Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko born July 18, 1933, is a Russian poet, whose work contains scathing attacks on the Russian bureaucracy as a legacy of Stalin. Born in Irkutsk and moved to Moscow as a boy and attended the Gorky Institute of Literature. Yevtushenko's gifts as an orator and publicist, his magnetic personality, and his fearless fight for a return to artistic honesty rapidly made him a leader of Soviet youth. He revived the brash, slangy, unpoetic language of the early Revolutionary poets Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergey Yesenin.
