No matter how much supporters of unified assessments and approaches to the classification of countries, peoples and personalities frowned, Russia is a special country. The national question, which turned out to be the cause of the destruction of many states, has long been resolved here at minimal cost. The life and work of David Samoilov can serve as a convincing confirmation of this statement.
Citizen of the Soviet Union
The biography of David Samoilov bears a clear imprint of the historical period in which the poet had to live. A child from an intelligent family, where his father was a leading specialist in one of the branches of medicine by the name of Kaufman, sensitively reacted to all manifestations of the surrounding reality. Moscow, it was here that David was born, initially accepted representatives of different nations into its fold. Not that this place was a melting pot, as American sociologists put it. It's just that every person who got here was accepted without hostility, although the city never believed in tears.
In life, David's career could have developed within the framework of existing family traditions. The medical profession is respected always and everywhere. However, after graduating from school in 1938, he enters MEPHIL - the institute of philosophy, history and literature. Classical education for an intellectual demanded that the student have flexibility of mind and imaginative thinking. A series of military conflicts and the outbreak of war with the Nazis disrupted the creative plans of many pen masters. Samoilov wanted to volunteer for Finnish, but for some reason he was not called on - everything comes in its turn.
Many Soviet writers went to the front when the Great War broke out. Gone are "not chiselling, not finishing the last cigarettes." There was a place in the ranks of David Samoilov. For four long years in the war he got trials, sorrows and glories. The poet did not achieve high ranks. Yes, and did not strive for this. He knew how, he fought for his land, for his family and friends. The medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit" and the Order of the "Red Star", and badges for severe wounds decorated the chest of the front-line soldier when he returned home.
