Autograph. Yevtushenko E. Politika-privilege of all + Ticket to the creative evening E. Yevtushenko.

Autograph. Yevtushenko E. Politika-privilege of all + Ticket to the creative evening E. Yevtushenko.
M. APN. 1990 624 p. Hardcover, 13 x 20.3 cm. Very good condition, there was a tear in the spine.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (birth name-Gangnus, July 18, 1932 [passport — 1933, Winter; other data-Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk region — - April 1, 2017, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) — Russian poet. He is also known as a novelist, Director, screenwriter, publicist, reader-speaker and actor. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature (1963).

It began to be published in 1949, the first poem was published in the newspaper"Soviet sport".

From 1952 to 1957, he studied at the Gorky Literary Institute. He was expelled for "disciplinary penalties", as well as for supporting Vladimir Dudintsev's novel "Not by bread alone".

In 1952, the first book of poems "Scouts of the future" was published, and the author later assessed it as juvenile and immature.

In 1952, he became the youngest member of the Union of writers of the USSR, passing the stage of candidate for membership in the SP. At the same time, it was issued by the Secretary of the Komsomol organization at the Union of writers.

In the following years, Yevtushenko published several collections that became very popular ("the Third snow" (1955), " Highway of enthusiasts "(1956), " Promise "(1957), " Poems of different years "(1959), " Apple "(1960), " Tenderness "(1962), " Wave of the hand " (1962)).

One of the symbols of the thaw was the evenings in The large auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum, in which Yevtushenko took part together with Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava and other poets of the wave of the 1960s.

His works are distinguished by a wide range of moods and genre diversity. The first lines from the pathos of the introduction to the poem "Bratskaya HPP" (1965): "the Poet in Russia is more than a poet" — a Manifesto of Yevtushenko's own creativity and a catch phrase that has steadily come into use. The poet is no stranger to subtle and intimate lyrics: the poem "Sometimes the dog sleeps at the feet" (1955). In the poem "the Northern surcharge" (1977), he makes a real ode to beer. Several poems and cycles of poems are dedicated to foreign and anti-war themes: "Under the skin of the Statue of Liberty", "Bullfight", "Italian cycle", "Pigeon in Santiago", "Mother and the neutron bomb".

Yevtushenko's stage performances became famous: he successfully reads his own works. He released several CDs and audiobooks in his own performance: "Berry places", "Pigeon in Santiago" and others.

In 1991, after signing a contract with the American University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he left with his family to teach in the United States, where he lived permanently, sometimes coming to Russia.

In 2007, the Olympic sports complex hosted the premiere of the rock Opera "white snows are Coming", created on the poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko by the composer Gleb May.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko died on April 1, 2017 in his sleep from cardiac arrest, surrounded by relatives at Hillcrest Medical center in Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA).