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"Poėt v Rossii - bolʹshe, chem poėt" - ėti strochki iz poėmy Evgenii͡a Aleksandrovicha Evtushenko, znamenitogo poėta-"shestidesi͡atnika", mogli by statʹ ėpigrafom k ego tvorchestvu. Buntarʹ, mechtatelʹ, orator i tribun, on vosslavil poėzii͡u, kotorai͡a brosilasʹ "na pristup ulit͡s", i byl odnim iz tekh, chʹe tvorchestvo i͡avilosʹ glotkom svobody dli͡a mnogikh li͡udeĭ. Stolʹko prizhiznennoĭ slavy, skolʹko vypalo na doli͡u Evtushenko, malo komu dostavalosʹ. On sobiral mnogotysi͡achnye zaly, zavorazhivai͡a slushateleĭ naporom ėmot͡siĭ i bʹi͡ushcheĭ cherez kraĭ ėnergieĭ. V svoikh stikhakh Evtushenko nashel tu intonat͡sii͡u, i te slova, blagodari͡a kotorym stal golosom t͡seloĭ ėpokhi, a ego lirika prevratilasʹ v "dnevnik veka". Segodni͡a Evtushenko znai͡ut vo vsem mire, ego proizvedenii͡a perevedeny bolee chem na semʹdesi͡at i͡azykov, a na ego stikhi napisany desi͡atki pesen ("Khoti͡at li russkie voĭny?", "So mnoi͡u vot chto proiskhodit…", "Olʹkhovai͡a serezhka", "A sneg povalitsi͡a, povalitsi͡a…", "Daĭ Bog!" i drugie). V nastoi͡ashchee izdanie voshli izbrannye stikhotvorenii͡a E. Evtushenko, sozdannye v raznye gody zhizni.

"The poet in Russia – more than a poet" – these lines from a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the famous poet of the"sixties" could be the epigraph to his work. A rebel, a dreamer, a speaker and an orator, he praised poetry, who ran "attack the streets", and was one of those whose art was a breath of freedom for many people. So a lifetime of fame as fell to the share of Yevtushenko, very few people got it. He collected thousands of halls, bewitching listeners with the pressure of emotions and overflowing with energy. In his poems Yevtushenko found that tone and those words that have become the voice of an era, and his lyrics turned into a "diary of the century". Today, Yevtushenko is known worldwide, his works have been translated into more than seventy languages, and his poems written dozens of songs ("do the Russians Want war?", "With me here, what's going on...", "alder earring", "And the snow tumbled down, tumbled down the...", "God Forbid!" and others). This edition includes selected poems Yevgeny Yevtushenko, created in different years of life.