Eduard Arkadievich (Artashesovich) Asadov - an outstanding domestic writer of the twentieth century. During the war, he was seriously wounded, struggled with death and lost his sight. But despite this, Eduard Asadov was able to give the world a large number of wonderful works that delight in its sincerity and enormous sensitivity to the beauty of this world.
Biography of Eduard Asadov. Childhood
The Soviet poet and prose writer Eduard Asadov was born on September 7, 1923 in the city of Mary (Merv) of the Turkmen Union Republic. His parents were teachers. Father Artashes Grigoryevich Asadyants, an Armenian, changed his name and surname and became Arkady Grigoryevich Asadov. At one time he worked as an investigator of the Altai gubernatorial precinct, in Barnaul he met Lydia Ivanovna Kurdova. He fought in the Caucasus, was the commander of a rifle company, resigned, married and since 1923 began to work as a teacher in the city of Mary. There Edward was born. 1929 Arkady Grigoryevich died. Lidia Ivanovna, together with little Edik, moved to Sverdlovsk to her father, Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov, who was a doctor.
In Sverdlovsk, eight-year-old Edik Asadov wrote his first poem. At school, he was a pioneer, and later a Komsomol member, but already in Moscow, which he moved to in 1939. The young poet dreamed of getting a higher education in the path to which from childhood his soul lay — literature, art. And so, a cheerful graduation party made a noise, it's time to think what to do next …
And then there was a war …
Edik went to the front as a volunteer almost from school.
At first he was a mortar gunner. Later he became an assistant to the Katyush battery commander on the North Caucasian and Ukrainian fronts. Managed to fight on the Leningrad Front.
Wound
The amazing courage and nobility of the poet are read not only in his amazing works, but also in deeds. An event that could break life and distort the future of anyone, the young man endured with amazing dignity. He took part in the battles for Sevastopol. At night, from May 3 to 4, 1944, Edward was supposed to deliver ammunition to the front line. He drove a truck when a shell exploded nearby. One of the fragments hit Asadov in the face. Despite the wound, bleeding and losing consciousness, Edward completed the combat mission and brought the car to an artillery battery.
Doctors fought for his life and health for a long time. According to the memoirs of the poet himself, after being wounded, he replaced at least five hospitals. The latter was in Moscow. There he heard the verdict of doctors:
"Everything will be ahead. Everything except the light."
Eduard Arkadievich was tormented by the question - is it worth fighting for such a life? Having come to an affirmative answer, he again began to write poetry. Here is what he recalls of his first publication in the magazine "Twinkle":
“I will never forget this on May 1, 1948. And the one I was so happy when I kept the“ Light ”number bought near the House of Scientists, in which my poems were printed. That's it, my poems, and not someone else's! "holiday demonstrators were walking with me with songs, and I was probably more festive than everyone else in Moscow!"
Creation
The central theme of the poet's work is humanity. All that distinguishes a real person with a capital letter is kindness, honesty, responsiveness, and indifference. And, of course, love. Many people adore his work precisely for love poems - sincere, pure and incredibly touching. In addition, they are not replete with symbolism, metaphors and other means - they do not need these excesses. The ability to reach the heart and make it understandable is what distinguishes the work of Eduard Asadov.
Below are some of the most famous lines through which Asadov’s love for people and faith in the best are visible:
"When I see evil in people, I try to believe for a long time, What is most likely - pretense, That this is an accident, and I am mistaken."
After the end of the war, Eduard Arkadyevich entered the A. Gorky Literary Institute. He graduated with honors and published his first book of poems, Bright Road.
In total, the author has published 47 books, wrote not only in poetry, but also in prose.
