19 moments

1. Birth in Zima

   1933-07-18 · Zima, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

   Yevtushenko was born in the Siberian town of Zima, then in the Russian SFSR. The cited biography gives the Irkutsk region; the canonical English Wikipedia biography specifies Zima.

2. Return to Moscow

   1944-01-01 · Moscow, Russia

   After wartime evacuation back to Zima, Yevtushenko returned to Moscow with his mother, establishing the city as a formative home. The source does not give a more precise return date.

3. Study at the Gorky Literature Institute

   1951-01-01 · Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow, Russia

   He began studies at Moscow's Gorky Literature Institute, a key early institutional setting in his literary career. The source supports attendance from 1951 through 1954; the card is dated to the beginning of that documented period.

4. Visit to Babi Yar ravine

   1961-01-01 · Babi Yar, Kyiv, Ukraine

   His visit to the ravine near Kyiv informed “Babi Yar,” the poem that made him internationally famous for confronting antisemitism and the massacre's memory. The source connects the visit to the 1961 publication of “Babi Yar,” but does not give a day or month for the visit.

5. Visit to Cuba

   1962-01-01 · Cuba

   Yevtushenko visited Cuba during a period in which his travel writing and political poetry increasingly engaged international subjects. The source supports Cuba but does not identify a city or more precise date; coordinates represent the country.

6. Paris autobiography commission

   1963-01-01 · Paris, France

   While in Paris, Yevtushenko arranged for his uncensored autobiography to be serialized in L’Express, an episode that prompted official backlash in Moscow. The biography places the Paris stay in January 1963 but does not supply a day.

7. Poetry reading at Princeton University

   1966-11-13 · Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

   During his 1966 American tour, Yevtushenko gave a poetry reading before a capacity audience at Princeton University. The newspaper was published Monday, November 14, 1966; “Sunday night” was November 13.

8. Poetry reading at Carnegie Music Hall

   1966-11-18 · Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

   Yevtushenko made a special appearance in Pittsburgh in the inaugural season of the International Poetry Forum.

9. Library of Congress poetry reading

   1966-11-21 · Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., United States

   He read his poems in Russian in the Coolidge Auditorium, with actor Barry Boys reading English translations.

10. Reading at the Felt Forum

    1972-01-01 · Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, United States

    Library of Congress archival description records Yevtushenko reading at the Felt Forum in New York City. The archival finding aid supplies the year but not a month or day. The Felt Forum is now known as The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

11. Pittsburgh poetry performance

    1972-01-31 · Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    Yevtushenko returned to Pittsburgh for a reading at Heinz Hall, with Barry Boys supplying English translations.

12. Meeting with President Nixon

    1972-02-03 · Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., United States

    

    Yevtushenko met President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and others in the Oval Office during a U.S. visit.

13. Poetry reading at Cal State Northridge

    1986-03-01 · California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States

    At a Cal State Northridge reading, Yevtushenko used poetry to address bureaucracy, the Challenger disaster, peace, and Che Guevara. The report was published March 12, 1986; it does not specify the reading's day.

14. Defense of the Russian White House

    1991-08-01 · Russian White House, Moscow, Russia

    During the attempted hard-line coup, Yevtushenko joined Boris Yeltsin at Moscow's White House and recited his poem “August 19th.” The source supports August 1991 but not a specific day of his presence.

15. Tulsa faculty and residence

    1992-01-01 · University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

    Yevtushenko became a University of Tulsa faculty member and made Tulsa his home, beginning a long late-career base in the United States. The university states that he had been faculty since 1992; it does not provide a more precise appointment date.

16. University of Houston performance

    1998-01-01 · Moores School of Music, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States

    Yevtushenko attended the first performance pairing the two Shostakovich works set to his texts on one program. The source gives the year but not a more precise performance date.

17. University of Maryland artist residency

    2007-10-01 · University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States

    As an artist-in-residence at the University of Maryland, Yevtushenko recited “Babi Yar” before a performance of Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony. The source places the residency and recital in October 2007 but does not provide a day.

18. Meeting with readers in Moscow

    2015-01-21 · Moscow, Russia

    

    A contemporaneous photograph places Yevtushenko at a meeting with readers in Moscow late in his career. The source captions the photograph as taken January 21, 2015.

19. Death at Hillcrest Medical Center

    2017-04-01 · Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

    Yevtushenko died at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, ending a career that had combined Russian literary prominence with long-term American teaching.