Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Author: Wang Shouren
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1895–1925) was a Russian poet. Born into a peasant family in Liangzhan Province, he attended primary and church normal school from 1904 to 1912, where he began writing poetry. In 1912, he moved to Moscow, working as a shop assistant and proofreader at a printing house while also studying at a people's university and actively participating in literary activities. In 1915, he went to Petrograd, meeting renowned poets such as Blok and Kreutzev. In early 1916, his poetry collection "Day of the Dead" was published. That same year, he enlisted in the army but was discharged after a year and married. During the February and October Revolutions, the poet wrote famous works such as "Transfiguration," "Paradise," "Doves of the Jordan," and "The Drummer of the Sky," expressing his personal feelings about the revolution in lyrical form. In 1919, he joined the Imagist movement and became a central figure, publishing works like "Tetrad" and "The Freedom of a Scoundrel." In 1921, he left the Imagist movement. That year, the poet met the American dancer Isadora Duncan during her visit to Moscow, fell deeply in love, married her, and traveled with her to Europe and the United States. However, their intense romance quickly turned into arguments, and they eventually divorced. In 1923, the poet returned to his homeland. In 1924, he published the groundbreaking poetry collection "Moscow Tavern Chant," which revealed his depressed and melancholic soul. From 1924 to 1925, the poet's creative output reached its peak, producing the poetry cycle "Lyrical Persia" (1924), the epic poem "Anna Snegina" (1925), and the collection "Soviet Russia" (1925). In September 1925, he married for the third time (to the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy). However, in November, he was hospitalized for mental illness, completing the self-reflective epic poem "The Melancholy Man." On December 26, he wrote his last poem, and on the dawn of December 28, he took his own life by hanging in a hotel in Leningrad.