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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Age: 83 †
Born: 1933
Born: July 18
Died: 2017
Died: April 1
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