Letters from the war 1941 - 1945. Tvardovsky A.

On June 21, 1941, Alexander Twardowski was 31 years old, and the next day the Great Patriotic War began. Already on June 23, he was appointed to the South-Western Front, he left for his destination on the 25th, and the 26th sent his wife the first letter from the road...

Maria Illarionovna Tvardovskaya saved all her husband’s letters received during the war. There are 139 in total. Written with the ultimate sincerity of the closest person in different years and in different conditions, they can now be read as a story about the life of a family divided by a war. There are many lines about love in letters, about family ties, especially significant "in the grave hour of the native land." They have anxieties, doubts, hopes experienced in separation. The poet is revealed here as a husband and as a father with his organically inherent sense of responsibility for his family, who himself created, and for the family from which he left. The story of the creation of the poem “Vasily Terkin” - from the maturation of the plan to the difficulties of promoting the book to the reader, is also brightly emerged in letters.