 
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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poetry, screen film as Chubb Fellow
The Chubb Fellowship will host a visit by Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 4 and 5.
Yevtushenko will give a free, public reading and discuss his poetry at 4 p.m. on Oct. 4 in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A reception will follow.
On Oct. 5, "Stalin's Funeral," an autobiographical romantic film directed by Yevtushenko, will be shown at 8 p.m. in the York Square Cinema, 61 Broadway. Yevtushenko will speak about the film at this free event.
The world-renowned Russian poet was born in Siberia in 1933. He came to poetry early: His first poem was published in 1949, when he was only 16, and his first book followed three years later. He was expelled from the Young Communist League in 1957 for his individualism. The first writer to raise his voice against Stalinism, he was later joined by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov and other Russian dissidents.
Beginning in 1960 he became the first Russian poet to recite his poetry in the West, where he was befriended by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Federico Fellini and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "Babii Yar," his poem attacking Russian anti-Semitism and complicity with the Nazis, became an international sensation in 1961 when it was published, and he gave readings to capacity crowds in Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden.
Since the 1970s Yevtushenko has written novels, directed and acted in films, and become a serious photographer while continuing his poetry and political activism. He has publicly criticized the government for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the war in Afghanistan, the repression of dissidents and, more recently, the fighting in Chechnya.
Serving as a member of the Congress of People's Deputies, the first freely elected parliament of the U.S.S.R., Yevtushenko fought against censorship. During the attempted coup by right-wing leaders in 1991, he voiced his opposition by reciting poetry from the balcony of the Russian White House before 200,000 defenders of freedom.
Yevtushenko is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the poet laureate of Russia and, in 1998, won the Russian equivalent of an Emmy Award for his work on a television show dedicated to poetry. In 1991 he received the American Liberties Medallion, the highest honor of the American Jewish Committee. For his birthday on July 18, 2000, in a ceremony on the stage of the Politechnical Museum in Moscow, Yevtushenko was presented with the official certificate that a minor planet in the solar system 4234 was named after him.
He currently divides his time between Russia and the United States, where he holds academic positions at universities in Oklahoma and New York.
The Chubb Fellowship is devoted to encouraging and aiding Yale students interested in the operations of government and in public service. Established in 1936 through the generosity of Hendon Chubb (Yale 1895), the program is based in Timothy Dwight College, one of Yale's residential colleges. Each year four or five distinguished men and women have been appointed as Visiting Chubb Fellows. Chubb Fellows spend several days at Yale in close, informal contact with students, and deliver a public lecture. Former Chubb Fellows include political activists Jesse Jackson and Robert Redford; international heads of state Jean Bertrand Aristide of Haiti and Shimon Peres of Israel; Presidents George Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter; and authors Norman Mailer and Toni Morrison.
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