| Yevgeny Yevtushenko  AKA Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Born: 18-Jul-1933
Birthplace: Zima, Irkutsk, Russia
Died: 1-Apr-2017
Location of death: Tulsa, OK
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Babi Yar Prominent poet during the Soviet era. His poem Babi Yar, condemning a 1941 massacre in Kiev perpetrated by Nazis, was later used by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No. 13. Father: Aleksandr Rudolfovich Gangnus (geologist)
Mother: Zinaida Ermolaevna Evtushenko (geologist)
Wife: Bella Akhmadulina (m. 1954, div.)
Wife: Galina Semyonova (m. 1962, div.)
Wife: Jan Butler (m. 1978, div.)
Wife: Maria Novika (m. 1986, two children)
University: Gorky Institute of Literature, Moscow (1951-54)
Teacher: Russian and European Poetry and Film, University of Tulsa
Ukrainian Ancestry
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1987
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
I Am Curious (Yellow) (9-Oct-1967) · Himself
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