In Moscow, a creative evening of Yevgeny Yevtushenko Automatic translate

MOSCOW. The only creative evening of the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was held at the ZIL cultural center in Moscow. A friend and editor of Yevtushenko Valery Krasnopolsky at the very beginning of the evening noted that due to the poor health of the 82-year-old poet, the meeting was in question. But, a few days ago, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich felt better, he was transferred from the intensive care unit of the Research Institute named after Burdenko in the ward, where he immediately decided to participate in his only creative evening in Moscow.

When the poet appeared on the stage of the Palace of Culture ZIL, the whole hall stood up, the audience greeted Yevtushenko with loud applause. Then, his friends, Arkady Arkanov, Valentin Gaft and the author of the first book about Yevtushenko in the ZhZL series, Ilya Palikov, joined the main participant of the evening. “My beloved woman, my wife Masha, the mother of my children, helped me go on stage. If not for her, I would not have appeared here today. I myself did not even hope that I would feel like that, but I knew that my friends were ready to speak, even if I were not there. But I didn’t want to leave them and you alone, ”Yevtushenko said.

The poet touched on the topic that his compatriots condemn him for teaching in the United States. “I am being attacked a lot for teaching in America. And I’m trying to do everything so that the younger generation of Americans don’t forget the brotherly spirit of Elba, I try to make it so that they don’t forget that once we fought together against a common enemy, and now we can’t forget each other, ”the poet said.

Yevtushenko also asked the organizers of the Year of Literature in Russia to help him arrange a trip along the East Siberian Railway with poetic performances and organize two large-scale concerts on the pages of the five-volume book “Ten Centuries of Russian Poetry”. “I hope the Year of Literature does not become bureaucratic,” Yevtushenko said. - I asked the organizers to allow me to hold two megaconcertes on the pages of my five-volume edition “Ten Centuries of Russian Poetry”. They could pass in Moscow and St. Petersburg. "

“I would like to drive with a small young team all over the East Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, everywhere restoring the good traditions of the propaganda brigades. To give us a car. Everywhere we are accepted, we would read poetry with a young team, ”the poet added at the end of his speech.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru