But there is a path to immortality, my dear,

Of course, you shouldn’t meddle with saints.

But live like this, so that maybe forever

Remain in the blessed memory of people.

Eduard Asadov

Today, September 7th, is the birthday of my favorite poet Eduard Asadov. I put a lot of his poems in my diary, but I have never talked about him.

Why can E. Asadov be called a poet of the 60s, but only because it was in the 60s that the writer gained all-Union fame.

His collections, produced in huge editions, are “swept away” from store shelves by thousands of fans.

Evenings of Asadov’s creativity are always crowded; the audience does not let the writer leave even after several hours of performances. Communicating with ordinary people, Eduard Arkadyevich finds inspiration for his new works.

Perhaps it is because of this that his poems, written in a close and understandable language for ordinary people, gained popularity for decades.

But his life is, to one degree or another, reflected in his works. But it also happens that the fate of a poet or artist is already a legend in itself, and in this case a special reader’s interest arises in it.

Asadov’s life is an example of such a fate.

A favorite of millions of Soviet citizens, poet and prose writer, Eduard Arkadyevich Asadov was born on September 7, 1923 in the small town of Merv (Turkmenistan).

After the death of Arkady Grigorievich, the writer’s father, in 1929, the family moved to Sverdlovsk.

Ivan Kalustovich, the writer’s grandfather, with whom the Asadovs stayed in Sverdlovsk, lived a stormy revolutionary life, was familiar with N.G. Chernyshevsky.

The extraordinary experience and views of Ivan Kalustovich influenced the formation of Asadov’s personality, instilling in him a heightened sense of justice, courage and love for people.

Already at the age of eight he wrote his first poems.

When they told me your name,
I even thought it was a joke.
But soon we all in the class knew
That your name really is Forget-Me-Not.

And then war hit the country. Thousands of volunteers responded to the call “Everyone to the front”

... Eduard Asadov accomplished an amazing feat. A flight through death in an old truck, along a sun-drenched road, in full view of the enemy, under continuous artillery and mortar fire, under bombing - this is a feat.

To go to almost certain death in order to save comrades is a feat... Any doctor would confidently say that a person who received such a wound has very little chance of survival. And he is not only unable to fight, but also to move at all.

But Eduard Asadov did not leave the battle. Constantly losing consciousness, he continued to command, carry out a combat operation and drive the car to the goal, which he now saw only with his heart. And he completed the task brilliantly.

From the book about Eduard Asadov "For your sake, people"

In the battles for the liberation of Sevastopol on the night of May 3-4, 1944, showing rare courage, dedication and will, Guard Lieutenant Asadov was seriously wounded and lost his sight. Life seemed to collapse, go out, end...

Now life had to start literally from scratch. And once you start, overcome the most difficult challenges and do everything you can, and even everything you can’t. And he endured, continuing to write poetry between operations, as at the front - between battles.

There was everything: doubts and hopes, failures and joys, and of course, a stubborn desire: to win!

AND HE WON!

His whole life and all his work is a victory, he made his life creative.

I really want to write poetry,

so that every line

move life forward.

This song will win

My people will accept such a song.

A. Asadov

Eduard Arkadyevich died at an advanced age in April 2004, having received a huge number of awards and prizes during his life, and also leaving behind a legacy that is read with pleasure in our time.

Eduard Asadov was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery. This was the last will of Eduard Asadov, who bequeathed to bury his heart in Sevastopol on Sapun Mountain.

Biography

Eduard Arkadievich

Poet, honorary citizen of the city of Sevastopol

Born on September 7, 1923 in the Turkmen city of Merv (now Mary). Father - Asadov Arkady Grigorievich (1898−1929), graduated from Tomsk University, during the Civil War - commissar, commander of the 1st company of the 2nd rifle regiment, in peacetime he worked as a teacher at school. Mother - Asadova (Kurdova) Lidia Ivanovna (1902−1984), teacher. Wife - Asadova (Razumovskaya) Galina Valentinovna (1925−1997), artist of the Moscow Concert. Granddaughter - Kristina Arkadyevna Asadova (born in 1978), graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, teacher of Italian at MGIMO.

In 1929, Eduard’s father died, and Lydia Ivanovna moved with her son to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), where the future poet’s grandfather, Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov, lived, whom Eduard Arkadyevich with a kind smile calls his “historical grandfather.” Living in Astrakhan, Ivan Kalustovich from 1885 to 1887 served as a secretary-scribe for Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky after his return from Vilyui exile and was forever imbued with his high philosophical ideas. In 1887, on the advice of Chernyshevsky, he entered Kazan University, where he met student Vladimir Ulyanov and, following him, joined the revolutionary student movement and participated in the organization of illegal student libraries. Subsequently, after graduating from the natural sciences department of the university, he worked in the Urals as a zemstvo doctor, and since 1917, as the head of the medical department of Gubzdrav. The depth and originality of Ivan Kalustovich’s thinking had a huge impact on the formation of his grandson’s character and worldview, instilling in him willpower and courage, on his faith in conscience and kindness, and ardent love for people.

Working Ural, Sverdlovsk, where Eduard Asadov spent his childhood and adolescence, became the second homeland for the future poet, and he wrote his first poems at the age of eight. Over the years, he traveled almost the entire Urals, especially often visiting the city of Serov, where his uncle lived. He forever fell in love with the strict and even harsh nature of this region and its inhabitants. All these bright and vivid impressions will subsequently be reflected in many poems and poems by Eduard Asadov: “Forest River”, “Rendezvous with Childhood”, “Poem about the First Tenderness”, etc. The theater attracted him no less than poetry - while studying at school , he studied in the drama club at the Palace of Pioneers, which was led by an excellent teacher, director of Sverdlovsk radio Leonid Konstantinovich Dikovsky.

In 1939, Lydia Ivanovna, as an experienced teacher, was transferred to work in Moscow. Here Edward continued to write poetry - about school, about recent events in Spain, about hiking in the forest, about friendship, about dreams. He read and re-read his favorite poets: Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Petofi, Blok, Yesenin, whom he still considers to be his creative teachers.

The graduation party at school No. 38 in the Frunzensky district of Moscow, where Eduard Asadov studied, took place on June 14, 1941. When the war began, he, without waiting for the draft, came to the district Komsomol committee with a request to send him as a volunteer to the front. This request was granted. It was sent to Moscow, where the first units of the famous Guards mortars were formed. He was appointed as a gunner in the 3rd Division of the 4th Guards Artillery Mortar Regiment. After a month and a half of intensive training, the division in which Asadov served was sent to Leningrad, becoming the 50th separate guards artillery division. Having fired its first salvo at the enemy on September 19, 1941, the division fought in the most difficult sectors of the Volkhov Front. Scorching 30-40-degree frosts, hundreds and hundreds of kilometers back and forth along the broken front line: Voronovo, Gaitolovo, Sinyavino, Mga, Volkhov, Novaya village, Workers' Village No. 1, Putilovo... In total, in the winter of 1941/42, Asadov's gun fired 318 salvos at enemy positions. In addition to the position of gunner, he quickly learned and mastered the duties of other crew numbers.

In the spring of 1942, in one of the battles near the village of Novaya, the gun commander, Sergeant M. M. Kudryavtsev, was seriously wounded. Asadov, together with medical instructor Vasily Boyko, carried the sergeant out of the car, helped bandage it and, without waiting for orders from the immediate commander, took command of the combat installation, while simultaneously performing the duties of a gunner. Standing near the combat vehicle, Eduard accepted the rocket shells brought by the soldiers, installed them on the guides and secured them with clamps. A German bomber emerged from the clouds. Turning around, he began to dive. The bomb fell 20-30 meters from Sergeant Asadov’s combat vehicle. Loader Nikolai Boykov, who was carrying a shell on his shoulder, did not have time to execute the command “Get down!” His left arm was torn off by a shell fragment. Gathering all his will and strength, the soldier, swaying, stood 5 meters from the installation. Another second or two - and the shell will poke into the ground, and then there will be nothing alive left for tens of meters around. Asadov quickly assessed the situation. He instantly jumped up from the ground, jumped up to Boykov in one leap and picked up a shell falling from his comrade’s shoulder. There was nowhere to charge it - the combat vehicle was on fire, thick smoke was pouring out of the cabin. Knowing that one of the gas tanks was under the seat in the cab, he carefully lowered the shell to the ground and rushed to help the driver Vasily Safonov fight the fire. The fire was defeated. Despite his burned hands, refusing hospitalization, Asadov continued to carry out his combat mission. Since then, he performed two duties: gun commander and gunner. And in short breaks between battles he continued to write poetry. Some of them (“Letter from the Front”, “To the Starting Line”, “In the Dugout”) were included in the first book of his poems.

In May 1943, having successfully passed the exams and received the rank of lieutenant and a certificate for excellent achievements (at the state final exams he received thirteen “excellent” and only two “good” in 15 subjects), Eduard Asadov arrived on the North Caucasus Front. As the chief of communications for the division of the 50th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 2nd Guards Army, he took part in the battles near the village of Krymskaya.

An appointment to the 4th Ukrainian Front soon followed. He first served as an assistant commander of a battery of guards mortars, and when battalion commander Turchenko near Sevastopol “got promoted,” he was appointed battery commander. Roads again, and battles again: Chaplino, Sofievka, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk region, Melitopol, Orekhov, Askania-Nova, Perekop, Armyansk, State Farm, Kacha, Mamasai, Sevastopol...

When the offensive of the 2nd Guards Army began near Armyansk, the most dangerous and difficult place for this period turned out to be the “gate” across the Turkish Wall, which the enemy attacked continuously. It was extremely difficult for artillerymen to transport equipment and ammunition through the “gate.” The division commander, Major Khlyzov, entrusted this most difficult section to Lieutenant Asadov, taking into account his experience and courage. Asadov calculated that shells were falling into the “gate” exactly every three minutes. He made a risky, but the only possible decision: to rush with the cars during these short intervals between gaps. Having driven the car to the “gate”, after the next explosion, without even waiting for the dust and smoke to settle, he ordered the driver to turn on maximum speed and rush forward. Having broken through the “gate,” the lieutenant took another, empty, car, returned back and, standing in front of the “gate,” again waited for the gap and again repeated the throw through the “gate,” only in the reverse order. Then he again got into the car with ammunition, again drove up to the passage and thus led the next car through the smoke and dust of the explosion. In total that day he made more than 20 such throws in one direction and the same number in the other...

The enemy's ground units immediately noticed the moving vehicle: explosions of heavy shells shook the ground every now and then. When they reached the plateau, they were spotted from the air. Two Junkers, emerging from the clouds, made a circle above the car - a machine-gun burst obliquely pierced the upper part of the cabin, and soon a bomb fell somewhere very close. The engine worked intermittently, the riddled car moved slowly. The most difficult section of the road began. The lieutenant jumped out of the cab and walked ahead, showing the driver the way among the stones and craters. When the Ulyanov battery was already nearby, a roaring column of smoke and flame shot up nearby - Lieutenant Asadov was seriously wounded and lost his sight forever.

Years later, the artillery commander of the 2nd Guards Army, Lieutenant General I. S. Strelbitsky, in his book about Eduard Asadov “For your sake, people,” will write about his feat: “...Eduard Asadov accomplished an amazing feat. A flight through death in an old truck, along a sun-drenched road, in full view of the enemy, under continuous artillery and mortar fire, under bombing - this is a feat. To go to almost certain death in order to save comrades is a feat... Any doctor would confidently say that a person who received such a wound has very little chance of survival. And he is not only unable to fight, but also to move at all. But Eduard Asadov did not leave the battle. Constantly losing consciousness, he continued to command, carry out a combat operation and drive the car to the goal, which he now saw only with his heart. And he completed the task brilliantly. I don’t remember such an incident in my long military life...”

The decisive salvo before the assault on Sevastopol was fired on time, a salvo for the sake of saving hundreds of people, for the sake of victory... For this feat of the Guard, Lieutenant Asadov was awarded the Order of the Red Star, and many years later, by the Decree of the Permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR dated November 18, 1998, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the title of honorary citizen of the hero city of Sevastopol.

And the feat continued. I had to believe in myself again, mobilize all my strength and will, be able to love life again, love it so much that I could tell about it in my poems in all its diversity of colors. In the hospital between operations, he continued to write poetry. In order to impartially assess their merit, and no professional poet had yet read his poems, he decided to send them to Korney Chukovsky, whom he knew not only as the author of funny children's books, but also as a harsh and merciless critic. A few days later the answer came. According to Eduard Arkadyevich, “from the poems he sent, perhaps only his last name and dates remained, almost every line was provided with extensive comments by Chukovsky.” The most unexpected conclusion for him was: “...however, despite everything said above, I can say with full responsibility that you are a true poet. For you have that genuine poetic breath that is inherent only to a poet! I wish you success. K. Chukovsky." The meaning of these sincere words for the young poet was difficult to overestimate.

In the fall of 1946, Eduard Asadov entered the Gorky Literary Institute. During these years, Alexey Surkov, Vladimir Lugovskoy, Pavel Antokolsky, and Evgeny Dolmatovsky became his literary mentors.

While still a student, Eduard Asadov managed to declare himself as an original poet (“Spring in the Forest”, “Poems about the Red Mongrel”, “In the Taiga”, the poem “Back to Order”). In the late 1940s, Vasily Fedorov, Rasul Gamzatov, Vladimir Soloukhin, Evgeny Vinokurov, Naum Grebnev, Yakov Kozlovsky, Margarita Agashina, Yulia Drunina, Grigory Pozhenyan, Igor Kobzev, Yuri Bondarev, Vladimir Tendryakov, Grigory studied with him at the Literary Institute Baklanov and many other later famous poets, prose writers and playwrights. One day, the institute announced a competition for the best poem or poem, to which most students responded. By the decision of a strict and impartial jury chaired by Pavel Grigorievich Antokolsky, the first prize was awarded to Eduard Asadov, the second to Vladimir Soloukhin, and the third was shared by Konstantin Vanshenkin and Maxim Tolmachev. On May 1, 1948, the first publication of his poems took place in the magazine Ogonyok. And a year later, his poem “Back to Form” was submitted for discussion at the Writers’ Union, where it received the highest recognition from such eminent poets as Vera Inber, Stepan Shchipachev, Mikhail Svetlov, Alexander Kovalenkov, Yaroslav Smelyakov and others.

During 5 years of study at the institute, Eduard Asadov did not receive a single C grade and graduated from the institute with honors. In 1951, after the publication of his first book of poems, “Bright Roads,” he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. Numerous trips around the country began, conversations with people, creative meetings with readers in dozens of large and small cities.

Since the beginning of the 1960s, the poetry of Eduard Asadov has acquired the widest resonance. His books, published in copies of 100,000, instantly disappeared from bookstore shelves. The poet's literary evenings, organized through the Propaganda Bureau of the USSR Writers' Union, Mosconcert and various philharmonic societies, were held for almost 40 years with constant full houses in the country's largest concert halls, accommodating up to 3,000 people. Their constant participant was the poet's wife - a wonderful actress, master of artistic expression, Galina Razumovskaya. These were truly vibrant festivals of poetry, fostering the brightest and noblest feelings. Eduard Asadov read his poems, talked about himself, and responded to numerous notes from the audience. He was not allowed to leave the stage for a long time, and meetings often dragged on for 3, 4 or even more hours.

Impressions from communicating with people formed the basis of his poems. To date, Eduard Arkadyevich is the author of 50 poetry collections, which over the years have included such well-known poems as “Back to Order”, “Shurka”, “Galina”, “Ballad of Hatred and Love”.

One of the fundamental features of Eduard Asadov's poetry is a heightened sense of justice. His poems captivate the reader with enormous artistic and life truth, originality and uniqueness of intonation, polyphonic sound. A characteristic feature of his poetic work is the appeal to the most pressing topics, the attraction to action-packed verse, to the ballad. He is not afraid of sharp corners, does not avoid conflict situations, on the contrary, he strives to resolve them with the utmost sincerity and directness (“Slanderers”, “An Uneven Battle”, “When Friends Become Bosses”, “The Needed People”, “The Break”). Whatever topic the poet touches on, whatever he writes about, it is always interesting and bright, it always excites the soul. These include hot, emotional poems on civil topics (“Relics of the Country”, “Russia did not begin with a sword!”, “Coward”, “My Star”), and poems about love imbued with lyricism (“They were students”, “My love”, “Heart”, “Don’t doubt it”, “Love and cowardice”, “I will see you off”, “I can really wait for you”, “On the wing”, “Fates and hearts”, “Her love”, etc. .).

One of the main themes in the work of Eduard Asadov is the theme of the Motherland, loyalty, courage and patriotism (“Smoke of the Fatherland”, “Twentieth Century”, “Forest River”, “Dream of Ages”, “About What You Can’t Lose”, lyrical monologue "Motherland") Poems about the Motherland are closely connected with poems about nature, in which the poet figuratively and excitedly conveys the beauty of his native land, finding bright, rich colors for this. These are “In the Forest Land”, “Night Song”, “Taiga Spring”, and other poems, as well as a whole series of poems about animals (“Bear Cub”, “Bengal Tiger”, “Pelican”, “Ballad of the Damn Pensioner”, “ Yashka", "Zoryanka" and one of the poet's most widely known poems - "Poems about the Red Mongrel"). Eduard Asadov is a life-affirming poet: even his most dramatic line carries a charge of ardent love for life.

Eduard Asadov died on April 21, 2004. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery. But he bequeathed his heart to be buried on Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, where on May 4, 1944 he was wounded and lost his sight.

Asadov Eduard Arkadyevich - Soviet poet and prose writer. Born into a family of teachers on September 7, 1923. Asadov's father Arkady Grigorievich fought in civilian life as the commander of a rifle company, being the commissar of a rifle regiment. Asadov's (Kurdova) mother Lidia Ivanovna is a teacher; in 1929, after the death of her husband, she moved to Sverdlovsk, to live with the grandfather of the future poet, Kurdov Ivan Kalustovich. It was the grandfather who influenced the development of his grandson’s worldview and character, his faith in people and his attitude towards them. The poet spent his adolescence in Sverdlovsk; here he wrote his first poem at the age of eight. At school, he became interested in the drama club of the Palace of Pioneers with Leonid Konstantinovich Dikovsky, director of Sverdlovsk Radio.

In 1939, Asadov and his mother moved to Moscow. In Moscow, the poet studied at school No. 38, after the graduation party on June 14, 1941, without waiting for the call, Eduard Asadov volunteered for the front. He became a gunner in the 4th Guards Artillery Mortar Regiment, located near Moscow. A month and a half later, the 3rd division of the regiment, in which Asadov served, was transferred to Leningrad. During the winter of 1941/42 alone, Asadov’s gun fired 318 salvos at enemy positions. Since the spring of 1942, Eduard Asadov has been fighting as a commander and gunner. And already in the fall of 1942, Eduard Grigorievich was urgently sent to the 2nd Omsk Guards Artillery and Mortar School. During 6 months of study, the fighters completed a two-year training course. In May 1943, Asadov graduated from college with honors, with the rank of lieutenant. A year later, in May 1944, while fighting in the Crimea, in a battle near the village of Belbek, Lieutenant Asadov was wounded, which deprived him of his sight for the rest of his life. For this battle he was awarded the Order of the Red Star; subsequently, on November 18, 1998, Asadov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, as well as the title of honorary citizen of the hero city of Sevastopol.

After the war, in 1946, in the fall, he entered the Gorky Literary Institute. While still a student, Asadov received first prize in the institute's competition for the best poem, beating Vladimir Soloukhin. In 1951, having graduated from the institute with honors, Asadov became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR after the publication of the collection of poems “Bright Roads”. In the early sixties, the poetry of Eduard Asadov began to enjoy extraordinary popularity, his books were published in thousands of copies, and sold-out creative evenings were held in the largest concert halls of the Soviet Union. In total, during the creative activity of Eduard Asadov, 50 collections of poetry were published. A constant participant in the poet’s creative activity was his wife, Galina Razumovskaya, an actress and master of artistic performance. Asadov's poetry is action-packed, with a keen sense of justice, interesting and bright in its originality.

Eduard Grigorievich Asadov died on April 21, 2004 in Moscow. His grave is located at the Kuntsevo cemetery in the city. But the poet bequeathed his heart to be buried in Sevastopol, on Sapun Mountain, in the place where he lost his sight in the battle of 1944.

Poet
Hero of the Soviet Union (1998)
Knight of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (February 7, for great services in the development of Russian literature)
Knight of the Order of Honor (1998, for his great contribution to Russian literature)
Knight of the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1993, for services to the development of domestic literature and strengthening interethnic cultural ties)
Knight of the Order of Lenin
Knight of the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree
Knight of the Order of the Red Star
Knight of two orders "Badge of Honor"
Awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
Awarded the medal "For the Defense of Sevastopol"
Awarded the medal “For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”

I can really wait for you
Long, long and true, true,
And I can't sleep at night
A year, or two, and for the rest of my life, probably!

Let the leaves of the calendar
They will fly around like leaves in a garden,
What do you really need?

I can follow you
Through thickets and climbs,
On sand, almost without roads,
Over the mountains, along any path,
Where the devil has never been!

I’ll go through everything without reproaching anyone,
I will overcome any worries,
Just to know that everything is not in vain,
That you won’t betray it later on the road.

I can give it for you
Everything I have and will have.
I can accept for you
The bitterness of the worst destinies in the world.

“The most difficult thing is the doctors’ verdict: “Everything will happen ahead. Everything but light." E. Asadov.

In 1971, Eduard Asadov described his biography: “Born on September 7, 1923 in Turkmenistan. I am Armenian by nationality. My parents were teachers. My father fought with the Dashnaks in the Caucasus in civilian life. He was a company political instructor. My first childhood impressions forever included narrow, dusty streets of a Central Asian town, colorful noisy bazaars and a colony of pigeons over flat, hot whitish roofs. And a lot of golden-orange color: sun, sand, fruit. After the death of my father in 1929, our family moved to Sverdlovsk. My second grandfather lived here, also an Armenian, a doctor by profession, Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov. This grandfather, to some extent, was a “historical” personality. In his youth, he was Chernyshevsky’s secretary in Astrakhan for two years after Nikolai Gavrilovich returned from exile. This acquaintance had a decisive influence on the formation of the spiritual world of a young man. And throughout his life, my grandfather retained a ardent, almost enthusiastic love for Chernyshevsky. In Sverdlovsk, my mother and I both “went to first grade.” Only she is a teacher, and I am a student. Here, in the Urals, I spent my entire childhood. Here I joined the pioneers, here at the age of eight I wrote my first poem, ran to the Palace of Pioneers for rehearsals of the drama club; here I was accepted into the Komsomol. The Urals are the country of my childhood! Many times I visited the Ural factories with the boys and I will never forget the beauty of work, the kind smiles and the amazing warmth of a working person. When I was fifteen years old, we moved to Moscow. After the calm and businesslike Sverdlovsk, Moscow seemed noisy, bright and hasty. I plunged headlong into poetry, debate, and circles. Was he unsure where to apply: to the Literary or Theater Institute? But events changed all plans. And life dictated a completely different statement. The graduation party at our 38th Moscow school was on June 14, 1941, and a week later - war! A call swept across the country: “Komsomol members - to the front!” And I went with a statement to the district Komsomol committee, asking to be sent to the front as a volunteer. I arrived at the district committee in the evening, and in the morning I was already on the military train. I fought the entire war in the Guards mortar units (Katyushas). It was a wonderful and very formidable weapon. First he fought near Leningrad. He was a gunner. Then he became an officer and commanded a battery on the North Caucasus and 4th Ukrainian fronts. He fought well, dreamed of victory, and wrote poetry in between battles. In the battle for the liberation of Sevastopol on the night of May 3-4, 1944, he was seriously wounded. Then - the hospital. Poems between operations... In 1946 he entered the Gorky Literary Institute. My first literary teachers were: Chukovsky, Surkov, Svetlov, Antokolsky. Graduated from the institute in 1951. It was a “fruitful” year for me. This year, the first book of my poems, “Bright Roads,” was published, and I was accepted as a member of the party and a member of the Writers’ Union. In total, I have published eleven poetry collections so far. I take themes for poems from life. I travel around the country a lot. I visit factories, factories, and institutes. I can't live without people. And I consider serving people as my highest task, that is, those for whom I live, breathe and work.”

Eduard Asadov's father, Arkady Grigorievich Asadov, graduated from Tomsk University, during the Civil War he was a commissar, commander of the 1st company of the 2nd rifle regiment, and worked as a school teacher in peacetime. Mother - Asadova (Kurdova) Lidia Ivanovna, worked as a teacher.

In 1929, Eduard’s father died, and Lydia Ivanovna moved with her son to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), where the future poet’s grandfather, Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov, lived, whom Eduard Arkadyevich with a kind smile called his “historical grandfather.” Living in Astrakhan, Ivan Kalustovich from 1885 to 1887 served as a secretary-scribe for Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky after his return from Vilyui exile and was forever imbued with his high philosophical ideas. In 1887, on the advice of Chernyshevsky, he entered Kazan University, where he met student Vladimir Ulyanov and, following him, joined the revolutionary student movement and participated in the organization of illegal student libraries. Subsequently, after graduating from the natural sciences department of the university, he worked in the Urals as a zemstvo doctor, and since 1917, as the head of the medical department of Gubzdrav.

The depth and originality of Ivan Kalustovich’s thinking had a huge impact on the formation of his grandson’s character and worldview, instilling in him willpower and courage, on his faith in conscience and kindness, and ardent love for people. Working Ural, Sverdlovsk, where Eduard Asadov spent his childhood and adolescence, became the second homeland for the future poet, and he wrote his first poems at the age of eight. Over the years, he traveled almost the entire Urals, especially often visiting the city of Serov, where his uncle lived. He forever fell in love with the strict and even harsh nature of this region and its inhabitants. All these bright and vivid impressions will subsequently be reflected in many poems and poems by Eduard Asadov: “Forest River”, “Rendezvous with Childhood”, “Poem about the First Tenderness”, etc.

The theater attracted him no less than poetry - while studying at school, he studied in the drama club at the Palace of Pioneers, which was led by an excellent teacher, director of Sverdlovsk radio Leonid Konstantinovich Dikovsky. In 1939, Lydia Ivanovna, as an experienced teacher, was transferred to work in Moscow, where Edward continued to write poetry - about school, about recent events in Spain, about hiking in the forest, about friendship, about dreams. He read and re-read his favorite poets: Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Petofi, Blok and Yesenin.

The graduation party at school N°38 in the Frunzensky district of Moscow, where Eduard Asadov studied, took place on June 14, 1941. When the war began, he, without waiting for the draft, came to the district Komsomol committee with a request to send him as a volunteer to the front. This request was granted. It was sent to Moscow, where the first units of the famous Guards mortars were formed. He was appointed as a gunner in the 3rd Division of the 4th Guards Artillery Mortar Regiment. After a month and a half of intensive training, the division in which Asadov served was sent to Leningrad, becoming the 50th separate guards artillery division. Having fired its first salvo at the enemy on September 19, 1941, the division fought in the most difficult sectors of the Volkhov Front. Scorching 30-40 degree frosts, hundreds and hundreds of kilometers back and forth along the broken front line: Voronovo, Gaitolovo, Sinyavino, Mga, Volkhov, Novaya village, Workers' Village No. 1, Putilovo... Total for the winter of 1941/42 Asadov's gun fired 318 salvos at enemy positions. In addition to the position of gunner, he quickly learned and mastered the duties of other crew numbers.

In the spring of 1942, in one of the battles near the village of Novaya, the gun commander, Sergeant Kudryavtsev, was seriously wounded. Asadov, together with medical instructor Vasily Boyko, carried the sergeant out of the car, helped bandage it and, without waiting for orders from the immediate commander, took command of the combat installation, while simultaneously performing the duties of a gunner. Standing near the combat vehicle, Eduard accepted the rocket shells brought by the soldiers, installed them on the guides and secured them with clamps. A German bomber appeared from behind the clouds. Turning around, he began to dive. The bomb fell 20-30 meters from Sergeant Asadov’s combat vehicle. Loader Nikolai Boykov, who was carrying a shell on his shoulder, did not have time to execute the command “Get down!” His left arm was torn off by a shell fragment. Gathering all his will and strength, the soldier, swaying, stood 5 meters from the installation. Another second or two - and the shell will poke into the ground, and then there will be nothing alive left for tens of meters around. Asadov assessed the situation, jumped up from the ground, ran up to Boykov and caught the falling shell. There was nowhere to charge it - the combat vehicle was on fire, thick smoke was pouring out of the cabin. Knowing that one of the gas tanks was under the seat in the cab, he carefully lowered the shell to the ground and rushed to help the driver Vasily Safonov fight the fire. The fire was defeated. Despite his burned hands, refusing hospitalization, Asadov continued to carry out his combat mission. Since then, he performed two duties: gun commander and gunner. And in short breaks between battles he continued to write poetry. Some of them ("Letter from the Front", "To the Starting Line", "In the Dugout") were included in the first book of his poems.

At that time, the guards mortar units experienced an acute shortage of officers. The best junior commanders with combat experience were sent to military schools by order of the command. In the fall of 1942, Eduard Asadov was urgently sent to the 2nd Omsk Guards Artillery and Mortar School. In 6 months of study it was necessary to complete a two-year course of study. We studied day and night, 13-16 hours a day. In May 1943, having successfully passed the exams, received the rank of lieutenant and a certificate for excellent achievements (at the state final exams he received thirteen “excellent” and only two “good” in 15 subjects), Eduard Asadov arrived on the North Caucasus Front. As the chief of communications for the division of the 50th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 2nd Guards Army, he took part in the battles near the village of Krymskaya.

An appointment to the 4th Ukrainian Front soon followed, where Asadov first served as assistant commander of a battery of guards mortars, and when battalion commander Turchenko near Sevastopol “got promoted,” he was appointed battery commander. In his life there were roads again, and again battles: Chaplino, Sofievka, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk region, Melitopol, Orekhov, Askania-Nova, Perekop, Armyansk, State Farm, Kacha, Mamasai, Sevastopol. When the offensive of the 2nd Guards Army began near Armyansk, the most dangerous and difficult place for this period turned out to be the “gate” across the Turkish Wall, which the enemy attacked continuously. It was extremely difficult for artillerymen to transport equipment and ammunition through the “gate.” The division commander, Major Khlyzov, entrusted this most difficult section to Lieutenant Asadov, taking into account his experience and courage. Asadov calculated that shells were falling into the “gate” exactly every three minutes. He made a risky, but the only possible decision: to rush with the cars during these short intervals between gaps. Having driven the car to the “gate”, after the next explosion, without even waiting for the dust and smoke to settle, he ordered the driver to turn on maximum speed and rush forward. Having broken through the "gate", the lieutenant took another, empty, car, returned back and, standing in front of the "gate", again waited for the gap and again repeated the throw through the "gate", only in the reverse order. Then he again got into the car with ammunition, again drove up to the passage and thus led the next car through the smoke and dust of the explosion. In total, that day he made more than 20 such throws in one direction and the same number in the other.

After the liberation of Perekop, the troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front moved to Crimea. 2 weeks before the approach to Sevastopol, Lieutenant Asadov took command of the battery. At the end of April they occupied the village of Mamashai. An order was received to place 2 batteries of guards mortars on a hill and in a ravine near the village of Belbek, in close proximity to the enemy. The enemy could see through the area. For several nights, under continuous shelling, the installations were prepared for battle. After the first salvo, heavy enemy fire fell on the batteries. The main blow from the ground and from the air fell on Asadov’s battery, which by the morning of May 3, 1944 was practically destroyed. However, many shells survived, while above, at the Ulyanov battery, there was a sharp shortage of shells. It was decided to transfer the surviving rocket shells to the Ulyanov battery in order to fire a decisive salvo before the assault on the enemy fortifications. At dawn, Lieutenant Asadov and driver V. Akulov drove the loaded car up a mountainous slope. The enemy's ground units immediately noticed the moving vehicle: explosions of heavy shells shook the ground every now and then. When they reached the plateau, they were spotted from the air. Two Junkers, emerging from the clouds, made a circle above the car - a machine-gun burst obliquely pierced the upper part of the cabin, and soon a bomb fell somewhere very close. The engine worked intermittently, the riddled car moved slowly. The most difficult section of the road began. The lieutenant jumped out of the cab and walked ahead, showing the driver the way among the stones and craters. When the Ulyanov battery was already nearby, a roaring column of smoke and flame shot up nearby - Lieutenant Asadov was seriously wounded and lost his sight forever.

Years later, the commander of the artillery of the 2nd Guards Army, Lieutenant General I.S. Strelbitsky, in his book about Eduard Asadov “For your sake, people,” wrote about his feat: “Eduard Asadov accomplished an amazing feat. A flight through death in an old truck, on a sun-drenched road, in full view of the enemy, under continuous artillery and mortar fire, under bombing - this is a feat. To drive to almost certain death in order to save comrades is a feat... Any doctor would confidently say that a person who received such a wound , there is very little chance of survival. And he is not only unable to fight, but also to move at all. But Eduard Asadov did not leave the battle. Constantly losing consciousness, he continued to command, carry out a combat operation and drive the car to the target, which he now only saw heart. And he completed the task brilliantly. I don’t remember such an incident in my long military life..."

The decisive salvo before the assault on Sevastopol was fired on time, a salvo to save hundreds of people, for the sake of victory. For this feat of the Guard, Lieutenant Asadov was awarded the Order of the Red Star, and many years later, by the Decree of the Permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR dated November 18, 1998, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the title of honorary citizen of the hero city of Sevastopol. And the feat continued. I had to believe in myself again, mobilize all my strength and will, be able to love life again, love it so much that I could tell about it in my poems in all its diversity of colors. In the hospital between operations, he continued to write poetry. In order to impartially assess their merit, and no professional poet had yet read his poems, he decided to send them to Korney Chukovsky, whom he knew not only as the author of funny children's books, but also as a harsh and merciless critic. A few days later the answer came. According to Eduard Arkadyevich, “from the poems he sent, perhaps only his last name and dates remained, almost every line was provided with extensive comments by Chukovsky.” The most unexpected conclusion for him was: “...however, despite everything said above, I can say with full responsibility that you are a true poet. For you have that genuine poetic breath that is inherent only to a poet! I wish you success. .Chukovsky".

The meaning of these sincere words for the young poet was difficult to overestimate.

In the fall of 1946, Eduard Asadov entered the Gorky Literary Institute. During these years, Alexey Surkov, Vladimir Lugovskoy, Pavel Antokolsky and Evgeny Dolmatovsky became his literary mentors.

While still a student, Eduard Asadov managed to declare himself as an original poet ("Spring in the Forest", "Poems about the Red Mongrel", "In the Taiga", the poem "Back to Order"). In the late 1940s, Vasily Fedorov, Rasul Gamzatov, Vladimir Soloukhin, Evgeny Vinokurov, Konstantin Vanshenkin, Naum Grebnev, Yakov Kozlovsky, Margarita Agashina, Yulia Drunina, Grigory Pozhenyan, Igor Kobzev, Yuri Bondarev, Vladimir studied with him at the Literary Institute Tendryakov, Grigory Baklanov and many other later famous poets, prose writers and playwrights. One day, the institute announced a competition for the best poem or poem, to which most students responded. By the decision of a strict and impartial jury chaired by Pavel Grigorievich Antokolsky, the first prize was awarded to Eduard Asadov, the second to Vladimir Soloukhin, and the third was shared by Konstantin Vanshenkin and Maxim Tolmachev.

On May 1, 1948, the first publication of his poems took place in the magazine Ogonyok. And a year later, his poem “Back to Form” was submitted for discussion at the Writers' Union, where it received the highest recognition from such eminent poets as Vera Inber, Stepan Shchipachev, Mikhail Svetlov, Alexander Kovalenkov and Yaroslav Smelyakov.

For 5 years of study at the institute, Eduard Asadov did not receive a single C grade and graduated from the institute with honors. In 1951, after the publication of his first book of poems, “Bright Roads,” he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. Numerous trips around the country began, conversations with people, creative meetings with readers in dozens of large and small cities.

One of the fundamental features of Eduard Asadov's poetry is a heightened sense of justice. His poems captivate the reader with enormous artistic and life truth, originality and uniqueness of intonation, polyphonic sound. A characteristic feature of his poetic work is the appeal to the most pressing topics, the attraction to action-packed verse, to the ballad. He is not afraid of sharp corners, does not avoid conflict situations, on the contrary, he strives to resolve them with the utmost sincerity and directness (“Slanderers”, “An Uneven Battle”, “When Friends Become Bosses”, “The Right People”, “The Break”). Whatever topic the poet touches on, whatever he writes about, it is always interesting and bright, it always excites the soul. These include hot, emotional poems on civil topics (“Relics of the Country”, “Russia did not begin with a sword!”, “Coward”, “My Star”), and poems about love imbued with lyricism (“They were students”, “My love”, “Heart”, “Don’t doubt it”, “Love and cowardice”, “I will see you off”, “I can really wait for you”, “On the wing”, “Fates and hearts”, “Her love”, etc. .).

One of the main themes in the work of Eduard Asadov is the theme of the Motherland, loyalty, courage and patriotism (“Smoke of the Fatherland”, “Twentieth Century”, “Forest River”, “Dream of Ages”, “About What You Can’t Lose”, lyrical monologue "Motherland"). Poems about the Motherland are closely connected with poems about nature, in which the poet figuratively and excitedly conveys the beauty of his native land, finding bright, rich colors for this. These are “In the Forest Land”, “Night Song”, “Taiga Spring”, “Forest River” and other poems, as well as a whole series of poems about animals (“Bear Cub”, “Bengal Tiger”, “Pelican”, “Ballad of Bulan”) Pensioner", "Yashka", "Zoryanka" and one of the poet's most widely known poems - "Poems about a red mongrel"). Eduard Asadov is a life-affirming poet: even his most dramatic line carries a charge of ardent love for life.

Russia did not begin with a sword,
It began with a scythe and a plow.
Not because the blood is not hot,
But because the Russian shoulder
Never in my life has anger touched...

Asadov was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, the Red Star, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, two orders of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Honor in 1998, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree in 2004, the medals "For the Defense of Leningrad", “For the defense of Sevastopol”, “For the victory over Germany”. By decree of the permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR on November 18, 1998, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Eduard Asadov died on April 21, 2004. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery. He bequeathed his heart to be buried on Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, where on May 4, 1944 he was wounded and lost his sight.

In 1986, a documentary film “I Fight, I Believe, I Love” was shot about Eduard Asadov.

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Text prepared by Andrey Goncharov

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The wave carried the corpse under the driftwood...
Old man, you don't know nature
After all, maybe the body of a mongrel,
And the heart is of the purest breed.

26 days of struggle

Eduard Asadov born in the city of Merv in Turkmenistan into a family of teachers. He wrote his first poems at the age of 8 and dreamed that when he grew up, he would certainly become a poet.

But first he became a soldier. Asadov graduated from school in Moscow in 1941 and immediately after graduation he volunteered for the front, like millions of his peers. He describes his emotions in the poem “Back to Order”, in the hero of which it is easy to recognize the author himself:

Everything sang and laughed for Sergei:
Trees, birds, expanse, blueness,
And suddenly, like a bomb, it seemed to explode,
Short and scary: WAR!..

Asadov served in one of the first mortar units, grew from a gunner and became an officer. He wrote poetry at any free moment - on the train, in the dugout... In May 1944, in the battles for Sevastopol, the young lieutenant Asadov received a terrible wound. Together with a friend, they had to deliver shells in a truck to an artillery battery. The road was so destroyed that Asadov got out and showed the way to the driver, otherwise the car would have been carried into a hole. And suddenly a shell exploded next to the fighter, a fragment hit his head, his face turned into a bloody mess. With this severe wound, he nevertheless continued his journey - ammunition was delivered to the soldiers. And only after this Asadov lost consciousness - the doctors later could not understand how he, with such a severe traumatic brain injury, could even survive, let alone go and deliver weapons.

Asadov would write later: “...What happened then? And then there was a hospital and twenty-six days of struggle between life and death. "To be or not to be?" - in the most literal sense of the word. When consciousness came, I dictated a postcard to my mother in two or three words, trying to avoid disturbing words. When consciousness left, I became delirious. It was bad, but youth and life still won.”

More than one good generation has grown up on his poems...
On September 7, 1923, the lyric poet and front-line soldier Eduard Asadov was born. pic.twitter.com/j0D8nIBDeg
— Lyudmila (@Nova8Roma) September 7, 2017

Six girls were rescued

Yes, in the end, the doctors managed to defeat death. But at what cost? In his autobiographical poem, Asadov will tell:

Sergei groped in the darkness with his hands...
He stood up a little. There is no more bandage...
But why didn’t he spray or hit?
Spring bright light in his face?!

The handsome young black-eyed man turned into a blind man, with blackness instead of eyes. The poet didn't even have a bridge of his nose. Asadov spent time in the hospital total complexity more than a year and a half and underwent 12 operations. All my life I then wore a black mask, taking it off only at home.

Later, Asadov openly admitted that during that terrible period he was often visited by despair, melancholy, and hopelessness. But he found the strength to live. Largely, by the way, thanks to the six girls who came to him. After all, the fame of the young military poet had long spread throughout the Union.

I will feel everything I can with my hands,
Memory will enter the battle with darkness like a fighter,
I will refresh my friends' memory with my eyes,
I will finally see with my heart!

His first wife was a beauty Irina Viktorova, actress of the Central Children's Theater. It was she who made the poet believe that even mutilated, he could be loved. Asadov, having fallen passionately in love, got married very quickly. When the couple had a child in 1955, Eduard Arkadyevich wrote this touching:

I put it on my palm without effort
Tightly swaddled warm package
He has a middle name and a last name,
Only there is still no name.

They named the baby in honor of his grandfather - Arkady. Although, it must be said, the present of his Armenian grandfather - Artashes Grigorievich Asadyants. The poet, by the way, was very proud of being an Armenian, and loved not only Turkmen, but also Armenian cuisine.

Member of the Union of Soviet Writers Eduard Asadov. 1960 Photo: RIA Novosti / V. Gaikin

Unfortunately, a few years later, Asadov would write in a letter to a friend that he and his wife were mistaken, that for Viktorova he was just a hobby... A difficult divorce followed. Eduard Arkadyevich suffered that his son did not grow up next to him. And yet, many years later, the poet suddenly bursts from paper practically confessing to Irina Viktorova, his first love:

We still remain some part
With her, the very first, pure and funny!
There are no two equal songs in the world,
And no matter how many stars beckon again,
But only one has magic.
And, no matter how good the second one is sometimes,
Still, take care of your first love!

Meanwhile, everything in Asadov’s work is brilliant. He graduates with honors from the Literary Institute. Gorky at the Union of Writers of the USSR in Moscow. Korney Chukovsky becomes his main mentor and teacher. Asadov is published in Ogonyok, and the collections are widely distributed among grateful readers. However, critics for the predominance of lyrical themes in his work sometimes call Asadov a “poet for cooks” - they say, there should be more civil, patriotic themes. Asadov continues to adhere to his style and does not pay attention to critics and envious people, especially since he has a Muse.

At one of the creative evenings, Eduard Arkadyevich meets the Mosconcert actress, a master of artistic expression Galina Razumovskaya. The woman asked Asadov to skip her speech ahead - she was afraid of missing the train. Since then they have not parted.

Galina became for Asadov not only a wife, but also a friend. And also through his eyes. She always accompanied her husband, leading him by the arm... She learned to drive a car so that Asadov would not have problems moving and he could easily get to the dacha.

In the morning, Asadov dictated poems into a tape recorder. Then he typed them blindly on a typewriter. And then Galina made her own edits and sent the manuscript to publishing houses.

Everything in the house was subordinated to the convenience of the poet. They didn’t have a TV - the wife considered it mean to do something that was impossible for her Edward. But the radio was constantly playing in the apartment. Galina also loved to read aloud to her husband - he adored creativity Pushkin And Lermontov A. I read for several hours.

It was Galina Valentinovna who gave Asadov the feeling of home, of the rear. She perfectly prepared the Turkmen pilaf and flatbreads so beloved by her husband. I baked Russian pies. And Asadov, being a lover of Armenian cognac, learned to make pepper tincture. There were always guests in their house, it was fun. Asadov supported young poets with both money and advice, just like he once did Chukovsky.

Eduard Arkadyevich will devote a lot of poems to his wife, including the lyrical story in verse “Galina”. They lived for each other, there were no quarrels in their house. Probably, the poet’s male wisdom is best conveyed by the lines:

How are husbands and wives different?
The wife is the one who always obeys
And the husband is the one who is stronger than the elephant
And she does whatever she wants.

Eduard Arkadyevich Asadov is the most famous and beloved Soviet and Russian poet among readers, with whose work almost everyone has been familiar since school. In many ways, Asadov became the voice of his era. But unlike other poets of his time, he did not curry favor with the authorities and was far from socialist realism. We will tell you further about the life and work of this amazing man, who left us not so long ago.

Biography of Eduard Asadov: childhood

The future poet was born on September 7, 1923, at the height of the civil war in the small town of Mevre (Turkmenistan). He was born into an intelligent family, both parents served as teachers. But during wartime, Edward’s father, like many, quit teaching and went into service, soon becoming a commissar and receiving command of a rifle company. Little Edward dreamed of night shooting for many years.

My father died very early, he was only 30 years old, it happened in 1929. But not from a combat wound, as one might expect, but from intestinal obstruction. After this, Lidia Ivanovna, the poet’s mother, could not stay at her previous job and went to Sverdlovsk with her 6-year-old son. A few years later she was offered a place at a Moscow school, and the family moved to the capital.

Here Edward graduated from school in 1941.

Views

The biography of Eduard Asadov indicates that the poet highly valued the ability to love in a person. He worshiped this feeling and believed that there was nothing more important and valuable in the world.

As for religion, he was an atheist. And the point here is not a matter of party orientation - he was never an ideological opponent of religion, but something completely different. According to Eduard Arkadyevich, if the Creator existed, he could not allow all the horror that is happening around and the suffering that befalls man.

Asadov was even ready to become a believer if someone explained to him why everything worked this way. But he believed in goodness and believed that he would save the world from destruction.

Start of the war

The biography of Eduard Asadov is filled with many different military conflicts. But the most terrible thing, of course, is the time of the Great Patriotic War. So, having graduated from school in 1941, young Edward is going to enter a university, deciding what to further connect his life with - theater or literature.

But fate made the choice for him, making huge changes to his life. The war began exactly a week after the school prom. The ardent youthful character did not allow the poet to sit out in the rear, and on the very first day he went to the military registration and enlistment office. Just a day later he was sent to the combat zone.

Baptism of fire

The first battle in which Eduard took part took place near Moscow, on the Volkhov Front. The biography of Eduard Asadov shows that during the war he proved himself to be a brave and brave man who never ran away from the enemy and amazed those around him with his determination and courage. Until 1942, Asadov was a gunner, and then he was appointed commander of the entire weapons crew. His fellow soldiers treated him with great respect, so no one opposed this appointment.

And Eduard Assadov did not have time to make enemies among the soldiers. He managed to write poetry even during this difficult time, reading them to his comrades during short breaks. This is another reason why he was so loved and respected by those around him. Later, in his works, he depicted similar moments of calm, when conversations were held about love, and soldiers remembered their home and loved ones.

Sevastopol battles

In 1943, the poet Eduard Asadov received the rank of lieutenant, after which he was sent to the North Caucasus Front, and later transferred to the Fourth Ukrainian Front, where he rose to the rank of battalion commander.

The most difficult battle for Asadov was the battle near Sevastopol - his battery was destroyed, leaving only useless shells that other batteries needed. Then the poet made an almost suicidal decision - to load the ammunition onto a truck and take it across open, well-exposed terrain to the neighboring line. Already not far from the target, a shell exploded next to the car, which blew off part of Asadov’s skull and deprived him of his sight. Later, doctors assured that he should have died instantly after this, but he managed to deliver his cargo and only then lost consciousness.

Scary awakening

Eduard Arkadyevich Asadov woke up already in the hospital, where he was told 2 pieces of news. First, his case is unique, since after such an injury he should not have retained motor functions, the ability to speak and think clearly. The second was much sadder - he would never be able to see again.

In the first days after hearing this, he did not want to live anymore. The nurse who cared for him saved the poet from despair. She said that it was shameful for such a brave and courageous person to think about death. Asadov realized that his life was not over yet. He begins to write poetry again - about war and peacetime, about nature and animals, about human nobility and faith, about meanness and indifference. But the first place was occupied by lines about love. The poet dictated his poems to those around him and was sure that only this wonderful feeling could save a person.

Post-war time and further fate

In 1946, Eduard Asadov was admitted to the Literary Institute. A collection of the poet's poems was first published in 1951. The book was a success and was highly acclaimed. That is why Asadov was immediately accepted into the CPSU and the Writers' Union. It was also important that he graduated from the institute with honors.

The poet's popularity begins to grow. He travels all over the country, reads his poems, and receives a huge number of letters from fans. No one can remain indifferent after reading his poems. I received many thanks from women. They were delighted that the poet managed to feel their pain and experiences so subtly. Despite such incredible popularity, Asadov’s character did not change; he remained simple and pleasant in communication, never boasted of his fame or showed arrogance.

The writer's post-war life was calm and happy. It was as if fate had decided that the past trials had been enough.

In 1988, Asadov received the title of Hero of the USSR. The poet's former commander worked for many years to receive this award.

Death

The poet Eduard Asadov died in 2004. He bequeathed to bury himself in Crimea on Sapun Mountain. It was at this place that he once lost his sight and almost died. However, this posthumous wish was never fulfilled. Relatives buried the poet in Moscow. Many admirers of his talent came to see off the great poet on his last journey, who sincerely regretted the death of this brave and sincere man.

Eduard Asadov: personal life

Since childhood, the poet dreamed of meeting the same love that his parents found. He dreamed of a “beautiful stranger” and for the first time took up writing poetry dedicated to her.

The writer’s first wife was a girl who visited him in the hospital for a long time after being wounded. However, the marriage did not last long, and the couple soon separated because she fell in love with someone else.

In 1961, Asadov met Galina Valentinovna Razumovskaya, who became his second and last wife. The children of Eduard Asadov from this marriage were never born, but the couple’s life together was very happy. Galina read poetry and performed at concerts and evenings. She was an artist by profession and worked at Mosconcert. At one of the evenings the poet met her.

Subsequently, Galina took an active part in her husband’s work, attended all his performances, recorded his poems, and prepared books for publication. She died in 1997, making Asadov a widower.

Creation

Eduard Asadov wrote a lot during his life. His poems were dedicated primarily to love. He also touched on themes of war and nature. The poet's first poems were published in the magazine Ogonyok. Later, Asadov admitted in an interview that he considered this day one of the happiest in his life.

The poet first drew plots for his works from his own past, and then began to take as a basis letters from fans and stories told by acquaintances and friends. The main thing for the poet was the reality of the situation and the sincerity of his experiences.

From Asadov's works it is clear that he had a keen sense of justice. And his poems have always been characterized by the uniqueness of intonation and a sense of life’s truth. The main themes of the poet's post-war work are loyalty to the Motherland and courage. His poems are imbued with life-affirming force; a charge of vital energy and love is felt in them.

Eduard Asadov lived a difficult youth. Interesting facts about the writer’s life, probably for this reason, are associated with this period and mainly relate to wartime. So, here is the most interesting information from the poet’s biography:

Initially, during the Second World War, Asadov was assigned to the crew of a special weapon, which later received the name Katyusha.
In 1942, he became the commander of a rifle crew. But no one appointed him to this position. It’s just that after the previous commander was wounded, the young man took over his responsibilities, since all this happened during the battle.
During his stay in the hospital, the poet was constantly visited by girls he knew. During the year that the treatment lasted, six of them proposed marriage to the poet.
Asadov's great-grandmother came from a noble St. Petersburg family, and in her youth an English lord fell in love with her, to whom she reciprocated. But the happiness of the young people was hindered by relatives. However, the lovers decided to remain true to themselves and got married against the will of their elders. Assadov admired this story since childhood. And this is exactly how I imagined true love.

From all this we can conclude that Asadov was not just an outstanding poet, but also an extraordinary personality.

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