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Yevgeny Yevtushenko during a reading of his poetry at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow in December 1962.
Associated Press; thumbnail, Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters, 2007
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Died on April 1, 2017 at age 83
Mr. Yevtushenko was an internationally acclaimed poet with the charisma of an actor and the instincts of a politician whose defiant verse inspired a generation of young Russians in their fight against Stalinism during the Cold War.
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