Aleksandr Tvardovsky

Alexander Trifonowitsch Twardowski (Russian Александр Трифонович Твардовский, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Trifonovič Tvardovski; * 8.jul / June 21 1910greg on the homestead Sagorje, Smolensk province, .. † December 18 1971 in a Datschensiedlung at Krasnaya Pachra, Moscow Oblast ) was a Soviet poet.

Life and work

Alexander Twardowski was born in 1910 as the son of a blacksmith. After finishing the 4th grade class he left the school because of material difficulties. At home, he ran away twice because he was unhappy with the rural lifestyle.

In 1924, Twardowski in the Komsomol, three years later he became a member of the Association of Proletarian Writers ( RAPP ). He devoted himself to literature.

His first works were published in newspapers of the Red Army in the Smolensk Oblast. In his poems Путь социализму (The Way to Socialism, 1931) and Страна Муравия к ( The country Murawija, 1934-1936 ), he glorified the collectivization of Soviet agriculture. As a member of the CPSU (since 1938), he participated in the occupation of the eastern parts of Poland and the Finnish -Soviet Winter War as a political commissar.

His Poem Василий Тёркин ( Vasily Tjorkin, 1941-1945 ) is considered as an example of the Soviet ideas of the time about the poetry.

As editor of the Moscow literary journal Novy Mir (New World) was Twardowski the story reprinted in the fall of 1962, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich of the then unknown author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

His parents fell victim to the dekulakization; a loss, the Twardowski silently hinnahm and on which he suffered until the end of his life.