presents
Soviet Writers at War!
VASILI TYORKIN:
A Book About A Soldier
by
Aleksandr Tvardovsky
(1942 - 1945)
presents
Soviet Writers at War!
VASILI TYORKIN:
A Book About A Soldier
by
Aleksandr Tvardovsky
(1942 - 1945)
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The most popular work of literature among Soviet soldiers during the Great Patriotic War (World War II) war was Aleksandr Tvardovsky's poem Vasili Tyorkin: A Book About a Soldier.. Appearing in installments between 1942 and 1945, it presented a new folk hero who was everything a Soviet soldier could ever hope to be--clever, witty, inventive, thoughtful, resourceful, dependable, courageous, loveable, fun-loving, and calm under fire. Vasili Tryokin fought Nazis hand-to-hand, was wounded several times, slogged through marshes, swam a freezing river to rescue his comrades, shot down a plane with his rifle, settled arguments, made with the wisecracks and could play a mean accordion. So true and human was Tvardovsky's creation that most Soviet soldiers came to believe that Tyorkin was a real person; many even (mistakenly) remembered seeing him in their units. SovLit.com presents a bilingual Russian-English version of two chapters from Tvardovsky's war-time folk epic: and The Accordion. see also: Biography of Aleksandr Tvardovsky and Tvardovsky Axed! (How and why Tvardovsky lost his job as Chief Editor of Novy Mir) |
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