“A book about a fighter without a beginning and an end,” so say fans of classical Russian literature about the work “Vasily Terkin”. During the war, it was an integral part of frontline life and was enthusiastically read by soldiers and residents of the country. The author of “Vasily Terkina” is the well-known Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky, born in June 1910 in the Smolensk province. The father of the future writer was a village blacksmith, a very well-read man who loved the poems of Pushkin,
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“A book about a fighter without a beginning and an end,” so say fans of classical Russian literature about the work “Vasily Terkin”. During the war, it was an integral part of frontline life and was enthusiastically read by soldiers and residents of the country.
The author of “Vasily Terkina” is the well-known Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky, born in June 1910 in the Smolensk province. The father of the future writer was a village blacksmith, a very well-read man who loved the poems of Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov. That is why from an early age, Alexander composed his own poems, even in those years when he was illiterate and could not write them himself.
At the age of 14, Tvardovsky began to work on small notes in Smolensk newspapers. He showed his first poems to Mikhail Isakovsky, a representative of the editorial office of the newspaper “Working Way”. Appreciating the talents of the young creator, he becomes his mentor and assistant.
Alexander Tvardovsky’s first work, The Path to Socialism, was published in 1931. In his work, he showed utopian dreams and collectivization. The poem “Country of Ant”, published a little later, in 1936, is devoted to the same topic.
The years of the war left a strong imprint on both the life and work of Tvardovsky. At this time, the writer and poet, who served in the editorial office of the newspaper “Red Army”, wrote the poem “Vasily Terkin”. The simple and accurate syllable, the active development of events, as well as the lack of connection between the episodes, became the hallmarks of the work, the reader of which, like the author himself, could die at any moment. Thanks to "Vasily Terkin" Tvardovsky became a cult writer of the war years.
“House by the Road” (1946), “Terkin in the Afterlife” (1962), “At the Bottom of My Life” (1967), – these and many other works Tvardovsky wrote after the war years. In the late 1960s, the writer worked in the editorial office of the New World, but due to the rejection of modernist prose and poetry, the magazine was defeated, and Tvardovsky himself contracted lung cancer and died on December 18, 1971, leaving descendants with the memory of the war and the heroic deeds of ordinary residents of the country in the lines of stunning works. /