Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 July 1932
CountryRussian Federation
checking citizens connected happy history name russian special stopped war
We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.
envy insult oneself
Envy is an insult to oneself.
vegetables important onions
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
honesty one-day strange-times
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
literature moral
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.