Background
Rozhdestvensky, Robert Ivanovich was born on June 20, 1932 in Kosiha, Altai, Russia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Ivan Ivanovich and Vera Paulovna (Fedorova) Rozhdestvensky.
Rozhdestvensky, Robert Ivanovich was born on June 20, 1932 in Kosiha, Altai, Russia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Ivan Ivanovich and Vera Paulovna (Fedorova) Rozhdestvensky.
After graduating high school, he attended Petrozavodsk University, where he began writing poetry (the first ones were published in 1950).
Following the outbreak of World World War II, with both parents in the army, he found himself in the orphanage. He quit the University in order to attend Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, which he finished in 1956. In the time of the Khrushchev Thaw he worked alongside Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, and Akhmadulina.
They broke with the Social Realism, and wrote emotional, lyric poems.
In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two. Rozhdestvensky died on 19 August 1994 in Peredelkino.
Deputy, Moscow Soviet, 1975. Vice president European Cultural Society, Venice, Italy, 1981. Vice president Soviet Peace Committee, Peace Fund, Moscow, 1981.
Member Union Trade Council, Moscow, 1981, National Olympic Committee, 1981. Member Union Soviet Writers (secretary 1970-1994), Central Literature Club (president 1980-1994).
Married Alla Borisovna Kireeva, November 14, 1953. Children: Ekaterina Robertovna, Ksenya Robertovna.