Alexander Terentyevich Protasov was the son of his time: in 1941 he went to the front as a young boy, and he met Victory Day as a tank officer. Protasov is a talented poet and writer who has published more than four hundred books.
Dedicated to the hero of the Great Patriotic War, a poet, writer and simply a man with a capital letter!
Biography
The future writer was born in a small village in the Bryansk region in 1920 in the family of a collective farmer and teacher. In the district center, he graduated from high school. In the same 1939 he entered the Pedagogical Institute of the city of Smolensk at the Faculty of Philology.
In 1941, the young man was drafted to the front, so he got into the tank troops. Alexander Terentyevich was repeatedly wounded. But, despite all the horrors of war, he managed to maintain a pure soul. This is evident in his literary work.
Creation
No wonder Alexander Protasov went to study as a philologist. After all, he wrote poetry from school. But over time, his works became more mature. Poet poetry began to print in 1945 in a frontline newspaper. When the war ended, the writer's works could be found in the magazine "Soviet Warrior", in the newspaper "Red Star", an almanac "Feat".
When A.T. Protasov moved to the city of Chisinau, his creations began to be published in almost all the magazines and newspapers of Moldova.
Then he published 4 books, which included his poems. In these works, with the help of rhymed lines, the author talks with readers, talks about his generation, who had to survive the Great Patriotic War, about nationalism, corruption and crime, about a man who could keep his soul clean.
Poems of the poet are dedicated not only to military subjects and heroic lyrics. In his works, he confessed his love to Russia, wrote about his native Bryansk region, about feelings for a woman.
Reading the works of the famous writer, the public will be able to mentally travel to that corner of the burned tank, learn about the will of the tankman, "listen" as Ruslanova sings. The poet described all this in detail in verse.
