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 eliminate 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, as RIA Novosti informs, 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 novelist 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 Krupin Although they argue 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, naturally, 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 don't 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 20th 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 the leading one in the world, because she was raised by Orthodoxy.

In recent years, Evgeny Yevtushenko has avoided answering the question of which of the Russian poets should be awarded the Nobel Prize. Apparently, the answer was obvious to him. And such confidence is not unfounded

Text: Mikhail Vizel / "Year of Literature", for RBTH.com
Collage: Year of Literature.RF

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Yevtushenko is one of those few poets in any literature whose lines have entered the flesh of a living language and turned into sayings. “A poet in Russia is more than a poet”; "Do the Russians want wars"; “There are no monuments over Babi Yar”; "This is what happens to me, my old friend does not come to me." Natives of the living Russian language pronounce these phrases without thinking where they came from, but they have a specific author:.

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At the same time, Yevtushenko is well known outside the borders of Russia - which is also not so often the case with representatives of a great language (in terms of the number of people for whom he is native), but not widely used in the world. Since the sixties, Yevtushenko traveled a lot around the world, performing in huge halls (in one of them

i saw him and immediately suggested the role of Christ in his "Gospel of Matthew"

He was so impressed with how the blue-eyed Siberian guy held the audience). And since 1991, personal and professional circumstances have developed so that he spent almost the entire academic year, from September to May, in the USA, at the University of Tulsa. This also contributed to his recognition not only in the artistic, but also in the academic environment - from which the "applications" for the Nobel Prize come.

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Despite the jealousy inevitable in the artistic environment, even the most violent dislikes of poetics and personality of Yevtushenko admitted: yes, he really loves passionately, knows by heart a huge number of poems (not only his friends, but also people who are not personally and creatively close to him) - and tirelessly all life is engaged in its dissemination and even propaganda. Suffice it to mention the monumental anthology "Stanzas of the Century" (1995), compiled by Yevtushenko, in which the poems of many emigrants banned and therefore forgotten in the USSR were returned for the first time. More recently, Evgeny Aleksandrovich finished work on an even more monumental five-volume collection, Ten Centuries of Russian Poetry (2013).

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The Nobel Prize in Literature is given not for a specific work (although sometimes it is implied, as in the case of c), but “ by the aggregate of merits and achievements "... The merits of Yevtushenko are undeniable: long before he returned poetry lovers to the stadiums, showing that the composition and, most importantly, the perception of poetry is available not only to highly educated residents of campuses and small artistic cafes, but also to the broad masses - no matter how ironically the representatives of that very formed stratum.

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At the same time, Yevtushenko is not a loner, not a random fluctuation, but a representative of an extensive and fruitful literary movement, like (Silver Age) or V.S. Naipaul (postcolonial literature).

Evgeny Alexandrovich Evtushenko (at birth - Gangnus). Born July 18, 1932 in Zima, Irkutsk Region - died 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 filling out the documents for changing the surname, a mistake was deliberately made in the date of birth: they wrote it down in 1933 so as 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 Future", was published - later the author assessed it as youthful and immature.

In 1952 he became the youngest member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, bypassing the stage of a candidate for membership in the Union.

“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 a time of poetic boom, entered the arena of enormous 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.

In subsequent years, he publishes several collections, which become very popular: "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 catch phrase that has steadily entered 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 calm, self-confident self-admiration, nor can it be an expression of an authentic personality. Ambitions are exceptionally great and have long surpassed the scale of talent. The genre turns out to be fiercely polemical in every word, in every utterance, and the main thing is that 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 party policy, 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 widely 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 (he was 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") 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. He 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 USSR Writers' Union. 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 Evgeny Yevtushenko by composer Gleb May.

Some sources attribute P.A. Sudoplatov a statement that E. A. Yevtushenko collaborated with the KGB, acting as 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 by 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 Evtushenko's growth: 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.

Third wife - 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 was amputated his right leg. 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, while on 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, there was information 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, the poet was introduced to a pacemaker 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 son of the writer 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 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 - Yabloko;
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" Bratskaya HPP "";
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 vastness";
1978 - "Compromise Compromise";
1979 - "Harder than the 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 - The Green Gate;
1990 - "The last attempt";
1990 - "Belarusian Blood";
1990 - "Poems and Poems";
1993 - "No years: love lyrics";
1994 - "My Golden Riddle";
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);
"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;
"Incantation" (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 "Funny guys"), 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, Iosif 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 limes" (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 should 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

Producer:

1983 - Kindergarten
1990 - "Stalin's Funeral"

Screenwriter:

1964 - "I am Cuba" (with Enrique Pineda Barnet)
1990 - "Stalin's Funeral"

Songs:

1961 - Dima Gorin's Career. The song "And it snows" (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.

The 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, Evgeny'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. Evgeny 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.

Poems

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 a favorite of the readers of prose. 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 taught courses in Russian poetry at local universities and even published several works. Yevgeny 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 \u200b\u200bof the world.

Evgeny Aleksandrovich not only received recognition among readers, but also deserved 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 is called 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 \u200b\u200bof 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 verses 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, Eugene married a poet in 1954. But the creative union did not last long, and in 1961 Yevtushenko took 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 can't say goodbye

He was called "the sixties"... And this is true: without Yevtushenko's works it is difficult to imagine the poetry of the Thaw.
They said he was a rebel... And this was not an exaggeration: the poet spoke out sharply on many political issues.
The spiteful critics kept saying that Yevtushenko sometimes gave up his positions, “adjusted”, tried to make friends with the authorities ”. And which of the greats was not sinful in this? Mandelstam and Akhmatova, Yesenin and Blok - each, at least once, trying to survive, sang a "song of shame". Judging them for this is a simple matter, but not fair. And no one has the right to do so.
Claimed that it was impossible to break Yevtushenko: he has a steel rod inside. And the time has confirmed the correctness of these words.
Critics believethat the work of Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko is one of the brightest pages of Russian literature of the XX and early XXI centuries.

What did the poet Yevtushenko leave to us, the readers?

His legacy is large and varied. It includes:

• twenty poems
• 62 collections of poems
• two novels: "Berry Places" and "Don't Die Before You Die"
• two stories: "Pearl Harbor" and "Ardabiola"
• three books of memoirs
• five editions of collected works
• symphony No. 13 in b-moll "Babi Yar" and the cantata "The Execution of Stepan Razin", written by D. Shostakovich, and the rock opera White Snows Fall "
• as an actor, he starred in four films
• how the director made two films
• wrote scripts for two films
• he took part in the filming of six documentaries

Songs to verses by Yevtushenko

77 poems of the poet are set to music,and the whole country sang them His songs sound in films:

• "Dima Gorin's career" - everyone's beloved Maya Kristalinskaya recorded the song "And it is snowing" for the film;
• "The irony of fate, and Enjoy Your Bath"- bard Sergei Nikitin sang the song" This is what is happening to me ";
• "Love affair at work" - the music for the song "We are chatting in full trams" was written by the composer Andrey Petrov;
• "And it's all about him" - three songs brilliantly performed by Elena Kamburova.

Evgeny Evtushenko's awards

Total number of awards 23... Among them are domestic and foreign orders and medals, state awards, titles of Honorary member of three academies, professor of two universities - Pittsburgh and Santo Domingo. The poet was proud of the most unusual award. In 1994, his name was given to the minor planet of the solar system - 4234 Evtushenko.

Why was Yevtushenko not given the Nobel Prize?

In 2008 the poet's name appeared on the lists of future Nobel Prize laureates in literature. The basis is the poem "Babi Yar". It is a piercing and full of enduring pain reminder of hundreds of thousands of civilians - Jews, Ukrainians and Russians - shot in a giant ravine.

The poem was read, the name of Yevtushenko was deleted from the list of applicants, politely explaining that there were more relevant works. A political show called "The Nobel Prize" chose the French writer Le Clésio, known to the general public for the love story of Diego Rivera and Frida Callot. The jury emphasized that the Frenchman is the author of new directions, promising readers poetic adventures and sensual ecstasy. Well, how can a Russian poet, sobbing over the terrible events of the Second World War, already gone from history, compete with an aesthetic French?

Evgeny Yevtushenko passed away on April 1, 2017. He was 84 years old... He was ill, cancer was exhausting, but the poet did not give up: he wrote, spoke to the public, gave interviews.

Much has been done, written, filmed, or little? Was the voice of the era that the poet Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko spoke with? Time will show which of the written will remain for centuries, and which will disappear, drowning in the sands of eternity.