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Moscow Says Goodbye to Beloved Poet Andrei Voznesensky

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Moscow Says Goodbye to Beloved Poet Andrei Voznesensky


04.06.2010

Moscow today is paying its last respects to the great Russian poet and prose writer Andrei Voznesensky, who died on June 1. He was 77. The requiem service is under way at the Writers’ Center in Moscow. After the service Andrei Voznesensky will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery, Voice of Russia. 

Voznesensky was considered "one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era" but his style often led to regular criticism from his contemporaries and he was once threatened with expulsion by Nikita Khrushchev.[2] He performed poetry readings in front of sold-out stadiums around the world, and was much admired for his skilled delivery. Some of his poetry was translated into English by W. H. Auden.

In recent years Andrei Voznesensky worked in the genre of visual poetry by pooling together poetry and architecture.

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