We nest in an accident whose precarious valance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us.

Max Frisch, 1911 – 1991
Yevgeny Yevtushenko biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Author Name:

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Born As:

Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Gangnus

Other Names:

Born:

18 Jul 1933

Died:





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Poet and director of films                          
                          
He took his mother's last name, Yevtushenko.
Married four times, once to Jan Butler, an Anglo-Irish translator of his poetry with whom he visited Ireland several times. He has five children, all boys, and was once told that he "was a man that could only produce other womanisers."
His current wife teaches Russian at Thomas Edison Preparatory Academy in the United States, near the University of Tulsa, where Yevtushenko himself spends half the year, lecturing on poetry and European cinema.                          
Through his poetry, Yevgeny  was the first voice to speak out against Stalinism.