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Person
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Rein, Yevgeny Borisovich, 1935-, poet
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Dates of existence
1935-
History
Evgeny Rein is Russia's greatest living poet. Born in 1935, he belongs to that tragic generation of Russian poets who, for decades, went unpublished in the Soviet Union, and did not publish his first book of poems until he was 49.