Alexander Terentyevich Protasov was the son of his time: in 1941 he went to the front as a young lad, and met Victory Day as a tank officer. Protasov is a talented poet and writer who has published over four hundred books.
Dedicated to the hero of the Great Patriotic War, poet, writer and just a Man with a capital letter!
Biography
The future writer was born in a small village in the Bryansk region in 1920 in the family of a collective farmer and a teacher. In the regional center, he graduated from high school. In the same 1939 he entered the Pedagogical Institute of the city of Smolensk at the Faculty of Philology.
In 1941, the young man was drafted to the front, so he ended up in the tank troops. Alexander Terentyevich was repeatedly wounded. But, despite all the horrors of the war, he managed to keep a pure soul. This can be seen in his literary works.
Creation
No wonder Alexander Protasov went to study to be a philologist. After all, he wrote poetry from school. But over time, his works became more and more mature. The poet's poems began to be printed in 1945 in a front-line newspaper. When the war ended, the writer's works could be found in the magazine "Soviet Warrior", in the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda", in the almanac "Podvig".
When A. T. Protasov moved to the city of Chisinau, his creations began to be printed in almost all magazines and newspapers in Moldova.
Then he published 4 books, which included his poems. In these works, with the help of rhymed lines, the author talks with readers, talks about his generation, which had to endure the Great Patriotic War, about nationalism, about corruption and crime, about the Man who was able to keep his soul pure.
The poet's poems are devoted not only to military themes and heroic lyrics. In his works, he confessed his love for Russia, wrote about his native Bryansk region, about his feelings for a woman.
Reading the works of the famous writer, the audience will be able to mentally travel to that corner of the burnt-out tank, learn about the will of the tanker, "listen" to Ruslanova singing. The poet described all this in detail in verse.
Career
Alexander Protasov went to war as a very young man, and after the Victory returned as a military officer.
He began to compose poetry from childhood, especially then he succeeded in quatrains. The writer began to write prose only in his last years.
In the story "Memories of a Soldier" he talks about his biography, shares with the reader what is in his heart. Reading the lines of this work, you can learn about the personal life of the writer, about how he loved and was faithful to a woman.
Alexander Terentyevich Protasov raised children, and then helped raise grandchildren. He was very proud of his heirs.
When the famous poet and writer was gone, after the funeral, fireworks thundered over his grave. Thus, those for whom he fought, for whom he honestly worked and for whom he created his imperishable works, paid tribute to him.
