The photo shows Robert Rozhdestvensky pictured with other poets who went down in history as the Poets of the Sixties — Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bulat Okudzhava, and Andrei Voznesensky. This was a generation that lived poetry; their poems were hugely popular during the Khrushchev Thaw era.
This photograph appeared on the cover of one of the 1987 issues of the “Ogonyok” magazine. At that time, the editors planned the issue titled “Thirty Years Later” with the the Poets of the Sixties. Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, Rozhdestvensky, and Okudzhava agreed to take part in the publication.
They gathered in Peredelkino at Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s dacha. Journalist Felix Medvedev asked the questions. They described their memories of their youth, the Khrushchev Thaw era, and their shared friendship. They talked about their literary teachers and older comrades. By the standards of early 1987, it was a unique issue — a confession not only in the presents of each other but also before the readers. The interview provoked a great deal of controversy. The magazine’s editorial office received a whole bag of reader’s letters.
The cover photo was taken by Dmitry Baltermants in January 1987. He was one of the few Soviet photographers who managed to become famous at home and still receive lifetime recognition abroad. He was known and loved by such classics of photography like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, Robert Doisneau, and other masters of European photography.
The photo-chronicle of the Soviet era created by Baltermants is still popular today. Many of his photos became classics during his lifetime. At the same time, he did not immediately succeed in finding work in the world of photography. During the times of the growing campaign against cosmopolitanism, his service in the penal battalion and his Jewish origins shut the door before him even to those publications that appreciated and loved his work.
Only Alexei Surkov, editor-in-chief of the “Ogonyok” magazine, managed to hire Baltermants. At that time, it was the largest illustrated Soviet magazine. At “Ogonyok”, Dmitry Baltermants headed the photo department from 1965 up until he died in 1990.
This photograph appeared on the cover of one of the 1987 issues of the “Ogonyok” magazine. At that time, the editors planned the issue titled “Thirty Years Later” with the the Poets of the Sixties. Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, Rozhdestvensky, and Okudzhava agreed to take part in the publication.
They gathered in Peredelkino at Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s dacha. Journalist Felix Medvedev asked the questions. They described their memories of their youth, the Khrushchev Thaw era, and their shared friendship. They talked about their literary teachers and older comrades. By the standards of early 1987, it was a unique issue — a confession not only in the presents of each other but also before the readers. The interview provoked a great deal of controversy. The magazine’s editorial office received a whole bag of reader’s letters.
The cover photo was taken by Dmitry Baltermants in January 1987. He was one of the few Soviet photographers who managed to become famous at home and still receive lifetime recognition abroad. He was known and loved by such classics of photography like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, Robert Doisneau, and other masters of European photography.
The photo-chronicle of the Soviet era created by Baltermants is still popular today. Many of his photos became classics during his lifetime. At the same time, he did not immediately succeed in finding work in the world of photography. During the times of the growing campaign against cosmopolitanism, his service in the penal battalion and his Jewish origins shut the door before him even to those publications that appreciated and loved his work.
Only Alexei Surkov, editor-in-chief of the “Ogonyok” magazine, managed to hire Baltermants. At that time, it was the largest illustrated Soviet magazine. At “Ogonyok”, Dmitry Baltermants headed the photo department from 1965 up until he died in 1990.
