Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko • Evgenii Evtushenko
Born	July 18, 1933 • Russia
Died	April 1, 2017 (aged 83) • Tulsa • Oklahoma
Notable Works	“Baby Yar” • “Bratsk Station” • “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty” • “Wild Berries”

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

Bulgakov, c. 1932

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian author

Valentin Katayev

Soviet writer

Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov, from a Soviet postage stamp, 1965.

Vsevolod Ivanov

Soviet writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Bunin

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879

Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy

Russian writer

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1935.

Aleksey Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy

Soviet writer

Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov

Russian writer

Olesha, Yury Karlovich

Yury Karlovich Olesha

Russian author

Voinovich, Vladimir

Vladimir Voinovich

Russian author

Anatoly Rybakov

Russian author

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov

Russian writer

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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