenwriter and directed the film "Kindergarten", where he played a small role. In 1990 he wrote and directed the film Funeral.
Personal life
The poet and writer has been married four times. For the first time, Evgeny married a poet in 1954. But the creative union did not last long, and in 1961 Yevtushenko led Galina Sokol-Lukonina down the aisle. In this marriage, they had a son, Peter.
The third wife of the writer was his fan from Ireland Jen Butler, and although the foreign woman gave birth to two sons, Anton and Alexander, Yevtushenko, their marriage also broke up.
The fourth chosen one was the doctor and philologist Maria Novikova. With her, Yevtushenko has been married for 26 years, raising two sons - Dmitry and Yevgeny.
Death
April 1, 2017 at the 85th year of life. The legendary poet died in a US clinic where he was. The wife of the writer Maria Novikova said that the doctors practically did not give Evgeny Alexandrovich a chance to recover, but fought for his life until the last minutes.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko died in his sleep from cardiac arrest, surrounded by family and friends. He also managed to announce his last will - the poet's dying wish was a request to bury him in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow near.
Bibliography
- Scouts of the future
- Highway Enthusiasts
- White snows are falling
- I am a Siberian breed
- Compromise Compromise
- Almost at the end
- Darling, sleep
- I will break into the twenty-first century ...
- Happiness and reckoning
- I do not know how to say goodbye
Evgeny Alexandrovich Evtushenko (at birth - Gangnus). Born on July 18, 1932 in Zima, Irkutsk Region - died on April 1, 2017 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Soviet and Russian poet.
Evgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932 in the Winter of the Irkutsk region. According to other sources - in Nizhneudinsk.
Father - geologist and amateur poet Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus (by birth - Baltic German) (1910-1976).
Mother - Zinaida Ermolaevna Yevtushenko (1910-2002), geologist, actress, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR.
In 1944, upon returning from the evacuation from the Zima station to Moscow, the mother changed her son's surname to her maiden name. When preparing the documents for changing the surname, a mistake was deliberately made in the date of birth: they wrote it down in 1933 in order not to receive a pass, which was supposed to have at 12 years old.
Began to publish in 1949, the 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 Coming", was published - later the author assessed it as youthful and immature.
In 1952 he became the youngest member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, bypassing the stage of a candidate for membership in the joint venture.
“I was admitted to the Literary Institute without a matriculation certificate and almost simultaneously into the Writers' Union, in both cases they considered my book a sufficient basis. But I knew her value. And I wanted to write in a different way, ”he said.
The 1950s, which were the time of the poetic boom, entered the arena of immense popularity, R. Rozhdestvensky, E. Yevtushenko. The performances of these authors gathered in huge stadiums, and the poetry of the "thaw" period soon began to be called pop poetry.
In subsequent years, he prints several collections, which become very popular: "The Third Snow" (1955), "Highway of Enthusiasts" (1956), "Promise" (1957), "Poems of Different Years" (1959), "Yabloko" (1960) , "Tenderness" (1962), "Wave of the Hand" (1962).
One of the symbols of the thaw was the evenings in the Big Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum, in which Yevtushenko also took part with Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava and other poets of the 1960s wave.
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 Station" (1965): "A poet in Russia is more than a poet," is a manifesto of Yevtushenko's own creativity and a catchphrase that has steadily entered into use. The poet is no stranger to subtle and intimate lyrics: the poem "Sometimes a dog slept at his 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", "Bullfighting", "Italian Cycle", "Dove in Santiago", "Mom and the Neutron Bomb".
Yevtushenko's excessive success was facilitated by the simplicity and accessibility of his poems, as well as scandals that were often raised by criticism around his name.
Yevtushenko's literary style and manner provided an extensive field of activity for criticism. He was often reproached for glorification, pretentious rhetoric and hidden self-glorification.
“Self-glorification cannot take the form of a calm, self-confident self-admiration, nor can it be an expression of an authentic personality. Ambition is exceptionally great and has long surpassed the scale of talent. The genre turns out to be fiercely polemical in every word, in every utterance, and most importantly, the speaker cannot stop for a minute; having entered into a dispute with time and the world, he is forced to constantly manifest, "wrote the literary critic Nikolai Gladkikh about his poem" Fuku! "
Counting on the publicistic effect, Yevtushenko then chose for his poems the themes of the current policy of the party, for example, "Heirs of Stalin" ("Pravda", 10.21.1962) or "Bratskaya GES" (1965). Or he addressed them to a critical public (eg, Babi Yar, 1961, or Ballad of Poaching, 1965).
In 1962, the newspaper Pravda published the well-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 marching in Prague" (1968) also aroused great resonance. Despite such an open challenge to the then government, the poet continued to publish, travel throughout the country and abroad. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is published in the magazines Yunost (also a member of the editorial board of this magazine), Novy Mir, Znamya, which were reputed to be oppositional in Soviet times.
In 1963 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
08/23/1968 two days after the introduction of tanks in Czechoslovakia wrote a poem of protest: "The tanks are going through Prague" (1968).
His speeches in support of Soviet dissidents Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, Daniel became famous. Despite this, Joseph Brodsky disliked Yevtushenko (according to Sergei Dovlatov, his catch phrase "If Yevtushenko is against collective farms, then I am for" is known) and sharply criticized Yevtushenko's election as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987.
In a 1972 interview published in October 2013, the Nobel Prize winner spoke extremely negatively of Yevtushenko as a poet and a person: “Yevtushenko? You know - it's not that simple. He is, of course, a very bad poet. And he is even worse man. This is such a huge factory for reproducing itself. By reproducing himself ... He has poems that, in general, you can even memorize, love, they can like. I just don't like the level of this whole thing. Basically. The main one is ... the spirit doesn't like it. It's just freezing. "
The stage performances of Yevtushenko gained fame: he successfully reads his own works. Has released several discs and audiobooks in his own performance: "Berry Places", "Dove in Santiago" and others.
From 1986 to 1991 he was the 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 he has been a member of the Memorial Society.
On May 14, 1989, with a huge margin, gaining 19 times more votes than the closest candidate, he was elected 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 1990 he became co-chairman of the All-Union Association of Writers in Support of the April Perestroika.
In 1991, having signed a contract with the American University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he left with his family to teach in the United States, where he currently resides.
In 2007, the Olimpiyskiy sports complex hosted the premiere of the rock opera White Snows Falling, based on the poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko by the composer Gleb May.
Some sources attribute P.A. Sudoplatov a 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 the recommendation of Sudoplatov's wife, a former intelligence officer, to the KGB officers who turned to her for advice regarding Yevtushenko: "to establish friendly confidential contacts with him, in no case to recruit him as an informant."
On July 18, 2010, Yevtushenko opened a museum-gallery in Peredelkino near Moscow, timed this event to his birthday. The museum presents a personal collection of paintings donated by Yevtushenko by famous artists - Chagall, Picasso. There is a rare painting by Ernst, one of the founders of surrealism. The museum works in a building specially built next to the poet's dacha.
Evgeny Yevtushenko's height: 177 centimeters.
Personal life of Evgeny Yevtushenko:
Evgeny 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 Jen Butler, Irish, his passionate admirer. They have been married since 1978. In marriage, sons Alexander and Anton were born.
The fourth wife is Maria Vladimirovna Novikova (born in 1962). Married since 1987. The couple had sons Eugene and Dmitry.
Illness and death of Evgeny Yevtushenko
In 2013, the poet underwent a difficult operation. In the USA, in a clinic in Tulsa (Oklahoma state), 81-year-old Evgeny Alexandrovich had his right leg amputated. Yevtushenko's leg problems began back in 1997. His ankle was worn out, and he got a titanium one. At first, everything went well, but then unbearable pains began to torment the poet - 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 a limb.
On December 14, 2014, during a tour in Rostov-on-Don, Evgeny Yevtushenko was hospitalized due to a sharp deterioration in his health. Then the poet was transferred to the Burdenko Research Institute of Neurosurgery, and then to the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Property Management Department in Moscow. Then the poet went to the hospital after getting out of the bathroom, slipped and broke his head. 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 P.V. Mandryk Central Clinical Military Hospital performed an operation on Yevtushenko's heart. To eliminate problems with the heart rhythm, a pacemaker was introduced to the poet during the operation.
On March 31, 2017, the poet was hospitalized in serious condition. "Yevgeny Alexandrovich was hospitalized in a serious condition, I cannot talk about the details yet. I can only say that this is not a routine examination," said his wife, Maria Novikova.
According to reports from family and friends,. “He had cancer in an irreversible form. After studying the tests, the doctors gave him three months to live, but he lived less than a month,” said a close family friend Mikhail Morgulis. This diagnosis was made by American doctors about six years ago. At the same time, the poet underwent an operation and part of the kidney was removed. A month before his death, doctors diagnosed the fourth, final stage of cancer.
“He left quite calmly, painlessly. I held his hand for about an hour until his death. He knew that he was loved,” said the writer's son Eugene.
The poet left a will in which he expressed his desire to be buried at the Peredelkino cemetery next to Boris Pasternak.
April 10 in the church of the holy right-believing prince Igor of Chernigov in Peredelkino passed. The funeral rite was performed by the former head of the press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, publicist and literary critic Vladimir Vigilyansky.
Poems by Evgeny Yevtushenko:
1953-1956 - "Station Winter"
1961 - "Babi Yar"
1965 - "Bratskaya HPP"
1965 - "Pushkin Pass"
1967 - Bullfighting
1968 - Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty
1970 - Kazan University
1971 - "Where are you from?"
1974 - Snow in Tokyo
1976 - "Ivanovskie calico"
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 length"
1975-2000 - "Clearing"
2011 - Dora Franco
The novels of Evgeny Yevtushenko:
1982 - Berry Places
1993 - "Do not die before you die"
Collections of poems by Evgeny Yevtushenko:
1952 - "Scouts of the Future";
1955 - The Third Snow;
1956 - Enthusiasts Highway;
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 - "Kachka";
1966 - “This is what is happening to me”;
1967 - "Poems and Poem" Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station ";
1967 - "Poems";
1969 - "The White Snows Are Falling";
1971 - "I am a Siberian breed";
1971 - Kazan University;
1972 - The Singing Dam;
1972 - "Road number 1";
1973 - Intimate Lyrics;
1973 - "A poet in Russia is more than a poet";
1975 - "Father's Hearing";
1976 - Thank you;
1977 - Full-length;
1977 - Clearing;
1978 - "Morning people";
1978 - "Oath to the Expanse";
1978 - "Compromise Compromise";
1979 - "Harder than Earth";
1980 - Explosion Welding;
1981 - "Poems";
1982 - "Two pairs of skis";
1983 - "Mom and the Neutron Bomb" and Other Poems ";
1983 - "Where I Come From";
1985 - "Almost at the end";
1986 - "Poltravinochki";
1987 - Tomorrow's Wind;
1987 - Poems;
1988 - "The Last Attempt";
1989 - "1989";
1989 - "Citizens, listen to me";
1989 - "Darling, sleep";
1990 - "Green Gate";
1990 - "The last attempt";
1990 - "Belarusian Blood";
1990 - "Poems and Poems";
1993 - "No years: love lyrics";
1994 - "My Golden Riddle";
1995 - "My most-the-most";
1995 - Last Tears;
1997 - Slow Love;
1997 - "Nevylivashka";
1999 - "Stolen Apples";
2001 - "I will break into the XXI century ...";
2007 - "The window overlooks the white trees";
2007 - "Anthem of Russia";
2008 - "Poems of the XXI century";
2009 - "My football game";
2011 - "You Can Still Save";
2012 - "Happiness and Reckoning";
2013 - "I can't say goodbye"
Songs of Evgeny Yevtushenko:
“Still, there is something in our people” (Al. Karelin) - performed by Nat. Moskvin;
"And the snow will fall" (G. Ponomarenko) - isp. Claudia Shulzhenko;
"And the snow will fall" (D. Tukhmanov) - isp. Muslim Magomaev;
"Grandmothers" (Al. Karelin) - isp. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvin;
"The Ballad of Friendship" (E. Krylatov);
"The ballad about the fishing village of Ayu" (Yu. Saulsky) - isp. A. Gradsky;
“Even applying all the strength” (A. Pugacheva) - isp. Alla Pugacheva;
"You will love me" (N. Martynov) - isp. Victor Krivonos;
"Eyes of love" ("There is always a woman's hand") (Brandon Stone) - isp. Brandon Stone;
"Eyes of love" ("There is always a woman's hand") (Mikael Tariverdiev) - isp. Galina Besedina;
"God forbid" (Raymond Pauls) - isp. A. Malinin;
"Dolphins" (Yu. Saulsky) - isp. VIA "Watercolors";
"The child is a villain" (group "Dialogue") - isp. Kim Breitburg (column "Dialogue");
"Envy" (V. Makhlyankin) - isp. Valentin Nikulin;
"Cursing" (I. Talkov) - isp. Igor Talkov; (group "Dialogue") - isp. Kim Breitburg (column "Dialogue");
"Spell" (I. Luchenok) - isp. Victor Vuyachich;
"Spell" (E. Gorovets) - isp. Emil Horovets;
"Will the clover field make noise" (E. Krylatov) - isp. Eduard Khil, Lyudmila Gurchenko;
"Like a hollow ear" (V. Makhlyankin) - isp. Valentin Nikulin;
"Sound recording kiosk" (group "Dialogue") - isp. Kim Breitburg (column "Dialogue");
“When the bells ring” (V. Pleshak) - isp. Edward Gil;
When Your Face Came Up (Brandon Stone);
"When a man is forty years old" (I. Nikolaev) - isp. Alexander Kalyanov;
"When a man comes to Russia" (Al. Karelin) - isp. Nat. Moskvin;
“When a person betrays a person” (E. Krylatov) - isp. Gennady Trofimov;
“I understood something in this life” (E. Gorovets) - isp. Emil Horovets;
"Bell" (Al. Karelin) - isp. Nat. Moskvin;
The Wallet (Brandon Stone);
"Darling, sleep" (D. Tukhmanov) - isp. Valery Obodzinsky, Leonid Berger (VIA "Merry Boys"), A. Gradsky;
"Love is a child of the planet" (D. Tukhmanov) - isp. VIA "Funny guys";
“There are no uninteresting people in the world” (V. Makhlyankin) - isp. Shaft. Nikulin;
"Metamorphoses" (Al. Karelin) - isp. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvin;
"Our difficult Soviet man" (A. Babadzhanyan) - isp. Georg Ots, Muslim Magomayev;
“Don't be afraid” (E. Krylatov) - isp. Gennady Trofimov;
"Take your time" (A. Babadzhanyan) - isp. Muslim Magomayev, Anna German;
No Years (Sergei Nikitin);
"Am I really mortal" (S. Nikitin, PI Tchaikovsky);
"Nobody" (Yu. Saulsky) - isp. Zaur Tutov, A. Gradsky;
"Russian Songs" (Al. Karelin) - isp. Nat. Moskvin;
"My Song" (E. Krylatov) - isp. Gene. Trofimov;
"Crying for a Brother" (S. Nikitin);
"Crying for a communal apartment" (Luiza Khmelnitskaya) - isp. Gelena Velikanova, Joseph Kobzon;
"Under the creaky, weeping willow (" How to make your beloved happy ")" (G. Movsesyan) - isp. Georgy Movsesyan, Joseph Kobzon;
“Let me hope” (A. Babadzhanyan) - isp. Vladimir Popkov;
"Recognition" (Yu. Saulsky) - isp. Sofia Rotaru, Ksenia Georgiadi;
"The Princess and the Pea" (Al. Karelin) - isp. Nat. Moskvin;
"A simple song of Bulat" (Al. Karelin) - isp. Nat. Moskvin;
"Professor" (group "Dialogue") - isp. Kim Breitburg (column "Dialogue");
"Child" (Al. Karelin) - isp. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvin;
"Homeland" (B. Terentyev) - isp. VIA "Blue Bird";
"Spring" (Al. Karelin) - isp. Nat. Moskvin;
"Romance" (E. Gorovets) - isp. Emil Horovets;
"Fresh scent of lindens" (I. Nikolaev) - isp. A. Kalyanov;
"Save and Preserve" (E. Krylatov) - isp. Valentina Tolkunova;
"Old friend" (I. Nikolaev) - isp. A. Kalyanov;
"Your footprints" (Arno Babajanyan) - isp. People. Zykina, Sofia Rotaru;
"Til" (A. Petrov) - isp. Ed. Gil;
"You leave like a train" (M. Tariverdiev) - isp. VIA "Singing Guitars";
"By the Sea" (B. Emelyanov) - isp. Vakhtang Kikabidze;
"Beloved is leaving" (V. Makhlyankin) - isp. Shaft. Nikulin;
“The Church must be prayed for” (Al. Karelin) - isp. Nat. Moskvin;
"Ferris wheel" (Arno Babajanyan) - isp. Muslim Magomaev;
“What love knows about love” (A. Eshpai) - isp. Lyudmila Gurchenko;
“I am a citizen of the Soviet Union” (D. Tukhmanov) - isp. Muslim Magomaev;
“I love you more than nature” (R. Pauls) - isp. Irina Dubtsova;
“I stopped loving you” (V. Makhlyankin) - isp. Shaft. Nikulin;
“I want to bring” (E. Krylatov) - isp. Gennady Trofimov;
"The river is running" - isp. People. Zykina, Lyudmila Senchina, Maria Pakhomenko;
"Waltz on Waltz" - Spanish. Claudia Shulzhenko, Maya Kristalinskaya;
"Long farewell" - isp. Lev Leshchenko;
"White snows are falling" - isp. Gelena Velikanova, V. Troshin;
"Sooner or later" - isp. V. Troshin;
"My Motherland" - isp. People. Zykina;
"Ancient tango" - isp. Vit. Markov, Joseph Kobzon;
"Comrade Guitar" - isp. Claudia Shulzhenko;
"Murderers walk the earth" - isp. Arthur Eisen, Mark Bernes, Alexandrov Ensemble;
"Do the Russians want wars?" (dedicated to Mark Bernes) - isp. Yuri Gulyaev, Mark Bernes, Wad. Ruslanov
Filmography of Evgeny Yevtushenko:
Actor:
1965 - "Ilyich's Outpost" (Yevtushenko appears in a documentary insert about an evening of poetry at the Polytechnic Museum)
1979 - "Takeoff" - K. E. Tsiolkovsky
1983 - "Kindergarten" - chess player
1990 - "Stalin's Funeral" - sculptor
Director:
1983 - Kindergarten
1990 - The Funeral of Stalin
Screenwriter:
1964 - "I am Cuba" (with Enrique Pineda Barnet)
1990 - The Funeral of Stalin
Songs:
1961 - Dima Gorin's Career. The song "And the Snow is Falling" (Andrey Eshpai) - isp. Maya Kristalinskaya. The song was also performed by Zhanna Aguzarova, Angelica Varum;
1975 - "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!", Director Eldar Ryazanov. The song "This is what is happening to me ..." (Mikael Tariverdiev - performed by S. Nikitin);
1977 - Office Romance, directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The song "We are chatting in full trams ..." Andrey Petrov;
1977-1978 - songs from the TV series "And it's all about him" (based on the novel by Vilya Lipatov). Music by E. Krylatov: "Alder Seryozhka" - isp. Gennady Trofimov, Eduard Gil;
"Don't be afraid" - isp. A. Kavalerov;
"Steps" - isp. Gene. Trofimov;
1981 - "Night witches" in the sky. The song "When you sing songs on Earth ..." (E. Krylatov) - isp. Elena Kamburova.
