Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery… - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (18 July 1933 - 1 April 2017) is a controversial Russian poet and film director. During the Soviet era he spoke out publicly against Stalinism and rejected socialist realism, but was himself criticised by many Soviet dissidents.

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Native Name: Евгений Евтушенко

Alternative Names: Evgeny Evtushenko • Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko • Jevgenij Aleksandrovic Jevtusenko

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