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Mr. Yevtushenko is an imposing figure with a long gray beard, crew cut and pistol strapped to his hip.

And, she said, “he brought over the great Russian poets Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, and he worked with them to get Russian dissidents released from prison.”

“It was hell on Earth,” said Oleg Yevtushenko, 55, a resident of an apartment block in Bucha that the soldiers took over as a base.

I knew nothing of it until, in the mid-1960s, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Russian poet who wrote an epic poem about it, was invited to lecture at my college.

At the University of Tulsa, she studied with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who introduced her to Russian literature.