The renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko recited his writings to visitors of the Book Festival "Red Square" opened in Moscow today.

      As the poet mentioned earlier, throughout his long creative life he had performed in various venues of 97 countries, but never in the main square of the Russian capital city.

      Hundreds of people got together in the Red Square to listen to Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The poet recited his well-known verses and fragments from stories about his childhood. The performance lasted for more than an hour, but the public asked for more and more, so the poet kept speaking.

      His performance was crowned with a new poem under the meaningful name of Peter's Window contemplating on today's international situation and other states' attitude towards Russia.