1. Andrei Voznesensky performed poetry readings in front of sold-out stadiums around the world, and was much admired for his skilled delivery.
12 Facts About Andrei Voznesensky
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Andrei Voznesensky's father, Andrei Nikolaevich Voznesensky was a professor of engineering, while his mother influenced him early on by reading poetry in his presence.
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Andrei Voznesensky suffered a stroke several years before his death.
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Andrei Voznesensky is believed to have endured another stroke in early 2010.
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Andrei Voznesensky was buried in the Moscow Novodevichy Cemetery on 4 June 2010.
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Andrei Voznesensky's style was considered different from his contemporaries in the Soviet Union.
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Andrei Voznesensky's lyrics are characterized by his tendency "to measure" the contemporary person by modern categories and images, by the eccentricity of metaphors, by the complex rhythmical system and sound effects.
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Andrei Voznesensky was one of several young Russian intellectuals whom Nikita Khrushchev invited to a reception hosted by the ruling Communist Party in December 1962.
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Andrei Voznesensky competed with Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield at one show in London.
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Andrei Voznesensky is known to wider audiences for the superhit Million of Scarlet Roses that he penned for Alla Pugacheva in 1984 and for the hugely successful rock opera Juno and Avos, based on the life and death of Nikolai Rezanov.
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Andrei Voznesensky's creations have been turned into works of theatre.
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Andrei Voznesensky is an honorable member of ten academies, including the Russian academy of learning, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Parisian Academie Goncourt and others.