The corpse of the wave was demolished under the snags ...
Old man, you don't know nature
After all, it may be the body of a mongrel,
And the heart is the purest breed.

26 days of struggle

Eduard Asadov was born in the city of Merv in Turkmenistan in 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 finished school in Moscow in 1941 and immediately after the graduation ball went as a volunteer to the front, like millions of his peers. He will describe his emotions in the poem “Back in Service”, in the hero of which it is easy to recognize the author himself:

Everyone 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 - in the echelon, in the dugout ... In May 1944, in the battles for Sevastopol, the young lieutenant Asadov received a terrible wound. Together with a friend, they were supposed to deliver the shells to the artillery battery by truck. The road was so destroyed that Asadov got out and showed the way to the driver, otherwise the car would have been swept into the pit. 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 on his way - ammunition was delivered to the soldiers. And only after that Asadov lost consciousness - the doctors then could not understand how he could survive with such a severe traumatic brain injury, let alone go and deliver weapons.

Asadov will write later: “... What happened next? 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, he dictated a postcard to his mother two or three words, trying to avoid disturbing words. When consciousness left, he was delirious. It was bad, but youth and life still won.

More than one good generation grew up on his poems...

On September 7, 1923, the lyric poet, front-line soldier Eduard Asadov was born. pic.twitter.com/j0D8nIBDeg

— Ludmila (@Nova8Roma) September 7, 2017

Saved six girls

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

Sergei groped in the dark with his hands...
Got up a little. No more bandage...
But why didn't he splash, didn't hit
To him in the face of spring, bright light?!

The young black-eyed handsome man turned into a blind man, instead of whose eyes blackness gaped. The poet did not have a nose bridge either. In the hospital, Asadov spent overall complexity more than a year and a half and had 12 surgeries. All his life then he wore a black mask, taking pictures only at home.

Later, Asadov frankly admitted that he was often visited by despair, longing, hopelessness during that terrible period. But he found the strength to live. In many ways, by the way, thanks to the six girls who came to him. After all, the glory of the young military poet has long spread throughout the Union.

Everything I can, I feel with my hands,
Memory will enter the battle with darkness, like a fighter,
I will renew my memory with my eyes,
I will see with my heart at last!

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 can be loved. Asadov, passionately in love, got married very quickly. When the couple has a child in 1955, Eduard Arkadevich will write a touching:

I put it in my palm without effort
Tightly swaddled warm pack
He has a patronymic and a surname,
But the name is still missing.

They named the baby in honor of his grandfather - Arkady. Although, I must say, the real of his Armenian grandfather - Artashes Grigorievich Asadyants. The poet, by the way, was very proud of the fact that he was 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, in a few years, Asadov will 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, after many years, the poet suddenly bursts out of paper practically confessing to Irina Viktorova - his first love:

We remain a 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 is sometimes,
Take care of your first love!

Meanwhile, everything is brilliant in Asadov's work. He graduated with honors from the Literary Institute. Gorky at the Writers' Union of the USSR in Moscow. Korney Chukovsky becomes his main mentor, teacher. Asadov is published in "Ogonyok", collections diverge among grateful readers in flight. However, critics for the predominance of lyrical themes in his work sometimes call Asadov a "poet for cooks" - they say, there would be more civil, patriotic themes. Asadov, on the other hand, 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 the artistic word Galina Razumovskaya. The woman asked Asadov to skip her speech ahead - she was afraid to miss the train. Since then, they have not parted.

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

In the morning Asadov dictated verses to the recorder. Then he typed them blindly on a typewriter. And then Galina made her own corrections and sent the manuscript to publishers.

Everything in the house was subordinated to the convenience of the poet. They didn’t have a TV - the wife considered it vile to do what was impossible for her Edward. But the radio was always on 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 a feeling of home, rear. She perfectly prepared Turkmen pilaf and flat cakes so beloved by her husband. I baked Russian pies. And Asadov, being a lover of Armenian cognac, learned how to make “pepper” tincture. There were always guests in their house, it was fun. Asadov supported young poets with both money and advice, as he once did Chukovsky.

Eduard Arkadievich will dedicate 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 do husband and wife differ from each other?
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.

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Asadov Eduard Arkadievich
Asadov Eduard
Other names:	Asadov Eduard Artashesovich, Asadyants Eduard Artashesovich
In English:	Asadov Eduard
Date of Birth:	07.09.1923
Place of Birth:	Mary, Turkmenistan
Date of death:	21.04.2004
Place of death:	Odintsovo, Russia
Brief information: Poet, prose writer. The hero of the USSR

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Biography

Born in the city of Mary, Turkmen SSR. After the death of his father in 1929, he moved with his mother to Sverdlovsk, where his grandfather Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov lived.

At the age of eight he wrote his first poem.

Since 1939 in Moscow. He studied at the 38th Moscow school, which he graduated in 1941. He volunteered for the front. First fought near Leningrad. He was a gunner. Then as an officer, he commanded a battery as the commander of the Katyusha battery on the North Caucasian and 4th Ukrainian fronts. On the night of May 3-4, 1944, in the battles for Sevastopol, he was seriously wounded near Belbek, lost his sight, and since that time has always appeared in public with a black bandage over his eyes.

Feat

Edward immediately volunteered for the front. He was a mortar gunner, then assistant commander of the Katyusha battery on the North Caucasian and 4th Ukrainian fronts. Then he fought on the Leningrad front. Fatal for Asadov were the battles near Sevastopol in the Belbek region. His own battery was completely destroyed by enemy aimed fire. There were no more whole guns, but there were stocks of shells that were so needed at the neighboring line. And with the onset of dawn on May 4, 1944, ammunition was loaded into the car, which Eduard voluntarily undertook to deliver to the battery providing the offensive. This decision seemed suicidal and impossible. After all, it was necessary to carry shells on a truck across an open plain, perfectly shot through by artillery and enemy aircraft. But it was this feat that made a decisive note in the symphony of the Sevastopol victory. Timely delivered shells made it possible to suppress enemy firing points. It is not known what the result of the battle would have been if the 21-year-old lieutenant Asadov had not made such a decision. But he received a severe wound in the head from a fragment of a shell that exploded two steps from the car. With this blow, part of his skull was blown off and blinded. Losing consciousness, he showed incredible courage, and seeing nothing in front of him, he nevertheless brought a truck with much-needed ammunition to an artillery battery and only then plunged into the abyss of nothingness.

Years later, the artillery commander of the 2nd Guards Army, Lieutenant General Ivan Strelbitsky, in his book about Asadov “For the sake of you, people,” wrote 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 bombardment is a feat. Riding almost to certain death for the sake of saving comrades is a feat ... Any doctor would confidently say that a person who has received such an injury has very little chance of surviving. And he is not able not only to fight, but in general to move. But Eduard Asadov did not withdraw from the battle. Constantly losing consciousness, he continued to command, carry out a combat operation and drive a car to a goal that he now saw only with his heart. And brilliantly completed the task. I don’t remember such a case in my long military life ... "

Lieutenant Asadov was between life and death for 26 days. Then he was treated in hospitals for a long time. But despite all the efforts of the doctors, he did not manage to save his sight.

After the war

In 1946 he entered the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, who graduated with honors in 1951.

In 1951 he graduated from the Literary Institute, in the same year the first collection of poems "Bright Roads" was published. The warrior-poet is true to himself, does not allow "not a speck, not a single falsehood!", with his poems, active civic position, he wins great prestige among the youth of the 50s and 60s.

In the work of the poet, who did not live in Armenia, there is also an Armenian touch. Following S. Yesenin, who dedicated his famous poem to the Armenian Shagana Nersessovna Talyan, Eduard Asadov also writes "Shagane": "And here in the morning silence, Armenia met Russia - Black eyes and blue, two spring-quivering souls."

At various times he worked as a literary consultant in

• "Literary newspaper"
• magazines "Spark" and "Young Guard"
• Publishing House "Young Guard".

After the collapse of the USSR, he published in publishing houses

• "Slavic Dialogue"
• "Eksmo"
• "Russian book"

Compositions

• poem "Back in service" (1948)
• "Snowy Evening" (1956)
• "Soldiers returned from the war" (1957)
• "In the name of great love" (1962)
• "Lyric Pages" (1962)
• "I Love Forever" (1965)
• "Be Happy Dreamers" (1966)
• "Romance Island" (1969)
• "Kindness" (1972)
• "Song of Wordless Friends" (1974)
• "Winds of Restless Years" (1975)
• "Constellation of the Hounds of the Dogs" (1976)
• "Years of Courage and Love" (1978)
• "Compass of Happiness" (1979)
• "In the name of conscience" (1980)
• "Smoke of the Fatherland" (1983)
• “I fight, I believe, I love!” (1983)
• "High Debt" (1986)
• "Fates and Hearts" (1990)
• "Dawn of War" (1995)
• "Don't Give Up People" (1997)
• "Don't Give Your Loved Away" (2000)
• “Don't miss out on love. Poetry and Prose (2000)
• “Laughing is better than tormenting. Poetry and Prose (2001)
• stories "Lightning Lightning of War", "Scout Sasha"
• story "Front Spring"
• story "Gogolevsky Boulevard"

Among the publications:

• Edward Asadov. Lyrics. in Eksmo, 2006. ISBN 5-699-07653-0
• You will come to me again. Poetry and prose. in Eksmo-Press, 2006. ISBN 5-04-010208-8
• Love has no parting. in Eksmo, 2006. ISBN 5-699-02419-0
• First date. in Eksmo, 2006. ISBN 5-699-12006-8
• Holidays of our days. in Eksmo, 2006. ISBN 5-699-05781-1
• What is happiness. in Eksmo, 2005. ISBN 5-04-009969-X
• When poems smile in Eksmo, 2004. ISBN 5-699-06268-8
• The road to the winged tomorrow. in Eksmo, 2004. ISBN 5-699-04893-6
• Edward Asadov. Collected works in six volumes. in Frontier, 2003. ISBN 5-86436-331-6
• Edward Asadov. Collected works in three volumes. in Moscow: Fiction, 1987.
• Edward Asadov. Favorites. In two volumes. in Fiction, 1981.
• In the name of great love. in Young Guard, 1963.
• Do not dare to beat a person! ”, Moscow: Slavic Dialogue, 1998
• Eduard Asadov [Archive - People without complexes]

He translated poems of poets from Azerbaijan, Bashkiria, Georgia, Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.

Awards

• Hero of the Soviet Union (1998)
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (2004, for great services in the development of domestic literature [)
• Order of Honor (1998, for a great contribution to Russian literature)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1993, for merits in the development of domestic literature and the strengthening of interethnic cultural ties)
• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
• Order of the Red Star
• Order of the Badge of Honor (2)
• Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
• Medal "For the Defense of Sevastopol"
• Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"
• "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Sevastopol"

On November 18, 1998, by decree of the so-called permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Eduard Asadov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Miscellaneous

• The poet's work is full of philosophical content, wise observations and conclusions.
• Asadov died suddenly. For many decades, he got up at 4 in the morning, did exercises, and then immediately sat down to work. And a few weeks before his death, the poet met with a journalist from Komsomolskaya Pravda and talked with him about life, about women, about love. On that day, it seemed, nothing foreshadowed the imminent departure of the poet. On April 21, 2004, everything was as usual: Asadov got up at 4 in the morning, began to do exercises. But, having done just a few exercises, he grabbed his heart. The wife immediately called an ambulance. But even before the doctors arrived, Asadov died of cardiac arrest. On April 23, in the House of Officers in the city of Odintsovo, a farewell to E. Asadov was held. The poet was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery in Moscow next to the graves of his mother and second wife Galina Valentinovna (he lived with her for 36 years, she also died of a heart attack). But Asadov's heart, according to his will, was later buried on Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, where on May 4, 1944, he was seriously wounded and lost his sight.
• Asadov was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Sevastopol". On Sapun Mountain in the Museum "Protection and Liberation of Sevastopol" there is a stand dedicated to him and his work.

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born September 7, 1923, died April 21, 2004

Epitaph

"And I'm ready to swear to you:
There is so much light in his poems,
That you can't find it sometimes
Even a sighted poet!”
From a poem by Ilya Suslov in memory of Asadov

Biography

His works were never included in the school curriculum, which did not prevent thousands of people from knowing Asadov's poems by heart. A man of amazing destiny, he conquered his readers with genuine sincerity and purity. He always wrote about the most important thing - about love and tenderness, about the Motherland, friendship and devotion, which is why his words resonated in the hearts of many people. Not becoming a literary classic, Asadov's poems became folk classics.

Eduard Asadov was born in Turkmenistan. Childhood was difficult - the civil war, the death of his father, poverty. Asadov began to write poetry as a child, but after graduating from school, he immediately went to the front - the Great Patriotic War began. A great misfortune happened to Asadov in the war - during the battle near Sevastopol, he was seriously wounded in the face. Losing consciousness, Asadov was able to take the ammunition to the place. A series of operations followed, but, alas, he was never able to save his eyesight. Asadov became blind and for the rest of his life wore a black bandage on his face, which he never took off in public.

Probably, any other person after such a tragedy would have become angry, hardened, but not Asadov. He continued to write poetry - all the same sincere, intimate, cheerful. After the war, he entered the Literary Institute, where he graduated with honors, and in the same year he published a collection of his poems, immediately gaining fame. Asadov very quickly became popular - his books were sold out instantly, there was simply no end to invitations to poetry evenings and concerts. Every day Asadov received many letters in which people from all over the country shared their life stories, in which the poet drew inspiration. During his life, Asadov published about sixty collections of poetry and prose.

When Asadov was in the hospital after being wounded, he was often visited by familiar girls, one of whom he later married, but, alas, the marriage soon broke up. Asadov found happiness in his personal life, having already become a famous poet. At one of the concerts, he met a girl artist. At first, she simply read his poems during her performances, but over time, Edward and Galina became friends, and soon became husband and wife.

Asadov's death occurred on April 21, 2004. The cause of Asadov's death was a heart attack - the poet died before the ambulance arrived. The poet bequeathed to bury his heart on Sapun Mountain, but Asadov's relatives opposed the execution of his will. Asadov's funeral was held in Moscow, Asadov's grave is located at the Kuntsevo cemetery.

life line

September 7, 1923 Date of birth of Eduard Arkadyevich Asadov (real middle name Artashesovich).
1929 Moving to Sverdlovsk.
1939 Moving to Moscow.
1941 Graduation from the 38th Moscow school, volunteering for the front.
night from 3 to 4 May 1944 A severe wound, as a result of which Asadov lost his sight.
1946 Admission to the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky.
1956 Release of Asadov's book of poems "Snowy Evening".
1951. Graduation from the institute, publication of Asadov's first collection of poems "Bright Road", entry into the CPSU and the Writers' Union.
1961 Acquaintance with Galina Razumovskaya, Asadov's future wife.
April 29, 1997 Death of Asadov's wife, Galina.
2001 The publication of Asadov's book “Laughing is better than tormenting. Poetry and Prose.
April 21, 2004 Date of Asadov's death.
April 23, 2004 Asadov's funeral.

Memorable places

1. The city of Mary, Turkmenistan, where Asadov was born.
2. School No. 38, Moscow, where Asadov studied.
3. Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, who graduated from Asadov.
4. Writer's village DNT Krasnovidovo, where Asadov lived and worked in recent years.
5. Museum "Protection and Liberation of Sevastopol" on Sapun-mountain in Sevastopol, which houses a stand dedicated to Asadov.
6. Kuntsevo cemetery, where Asadov is buried.

Episodes of life

In 1945, straight from the hospital where Asadov was after being wounded, he sent a notebook with his poems to Korney Chukovsky. In response, he received a letter with severe criticism from the famous poet, which, however, ended with the words: “And yet, despite everything that has been said, I can tell you with full responsibility that you are a true poet. For you have that lyrical breath, which is inherent only in a poet. I wish you success. Your Korney Chukovsky. These words inspired Asadov so much that he decided that he would devote his whole life to creativity.

Asadov first nurtured his poems in himself, then he slandered on a tape recorder, corrected, edited, and then sat down at a typewriter. Asadov himself typed his works on a typewriter, and he typed at a good average speed.

Covenant

“We should always be proud of love, because it is the rarest value!”

"Do whatever you do with your heart."

Asadov's poem "Value happiness, cherish it!"

condolences

“Grandfather was not one of those who fall into despair. He had an incredibly strong will."
Kristina Asadova, granddaughter of Eduard Asadov

“A synthetic author, he immediately made that catharsis, that drive that a marching song, a Kondo-Soviet verse, a story in the Yunost magazine, a shabby volume of Pushkin or Yesenin and much, much more did in parts. The poet is reckless, cool, not subject to culture, neither this nor that, nothing known to us, an apophatic poet, there is no such thing anymore. There is no such poet.
Psoy Korolenko, songwriter, philologist, journalist

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 Grigoryevich (1898−1929), graduated from Tomsk University, during the Civil War - commissar, commander of the 1st company of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, in peacetime he worked as a school teacher. 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), a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, a teacher of 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 Arkadyevich 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 eccentricity 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 volley 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, during the winter of 1941/42, Asadov's gun fired 318 volleys at enemy positions. In addition to the position of a gunner, he in a short time studied and mastered the duties of other crew 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 was carrying a projectile on his shoulder, did not have time to execute the command "Lie down!". A shell fragment tore off his left arm. 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. They 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 hit the "gates" exactly every three minutes. He made a risky, but the only possible decision: to slip with the machines precisely in these short intervals between gaps. Having driven the car to the “gates”, after another gap, without even waiting for the dust and smoke to settle, he ordered the driver to turn on the maximum speed and rush forward. Breaking 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, on 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", 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 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. 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 bombardment is a feat. Riding almost to certain death for the sake of saving comrades is a feat ... Any doctor would confidently say that a person who has received such an injury has very little chance of surviving. And he is not able not only to fight, but in general to move. But Eduard Asadov did not withdraw from the battle. Constantly losing consciousness, he continued to command, carry out a combat operation and drive a car to a goal that he now saw only with his heart. And brilliantly completed the task. I don’t remember such a case in my long military life ... "

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 ... For this feat of the guard, Lieutenant Asadov was awarded the Order of the Red Star, and many years later, by Decree of the Permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR of 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 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 he sent, almost every line was provided with Chukovsky's lengthy comments." The most unexpected for him was the conclusion: “…however, despite everything that has been said above, I can say with full responsibility that you are a true poet. For you have that genuine poetic breath, which is inherent only in a poet! Wish you luck. K. 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 a constant 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, which in different years included such widely known 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 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, fidelity, courage and patriotism (“Smoke of the Fatherland”, “Twentieth Century”, “Forest River”, “Dream of 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. Such 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 Brown 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.

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

In 1939, Asadov and his mother moved to Moscow. In Moscow, the poet studied at school No. 38, after the evening of graduates on June 14, 1941, without waiting for the call, Eduard Asadov volunteered for the front. He ended up as 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. In the winter of 1941/42 alone, Asadov's gun fired 318 volleys 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 School. For 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 fight, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, later 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 autumn he entered the Gorky Literary Institute. Even during his studies, Asadov received the first prize in the institute's competition for the best poem or poem, beating Vladimir Soloukhin. In 1951, after graduating from the institute with a "red" diploma, Asadov became a member of the Writers' Union 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, creative evenings were sold out 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 creative activity of the poet 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 Grigoryevich Asadov died on April 21, 2004 in Moscow. His grave is located at the Kuntsevsky cemetery of the city. But the poet bequeathed to bury his heart in Sevastopol, on Sapun Mountain, in the place where he lost his sight in the battle of 1944.

Eduard Arkadyevich Asadov - poet, prose writer, translator - was born September 7, 1923 in the city of Mary, Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in a family of teachers, and this largely determined the boy's interest in books and knowledge.

In 1929 the father died, and the mother and son moved to their grandfather in Sverdlovsk. The Urals became, as it were, the second homeland of the poet, which had a great influence on the formation of his soul. At the age of 8, Asadov wrote his first poems, read them at school evenings. In 1939 the family moved to Moscow.

In 1941 Asadov finished school, June 14 in the 38th school in Moscow, where he studied, a graduation ball was held. A week later - the war, and Asadov goes to the district committee of the Komsomol with a request to send him as a volunteer to the front. He became a guards mortar gunner, the legendary "Katyusha", took part in fierce battles on the Volkhov front.

In 1943 graduated from the Guards Artillery and Mortar School, became the commander of the Katyusha battery and fought on the Leningrad, North Caucasian, 4th Ukrainian fronts. In echelons, in dugouts, in dugouts, by the light of an oil lamp, he wrote poetry. In the battle for the liberation of Sevastopol at night from 3 to 4 May 1944 was seriously wounded in the face, but did not withdraw from the battle. Asadov spent a year and a half in the hospital, underwent 12 operations, but failed to restore his sight. While in the hospital, Asadov received a personal thanks from Marshal G.K. Zhukov.

Asadov's poem "Letter from the Front", written in 1943 20-year-old lieutenant, was later taken to the exposition of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR. K.I. Chukovsky, to whom Asadov sent his poems from the hospital, appreciated the talent of the young author. Asadov writes the poem "Back in service", which has an autobiographical character. “I will see with my heart,” says her hero, a young volunteer Sergei Raskatov. Asadov himself, having lost his sight, learned to "see with his heart." The poem "Back in line" was in 1949 published in the collection of students of the Literary Institute. M. Gorky, where Asadov studied. The poem immediately attracted attention, it was written about in newspapers and magazines, it was discussed at readers' conferences, the author received hundreds of letters from readers. Criticism put her next to P. Antokolsky's "Son" and M. Aliger's "Zoya".

Literary Institute. M. Gorky Asadov graduated with honors in 1951, in the same year he published his first book "Light Roads" and was accepted as a member of the joint venture. Asadov's collection of poems "Bright Roads", "Snowy Evening" ( 1956 ), "The soldiers returned from the war" ( 1957 ) testified that the poet courageously conquered that loneliness, that darkness into which the war plunged him. The poetry of the Asads is distinguished by its vivid publicism, born of the drama of the author's fate; in terms of life and creativity, the fate of Asadov resembles the fate of N. Ostrovsky ... "Back in the ranks" - P. Antokolsky called his review of Asadov. A group of soldiers wrote to him: “We assure you, Comrade Asadov, that we will follow your example all our lives and will never let go of our weapons. And if misfortune overtakes us, we, just like you, will overcome our illness and return to duty again! (Moscow. 1957. No. 7. P. 197). Similar letters came from abroad - from Poland, Bulgaria, Albania.

Particularly popular in 1950-70s acquired Asadov’s poems about love: readers were attracted by the purity of intimate feeling sung by the poet (“I’ll come anyway”, 1973 ; "Compass of Happiness" 1979 , and etc.). Readers saw in the poet a friend who, as it were, extends a helping hand, encouragement to those who are in trouble, experiencing grief. Asadov affirms faith in nobility, young people are drawn to romance in his poems, to the restless search for difficult but interesting roads. Asadov's poems are attracted by emotional sharpness, romantic elation; the stern and courageous gaze of a warrior is combined here with youthful inspiration and even childish immediacy.

Asadov tends to plot poetic narration, his favorite genre is the ballad (“Ice Ballad”, “Ballad of Hatred and Love”, etc.). He develops the genres of the poem, the poetic story - the poem "Shurka", the small poem "Petrovna", the lyrical story in verse "Galina", "The Poem of the First Tenderness", etc. The poet expands his thematic range - "The Song of Wordless Friends", poems “Pelican”, “Bear cub”, “Poems about a red mongrel” he devotes to caring for “our smaller brothers”. Remaining faithful to poetry, Asadov also works in prose: memoirs of the Lightning Lightning of War (Spark. 1985 . No. 17-18; Banner. 1987 . No. 6), the story "Scout Sasha" (Friendship of Peoples. 1988 . No. 3), the documentary story "Front Spring" (Young Guard. 1988 . № 2-3).

In 1985 the first book of his prose was published, a collection of front-line stories "Zarnitsy war".

Asadov's poems were translated into Ukrainian, Armenian, Tatar, Moldavian, Kirghiz, Estonian and other languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR, as well as into Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, German, English, Spanish, etc. Asadov, in turn, translated the poems of Uzbek poets (Mirmukhsin, M Babaev, M. Sheikhzade), Azerbaijan (M. Ragim, R. Rza), Georgia (A. Tevzade), Kazakhstan (A. Sarsenbaev), Bashkiria (B. Ishemgulov), Kalmykia (A. Suseev) and others.

But difficult times have come for Asadov's poems. However, after a number of years of oblivion, coinciding with the reforms late 1980s - mid 1990s, it seemed to be rediscovered. “One of the features of Asadov, both in poetry and in prose,” S. Baruzdin proclaimed in 1995, “is his extraordinary optimism. Every page of Assad's prose breathes with unshakable kindness, love for people, faith in the victory of justice over the forces of evil and, in general, in all the best” (Zarnitsy Voyny. M., 1995, p. 6).

In 2003 In connection with his 80th birthday, Asadov was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.