Famous People with Name Evgeny

Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky: was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky as a supreme poet of thought.

Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev: was a Russian Soviet composer. He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and his students included Alfred Schnittke, who studied with him from 1953 until 1958 ([1], [2]). His own compositions included at least twenty-four string quartets, seven symphonies, thr

Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov: is a Latvian International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer. He played in his first USSR Chess Championship when he was just 17 years old and became an IM in 1975 and a GM in 1977.

Evgeny Bareev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Bareev: is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739. Bareev was World Under-16 Champion in 1982 when his talent was first showcased internationally. Bareev was a member of the Russian national team in the two Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996. The biggest success in his career was winning the Corus super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2002.

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin: Kissin was born in Moscow to a Jewish family. At age 11 months, he was reputedly able to hum along to a Bach tune his sister Alla was playing on the piano. At age 6 he commenced his own piano studies at the esteemed Gnessin School of Music for Gifted Chil