Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky Biography

Vsevolod Alexandrovich Rozhdestvensky (10 April 1895 in Tsarskoye Selo – 31 August 1977 in Leningrad) was a Russian/Soviet poet.

Rozhdestvensky served for four years as a war correspondent during World War II. He served on the Leningrad Front, Volkhov Front, and the Karelia Front, as a correspondent for military newspapers. He wrote poetry and a volume of memoirs. He also provided the libretto for Yuri Shaporin's opera The Decembrists.