Press Photo of Russian Poet Evgenii Evtushenko (aka Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

Chicago: Chicago Daily News, 1972. Very good. Large, monochrome photograph; 8 x 11; subtitled in the left margin of the photo; Chicago Daily News stamp and manuscript notes to verso; a few small pen notations (underlining) to the image; a small, rubbed spot to lower right corner; minor creasing to edges; in very good condition.A cheerful picture of author, poet, dramatist, actor, publisher, director, and Nobel Prize for Literature nominee Evgenii Evtushenko, nee Evgenii Aleksandrovich Gangnus (1933 - 2017), it portrayed him in a spirited game of ping-pong (table tennis) with students at Rider College in Trenton, New Jersey and was titled "Ping Pong Diplomacy." Generally known as one of the most extensively-travelled Soviet poets, he had been on a five-week American poetry tour, when the photograph was taken.