Evgenii Evtushenko

EVGENII EVTUSHENKO is Russia's most widely known contemporary poet. Key To The Komandante was written after his tour of South America in the summer of 1971, where he visited the scene of Che Guevara's assassination. It was first published in the Literary Gazette in Russia in September 1971. His collected poems, Stolen Apples, have just been published by Doubleday in America.