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, worked as a shop assistant and proofreader in a printing house, and concurrently attended courses at a people's university while actively participating in literary activities. In 1915, he went to Petrograd, meeting famous poets such as Blok and Kreutzev. In early 1916, his poetry collection "Day of the Dead" was published. That same year, he was conscripted into the army but left after a year, married, and lived during the February and October Revolutions. During this time, he wrote famous poems such as "Transfiguration," "Paradise," "Doves of the Jordan," and "The Drummer of the Sky," expressing his personal feelings about the revolution in lyrical ways. In 1919, he joined the Imagist movement and became a central figure, publishing works such as "Tetration" and "The Freedom of a Scoundrel." In 1921, he left the Imagist movement. That year, he 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 love soon turned into arguments, and they eventually divorced. In 1923, he returned to Russia. In 1924, he published the sensational poetry collection "Moscow Tavern Chant," which revealed his depressed and melancholic soul. From 1924 to 1925, his creative output reached its peak, producing the poetry cycle "Lyrical Persia" (1924), the long poem "Anna Snegina" (1925), and the poetry 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-examining long poem "The Melancholy Man," and on December 26, he wrote his last poem, taking his own life by hanging in a hotel in Leningrad on the morning of December 28.