Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
![Yevgeny Yevtushenko](/apics/yevgeny-yevtushenko.jpg)
Born: July 18, 1933
Died: April 1, 2017 (aged 83)
Bio: Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films.
Known for:
- Don't die before you're dead (1995)
- Wild Berries (1984)
- Yevtushenko: Selected Poems (1962)
- Almost at the end (1987)
- The face behind the face (1979)