The poet Evgeny Yevtushenko died

The poet Evgeny Yevtushenko died in the United States at the 85th year of his life. This was announced today by the poet's friend Mikhail Morgulis. On the eve of Yevtushenko, in serious condition, in the hospital of the city of Tals (Oklahoma), in serious condition, was hospitalized .

“Evgeny Alexandrovich went into eternity,” Morgulis said with reference to information from the poet’s son. Almost until the last moment, Yevtushenko remained conscious, he added.

According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin has already expressed deep condolences to the widow, the relatives and friends of Yevtushenko. “He was a great poet, his heritage is an integral part of Russian culture,” Peskov noted (a quote for Interfax ).

Yevtushenko asked to bury himself in Peredelkino near Moscow next to Boris Pasternak, as well as not to cancel concerts that were planned to devote him to the anniversary. This was announced by the general producer of the anniversary festival Sergey Vinnikov.

Yevtushenko was 85 years old on July 18. He planned to hold a tour of the cities of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Also, the main anniversary events were to be the main stage sites of Moscow: P.I. Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky, a large hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the State Kremlin Palace.

In the summer of 2015, in Moscow, doctors of the Central Clinical Military Hospital named after P.V. Mandryka conducted a successful Evtushenko heart operation . To eliminate problems with the heart rhythm, the poet introduced a pacemaker during the operation.

Evgeny Yevtushenko is a famous poet, prose writer, film science and film director. Born in 1933 in the Irkutsk region. His first poem was published in the newspaper "Soviet Sport", and the first book of the poems "Scouts of the Coming" was published in 1952.

In total, more than 150 books written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko were published. Among his most famous creations are the poems "Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station", "Mom and a neutron bomb", a collection of poems "Citizens, listen to me." He is also the author of journalistic works, memoir prose. Yevtushenko released the anthology of Russian poetry "The poet in Russia is more than the poet."

Since 1991, Yevgeny Yevtushenko has constantly lived in the United States, where he taught at the University of Tals, he made lectures on Russian poetry and European cinema in other American educational institutions.