Poet, writer, translator, combatant during the Great Patriotic War - all this is about one amazing person who lived his life full of a variety of impressions and emotions.
Biography
The poet was born in Ukraine in the city that is now called Kropyvnytskyi, on June 25, 1907. His mother worked as a teacher at a local school, his father worked in a bank, they raised their son in the spirit of aristocracy, instilling a love of art and creativity. The Tarkovsky family had another son, Valery, who laid down his head on the battlefields of the Civil War in 1919.
There was a warm relationship between the father and the only remaining son. Together they went to the evenings of creativity, where famous poets of the Silver Age performed. Impressed and inspired, young Tarkovsky left for Moscow to enroll in Literature courses as soon as he graduated from school in his hometown.
When the war began, Arseny, at his request, was sent to the front, where he took a direct part in the hostilities. During one of the battles, he was wounded in the leg, which was subsequently amputated. After the war, the poet continued to engage in creative activities, which became the meaning of his life in his youth. Arseny died at an advanced age on May 27 in 1989, having received the USSR State Prize posthumously.
Career
Already in his full thirteen years, in the 1920s, Tarkovsky wrote his first articles in the local newspapers Gudok and Prozhektor. But in those difficult times it was not easy to feed on publications alone, so in 1933 Tarkovsky decided to start translating books from languages such as Georgian, Kyrgyz and Turkmen. Soon the work bore its first fruits in the form of the admission of Arseny Aleksandrovich to the Union of the Presidium of Soviet Writers.
After the poet went to the war, he was immediately appointed a front-line writer in the newspaper "Battle Alarm". His poems and fables dispersed among the Soviet soldiers, who really liked the work of Arseny. Some even kept newspaper-cut quatrains in their breast pockets. The war ended and Tarkovsky began to publish collections of his poems, containing not only his work, but also translated works of some poets from the Georgian Republic. In total, about 12 copies and one three-volume collection of essays were published.
Personal life
In total, Tarkovsky was married three times. The reason for his inconstancy is believed to be that the writer could not find a golden mean in a woman's nature, since he needed home comfort, coupled with the imperiousness of his fair half, which is often incompatible with each other. The great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and the writer Marina Tarkovskaya are born from the first marriage with fellow student Marina Ivanovna Vishnyakova. In subsequent marriages with Antonina Bokhonova and Ozerskaya Tatyana, there were no children.
