Laureate of the USSR and RF State prizes, laureate of "TEFI" award, knight of the order "For merits before Fatherland" of the III degree, an honorary Russian, American and European Academy of arts member, honorary citizen of Petrozavodsk and Winter; new Orlean, Atlanta, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Wisconsin (USA).
Background
Yevgeny was born on July 18, 1932, in Winter, Siberia, Russian Federation. Father Gangnus Alexander R. (1910-1976), a geologist. Mother — Yevtushenko Zinaida Ermolaevna (1910-2002), a geologist, an actress, an honored Russian Federation culture worker.
Education
The poet grew up and studied in Moscow, attended a pioneer poetry studio.He was a student of the Literary Institute, but in 1957 he was expelled for speaking out defending the novel by Vladimir Dudintsev "Not by bread alone".
Career
The first book — "the Scouts of the coming" (1952) — was full of generic declarative signs, slogans, pathos poetry of the turn of the 1940s-1950s years. The poem "Wagon" and "Before the meeting" dated the same year as the book, which Yevtushenko would call "the beginning of... serious work" in the literature nearly a quarter of a century later in the article "Education by poetry" (1975).
The truly debut work was not the first "stilted romantic book", how certifies "Scouts coming" the poet himself, and not even the second — "the Third snow" (1955), and the third — "Highway of enthusiasts" (1956) and the fourth — "the Promise" (1957) of the books, and no eve the poem "Winter Station" (1953-1956).
The rage of those times canon guardians was caused by the prose "Autobiography", published in French weekly "Express" (1963). The poems, the publication of which was an act of civil courage, a major event in literary and public life, were announced: "Babi Yar" (1961), "the Heirs of Stalin" (1962), " A letter to Yesenin" (1965), "Tanks walk through Prague" (1968), "Afghan ant" (1983).
In Russian history were steeped such poems as "Ivanovskie sittsy" (1976) and "Nepryadva" (1980), the poem "Corrida" (1967). A year later, the poet’s “idea of blood", which is paid in the centuries-old fate of mankind, invades in the poem "Under the skin of the Statue of Liberty ". In the vein of the plot narratives about human destinies are the poems "Snow in Tokyo" (1974) and "Northern mark-up" . Not in the original, but in the finalized form included in the eight-volume Collection of works by E. Evtushenko, journalistically oriented poems "In Full Growth" (1969-1973-2000) and "Proseca" (1975-2000). The synthesis of epics and lyrics distinguishes the political panorama of the modern world unfolded in space and time in the poems "Mom and Neutron Bomb" (1982) and "Fuku!" (1985).
And as a poet, whose revived faith, finding new stimuli, sounded full-blown in the verses of the second half of the 1980s: "The peak of shame", "Perestroika restructuring", "Fear of glasnost", "You can not go on living like this", "Vendee".
The poems of the 1990s, included in the collections “The Last Attempt”(1990), “My Emigration and The Belarusian Blood “(1991), “No Years” (1993), “My Golden Mystery”(1994), “Late Tears” (1995),"Slow Love "and " The Missing One"(1997)," The Stolen Apples "(1999)," Between the Lubyanka and the Polytechnic "(2000)," I'll break through into the twenty-first century ... "(2001) or appeared in newspaper and magazine publications, as well as the last poem" Thirteen "(1993-1996).
In the 2000s and 2013s, Yevtushenko's poetry collections, combining his best works over the past half century and new poems start being published: "I break through into the twenty-first century ..." (2001), "The Window Goes Out into White Trees" (2007) . The book "You Can Still Save" (2011) included mostly lyrical works, memoirs and confessions, as well as fragments of memoirs and portraits of friends - A. Voznesensky, B. Akhmadulina, V. Vysotsky. Images of friends - poets, writers, actors and directors - fill the book "Happiness and Reckoning" (2012). The book "I do not know how to say goodbye" (2013) involves the best and scrupulously selected poems and poems written by the author over the years of his creative path, including completely new ones.
The result of more than 20-year not just the compiling but research work of Yevtushenko is the publication in English in the USA (1993) and Russian (M., Minsk, 1995) of the Russian poetry anthology languages of the 20th century, "The Strophes of the Century", a fundamental work (more than a thousand pages , 875 personalities!). The logical continuation of the "Strophes of the Century" was the three-volume "In the beginning was the Word". This is an anthology of the whole of Russian poetry, from the 11th to the 21st century, including "The Lay of Igor's Warfare" in a new "re-focus" on the modern Russian language.
The "poem in prose", "I am Cuba" (1963), and the motion picture of M. Kalatozov and S. Urusevsky, shot according to this scenario, laid the foundation for his filmmaking. One more important fact was participation in the film by S. Kulish "Rise" (1979), where the poet starred in the lead role K. Tsiolkovsky. According to his own scenario, "Kindergarten", he put the eponymous film (1983), in which he acted both as a director and as an actor. In the same triadic quality as a screenwriter, director, actor appeared in the film "The Funeral of Stalin" (1990).
No less than the screen, the poet is creatively attached to the stage. And not only as a brilliant performer of poetry, but also as the author of staging and scenic compositions ("In this quiet street" on "The Fourth Meshchanskaya", "Do Russian Wars Want", "Civil Twilight" at "Kazan University", "Proseca" "Corrida", etc.), and then as the author of the plays. Some of them became events in the cultural life of Moscow, for example, “ Bratsk HES” at Moscow Drama Theater on M. Bronnaya (1967), “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty” at the favorite Taganka Theater in 1972 , "Thank you forever ..." in Moscow Drama Theater named after M.N. Ermolova (2002). It was reported about the premiere performances of the play E. Yevtushenko "If all the Danes were Jews" in Germany and Denmark (1998). Prose by E. Evtushenko, in addition to the above-mentioned novels, are two stories - "Pearl Harbor" (1967) and "Ardabiola" (1981), as well as several short stories.
Dozens of poet’s works stimulated the creation of musical works, beginning with the "Babi Yar" and the chapter from the "Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station", which inspired D. Shostakovich to write the Thirteenth Symphony, almost forbidden from above, and the symphonic poem highly praised by the State Prize for the Choir and Orchestra "Stepan Razin's Execution ", and ending with popular songs" The river is running, it is melting in the fog ... "," Do Russian wars "," Waltz about the waltz "," And the snow will fall, fall ... "," Your tracks "," Thank you for silence "," Do not hurry "," God willing "and others.
Connections
Wife — Yevtushenko Maria V. (1963), physician, philologist. Children: Peter (1967-2015), the artist; Alexander (1979), journalist; Anton (1981), Eugene (1989), Dimitri (1990).