Biography, life story of Isakovsky Mikhail Vasilyevich

On January 7, 1900, a boy was born in the village of Glotovka, Smolensk region, who later became a Hero of Socialist Labor and a laureate of State Prizes. The newborn was named Mikhail Vasilyevich Isakovsky. He became the penultimate of thirteen children in a poor peasant family, barely making ends meet. The poverty of the parents became the reason that the entire education of the future Russian Soviet poet was 6 classes of the gymnasium.

From the moment of his birth, the boy's father, Vasily Nazarovich, sought to reveal to him as much of the world around him as possible. He worked at the post office at the nearby Pavlinovo station, and often took Mikhail with him. Each such trip was a joy for him. In addition, often his father brought magazines and newspapers from the post office, with the help of which Mikhail independently learned to read and then write. At the same time, the first “literary works” came out from under the pen of a 10-year-old boy - he wrote letters for illiterate peasants from the surrounding villages. According to numerous reviews of the villagers, he wrote "well, smoothly and compassionately." These qualities were popular with the wives of soldiers and other offended women. These letters had a huge impact on the moral and aesthetic development of the future poet, teaching him to sincerely express human feelings, to open his soul. This subsequently evolved into the signature style "lyrical writing".

School

In the fall of 1910, 10-year-old Mikhail entered the elementary zemstvo school, located just half a kilometer from his native village. Since by that time he was already reading and writing, he was immediately accepted into the second grade. He graduated from it in the spring of 1913 with a round honors student. But a year before that, he wrote several poems, two of which are “M.V. Lomonosov" and "Saint" - were read to them at the final exam, where they were very warmly received.

Two years later, in the fall of 1915, Mikhail entered Voronin's private gymnasium in Smolensk, where he continued his poetic experiments. This did not find support from his current teachers, but did not discourage the desire to compose. In 1917, he transferred to the Yelninskaya gymnasium, which was located closer to home. However, Mikhail could not continue his studies due to the poverty of his family. On this, his education was interrupted forever, because later, due to an eye disease, he could not continue his systematic study.

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Mikhail Isakovsky accepted the revolution of October 1917 as a "living beloved creature", devoting even a few lines to it. In the fall of 1918, he became a member of the CPSU (b), and a few months later - the editor of the county newspaper in Yelnya. In fact, there was no newspaper, but in two years Isakovsky managed to create it with hard work. He had to work literally alone, he was the author of all published material. Moreover, the newspaper was printed by hand. Hard work for several years led to a progressive eye disease.

In 1921, the party transferred Isakovsky to Smolensk to work in the provincial newspaper Rabochy Put, where he worked for the next 10 years. Here the first collections of the poet's poems were published, which became evidence of the birth of a new Soviet poetry. Publications printed in small numbers were distributed free of charge as a means of communist propaganda and agitation. In 1926, Mikhail Isakovsky was elected secretary of the board of the Smolensk branch of the RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers).

In Moscow

In 1931, Mikhail was appointed editor of the Kolkhoznik magazine, published in Moscow by Krestyanskaya Gazeta. However, just a year later, this publication was closed, and a few years later it was re-created, but Maxim Gorky became its leader. The poet Mikhail Isakovsky worked as a correspondent in the new Kolkhoznik.

War

Mikhail Vasilyevich Isakovsky provided invaluable assistance during the Great Patriotic War. It was his poems and songs that aroused a sense of courage among the soldiers, multiplied their love for the Motherland, and also conveyed their withering hatred for the Nazi invaders. The lyrical works of the poet in those terrible years became a chronicle of the war, set out in poetic form. They penetratingly describe the harsh front-line everyday life, heroic deeds and feelings of ordinary people, which made it possible to reveal the comprehensive nature of the war for their homeland.

After the war

After the war, Mikhail Vasilievich became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR four times. The country highly appreciated the poet's contribution to the formation of the Soviet state, awarding him the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and making him twice a laureate of state prizes. He became one of the few Soviet citizens who managed to visit the capitalist countries several times in the late 50s and 60s. However, seriously deteriorated health did not allow him to continue his active political activity. But he did not allow himself to leave the most important thing in his life - creativity.

Isakovsky Mikhail Vasilyevich [b. 7 (19) 1.1900, village of Glotovka, Elninsky district, now Smolensk region], Russian Soviet poet, Hero of Socialist Labor (1970). Member of the CPSU since 1918. Born into a poor peasant family. Even as a child, Isakovsky began to write poetry (in 1914, the poem “A Soldier’s Request” was published in the Moscow newspaper Nov’). In 1921, three small books of poetry by Isakovsky were published in Smolensk. However, the poet considers 1924 to be the beginning of his literary activity, when the poems "Podpaski", "Native" and others were published. In 1927, the book Wires in the Straw was published in Moscow, warmly received by M. Gorky. Then came the collections "Province" (1930), "Masters of the Earth" (1931), "Four Desires" (1936) and others. The first steps of socialism in the countryside, the development of culture and socialist consciousness among the peasantry - these are the themes of many of Isakovsky's poems. Collectivization, the historical revolutionary turning point in the countryside, is dedicated to the "Poem of Departure" (1930) and others. The new man of the Soviet village with his deeds, thoughts and feelings is the main character of his poetry. But Isakovsky is not only a "peasant poet." “Mikhail Isakovsky,” Gorky wrote, “is not a village man, but that new person who knows that the city and the countryside are two forces that cannot exist separately from one another, and knows that the time has come for them to merge into one invincible creative force...” (Uncollected literary-critical articles, 1941, pp. 117-18).

A large place in the work of Isakovsky is occupied by patriotic poems about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, about the heroism of Soviet people at the front and in the rear (“Russian Woman”, “Word about Russia” and others). Many of Isakovsky's poems, set to music, have become popular folk songs, they are sung all over the world: "Katyusha", "And who knows", "In the forest near the front", "Spark", "Oh, my fogs ...", “Enemies burned their own hut”, “Everything froze again until dawn”, “Migratory birds are flying” and others. Isakovsky's translations from Belarusian and Ukrainian poets, folk Hungarian ballads and songs are known. Isakovsky's articles and letters on poetry are collected in the book On Poets, Poems, and Songs (1968, 2nd edition, 1972).

The strength of Isakovsky's poetry is in its realism and nationality. The poet always writes from a deep spiritual need. Therefore, political themes are expressed in his poems lyrically, excitedly. In the words of A. Tvardovsky, Isakovsky “... found lyrical, sincere means of expression for a vital political, often directly agitational topic, which dispose the heart to what is being discussed in the work” (Sobr. soch., vol. 4, 1969, pp. 368-69). Artistic expressiveness, song and musicality are combined in Isakovsky's poetry with clarity and simplicity of language and style. Creativity Isakovsky develops the traditions of Russian classics, especially N. A. Nekrasov, it is also associated with folk lyrical songs, with ditty.

In recent years, Isakovsky has been working on autobiographical notes "On the Elninskaya Land".

State Prizes of the USSR for the lyrics: "A border guard was leaving the service", "Seeing", "And who knows", "Katyusha" and others (1943) and for the collection "Poems and Songs" (1949). He was awarded 4 orders of Lenin, 2 other orders, as well as medals.

A. G. Dementiev. Great Soviet Encyclopedia. M., 1969-1981

Biography

Isakovsky Mikhail Vasilyevich (1900 - 1973), poet. Born on January 7 (19 n.s.) in the village of Glotovka, Smolensk province, in a poor peasant family. Graduated from elementary school. He studied at the gymnasium, but the difficult financial situation forced him to leave the 6th grade and start working. During the October Revolution, Isakovsky was active in public life. Works as a secretary of the Volost Council, since 1919 he becomes the editor of a newspaper in the city of Yelnya. In 1921 - 1930 he lived in Smolensk and worked in the editorial office of the regional newspaper "Working Way". Since 1931 lives in Moscow. Isakovsky started writing early, three books of his poems were published in Smolensk, but Isakovsky considered 1924 to be the beginning of his literary activity, when the poems “Podpaski”, “Native”, etc. were printed. In 1927, the book “Wires in the Straw” was published in Moscow, noticed and highly appreciated by M. Gorky. Then the collections "Province" (1930), "Masters of the Earth" (1931), "Four Desires" (1936) were published. These poems were devoted mainly to the Soviet countryside. In the 1930s, Isakovsky wrote many lyrics that became very popular: ("Farewell", "Seeing", "And who knows", "Katyusha", "On the mountain - white-white" and many others). The Great Patriotic War occupies a large place in Isakovsky’s poetry: the poems “To the Russian Woman”, “The Word about Russia”, the songs “Goodbye, cities and huts”, “In the forest near the front”, “Oh, my fogs ...”, “Spark”, “There is no better color”, etc. In the post-war years, he continues to create the words of songs loved by the whole country: “Hear me, good one”, “Everything froze again ...”, “Migratory birds are flying” and others. In its form and language, Isakovsky's poetry has always been distinguished by clarity, nationality and musicality. Isakovsky owns many translations from Ukrainian, Belarusian and other languages. His book "On Poetic Mastery" is also interesting. M. Isakovsky died in 1973.

Isakovsky Mikhail Vasilyevich (1900 - 1973) Russian poet. Born in the village of Glotovka, in the Smolensk province, on January 7 (19), 1900. The family was a peasant, so they lived poorly. He went to study at the gymnasium, but after six classes he was forced to quit his studies in order to go to work.

During the Great October Revolution, he proved to be an active public figure. He holds the position of secretary of the volost Council. Since 1919, in the city of Yelnya, he has been working as a newspaper editor. Until 1930 he lived and worked in Smolensk. And since 1931 he moved to Moscow. The first books of poems were published in Smolensk, and the author himself considers 1924 to be the beginning of his activity. The book “Wires in the Straw” is published, which M. Gorky did not ignore. The work of this time was mainly devoted to the Russian village. Isakovsky became the author of the texts of many still famous songs, such as: "Seeing Off", "Katyusha" and many others. The works of the times of the Great Patriotic War were "The Word about Russia", "Poems to a Russian Woman", "Oh my fogs", "Better there is no that color". In the post-war period, he actively wrote lyrics for songs that everyone loved. Who has not heard "Everything has stopped again ...", or "Migratory birds are flying", here's another "Hear me, good one." The works of Mikhail Vasilyevich are distinguished by liveliness and nationality. They easily fall on the music, turning into masterpieces. He translated a lot, was fluent in Ukrainian, Belarusian and other languages. One of his best books is "On Poetic Mastery".

Mikhail Vasilyevich Isakovsky died in 1973.

Poet

From the time you were rewarded
We are the last mournful honors,
I stayed on this earth
In my hopeless loneliness.
And it's getting worse for me day by day -
Uncomfortable, anxious, unsettled...
Only maple meets me
Maple, planted by your hands.
Only he who stands at the gate
And bathes in the sunset rays.
Maple only. Maple only. But also the one
By the way, it's already crumbling...

Mikhail Isakovsky was born on January 19, 1900 in the village of Glotovka, Elninsk district.

“In the villages and villages of this region, people endowed with rich voice data have long lived,” Tvardovsky wrote in an article dedicated to his older friend. - Suffice it to say that the famous Pyatnitsky Choir includes up to ten people from the village of Glotovka in the Vskhodsky district. And the members of the Babykovsky collective farm choir, as they say, are the descendants of the serf choir of peasants. Singing skills have been passed down from generation to generation. Here, in one of the deaf and remote corners of our region, these generations have preserved and carried through decades the words and melodies of ancient folk songs ... "

Isakovsky's parents were poor. Of their thirteen children, only five survived. Michael was the penultimate child. The family did not make ends meet. Bread grown on a piece of land was not enough until the new harvest, often there was nothing to feed the family.

AT Isakovsky’s reminiscences of a bleak, hungry childhood: “A bitter, bitter childhood in a land where “the land is stingy for the harvest, and there is no land of this very kind”, in an area where even a splinter was saved and “in the evenings no lights are lit anywhere”. And then there's that incurable, damned eye disease.

The growing boy Misha also had bright moments in his life. Father Vasily Nazarovich, an enterprising and economic person, played a big role.

To feed a large family, in the fall, after the completion of agricultural work, he went in search of work. He did not spare his feet and, according to the poet's stories, he traveled almost the entire country - the Smolensk region, Belarus, even reached St. Petersburg. Over time, he managed to get a job as a postman in the neighboring village of Oselle.

Vasily Nazarovich thought about the future of his son, sought to educate him, to reveal the world around him. Work at the post office contributed to this. Every week he went with the mail to the Pavlinovo station, often taking his son with him on a trip. These trips for a peasant boy from a remote village were an acquaintance with a large, previously unknown world.

There was another important consequence of such trips. Thanks to the newspapers and magazines that his father brought from the post office, Misha became self-taught to read and write, learned to read and write. Mikhail Isakovsky became, in his words, almost the only literate person in the entire district. From the surrounding villages, peasants came to him with a request to write letters for them to their relatives and friends. These were the first "literary works" of a ten-year-old boy. He wrote, in the opinion of the villagers, “well, well-organized and, most importantly,“ compassionately ”. Especially, as Isakovsky later recalled, he was trusted to compose letters to their husbands and relatives by illiterate soldiers and other women offended by fate.

Thanks to the letters, the impressionable and inquisitive teenager gained access to the innermost feelings and thoughts of the peasants; I found out who has what fate, who has what life circumstances. On the other hand, he learned to express human feelings. It is no coincidence that the peculiar genre of "lyrical writing" will later occupy a large place in Isakovsky's poetry. The poet will not only speak in his works from another person, but will directly give the form of a letter to a number of his poems: “Letter from the Village”, “Letter”, “Letter to the Village Council”, “First Letter”, “Letter to Countrymen”, etc. P.

In the autumn of 1910, in the volost village of Autumn, half a kilometer from Glotovka, an elementary zemstvo school was opened. Mikhail Isakovsky, who had missed years, but already knew how to read and write, was accepted immediately into the second grade.

“I had nothing to go to school, especially in winter,” he later recalled. Bast shoes, it’s true, I knew how to weave myself, so things were going well with shoes, but I didn’t have anything to wear. And so I spent the whole winter, as they say, not in the stove.

In addition, there was another reason: since childhood, the boy has been suffering from an eye disease, he could not see well even from the first desk, he was afraid of offensive nicknames. A teacher, Ekaterina Sergeevna Geranskaya, came to the rescue. She sent the boy a complete set of textbooks for the second grade, and he began to study at home. From the autumn of 1911 he was able to go to school and graduated from it in the spring of 1913, having received "5" in all subjects.

Already at school, Mikhail began to show literary talent. In the summer of 1912, he began to write poetry, and two of them - "Saint" and "M.V. Lomonosov”, were read to them at the request of teachers at the final exam. Mikhail was very worried before the performance: he had to read in the presence of unfamiliar teachers, as well as the priest and the zemstvo authorities, who were part of the examination committee. The success was complete. The barefoot, poorly dressed boy, whom no one had noticed before, became the subject of attention.

In 1914, when Isakovsky, with the help of teachers - E.S. Goranskaya and V.V. Svistunov, stubbornly preparing for the entrance exams to the fourth grade of the gymnasium (it was necessary to master a three-year course in a few months), one of his student poems was published.

It was "A Soldier's Request", published in the Moscow newspaper "Nov", where it was sent without the knowledge of the author by one of the teachers.

In the fall of 1915, Isakovsky entered the fourth grade of Voronin's private gymnasium in Smolensk.

The doors of a secondary educational institution were opened for a poor peasant son by a lucky chance. During the final exams in 1913, a member of the Elninsk Zemstvo Council, who was in charge of public education in the district, Mikhail Ivanovich Pogodin, the grandson of a famous historian, came to the zemstvo four-year school in the village of Autumn during the final exams in 1913. He drew attention to a tall, thin boy with glasses, who brilliantly answered the exam and read his poems. Pogodin took an ardent part in the fate of the gifted teenager. At his own expense, he took him to eye doctors in Smolensk, and then got him into a gymnasium, obtaining a scholarship from the Elninka Zemstvo Council - 20 rubles a month. In addition, the boy was financially helped by teachers A.M. Vasilyeva, A.V., Tarbaeva, V.V. Svistunov. The poet forever preserved the grateful memory of these sensitive, sympathetic people who played such an important role in his life. In fact, they sealed his fate. E.S. did a lot for him. Goranskaya. All the guys loved Ekaterina Sergeevna very much for her deep knowledge, kindness, exactingness and justice. Young Isakovsky was in awe of her, before the one who taught him to appreciate and understand literature, true kindness and beauty: “We all loved her so sincerely,” the poet later said, “that we were very ashamed if we failed to fulfill her requirements.”

It was Goranskaya who first felt something was wrong with the eyes of her student and hired a cab herself to take him to the doctors in Yelnya. She carefully selected books for him and taught him individually when he was unable to go to school. She instilled in him a love of poetry and literature; she was the first to notice his talent and directed him in every possible way.

Alexandra Vasilievna Tarbaeva taught the first grade in a rural school when Misha Isakovsky was accepted as an external student in the second. She shared with E.S. Goransky all the troubles and worries about his fate.

A huge role in the fate of the future outstanding poet was played by M.I. Pogodin. When Isakovsky was threatened with the expulsion of their gymnasium for non-payment of the tuition fee, Pogodin quickly came to the rescue. Without the help of these people, Isakovsky, perhaps, would not have become what he became in poetry.

Isakovsky lived very poorly. In his own words, he "occupied a small room, ate anyhow and with anything." Loneliness and lack of friends added to the material difficulties. With all classmates, he "converged tight." He studied with the children of wealthy parents. In their circle, a boy from a poor working-class family, a “muzhik,” felt alienated.

In the gymnasium, Isakovsky continued his poetic experiments, but the new teachers no longer supported him. The poet recalled how “once he tried to hint at his “involvement in literature”: the gymnasium students were given an essay on the topic: “Description of the Caucasus based on the works of A.S. Pushkin". Not indifferent to Pushkin at school, the boy decided to express his thoughts in poetic form:

“So this is what you are, my sacred Caucasus,

I tried with all my heart

To see you as a child at least once,

To you I was carried away by a dream.

The teacher of literature did not put any mark and wrote in red ink under the essay: “I ask you to accurately complete the assigned work, not allowing inappropriate liberties.”

And yet, Isakovsky did not stop composing. Of the poems written in the gymnasium, the best is the poem “The Wayfarer” (1916), which was included in one of the early youth collections “On the Steps of Time”.

During the February bourgeois-democratic revolution, Isakovsky studied in the sixth grade of the Smolensk gymnasium.

Isakovsky studied at the Voronin Gymnasium in Smolensk for two years, and in the fall of 1917 he transferred to the Yelninskaya Gymnasium, closer to home. However, there was no need to study further: the family was in great need and it was necessary to take up work. He leaves the gymnasium, leaving the sixth grade. This was the end of his education. Subsequently, he was engaged in self-education all his life, as he could not continue systematic studies due to eye disease.

Seventeen-year-old Mikhail Isakovsky accepted the Great October Revolution with joy, and in his autobiography, like Mayakovsky, who exclaimed “My revolution!”, He wrote: “I cannot imagine my existence apart from the life of the people, from the October Revolution.”

In the year of the Great October Revolution, Isakovsky began his career: he became an elementary school teacher, and I enjoyed great confidence among the workers - the villagers. He is elected to the village volost Council - assistant secretary.

In the spring of 1918, a dramatic episode occurred in the biography of Isakovsky, which almost cost him his life. The impoverished peasantry of the Smolensk region more than once sent messengers for bread to the fertile southern regions of Russia. Wishing to help the starving villagers, Isakovsky in March 1918, together with comrade Filimon Titov, went on a similar trip to drive a wagon of bread for the village. They visited Kursk, and then reached Rostov-on-Don, where they were told that a barge with wheat was moving along the Don and that all this bread was supposed to be sent by a special train to the Smolensk province. But there was a civil war, the white-Cossack troops were advancing on Rostov. The barge never arrived, the train did not run. Isakovsky and his friend went home on foot, but near Novocherkassk they were detained by a White Cossack patrol, imprisoned and, as it turned out later from the documents, they were sentenced to be shot. Only the entry into the city of the Red Army saved them from death.

The horror of the experience did not weaken the will of the young Isakovsky.

In the autumn of 1918 he joined the CPSU(b). A long period of Isakovsky's journalistic newspaper work begins, at the same time his formation as a poet takes place. The revolution needed literate people from the worker-peasant strata.

At the beginning of 1919, the party sent Isakovsky to Yelnya as the editor of a county newspaper. In fact, there was no newspaper yet - it had to be created anew. He worked here for two years, and he worked literally alone. All the material, from the first to the last line, had to be rewritten by hand: there was neither a typewriter nor a typist. He wrote articles and feuilletons, corrected, participated in the layout. The newspaper was printed by hand. Fatigue at work influenced the fact that Isakovsky's eye disease progressed.

In 1921, Isakovsky was transferred to work in the Smolensk provincial newspaper Rabochy Put. In various positions (producer, secretary, head of department, etc.), he worked here for ten years (not counting several long breaks associated with eye disease).

In the same year, 1921, the first collections of Isakovsky’s poems were published in Smolensk: “On the Steps of Time”, “Ups” - the propaganda poem “Four Hundred Millions” and the book of slogans “Fight against hunger”, “Battle slogans of the day”, created on the instructions of the provincial party committee .

In 1921 he moved to Smolensk, where he worked as an editor of the department of the regional newspaper Rabochy Put.

Isakovsky worked for the Rabochy Put newspaper for ten years.

“I will get to Smolensk,” Tvardovsky wrote in his diary in October 1927. - I’ll come here ... The editorial office of the Rabochy Put ... Somehow I like its low and dark rooms. There hangs a special "editor's" smell, the smell of ink, paper, the rattling of typewriters. And most importantly, Isakovsky's kind, smiling eyes through his glasses. He leans over the table (since it is very long, it seems to me that, sitting on one side of the table, he can, bending over, reach the floor on the other side with his hand), writes, soils the sheets typed on a typewriter ... "

To Isakovsky himself, however, work in the editorial office did not at all seem so romantic.

“I am dissatisfied with the new editor,” he wrote to his friend S. Pamfilov. - In relation to me, he has already managed to apply “economic repression” twice. The last one of these days. I, as a member of the board of the RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), was at the plenum for almost a week, and the editor ordered that my salary be withheld from me for this week, since I allegedly traveled at my own request and in general the editors were not involved in this RAPP. I am a peaceful person and do not like to make trouble, but I will leave the editorial office with great pleasure if the Literary Fund satisfies my application ... The same repressions apply to the literary page. She was expelled, although formally the editor for a literal page, but in fact she rejects the best works of our authors, including mine ... In general, the atmosphere of work is unhealthy and not good ... "

In 1926-1927, when the Smolensk branch of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP) arose on the basis of a literary group attached to the Smolensk Komsomol newspaper "Young Comrade", Isakovsky was elected secretary of the board of this organization. Increasingly, his poems were published in Smolensk newspapers.

In 1927, a book of Isakovsky's poems, Wires in the Straw, was published in Moscow. The book was destroyed by the critic A. Lezhnev, but Maxim Gorky stood up for the young poet. “Mikhail Isakovsky,” he wrote, “is not a village man, but that new person who knows that the city and the countryside are two forces that cannot exist separately from one another, and knows that the time has come for them to merge into one irresistible creative strength..."

In 1930, a collection of poems "Province" was published, in 1931 - "Masters of the Earth".

The poet, who gained fame, was transferred to Moscow as the editor of the Kolkhoznik magazine. Isakovsky was proud of his involvement in literary life. The collection “Along and along the road, along and along the Kazanka”, published in Smolensk in 1934, the poet even accompanied with a special explanation “This book was formed as a result of everyday participation in the work of the newspaper of the political department of the Moscow-Kazan Railway “Railway Proletarian”, on the pages of which and the verses collected here were printed ... "

Moscow life at first was not easy and did little to please the poet. “I collected a parcel (grocery), - he wrote to his daughter, - and carried it to the post office. And now I did not have three kopecks to send the parcel. I went back to Izvoznaya Street, where I lived at that time. Borrowed ten kopecks from a neighbor. And what would I borrow at least a ruble, so that it would be enough for a tram. And then again I dragged myself on foot, and the post office was far away ... "

Mikhail Isakovsky was born on January 19, 1900 in the Smolensk province in a poor peasant family of Vasily Isakovsky. He was taught literacy by a village priest, and later Mikhail studied at the gymnasium for two years. At the age of fourteen, he published his first poem, "A Soldier's Request", in the Moscow newspaper Nov'. This was the beginning of his creative poetic biography.

In 1924, Isakovsky wrote already quite professional works "Podpaski", "Native", and in 1927 the first collection of his poems was published. Since the creative manner of Mikhail Isakovsky is characterized by the simplicity of the plot, the ease of rhyme, many of his poems have become songs loved by the people. It is enough to list only a few of them: "Katyusha", "", "In the forest near the front", "Oh my fogs", "Spark", "".

These songs supported the Russian people both in the years of trials and on the days of great holidays, they went with them into battle and to great labor feats. Many of them are performed today, and they are perceived, most often as folk, which is the highest recognition for the author. However, even during his lifetime, the poet was loved by the people and treated kindly by the authorities, being the winner of several Stalin and Lenin Prizes and a holder of various government awards.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Isakovsky not only created poetic works, he also did a lot of successful translation work. There are many publications of his translations of poems by Ukrainian and Belarusian poets, as well as Hungarian folk songs and ballads. Already a venerable poet, Isakovsky taught at the Literary Institute, preaching the principles of proximity to the origins of Russian folk culture and creativity for the people and in the name of the people.

The author of many song texts beloved by the people died on July 20, 1973 and was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. The fate of the poet Isakovsky is one of the few examples when, in an era of global upheavals, a person was prosperous, probably, he was not devoid of conformism, however, despite this, songs based on his poems do not cease to be truly great, and will be sung by more than one generation of Russians .