1 апреля 2017 года нас покинул Евгений Александрович...

On April 1, 2017, Evgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko left us - the Greatest Russian poet, the Conscience of Mankind, the Citizen of the world who always remained a Soviet person. When you read his poems, poems, prose, memories are struck by each line, delight covers the fact that he was born a native speaker of the Russian language. In his poems of consonance, paint deep monumental paintings, line up in plots of souls. What a variety of topics in Yevtushenko's poems! He is interested in the whole world, there are no minor things, "There are no uninteresting people in the world." In his poems even a salmon can speak the world truths. And the most important thing is that Yevgeny Yevtushenko has a heightened sense of truth, he is disgusted with any injustice, any manifestations of lies, stupidity, cruelty. A person who questions the loyalty of what was written by Yevgeny Alexandrovich should be diagnosed with a lack of humanity. Yevtushenko, as no one else succeeds in his works, no matter how large they are from quatrain to autobiography, to answer the questions: "What is good and what is bad? What is beautiful and what is disgusting?" The phrase “It’s not according to Yevtushenko,” “Yevtushenko would have ridiculed and cursed it in his poems should be added to the group of stable phrases from the category“ This is wrong ”,“ This is unfair ”. The world will be perfect when we all go a mile to get around what the poet was struggling with in the pages of his books. With light style, he struck heavy blows on greed, on major vile things and little podlyankam, on aspirations for the sake of fleeting gain to give evil for good, to walk on their heads, to whitewash the murderers. Once on the channel "Culture" in the program "Life Line" (or another program like it), Yevgeny Yevtushenko answered questions from people sitting in the studios. Some clever figures of television gave the microphone almost exclusively to those young people who somehow imagined themselves poets. They preceded their question with their essays with vague content, disappearing from memory, as soon as they finished their performance, which did not form into pictures, evoking no thoughts or emotions. They had the good fortune to stand in front of a living classic, and instead of slamming a mitten and absorbing everything he said, they were pleased with themselves and read something that was devoid of the search for goodness, beauty, justice. Did these young poets read Yevtushenko's poems? Surely crowds of such authors keep away from such verses saturated with true experiences and bright colors. They do not want to spoil their eyes and spend time reading something foreign, they would have to write their great and more quickly. Oh, if every writing person would honor Yevtushenko and honestly compare with his work, so much forest would have been saved. Instead of saying to modern piths, "What a dregs you read to me!" Evgeny Alexandrovich said "Do not be afraid to set big goals, then you will achieve small successes!" In my opinion, for the entire program with young talents, Yevtushenko himself quoted from his work only four lines from the poem “Tanks go around Prague”, answering the question of one of the poets who decided to show a civil position that was completely absent from his verse. The question sounded like this: "Since you are such a patriot of Russia, why do you live in the USA?" Those who brought the young man to the studio and gave him a microphone, somehow did not care to enlighten him, that Yevgeny Yevtushenko was teaching in the USA, and not something, but, for example, the history of Soviet cinema. I am more than confident that none of the best American teachers will direct young minds to such a source of truth and light as classical Soviet films are. They were created by people who went through the most terrible war, tackling the most terrible monster of man-made. These films were watched by people who, after brutal trials, remained people and restored the country from the ruins. The country where good wise films were created has become a thing of the past. Yevtushenko took upon himself the mission necessary for mankind to show Soviet films to those people who would hardly have known about these tapes themselves, to those who have long to build the future in the whole world. Yevtushenko was much criticized for his work, and not only Soviet officials and sycophants who were afraid of “something like that”, but also beloved by many and most influential poets. Those whom Yevtushenko subsequently included in the large-scale poetic anthology he constantly compiled. Most of their comments boil down to the following: "How dare he call himself a poet and write clearly, and even on topics that people care about. This is a very low level." It would be desirable to vote with both hands just for such a level, and more often to observe authors who at least slightly rise to this “low level”, achieve such “small successes”. # Yevtushenko # Yevgeniyevtushenko # Yevgeniy Yevtushenko # Poetry # Literature # Classic # What to Read # What_ To Read # What to Read # What_ To Read # 2017