MOSCOW—Russian poet Evgeny Yevtushenko, a leading force in the brief post-Stalinist Soviet literary “thaw” of the 1960s, has died in the United States at the age of 85, TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing a close friend.
“Five minutes ago, Evgeny Aleksandrovich (Yevtushenko) departed into eternity,” TASS said, quoting Mikhail Morgulis, a friend of Yevtushenko’s who said he had spoken to his son.
Born in 1932, Yevtushenko went on to publish more than 150 collections of poems.
His first book, “The Prospects of the Future”, was published in 1952 when he was the youngest member of the Union of Soviet Writers. He …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
