Vasily Terkin. Tvardovsky A.

In the history of Russian literature, there are few works that could compare with Vasily Terkin in popularity and that truly popular love that fell to the share of the famous poem of Alexander Twardowski, the outstanding Soviet poet and writer, the editor -in -chief of the legendary magazine “New World ", Which became the Rupor of Freedom during the" thaw. " The main part of the poem was created during the Great Patriotic War and was printed in the form of individual chapters, which had a deafening success among readers; The continuation of the book about the brave and cheerful fighter was eagerly awaited by "people living in the war."

“Vasily Terkin is the best of all written about the war in the war,” Konstantin Simonov responded about the poem. In addition to Vasily Terkin, this collection included its continuation - Terkin in the next world, written ten years after the end of the war - the poem “House by the Road”, dedicated to fate in the war of a Russian woman; as well as selected poems created in different years of life, including “I am killed under Rzhev”, “On the day when the war ended”, etc.