Poems

Perhaps Yevgeny Yevtushenko is the only poet who doesn’t need an introduction. No matter how attitudes toward his poetry have changed—from enthusiastic ones in the 1960s and 1970s to more than skeptical in the late 1990s—his name is still able to attract a considerable audience by today’s standards. Of course, you didn’t expect that Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poems would be read by the satirical writer Mikhail Zadornov! Satirists teach people what they shouldn’t love, and poets teach what they should. But do you know what the difference is between a satirist and a poet, too? When society has no hopes, satirists become idols; when there are hopes, poets are in demand. And when a satirist reads the poems of a great poet of a great country—this is a good sign!

Contents:

001 - The Execution of Stenka Razin (from the poem “Brotherly HPP”)
002 - Metamorphoses
003 - Meetings with you are now in the hospital...
004 - Grandmothers
005 - Alla
006 - Come on, boys
007 - Darling, sleep
008 - Dwarf birches
009 - The Army
010 - Mothers are leaving...
011 - Tolstoy (from the poem “Kazan University”)
012 - A monologue of a former priest
013 - A tale about the Russian toy
014 - There will always be a woman’s hand...
015 - I saw how on the Commanders
016 - Nefertiti
017 - Lobachevsky (from the poem “Kazan University”)
018 - Citizens, listen to me! (M. Zadornov and E. Yevtushenko)
019 - They go—white snows