Eduard Asadov - biography, his interviews and articles about him
Eduard Asadov - Biography
Asadov Eduard Arkadyevich was born on September 7, 1923 in the Turkmen city of Merv (now Mary). Father - Asadov Arkady Grigorievich (1898-1929), graduated from Tomsk University, in the years civil war- Commissar, commander of the 1st company of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, in peacetime worked as a teacher at a school. Mother - Asadova (Kurdova) Lidia Ivanovna (1902-1984), teacher. Wife - Asadova (Razumovskaya) Galina Valentinovna (1925-1997), artist of the Mosconcert. Granddaughter - Asadova Kristina Arkadyevna (born in 1978), graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, teacher Italian at MGIMO.
In 1929, Edward's father died, and Lidia Ivanovna moved with her son to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), where the grandfather of the future poet, Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov, lived, whom Eduard Arkadievich calls with a kind smile his "historical grandfather". Living in Astrakhan, Ivan Kalustovich from 1885 to 1887 served as a copyist secretary for Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky after his return from Vilyui exile and was forever imbued with his lofty 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, participated in the organization of illegal student libraries. Later, after graduating from the natural faculty of the university, he worked in the Urals as a zemstvo doctor, and since 1917 - the head of the medical department of the Gubzdrav. The depth and originality of Ivan Kalustovich's thinking had a huge impact on the formation of the character and worldview of his grandson, the education in him of willpower and courage, on his faith in conscience and kindness, and ardent love for people.
The working Urals, Sverdlovsk, where Eduard Asadov spent his childhood and adolescence, became the second home for the future poet, and he wrote his first poems at the age of eight. During these 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 later be reflected in many poems and poems by Eduard Asadov: "Forest River", "Date with Childhood", "Poem of 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 the Sverdlovsk radio Leonid Konstantinovich Dikovsky.
In 1939, Lidia Ivanovna, as an experienced teacher, was transferred to work in Moscow. Here Edward continued to write poems - 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 his creative teachers.
The graduation ball at school N ° 38 of the Frunzensky district of Moscow, where Eduard Asadov studied, took place on June 14, 1941. When the war began, he, without waiting for the call, came to the district committee of the Komsomol with a request to send him as a volunteer to the front. This request was granted. He was sent to Moscow, where the first units of the famous Guards mortars were formed. He was appointed as a gunner in the 3rd Battalion of the 4th Guards Artillery Mortar Regiment. After a month and a half of intensive study, the division in which Asadov served was sent near Leningrad, becoming the 50th separate guards artillery division. Having fired the first salvo at the enemy on September 19, 1941, the division fought on the most difficult sections of the Volkhov Front. Burning 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' settlement N ° 1, Putilovo ... In total for the winter of 1941/42 Asadov's gun fired 318 volleys at enemy positions. In addition to the position of a gunner, he a short time studied and mastered the duties of other calculation numbers.
In the spring of 1942, in one of the battles near the village of Novaya, the commander of the gun, Sergeant M. M. Kudryavtsev, was seriously wounded. Asadov, together with medical instructor Vasily Boyko, carried the sergeant out of the car, helped bandage him and, without waiting for orders from his immediate commander, took command of the combat installation, while simultaneously performing the duties of a gunner. Standing near the combat vehicle, Eduard accepted the missiles brought by the soldiers, installed them on rails 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 Boikov, who carried a projectile on his shoulder, did not have time to execute the command "Down!". He was torn off by a fragment of a shell left hand. Gathering all his will and strength, the soldier, swaying, stood 5 meters from the installation. Another second or two - and the projectile will poke into the ground, and then nothing alive will remain for tens of meters around. Asadov quickly assessed the situation. He instantly jumped up from the ground, jumped up to Boikov with one jump and picked up a projectile falling from his comrade's shoulder. There was nowhere to charge it - the combat vehicle was on fire, thick smoke was pouring from the cockpit. Knowing that one of the gas tanks was under the seat in the cab, he carefully lowered the projectile to the ground and rushed to help the driver Vasily Safonov fight the fire. The fire was defeated. Despite his burned hands, refusing to be hospitalized, Asadov continued to carry out his combat mission. Since then, he has performed two duties: gun commander and gunner. And in short breaks between fights 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. So in the fall of 1942, Eduard Asadov was urgently sent to the 2nd Omsk Guards Artillery School. For 6 months of study, it was necessary to complete a two-year course of study. We practiced day and night, 13-16 hours a day.
In May 1943, having successfully passed the exams and received the rank of lieutenant and a diploma for excellent success (at the state final exams, he received thirteen "excellent" and only two "good" in 15 subjects), Eduard Asadov arrived on the North Caucasian Front. As the head of communications of 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 "went on a promotion", he was appointed battery commander. Roads again, and battles again: Chaplino, Sofiyivka, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk region, Melitopol, Orekhov, Askania-Nova, Perekop, Armyansk, State Farm, Kacha, Mamashai, Sevastopol ...
When the offensive of the 2nd Guards Army near Armyansk began, the most dangerous and difficult place for this period turned out to be the "gates" through the Turkish Wall, which the enemy was constantly hitting. It was extremely difficult for artillerymen to transport equipment and ammunition through the "gate". The commander of the division, Major Khlyzov, entrusted this most difficult section to Lieutenant Asadov, given his experience and courage. Asadov calculated that the shells fall into the "gates" exactly every three minutes. He took the risky but the only Possible Solution: slip with the machines exactly in these brief intervals between breaks. Having driven the car to the “gates”, after another explosion, without even waiting for the dust and smoke to settle, he ordered the driver to turn on the maximum speed and rush forward. Having broken through the "gates", the lieutenant took another, empty, car, returned back and, standing in front of the "gates", again waited for a gap and again repeated the throw through the "gates", only in the reverse order. Then he again moved into the car with ammunition, again drove up to the aisle and thus drove the next car through the smoke and dust of the gap. 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 the Crimea. 2 weeks before approaching 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 hollow near the village of Belbek, in close proximity to the enemy. The area was looked through by the enemy. For several nights, under continuous shelling, they prepared installations for battle. After the first volley, 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 defeated. However, many shells survived, while upstairs, on 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 storming the enemy fortifications. At dawn, Lieutenant Asadov and driver V. Akulov drove a car loaded to capacity up a mountainous slope ...
The ground units of the enemy immediately noticed a moving vehicle: bursts of heavy shells kept shaking the ground. When they got out on the plateau, they were also spotted from the air. Two "Junkers", having emerged 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 by. The motor ran intermittently, the riddled machine moved slowly. The most difficult section of the road began. The lieutenant jumped out of the cab and went ahead, showing the driver the way among the stones and craters. When Ulyanov's battery was already close, 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 the sake of you, people," writes about his feat: "... Eduard Asadov accomplished an amazing feat. Flight through death on an old truck, on a sunlit road, in full view of the enemy, under continuous artillery and mortar fire, under bombing - this is a feat. To drive almost to certain death in order to save comrades is a feat ... Any doctor would confidently say that a person, having received such a wound, there is very little chance of surviving. And he is not able not only to fight, but in general to move. And Eduard Asadov did not leave the battle. Losing consciousness every minute, he continued to command, carry out a military operation and drive a car to the target, which he now I've only seen it with my heart, and brilliantly completed the task. military life I do not remember..."
The volley decisive before the assault on Sevastopol was fired on time, a volley for the sake of saving hundreds of people, for the sake of victory... awarded the title of Hero 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 that I could tell about it in my poems in all the variety of colors. In the hospital between operations, he continued to write poetry. In order to impartially assess their dignity, 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 tough and merciless critic. A few days later the answer came. According to Eduard Arkadyevich, "perhaps, only his surname and dates remained from the poems sent by him, almost every line was provided with Chukovsky's lengthy comments." The most unexpected for him was the conclusion: "... 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 in a poet! I wish you success. To . Chukovsky". The significance 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, Alexei Surkov, Vladimir Lugovskoy, Pavel Antokolsky, 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 a red mongrel", "In the taiga", the poem "Back in service"). 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 Baklanov and many other later famous poets, prose writers and playwrights. Once, a competition for the best poem or poem was announced at the institute, to which the majority of students responded. By decision of a strict and impartial jury chaired by Pavel Grigoryevich 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 Ogonyok magazine. And a year later, his poem "Back in Service" was submitted for discussion in 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.
For 5 years of study at the institute, Eduard Asadov did not receive a single triple and graduated from the institute with a "red" diploma. In 1951, after the publication of his first book of poems, Light Roads, he was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR. Numerous trips around the country began, conversations with people, creative meetings with readers in dozens of cities and towns.
Since the beginning of the 1960s, the poetry of Eduard Asadov has acquired the widest sound. His books, published in 100,000 copies, instantly disappeared from the shelves of bookstores. Literary evenings of the poet, organized by the Propaganda Bureau of the Union of Writers of the USSR, Moskontsert and various philharmonics, for almost 40 years were held with the same full house in the country's largest concert halls, accommodating up to 3,000 people. Their permanent participant was the wife of the poet - a wonderful actress, master of the artistic word Galina Razumovskaya. These were truly bright holidays of poetry, bringing up the brightest and noblest feelings. Eduard Asadov read his poems, talked about himself, answered 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 communication with people formed the basis of his poems. To date, Eduard Arkadyevich is the author of 50 poetry collections, in which different years included such well-known of his poems as "Back in service", "Shurka", "Galina", "The 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 great artistic and life truth, originality and originality of intonations, polyphonic sound. A characteristic feature of his poetic work is the appeal to the most burning topics, the attraction to the action-packed verse, to the ballad. He is not afraid of sharp corners, does not avoid conflict situations, on the contrary, he strives to solve them with the utmost sincerity and directness ("Slanderers", "Unequal Fight", "When Friends Become Bosses", "Necessary People", "Gap"). Whatever topic the poet touches on, whatever he writes about, it is always interesting and bright, it always excites the soul. These are hot poems full of emotions 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 hesitate", "Love and cowardice", "I will see you off", "I can 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, fidelity, courage and patriotism ("Smoke of the Fatherland", "Twentieth Century", "Forest River", "Dream of the Ages", "About what cannot be lost", a lyrical monologue "Motherland"). Poems about nature are closely connected with poems about the Motherland, 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 Bulan Pensioner", " Yashka", "Zoryanka" and one of the most widely known poems of the poet - "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 to bury his heart on Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, where on May 4, 1944 he was wounded and lost his sight.
Eduard Asadov is a lyric poet who fascinated people with his poetic lines about love, life, friendship, fidelity. He still has many admirers. Eduard Asadov has long been dead, but he still leaves a mark on the soul of every poetry lover.
A person in the poems of the poet sees a reflection of his experiences and, with the reading of the lines, rethinks himself. The article considers a brief description of poems, and describes the deep feelings of the writer.
Writer's childhood
Eduard Asadov was born into an intelligent Armenian family. Then no one could have imagined that in 1923, on September 7, a future celebrity appeared. Asadov's parents were teachers. They devoted a lot of time to raising their son, became fond of reading, talked about the beautiful world around them. Most likely, it was a bright attitude to life that eventually brought the writer a celebrity.
The boy's father died when he was only six years old. Mom had no choice but to move to her father Ivan in the city of Sverdlovsk. Edward studied well, attended a theater group.
When the boy moved to the second grade, he wrote the first poetic lines. Asadov's mother was invited to work in Moscow. They moved to the capital in 1939.
In a day Soviet army On February 23, Edward read his poems to the public. This was his first performance. He was then 16 years old. However, the biography of Eduard Asadov, of course, did not end there. His life is just beginning.
Youth years
Asadov was a creative person. So he doubted where he should go. He had two options: literary and theater institutes. However, the dream did not come true. On June 22, after the school graduation ball, the war began. The young man did not think long and joined the army as a volunteer.
Edward served near Moscow and Leningrad faithfully. Already in 1942 he was appointed commander of the gun. However, he did not stop writing poetry, devoting all his free time to creativity. Many poems about the war were included in numerous collections of poems.
In the fall of 1942, the young man entered the Omsk Artillery Mortar School, which he graduated with only five. After graduation, Edward received the rank of lieutenant. In 1943, in the spring, Asadov was appointed head of communications of the division. Over time, he became deputy battalion commander. He gave his all to the service. Therefore, later he became the commander of the battalion.
During a responsible mission, Asadov was seriously wounded, and he found himself between life and death. Doctors fought for the hero with all their might and performed a miracle. The young man survived, but, as it turned out, misfortune still overtook him. The biography of Eduard Asadov is complex, and at times it is hard to read, because the writer has come a long way.
The tragedy of Eduard Asadov
As mentioned earlier, the writer was a battalion commander. When most of the soldiers died, Asadov noticed that they had a lot of ammunition left. He decided that in the neighboring part they would be very needed. Therefore, without thinking twice, Eduard and the driver took the remaining ammunition there.
However, it so happened that they were driving through an open area. The enemy spotted them and opened fire. A shell exploded near the car, which wounded the writer. The shard had blown off most of the skull. Therefore, the doctors at the hospital decided that his injury was incompatible with life. They thought he only had a few days left. However, a miracle happened. Eduard Asadov survived, whose biography is interesting to many to this day.
That's not all, because the writer lost his sight, without which life becomes much more difficult. He traveled to different hospitals, and everywhere the experts issued the same verdict: it was impossible to restore vision.
The writer threw up his hands. He did not want to live and did not understand why he was saved. It seemed that without the colors of the world existence is impossible. Nevertheless, he continued to write and decided to devote himself entirely to creativity. The biography of Eduard Asadov is full of impressions. After reading it, each person thinks about his life and feels its value.
Biography of Asadov Eduard: personal life
When the writer was wounded in the war, he ended up in the hospital. There he was visited by numerous admirers. Six of them loved Edward and offered him their hand and heart. As a result, the writer could not resist. He chose his life partner. Young people got married, but soon divorced.
Eduard Asadov did not stop and in 1961 he married a second time. They met at one of the evenings where the future wife read poetry. She was well acquainted with the work of the writer and fell in love with him. They soon became husband and wife.
The poet's wife worked as an artist in the Moscow Concert. When the husband had literary evenings She was always there for them. She liked that the audience enthusiastically accepted the blind writer and was proud of her beloved.
The biography of the poet Eduard Asadov is exciting. Thanks to her, a person will better understand the works of the writer and look at him with completely different eyes.
Titles and awards of Eduard Asadov
The writer has made a huge contribution to domestic literature. The government appreciated his merits and by its decree awarded E. Asadov with the Order of Friendship of Peoples. Through his work, Asadov strengthened interethnic cultural ties.
Eduard Asadov fought, sparing no effort. He was devoted to the Motherland, often risked his life, for which he was awarded with orders Patriotic War and Red Star, and Sevastopol. In 1989, Asadov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He is remembered and loved to this day.
The creative activity of the writer after the war
Eduard Asadov left behind a huge poetic legacy. Biography, poems of the poet open a peculiar, pure world without malice and hatred. He wrote on a high note about everything: about life, nature, war and love.
In order for his creative activity to continue successfully, the hero of our article in 1946 enters the Literary Institute. He graduated with an honors student. Two years later, his poems began to appear on the pages of magazines.
The first collection was published in 1951. Then he became very popular. He had many readers who fell in love with his sincere poems and wrote him letters of various kinds. Some people praised the poet, others asked him for advice. The writer tried to give each reader as much time as possible.
Now Asadov began to be invited to literary evenings, so that he would please people with his poems. Even though he became famous person, his character has not changed for the worse. Asadov remained a modest and kind person.
It was easy for Eduard to write, he was inspired by his readers. Thanks to them, he knew, He had a goal to which he walked with confident steps.
About the poems of Eduard Asadov
It is often said about the writer: "he did not become a poet, he was born one." It really is. Asadov wrote from the heart about what he saw, heard or read. That is why readers love him so much. Wonderful poet Eduard Asadov. Biography, his poems tell us that he is also a Man. And very few poets can convey feelings and experiences in the way the writer did.
Asadov has many poems about love. In them, he described his experiences and feelings. Almost every reader admires how vitally, in poetic form, he conveyed his emotions and attitude to life. He wrote not only about sadness, but also about happy love. Therefore, anyone who reads his poems will find his own in them.
During the war years, the writer composed spiritual poems about peace, anger and sadness, about girls whom the soldiers would not see soon. Knowing the biography of the poet, it is easy to imagine that every word was written in creative agony. In verse, he asked that he not be forgotten as a writer and front-line soldier who loved his homeland and fought for it, and even at the front composed poetry in his free time.
Poems and miniatures of the writer
Asadov composed various poems. He was no stranger to voluminous poems and very short miniatures. In writing, he found peace of mind. He wrote poems in the days of inspiration, when he wanted to tell a story.
I created miniatures when a few interesting lines sounded in my head. In order not to forget them, he printed or wrote short poems instantly. Therefore, he always had a notebook and a pen in his pocket.
Miniatures Asadov wrote about women, nature, love and did not forget about life's difficulties. It was about them that he wrote most of all.
The life of Eduard Asadov is over
The Moscow Kuntsevo cemetery received the poet on April 21, 2004. He asked very much that his heart be buried in Sevastopol on Sapun Mountain. It was there that in 1944 he accomplished a military feat.
The death of Eduard Asadov brought fans a lot of sad emotions. After all, there will be no continuation of his creative activity. Thank you for leaving a lot of books that you can regularly re-read.
Many people came to bury the great poet and prose writer. Even at the cemetery they read his poems and dedicated their own to him. After all, everyone knew that Eduard Asadov - creative person With good soul and great love for the people.
He lived for 81 years, experienced at times difficult, at times happy life. Before his death, he said that he did not regret anything. For many years he walked with a black one, saw nothing, but felt everything.
Conclusion
Until recently, the wonderful poet Eduard Asadov lived in the world. The biography, which cannot be briefly told, touched the hearts of most people. They loved the poet, but did not know the main thing - that he had been blind for many years. At first he suffered from it. A little later, when I saw the meaning of life, I continued creative activity and even managed to get a red institute diploma.
There are people who did not like the poet Eduard Asadov. The biography of the lyrics will not be of interest to them. Many writers criticized poetry and poems. They believed that his work was not worthy of attention. It is good that there were few such critics.
The biography of Eduard Asadov will teach readers a lot. Indeed, despite his problems and tragedy, the poet did not stop, but continued to develop. This is a lesson for every person. Thanks to the writer, you can rethink yourself and understand the meaning of life. Learn, grow, no matter what. Someday your hour will come to become a successful person.
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 Grigorievich Asadyants, an Armenian, changed his first and last name and became Arkady Grigorievich Asadov. At one time he worked as an investigator for the Altai GubChK, in Barnaul he met Lidia Ivanovna Kurdova. He fought in the Caucasus, was the commander of a rifle company, retired, got married and since 1923 began to work as a teacher in the city of Mary. Edward was born there. 1929 Arkady Grigorievich 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 member of the Komsomol, but already in Moscow, where he moved in 1939. The young poet dreamed of getting higher education in the path to which since childhood his soul lay - literature, art. And now, a cheerful graduation roared, it's time to think what to do next...
Edik went to the front as a volunteer almost from school.
At first he was a mortar gunner. Later he became an assistant commander of the Katyusha battery on the North Caucasian and Ukrainian fronts. Managed to make war on the Leningrad front.
Wound
The amazing courage and nobility of the poet are read not only in his amazing works, but also in his actions. An event that could break the life and distort the future of anyone, the young man endured with admirable dignity. He took part in the battles for Sevastopol. At night, from May 3 to May 4, 1944, Edward was supposed to deliver ammunition to the front line. He was driving a truck when a shell exploded nearby. One of the fragments hit Asadov in the face. Despite the injury, bleeding and losing consciousness, Eduard completed the combat mission and brought the car to the 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 changed at least five hospitals. The last one was in Moscow. There he heard the verdict of the doctors:
“There will be everything ahead. Everything but the light."
Eduard Arkadyevich 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 about his first publication in the Ogonyok magazine:
“I will never forget this May 1, 1948. And how happy I was when I kept the issue of Ogonyok bought near the House of Scientists, in which my poems were printed. That's it, my poems, and not someone else's! Festive demonstrators walked past me with songs, and I was probably the most festive of all in Moscow!
Creation
The central theme of the poet's work is humanity. Everything that distinguishes a real Human from capital letter- kindness, honesty, responsiveness, indifference. And, of course, love. Many people adore his work precisely for love poems - sincere, pure and incredibly touching. In addition, they do not abound in 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 is visible:
“When I meet evil in people,
For a long time I try to believe
What is it most likely - pretense,
That this is an accident, and I'm wrong."
After the end of the war, Eduard Arkadyevich entered the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute. He graduated with honors and published the first collection of poems, The Bright Road.
Personal life
The injury did not prevent the poet from loving and being loved. His first wife was one of the girls who visited him in the hospital - Irina Viktorova, an artist of the children's theater. But their marriage did not last long. 
Galina Razumovskaya, an artist, a master of the artistic word, became a real soul mate, soul mate and support for the poet.
She accompanied him everywhere - at meetings, evenings, concerts. They lived in the place for 36 years, only the death of Galina could separate them.
Eduard Asadov died at the age of 81, on April 21, 2004. He was a hero of his time. In everything he behaved with honor and dignity - both in the military, and in creative, and in his personal life. Eduard Arkadyevich had many orders and medals - both as a poet and as a fighter. He was also awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin.
On September 7, 1923, a long-awaited boy was born in an intelligent Armenian family, who was named Edward. Little Edik's entire childhood was spent in the small Turkmen town of Merv. But the family idyll did not last long: when the boy was barely 6 years old, his father died suddenly. The mother had no choice but to return to her native Sverdlovsk with her son.
Here Edik went to school, and at the age of 8 he wrote his first poem. Later, he began attending a local theater group, where a talented and versatile boy was predicted a great future.
Later, Edik moved to the capital with his mother, where he continued his studies. In the senior class, he could not decide on the choice of the university, torn between the desire to become an actor and a poet.
However, fate itself made the choice for him. The feelings from High school prom how the whole country was shocked by the terrible news - the war. Yesterday's graduate immediately appeared at the military registration and enlistment office and volunteered for the front.
At war
After completing a month-long training, young Asadov got into a rifle unit as a gunner. With courage and determination, he was able to rise to the battalion commander of the guards mortars.
Despite the horrifying reality, Edward continued to write. He read his poems to soldiers who were desperate for simple human emotions. Like his colleagues, the young battalion commander dreamed of a new life in peacetime, made bold plans for the future.
However, all dreams were destroyed during the battle near Sevastopol in 1944. During one of the attacks, all Asadov's fellow soldiers were killed, and he decided to load the car with ammunition and try to break through the cordon. Under heavy mortar fire, he miraculously managed to carry out his plan, but on the way he received a severe wound in the head, incompatible with life.
After numerous difficult operations, Asadov learned a terrible verdict - he will remain blind for the rest of his life. For young man it was a real tragedy. The poet was saved from a deep depression by the admirers of his work: as it turned out, Asadov's poems were well known outside of his part.
creative path
After the end of the war, the young man continued his literary activity. At first, he wrote his works "for the soul", not daring to take them to the editor.
IN short biography Asadov, there was a case when he dared to send a few poems to Korney Chukovsky, whom he considered a great specialist in the field of poetry. Famous writer at first he ruthlessly criticized the poems he had sent, but at the end he summed it up, writing that Asadov was a true poet.
After this letter, Eduard literally “spread his wings”: he easily entered the Literary Institute in Moscow, and after graduating in 1951 he released his first collection, The Bright Road.
Eduard Arkadyevich was very lucky: his work during his lifetime was appreciated not only by the masters of literature, but also by the general public. Throughout his life, Asadov received letters from all over the Soviet Union with words of gratitude for his sensitive and heartfelt poems.
Personal life
Eduard Arkadyevich was married twice. The first marriage with the artist Irina Viktorova was short-lived.
The second attempt to start a family was more successful. Galina Razumovskaya became a reliable support and support for the poet, having lived with him for 36 years. The couple had no children.
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Childhood and youth
Little Eduard was born in Armenia in 1923, in a family of dedicated teachers. After the death of his father at the age of six, the boy moved with his mother to Sverdlovsk to live with relatives, and then to Moscow, where his mother was offered a good job.
From an early age, Asadov thought about lofty feelings and impulses - about love and devotion, hatred and betrayal. Impressed by his thoughts, the boy wrote his first poems, he was then eight years old. Also at this time, he began to study in the drama circle, where his artistic talents manifested themselves.
Moving to the capital had an unexpected effect on the enthusiastic child - Edward begins to write poetry at every step, about everything in the world, eagerly absorbing the various nuances and shades of the surrounding people, nature, personal feelings and emotions. After graduation, the guy is faced with a choice: to devote his life to the stage or writing? Enter an acting or literary university? But this question remains unanswered - the war begins.
Military tragedy
Young Edward, without hesitation, volunteered for the front, where he established himself as a brave and fearless warrior. Asadov amazed his colleagues with his purposefulness and courage, heroism and ability to instantly make the right decisions. In between bloody battles, the young man wrote poems and read them to fellow soldiers.
In May 1944, the courageous young man accomplished a feat that affected the fate of the Sevastopol battle, but paid for it with his health. A shell fragment blew off part of his skull, the wound was severe and fatal. However, Edward survived and even brought the job to the end! Only when he saw his, he lost his senses.
After going through 12 operations and several years of rehabilitation, Asadov heard a terrible verdict - he was blind forever! The despondency and depression that the young man experienced cannot be described in words. He - breathing health and youth, so cheerful and brave, suddenly plunged into a gloomy world of darkness and loneliness. He did not like anything, he did not want anything, he considered himself superfluous in the world of light and beauty. And only the love of women, as the poet later admitted, instilled in him a thirst for life and activity.
Post-war creativity
For the rest of his life, Eduard Asadov wore a black bandage covering the upper part of his face. Throughout her treatment, she continued to write poetry. These were poems about war, about love, about life. The poet sang of the heroic everyday life of soldiers and officers, the bright rays of the sun, ordinary trivial events ... In 1948, Asadov's poems were published for the first time, and already in 1951, the first collection was published. lyrical works followed by a second and a third.
The theme of the poet's poems was different and multifaceted. These are love poems - touching and contradictory "Faithful Eve" and "Coward", tender works about the mother - "Evening in the Hospital" and "Brave Mom", instructive lyrics about happiness - "On the Meaning of Life" and "What is happiness" ... The crippled, but not subjugated officer became everyone's favorite and famous. His books sold out at lightning speed. Crowds came to his literary evenings. The young poet's desk was littered with thousands of letters and postcards. It was from the letters of readers that Eduard Arkadievich drew inspiration, their stories formed into lines of poems. He wrote not so much about situations and circumstances, but about feelings, sensations, emotions.
Personal life
Immediately after the injury, Asadov married a young girl, but their life together did not last long - she fell in love with another. The poet met his second wife in 1961 at a concert. Galina became his faithful companion and friend. He dedicated many of his works to her, for example - “I can really wait for you”, where he assured his chosen one that, despite her creative trips, he would be faithful and devoted to her not for a week or a month, but long years. A loving wife was Asadov's support and support: she corrected his poems, inspired and encouraged him in the days of depression, read books to him and constantly accompanied him on trips and at performances.
The poet died in 2004, having outlived his dear wife for a long seven years.
