The poet Andrei Voznesensky has passed away

At the age of 78, after a serious long illness, the outstanding poet of the sixties Andrei Voznesensky died.

Voznesensky died at home. Four years ago, the poet suffered the first stroke, the second, after which he could not recover, at the beginning of this year. It is known that Voznesensky lived and worked in Moscow in Peredelkino, next to the dacha-museum of Boris Pasternak, created on his initiative.

His first book of poems and poems "Mosaic" was published in Vladimir in 1960. In the same year, the book Parabola was published in Moscow. Almost immediately, Voznesensky experienced the persecution of the authorities. In 1963, at one of the creative meetings in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev sharply told the poet: "Take your passport and get out, Mr. Voznesensky!" However, Voznesensky's books continued to be printed, their circulation reached 200,000.

"He was one of those powerful poets who are commonly called "sixties" who burst into Russian literature and public life after the frost of Stalin's time," said Mikhail Shvydkoi, former minister of culture and now special presidential envoy for international cultural cooperation. "Andrei Andreyevich was one one of the brightest representatives of this generation, which felt the Russian tradition in its entirety - from Pushkin to Burliuk".

Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1978). He was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree "for outstanding services in the development of domestic literature and many years of creative activity" (2008).