As you know, Yevtushenko's birthday is somewhat confused. The passport says 1933, but in fact the poet was born in 1932. So he celebrated each of his anniversaries twice. At least I've attended four of these (eight times!): 60, 70, 75 and 80. And Yevgeny Alexandrovich did not live to see his 85th birthday. Not that today I would also celebrate the "second" 85th anniversary at the Polytechnic, where every birthday (July 18) I organized evenings.

Why in the Polytechnic, I think, there is no need to explain: this is the place of his young triumphs, well known even to the Moscow horse militia of the sixties. But why did not he want to celebrate his at least non-round birthdays exclusively in the circle of relatives and friends? Well, this is precisely the whole Yevtushenko, who saw himself following Mayakovsky as an “agitator, a throat-throat, a leader,” and later as something like an American preacher.

But this is not the only point. Like any poet, Yevtushenko was and felt lonely. And the hall filled with fans and just listeners gave him at least a temporary relief from this feeling.

Literature is generally a lonely affair. Now, when Yevgeny Alexandrovich has not been with us for over a year, this is felt especially acutely.

No one (or almost no one) will call after reading your selection in a magazine or a new book, which he did constantly and in detail. No one will shovel a heap of what you have written in order to choose the best for their poetic anthology of Russian poetry. No one will discuss with you on the phone (sometimes for more than an hour!) Something socially significant and haunting. In general, the loneliness of fellow writers without Yevtushenko has become even more "lonely". He probably understood that it would be so, and therefore seated next to him on the stage of the Polytechnic the most appreciated by him and, at least, not hostile writers.

Frankly, sometimes I didn't really want to go to his summer "Christmas" evenings (well, at the 25th, say, time), especially if it was known in advance that most Her speech will take the reading of a long poem. But ... First, to deprive yourself of the luxury of communicating with him would be a waste. And secondly, in recent years, a simple thought has become more and more intrusive: what if this time will be the last. Nobody ever warns us about these last times, otherwise ... Well, here I remember Okudzhava, who loved Zhenya: "Let's live indulging each other in everything / Especially since life is so short." By the way, Yevtushenko at one time literally forced Bulat Shalvovich to collect the first Moscow book of poetry and then personally “punched” it (a word from those years when manuscripts in publishing houses were waiting for their turn for seven to ten years). Okudzhava himself told me about this.

In general, Evgeny Aleksandrovich helped many - yes, almost everyone whom he considered talented. He was fired up by good other people's poems. However, not only from poetry - and from prose, and from films. And the traditional human ingratitude of those to whom he did good was very upset. I would say somehow surprised. I saw this surprise at human baseness only in two other people: our Yura Shchekochikhin and Anya Politkovskaya. But Yevtushenko, unlike them, thank God, was not killed - this alone was not enough for his absolutely deafening glory. But the one that is - and already posthumous - was enough for incessant attacks on him. Isn't even death a hindrance to human envy?

Among the reproaches that are still handed out to her, there are also fair ones: that many of his poems have nothing to do with poetry and look like rhymed journalistic articles. Agree. But Yevgeny Aleksandrovich himself knocked this trump card out of the hands of the detractors, saying in one of his last TV interviews that he wrote “a lot bad poetry". He even named a high percentage. But didn't Blok or Tyutchev write bad poetry? However, as is known, a poet must be judged by the heights. And here everything is all right with Yevtushenko. As for his poetic journalism: well, it is not his fault that he was born not only a poet, but also a citizen. And he was born in Russia, so “problematic” and unkind to his sons.

… A few days after the sad news from the USA, I wrote a poem in memory of Yevgeny Alexandrovich. I hope I expressed something from my attitude towards him.

P.S.

Now, when the country lived for a whole month on foot-ball and seemed open, we are reprinting Yevtushenko's “football poems”.

Report from the past

USSR - FRG. 1955 year

March 2009

Evgeny Evtushenko

July 18, 2018 is the anniversary date of the birth of the great Soviet and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, although in fact he would have turned 85 a year earlier.

E. Yevtushenko's passport indicated that he was born in 1933, although in reality he was born a year earlier. Therefore, the 85th anniversary is celebrated this year.

Diversity of talents E. Evtushenko

Evgeny Yevtushenko achieved the greatest fame in Russia and the world of the entire generation of the sixties. David Siqueiros, an artist from Mexico, called him a man with a thousand faces. Yevtushenko himself wrote about himself as a very different person... And indeed it is. He acts either as an orator and even a prophet, but a subtle and gentle lyricist, then an ordinary person- sad and joyful, open and full of irony, who knows how to passionately love and suffer.

At various times he was engaged in directing and photography, wrote scripts and prose, acted in films, became a member of the European Academy of Arts, but always remained a poet.

Much has been said over the years of his fame different words about this person. And it is not known how much more will be written and said. When a poet passes away from life, this does not mean that his time is over.

His works remain, and with them the legend of their author. With his easy presentation, the high art of poetry, seemingly inaccessible to millions, turned into a spectacle capable of collecting stadiums.

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 Evtushenko (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 be at the age of 12.

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 differently, ”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 huge stadiums, and the poetry of the "thaw" period soon began to be called pop.

In subsequent years, he prints several collections, which become very popular: "Third Snow" (1955), "Highway of Enthusiasts" (1956), "Promise" (1957), "Poems different years"(1959)," Apple "(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".

Evtushenko'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 (for example, 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 reputed opposition Soviet time magazines "Youth" (also was a member of the editorial board of this magazine), " New world"," Banner ".

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 October 2013, the laureate Nobel Prize He spoke extremely negatively about 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 to coincide with his birthday. The museum presents a personal collection of paintings donated by Yevtushenko famous artists- Chagall, Picasso. There is a rare painting by Ernst, one of the founders of surrealism. The museum operates 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, 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, Yevgeny 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 planned 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 - " Golden riddle my";
1995 - "My very-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 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 Seryozha" - 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.

It is difficult to overestimate the contribution of Evgeny Alexandrovich to the literature and poetry of the twentieth century. He is a laureate of the USSR and RF state prizes, the 2013 Poet Prize, the first Russian to be awarded in 2015 one of the most prestigious Chinese prizes, Zhongkun, for his outstanding contribution to world poetry, and in 2016 the Italian Virgil Prize.

His poems, imbued with the atmosphere of the time, sincere feelings, a passionate desire to live, to love, to comprehend all the difficulties and vicissitudes of fate by their own experience, are loved and known by everyone who is even a little interested in poetry. Ignoring his age, Evgeny Alexandrovich actively performs, writes poetry, publishes books. During his life, he read his poems in 97 countries of the world and only this year performed in the USA, Spain, Peru, Cuba, and Italy. In 2015, Evgeny Yevtushenko traveled all over Russia - from St. Petersburg to Nakhodka, 28 cities in 40 days - with a program dedicated to the great date - the 70th anniversary of Victory. Poems and songs about war and common victory.

His poem "The Dove in Santiago", translated into several languages, saved many young people who had lost their faith in life from suicide. The poem "Babi Yar" became the basis of Dmitry Shostakovich's 13th symphony. His anthology "Ten Centuries of Russian Poetry", on which the poet worked for over 40 years, is unique in its scope and depth. Without such works as "Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station", "Stalin's Heirs", "Italian Tears", "Tanks are marching in Prague", "White Snows are Falling", "Kazan University", it is impossible to understand the history of Russia. At the same time, Yevgeny Yevtushenko is one of the best lyricists of Russian poetry, combining in his manner the features of such poets as V. Mayakovsky, S. Yesenin, B. Pasternak, who reconciled them in his soul with love for them.

Eksmo Publishing House congratulates Yevgeny Alexandrovich on his 84th birthday and wishes him long life, good health, boundless happiness, success and prosperity! May vitality and creative energy never run out, but only encourage to create and create again! Let ideas and intentions be successfully implemented. May the days be always sunny and joyful, and peace and love reign in the house! Thank you for your talent, for your sincerity in poetry, for the soul that you put into your poems!

(according to the passport - 1933) at the Zima station of the Irkutsk region. His father - Gangnus Alexander Rudolfovich worked as a geologist, mother - Yevtushenko Zinaida Ermolaevna - geologist, actress and singer, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR.

At the end of July 1944, Yevtushenko, together with his mother, left for Moscow, where he studied at school and attended the poetry studio of the House of Pioneers. By this time, his parents had divorced.

Yevtushenko began publishing at the age of 16. The first publications of poems in the newspaper "Soviet Sport" are dated 1949.

In 1951-1954 Yevtushenko studied at the Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky. In 1954, he was expelled from the institute (for supporting Vladimir Dudintsev's novel "Not by Bread Alone") and did not study anywhere else, getting an education on his own, including fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish.

The first book of Evgeny Yevtushenko - "Scouts of the Future" - was published in 1952, in the same year he became the youngest member of the USSR Writers' Union.

In the 1960s, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, along with Andrei Voznesensky, Bela Akhmadulina, Robert Rozhdestvensky and other writers of the sixties, gathered a large number of spectators to read his poems at the Polytechnic Museum. This period includes his poems "And others" (1956), "The best of the generation" (1957), "Apple" (1960); "Wave of the Hand", "Tenderness" (1962); "White Snows Are Falling" (1969).

In the 1970s, he wrote the poems "Snow in Tokyo" (1974), "Northern allowance" (1977).

In the second half of the 1980s, Yevtushenko made a lot of publicistic articles. In 1989, Yevtushenko was elected People's Deputy of the USSR from the Kharkov-Dzerzhinsky territorial district of the Kharkov region of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1991 he was invited to the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA) to teach Russian poetry.

The poems of the 1990s were included in the collections "The Last Try" (1990), "My Emigration" and "Belarusian Blood" (1991), "No Years" (1993), "My Golden Riddle" (1994) and others. Books of the new century - "Between the Lubyanka and the Polytechnic" (2000), "I will break through into the twenty-first century ..." (2001), "Between the city Yes and the city No" (2002).

As a prose writer, Evgeny Yevtushenko showed himself in the novels "Pearl Harbor" (1967) and "Ardabiola" (1981), the novels "Berry Places" (1982), "Don't Die Before Death (Russian Fairy Tale)" (1993), "Autobiography" (1963, French edition) and the book of memoirs "Wolf Passport" (1998), as well as in several stories and a number of essay-journalistic books.

In 1979, Yevtushenko starred in the role of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the film "Takeoff" by Savva Kulish. In 1983 he directed the film "Kindergarten" according to his own script, in which he acted both as a director and as an actor. In the same capacity as a screenwriter, director, actor, he appeared in the film "Stalin's Funeral" (1990).

Yevtushenko is the author of dramatizations and stage compositions - "On this quiet street", staged by "Fourth Meshchanskaya", "Do the Russians Want War", "Civil Twilight", staged by "Kazan University", "Prosek", "Bullfighting" and others ... He is also the author of plays, some of which became events in the cultural life of Moscow: "Bratskaya HPP" at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya (1967), "Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty" at the Taganka Theater (1972), "Thank you forever ..." at the Moscow theater named after M.N. Ermolova (2002).

Musical works were created on the poet's poems. The poem "Babi Yar" became the literary basis of Dmitry Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony, an excerpt from the poem "Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station" formed the basis of another work by the composer - the vocal-symphonic poem "The Execution of Stepan Razin". The popular songs "The river is running, melts in the fog ...", "Do the Russians want wars", "Waltz about the waltz", "And the snow will fall, will fall ...", "Your footprints", "Thank you for the silence," "Take your time", "God forbid", etc.

The works of Evgeny Yevtushenko have been translated into more than 70 languages, they have been published in many countries of the world. In 2008, his book "All Yevtushenko" was published, which included all of his poems from the first children's poems to poetry recent years... At the end of December 2012 in Moscow Yevtushenko "Happiness and Loss", which included the works of recent years.

On January 6, 2015, Yevgeny Yevtushenko presented a new collection, All Poems, at the ZIL cultural center, after being discharged from the hospital, where he ended up in December 2014.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko himself was the editor of many books, the compiler of a number of large and small anthologies, led creative evenings of poets, compiled radio and television programs, organized recordings, himself read poetry by Alexander Blok, Nikolai Gumilyov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, wrote articles, including for envelopes of records (about Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Bulat Okudzhava).

Yevtushenko was the secretary of the board of the USSR Writers' Union.

He is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts, honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Malaga, full member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary professor of Honoris Causa University new school in New York and King's College Queens.

He was awarded orders and medals of the USSR, the Medal of Honor of the Soviet Peace Foundation, the American Medal of Freedom for his work in the defense of human rights, and a special badge for merits from Yale University (1999).

In 1993, his refusal to receive the Order of Friendship in protest against the war in Chechnya had a wide response.

Laureate of the Teffi Academy of Russian Television Prize for the best educational program A Poet in Russia is More Than a Poet (1998).

Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1984, for the poem "Mom and the Neutron Bomb").

He was awarded the international prize "Citta di Marineo", awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of culture (1995).

Awarded with the USA Literary Prize - declared the poet of the Walt Whitman House Museum in 1999 (the award has been awarded since 1989, only American poets have received it, Yevtushenko is the first foreign poet to receive this award).

For literary achievements in November 2002, Evgeny Yevtushenko was awarded the Aquila international prize (Italy). In December of the same year, he was awarded the Lumiere gold medal for his outstanding contribution to the culture of the twentieth century and the popularization of Russian cinema.

In May 2003, Yevtushenko was awarded the public order "Living Legend" (Ukraine) and the Order of Peter the Great, in July 2003 - the Georgian "Order of Honor". Awarded with the Badge of Honor of the founder of the Children's Rehabilitation Center in Russia (2003).

In 2004 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.

Laureate of the International Literary Prize "Grinzane Cavour" in the nomination "Most Readable Poet" (2005).

Honorary Citizen of the City of Winter (1992), and in the United States - New Orleans, Atlanta, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Wisconsin.

In 1994, a minor planet was named after the poet Solar system, opened on May 6, 1978 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (4234 Evtushenko, diameter 12 km, minimum distance from Earth 247 million km).

In 2006, Evgeny Yevtushenko was awarded the prestigious literary awards: Eugenio Montale Prize (Italy), Prize named after the classic of Bulgarian literature Hristo Botev (Bulgaria). And in early July 2006, the President of Romania presented the poet with the highest state order of the country for outstanding cultural services.