Eduard Arkadievich (Artashesovich) Asadov is an outstanding Russian writer of the twentieth century. During the war, he was seriously injured, fought death and lost his sight. But despite this, Eduard Asadov was able to give the world a large number of wonderful works that delight in their sincerity and great sensitivity to the beauty of this world.
Biography of Eduard Asadov. Childhood
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 name and surname and became Arkady Grigorievich Asadov. At one time he worked as an investigator for the Altai province Cheka, in Barnaul he met Lidia Ivanovna Kurdova. He fought in the Caucasus, was the commander of a rifle company, resigned, got married and in 1923 began working as a teacher in the city of Mary. Edward was born there. In 1929, Arkady Grigorievich died. Lidia Ivanovna, together with little Edik, moved to Sverdlovsk to live with her father Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov, who was a doctor.
In Sverdlovsk, eight-year-old Edik Asadov wrote his first poem. At school he was a pioneer, and later - a Komsomol member, but already in Moscow, where he moved in 1939. The young poet dreamed of getting a higher education in the path to which his soul lay from childhood - literature, art. And so, the merry prom rumbled, it's time to think about 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 assistant commander of the Katyusha battery on the North Caucasian and Ukrainian fronts. He also managed to fight on the Leningrad front.
Wound
The poet's amazing courage and nobility is read not only in his amazing works, but also in his actions. The young man endured an event that could break the life and distort the future of anyone with admirable dignity. He took part in the battles for Sevastopol. At night, from 3 to 4 May 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 recollections of the poet himself, after being wounded, he changed at least five hospitals. The latter was in Moscow. There he heard the verdict of the doctors:
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. This is what he recalls about his first publication in the Ogonyok magazine:
Creation
The central theme of the poet's work is humanity. Everything that distinguishes a real Man with a capital letter is kindness, honesty, responsiveness, indifference. And, of course, love. Many people adore his work precisely because of his love poems - sincere, pure and incredibly touching. In addition, they are not replete with symbolism, metaphors and other means - they do not need these excesses. The ability to reach out to 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:
After the end of the war, Eduard Arkadievich entered the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute. He graduated with honors and published the first collection of poems "The Bright Road".
In total, the author has published 47 books, wrote not only in poetry, but also in prose.
Personal life
Trauma 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 artistic words, became a real soul mate, a kindred spirit 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 military, and in creative, and in 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 award of the Order of Lenin.
