Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky

{{Short description|Russian/Soviet poet}}

Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Rozhdestvensky ({{langx|ru|Все́волод Алекса́ндрович Рожде́ственский}}; 10 April 1895, Tsarskoye Selo – 31 August 1977, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet poet, journalist and war correspondent.

Rozhdestvensky served for four years as a war correspondent during World War II. He served on the Leningrad Front, Volkhov Front, and the Karelia Front, as a correspondent for military newspapers. He wrote poetry and a volume of memoirs.{{cite book |title=The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad |last=Salisbury |first=Harrison |year=2003 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=0306812983 |page=175 |accessdate=June 6, 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Atr8aPFU5_AC&dq=Vsevolod+Rozhdestvensky&pg=PA429}} He also provided the libretto for Yuri Shaporin's opera The Decembrists.