Died Poet Andrei Voznesensky

Sad news ((In Moscow, at the age of 78, after a long illness, the poet Andrey Voznesensky … According to Interfax sources, Voznesensky died at home. Poet's widow Zoya Boguslavskaya reported that it happened on Tuesday around noon.

It is known that the poet lived and worked in Moscow in Peredelkino next to the dacha-museum Boris Pasternak, created on his initiative. Four years ago, he suffered his first stroke, and the second, from which he never recovered, earlier this year.

The other day the poet modestly celebrated his 77th birthday. On May 12, for two hours, the famous poet and writer received his closest friends at his dacha. They did not arrange magnificent celebrations, because Andrei Andreevich recently returned from Germany, where Munich doctors performed vascular surgery on him.

Andrei Voznesensky is a whole era of our culture. Suffice it to name a rock opera "Juno and Avos" to his poems, which Mark Zakharov put in Lenkome and which still goes on in the theater with great success. President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences to the family and friends of the poet.

"It is clear that after the death of a poet, poetry remains, but no one can replace his living voice," said the former Minister of Culture, and now the President's Special Representative for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi … According to him, the death of Voznesensky is a huge loss for Russian literature. “He was one of those powerful poets who are usually called the“sixties”who burst into Russian literature and social life after the frost of Stalin's time, - said Shvydkoi. "Andrei Andreevich was one of the brightest representatives of this generation, which sensed the Russian tradition in all its scope - from Pushkin to Burliuk."

Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev called the death of the poet a huge loss. “It is very bitter that Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky has left. This is a difficult day and a huge loss for Russian culture,”his press secretary quoted Avdeev as saying. The minister noted that Voznesensky "was a brilliant master of metaphor, an innovator of poetry, a philosopher, and skillfully experimented with the word." “The word“freedom”was the main one for his work and for his life,” Avdeev said.