Son Yevgeny Yevtushenko told about the life and the last days of the poet

The son of the deceased Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko said that his father’s death came as a surprise to him, since in December 2016 he said that he was going to live another 20 years. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Jr. spoke about this in an interview with “Komsomolskaya Pravda«.

Evgeny Jr. and his brother Dmitry were born in Moscow in 1989 and 1990, respectively. In general, there are four of them in the family. When Evgeniy Aleksandrovich left Moscow for America 25 years ago, he did not take them right away. They came to him with their mother later. Evgeniy Jr. admits that he decided to accept American citizenship when he turned 20 years old. “I could have done it through my mother when I was younger, but I decided to wait. I’ve had dual citizenship for eight years now,” he says.

He is now 28 years old. He is a student studying political science. And when he’s free, he works part-time in a restaurant, and before that he worked in a funeral home.

As for Evgeny Alexandrovich, he never became an American. He was promised to help with citizenship in the United States, but he did not want to.

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Yevgeny cannot say unequivocally whether he is a Russian or an American - two motherlands are equally dear to him. He speaks Russian with his mother, begins his brother with Russian, and gradually switches to English, and sometimes it happens like this: one sentence in Russian, the second in English.
My father, Yevgeny Alexandrovich, sometimes even spoke Spanish if it was secret information. The secrets of the family concerned gifts for a birthday or New Year.

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The son said that in America the father was more Russian than in Russia. He, a man who lived in the USSR almost all his life, missed her very much in the United States. That is why in recent years, increasingly been in Russia.

“My father said: “A poet in Russia is more than a poet.” Just as they listen to poetry in Russia, they don’t listen to it anywhere else in the world. And that’s why he wanted to perform here more often,” recalls Evgeniy Jr.

When Yevgeny Alexandrovich was told that he had less than three months left to live, he reacted very courageously.

“Masha (that’s what the son calls his mother) described to me what they told him. He closed his eyes. I cried for a minute. Then, that’s it, he began to dictate new chapters, and began again to work on an anthology of poetry. He wanted to do everything,” says the son. He added that before his death he dictated to his mother the grades and names of students from the university, so that everyone would be given everything correctly and nothing would be missed.

“Dad held on... I think he was waiting for his eldest son from London. Yes, Sasha... He had a problem with a transit visa there. The night before his father’s death, Sasha sent a video of Evgeniy Alexandrovich’s granddaughter singing... Until our older brother Sasha got married, my father kept saying: “Well, I want to be a grandfather. Please, I have four sons, well, one of you, please, I beg you, I want to be a grandfather.” And such happiness, such a gift, when the girl was born - Rose. My father always wanted to have a girl...”, the son recalls.

Due to the fact that Yevgeny Jr. was familiar with the funeral process, the documents for transporting the body to Russia could be prepared in a week.
In Russia, the farewell to the poet Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko was extended by an hour.

“Like my father signed books - always until the last reader. It was the same here,” says the son.

May 10 turned 40 days, as the great poet did not become.

Recall that the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died in the USA at 85.

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