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Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Вознесенский, 12 May 1933 – 1 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language."
May 28, 2024 · Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky (born May 12, 1933, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died June 1, 2010, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian poet who was one of the most prominent of the generation of writers that emerged in the Soviet Union after the Stalinist era. Voznesensky spent his early childhood in the city of Vladimir.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about the life and work of Andrei Voznesensky, a prominent Soviet poet who wrote during the Khruschev Thaw and beyond. Find out how he became a poet, how he rebelled against the government, and how he influenced and was influenced by other poets.
Jun 2, 2010 · Andrei Voznesensky, who as one of the Soviet Union’s boldest and most celebrated young poets of the 1950s and ’60s helped lift Russian literature out of its state of fear and virtual serfdom...
Jun 3, 2010 · When the Russian writer Andrei Voznesensky, who has died aged 77, made his poetic debut in 1957, Soviet poetry was regaining its impetus in the thaw that followed the death of Stalin in 1953.
- Valentina Polukhina
In 1963, Nikita Khrushchev personally warned Andrei Voznesensky to get out of Russia. The warning came too late. Public readings by writers including Voznesensky and Yevtushenko had already grown to the point that huge stadiums could hardly contain the audiences clamoring to hear the new poetry.
Jun 1, 2010 · Poet Andrei Voznesensky, one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era, has died aged 77. Gennady Ivanov, the secretary of Russia's Writers Union, said he passed away...
