Aleksandr Voznesensky

Biography

March 11, 1880: a restless winter day in the Russian Empire when Aleksandr Voznesensky entered the world. Ink soon outran his footsteps, turning silence into stories. In 1914 alone, he gave audiences two haunting gifts—Mute Witnesses and Slyozy—then closed the decade with the sweeping Tsar Nikolay II (1917). Nearly four decades after that first breath, on January 22, 1939, his final exhalation drifted across the Kazakh steppe, then a Soviet republic, now the independent republic of Kazakhstan.