Robert Ivanovich Roshdestvensky

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Robert Roschdestwensky (1969)

Robert Ivanovich Roschdestvenski ( Russian Роберт Иванович Рождественский , scientific transliteration Robert Ivanovič Roždestvenskij ; born June 20, 1932 in the village of Kosicha in the Altai region ; † August 19, 1994 in Peredelkino ) was a Russian writer .

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Roshdestvensky, born in 1932, spent a large part of his youth in the city of Omsk . His father was an officer and died in 1945 during the Second World War . His mother worked as a doctor at the front and gave the son to grandmother. After her death, the young Robert Ivanovich was sent to an orphanage at the age of nine . While still at school he began to be interested in poetry and literature. His first volume of poetry was published in 1950. After finishing school, he began studying at the University of Petrozavodsk . From 1951 to 1956 he continued his studies at the literary institute in Gorki , where he also obtained his degree in 1956.

In the 1950s and 1960s, during the thaw period , he joined a group of writers who broke with the strictest notions of socialist realism. At the beginning of the 1960s, his fame rose through numerous readings of his poems, especially at universities and colleges.

In 1979 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR . From 1986 Roshdestvensky campaigned for a stronger democratization of Russian politics and supported the demands for glasnost and perestroika .

In 2004 Roshdestvensky's daughter Xenia Roschdestvenskaya (* 1970) published a book about Roshdestvensky's work. The book was initially only printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. The book contains previously unpublished poems, rare private photographs, newspaper clippings Roschdestwenski collected and notes from his colleagues and friends. After excellent reviews in many Russian daily newspapers, it was printed in a larger edition.

Web links

Commons : Robert Roschdestwenski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August 19, 1994 as the date of death on www.vilavi.ru (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Roshdestvensky, Robert Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roždestvenskij, Robert Ivanovič; Рождественский, Роберт Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kosicha , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1994
Place of death Peredelkino , Russia