Andrey Dementyev (poet)

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Andrey Dmitriyevich Dementyev (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Деме́нтьев, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ dʲɪˈmʲentʲjɪf] ( listen); born July 16, 1928 in Tver) is a Russian and Soviet poet, a laureate of Lenin’s Young Communist League Award (1981), a USSR State Prize (1985), and Bunin Prize (2007).

Andrei Dementyev was considered one of the outstanding Russian and Soviet poets of the late 1900s. The range of his works is rich. It includes a novel about Mikhail Kalinin (August from Revel, 1970), as well as lyrics of many popular songs of the Soviet epoch (Alyonushka, Swans’ Fidelity, Father’s Home, A Ballade about the Mother, etc.) which were performed by Yevgeny Martynov.

In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.^[1]

In Dementyev’s works the ideals of romanticism, humanism, and compassion are asserted. The characteristic of his poems is a sharp feeling of patriotism, rejection of the negative traits of the present, bitter irony, lyricism, optimism, enjoying simple things, loving the nature.^[2]

References

↑ "Писатели требуют от правительства решительных действий". Izvestia. 5 October 1993. Retrieved 21 August 2011. (Russian)
↑ Юбилейный концерт Андрея Дементьева "Все начинается с любви" (Russian)

External links

Andrei D. Dementiev, Peoples.ru (Russian)
Online Encyclopedia 'Krugosvet' (Russian)

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Name	Dementyev, Andrey
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Short description	Russian writer
Date of birth	July 16, 1928
Place of birth	Tver
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