“Mr. Voznesensky and poets like Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina and Robert Rozhdestvensky burst onto the stage in the cultural ‘thaw’ that followed Stalin’s death in 1953 and rose to extraordinary stardom in the 1960s, filling whole stadiums for poetry readings and attracting worldwide attention for the power of their verse and as symbols of youthful defiance.”
Andrei Voznesensky, “one of Russia’s most celebrated poets,” has died at the age of 77.
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