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Eduard Arkadievich (Artashesovich) Asadov(September 7, 1923, Merv, Turkestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR - April 21, 2004, Odintsovo, Moscow Region, Russia) - Soviet poet and prose writer.

Born in the city of Mary, Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, into an Armenian family. The parents were teachers. Father Artashes Grigoryevich Asadyants (1898-1929) was born in Nagorno-Karabakh, studied at the Tomsk Technological Institute, a member of the AKP. On November 9, 1918 he was arrested in Altai, released on December 10, 1919 by a group of P. Kantselyarsky. He left prison as a Bolshevik, worked as an investigator for the Altai Gubernia Cheka. He met his future wife Lydia Ivanovna Kurdova in Barnaul. In 1921 he left for the Caucasus and fought with the Dashnaks - commissar of a rifle regiment, commander of a rifle company. Since 1923 a teacher in the city of Mary (Turkmenistan).

After the death of his father in 1929, Eduard Asadov moved with his mother to Sverdlovsk, where his grandfather Ivan (Ovanes) Kalustovich Kurdov lived.

At the age of eight he wrote his first poem. He joined the pioneers, then was admitted to the Komsomol. Since 1939, he lived in Moscow on Prechistenka, in the former apartment building of Isakov. He studied at the 38th Moscow school, which he graduated in 1941. A week after graduation, the Great Patriotic War began. Asadov volunteered for the front, was a mortar gunner, then assistant commander of the Katyusha battery on the North Caucasian and 4th Ukrainian fronts. Fought on the Leningrad front.

On the night of May 3-4, 1944, in the battles for Sevastopol near Belbek, he was seriously wounded by a shell fragment in the face. Losing consciousness, he drove a truck with ammunition to an artillery battery. After prolonged treatment in hospitals, doctors were unable to save his eyes, and from that time on, Asadov was forced to wear a black half-mask on his face until the end of his life.

The poet later recalled these tragic days:

... What happened next? And then there was a hospital and twenty-six days of struggle between life and death. "To be or not to be?" - in the most literal sense of the word. When consciousness came, he dictated a postcard to his mother two or three words, trying to avoid disturbing words. When consciousness left, he was delirious.

It was bad, but youth and life still won. However, I had not one hospital, but a whole clip. From Mamashaev I was transferred to Saki, then to Simferopol, then to Kislovodsk to the hospital named after the Decade of October (now there is a sanatorium), and from there to Moscow. Moving, surgeons' scalpels, dressings. And here is the most difficult thing - the verdict of the doctors: “Everything will be ahead. Everything but the light." This is what I had to accept, endure and comprehend, to decide for myself the question: “To be or not to be?” And after many sleepless nights, weighing everything and answering: “Yes!” - set yourself the biggest and most important goal for yourself and go towards it, no longer giving up. I started writing poetry again. He wrote night and day, before and after the operation, he wrote persistently and stubbornly. I understood that it was not yet right, but I searched again and worked again. However, no matter how strong the will of a person, no matter how persistently he goes towards his goal and no matter how much work he puts into his business, true success is not yet guaranteed to him. In poetry, as in any other art, one needs abilities, talent, and vocation. It is difficult to assess the dignity of your poems yourself, because you are most partial to yourself. ... I will never forget this May 1, 1948. And how happy I was when I kept the issue of Ogonyok bought near the House of Scientists, in which my poems were printed. That's it, my poems, and not someone else's! Festive demonstrators walked past me with songs, and I was probably the most festive of all in Moscow!

When I meet evil in people,
For a long time I try to believe
What is it most likely - pretense,
That this is an accident, and I'm wrong.

In 1946 he entered the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, who graduated with honors in 1951. In the same year, he published his first collection of poems, The Bright Road, and was accepted as a member of the CPSU and the Writers' Union.

In recent years, he lived and worked in the writers' village DNT Krasnovidovo. He died on April 21, 2004 in Odintsovo. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery. Eduard Asadov bequeathed to bury his heart on Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, however, according to the testimony of museum workers on Sapun Mountain, relatives were against it, so the poet’s will was not fulfilled.

Creative activity

Eduard Asadov - author of 47 books: "Snowy Evening" (1956), "Soldiers returned from the war" (1957), "In the name of great love" (1962), "Lyric pages" (1962), "I love forever" (1965 ), "Be Happy, Dreamers" (1966), "Island of Romance" (1969), "Kindness" (1972), "Song of Wordless Friends" (1974), "Winds of Restless Years" (1975), "Constellation of Hounds of the Dogs "(1976), "Years of Courage and Love" (1978), "Compass of Happiness" (1979), "In the Name of Conscience" (1980), "Smoke of the Fatherland" (1983), "I fight, I believe, I love!" (1983), "High Duty" (1986), "Fates and Hearts" (1990), "Dawn of War" (1995), "Don't give up, people" (1997), "Don't give up your loved ones" (2000), “Don't miss out on love. Poetry and prose” (2000), “Laughing is better than being tormented. Poetry and Prose” (2001) and others. In addition, Eduard Asadov also wrote prose (the stories "Dawn of War", "Scout Sasha", the story "Front Spring"), translated poems from poets of Bashkiria, Georgia, Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.

Russia did not begin with a sword,
It started with a scythe and a plow.
Not because the blood is not hot,
But because the Russian shoulder
Never in my life has anger touched...

Asadov wrote lyrical poems, poems (including the autobiographical "Back in Service", 1948), short stories, essays, and the story "Gogolevsky Boulevard" (collection "Do not dare to beat a man!", Moscow: Slavyansky dialogue, 1998). At various times he worked as a literary consultant in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, the magazines Ogonyok and Molodaya Gvardiya, and in the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house. After the collapse of the USSR, he published in the publishing houses "Slavic Dialogue", "Eksmo" and "Russian Book".

Asadov has become popular since the early 1960s. His books, published in 100,000 copies, instantly disappeared from the shelves of bookstores. Literary evenings of the poet, organized by the Propaganda Bureau of the Union of Writers of the USSR, Moskontsert and various philharmonics, for almost 40 years were held with a constant full house in the country's largest concert halls, accommodating up to 3,000 people. Their permanent participant was the wife of the poet - actress, master of the artistic word Galina Razumovskaya.

Eduard Asadov in his poems addressed the best human qualities - kindness, fidelity, nobility, generosity, patriotism, justice. He often dedicated poems to young people, trying to pass on his accumulated experience to the new generation.

Family

• Kurdov Ivan (Hovhannes) Galustovich - the grandfather of the poet. Country doctor. In his younger years, the secretary of N. G. Chernyshevsky
• Asadova Lidia Ivanovna (1902-1984) - mother of the poet
• Razumovskaya (Asadova) Galina Valentinovna (1925-1997) - wife (actress of the Mosconcert)

Awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (February 7, 2004) - for great services in the development of national literature
• Order of Honor (September 7, 1998) - for his great contribution to Russian literature
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (October 20, 1993) - for merits in the development of domestic literature and the strengthening of interethnic cultural ties
• Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, 1st class (March 11, 1985)
• Order of the Red Star (1 February 1945)
• Two Orders of the Badge of Honor (October 28, 1967; September 18, 1973)
• Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
• Medal "For the Defense of Sevastopol"
• Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"
• Honorary citizen of Sevastopol (1989)

On November 18, 1998, by the decree of the so-called permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Eduard Asadov was awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" with the Order of Lenin.

Memory

On Sapun Mountain in the Museum "Protection and Liberation of Sevastopol" there is a stand dedicated to Eduard Asadov and his work.

Bibliography

• Edward Asadov. No need to give away loved ones: poems. - Moscow, Eksmo. 384 pp., ill., 2009. - ISBN 978-5-699-16799-9.
• Edward Asadov. What is happiness: Poems. "Golden Series of Poetry". - Moscow, Eksmo. 416 pp., ill., 2008. - ISBN 978-5-699-16801-9.
• Edward Asadov. Lyrics. - Eksmo, 2006. - ISBN 5-699-07653-0.
• You will come to me again. Poetry and prose. - Eksmo-Press, 2006. - ISBN 5-04-010208-8.
• Love has no parting. - Eksmo, 2006. - ISBN 5-699-02419-0.
• First date. - Eksmo, 2006. - ISBN 5-699-12006-8.
• Holidays of our days. - Eksmo, 2006. - ISBN 5-699-05781-1.
• What is happiness. - Eksmo, 2005. - ISBN 5-04-009969-X.
• When poems smile - Eksmo, 2004. - ISBN 5-699-06268-8.
• The road to the winged tomorrow. - Eksmo, 2004. - ISBN 5-699-04893-6.
• Edward Asadov. Collected works in six volumes. - Border, 2003. - ISBN 5-86436-331-6.
• Edward Asadov. Collected works in three volumes. - Moscow: Fiction, 1987.
• Edward Asadov. Favorites. In two volumes. - Fiction, 1981.
• In the name of great love. - Young Guard, 1963.

Eduard Asadov photo

Eduard Asadov is a famous Soviet poet. He lost his sight during the Great Patriotic War, while still very young. Maybe that's why Edward sees not with his eyes, but with his soul. And his work is touching, bright and penetrating to the very heart. All Asadov is in it.

Biography, personal life

Children in the school curriculum do not study this poet, but despite this, he is known and revered. How did the poet develop? Where did he spend his childhood?

Asadov's biography began in Turkmenistan, in the city of Merv. He was born on September 7, 1923. The times were hard. A civil war has begun in Turkmenistan.

The poet's father was a school teacher, a graduate of Tomsk University. But during the war years, he became a military commissar, fought and died in 1929, when the boy was 6 years old.

Asadova's mother - Lidia Ivanovna, nee Kurtova - also worked as a teacher at the school. After the death of her husband, she moved with her son to Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk), where her parents and relatives lived.

Asadov lived in the Urals for 10 years and considers it his small homeland. He traveled a lot around this region and his love for the harsh nature of this land was reflected in the poet's work.

The influence of grandfather on the formation of the personality of the poet

Lidia Ivanovna's father was Kurdov Ivan Kalustovich, "historical grandfather", as E. Asadov called him. The biography of the grandfather is very rich.

He was acquainted with Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, for whom he worked as a copyist secretary. It was Chernyshevsky who advised him to enter Kazan University.

At the university, Ivan Kalustovich got acquainted with the ideas of the revolutionary movement and its participants, such as Ulyanov Vladimir. Participates in protests, organization of illegal student libraries.

After graduating from the natural faculty of Kazan University, Asadov's grandfather is distributed to the Urals, where he holds the position of a zemstvo doctor. After the revolution, he continues to work as the head of the medical department of the Gubzdrav.

Ivan Kurdov was imbued with the philosophical worldview of Chernyshevsky and managed to pass it on to his grandson. Grandfather passionately loved people, believed in their kindness and conscience, was a courageous, strong-willed person. And all these qualities were inherited by his grandson.

Asadov began to write poetry at the age of eight, while still at school. He was also fond of theatrical productions and attended a drama club, led by Dikovsky Leonid Konstantinovich. He became famous as an outstanding teacher and director.

Asadov's school biography continued in Moscow, where his mother was transferred to work. After school, the poet chose between theatrical and literary directions. But the year of issue coincided with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Therefore, instead of the institute, Asadov went to the front.

War years

The decision to go to war was voluntary. The poet, without waiting for the official agenda, was trained in the unit of guards mortarmen near Moscow and went to fight on the Volkhov front as a mortar gunner. The military biography of Asadov is filled with exploits and heroic deeds.

At the front, Asadov distinguished himself by courage, bravery and military dexterity. In addition to his duties, he learned others. Therefore, when the commander of the gun was wounded during the battle in 1942, Edward managed to give him first aid and continued the battle on his own as both a commander and a gunner.

Moreover, he coped with these two duties perfectly well, having managed during the same battle to prevent the destruction of the entire division, putting out the fire of the combat vehicle together with the driver. Then he continued to fight in the same unit already in two positions at the same time. And this did not interfere with his work at all, he continued to write poetry.

In 1943, the poet graduated from a military school and received the rank of lieutenant. Moreover, in six months, Asadov completed the two-year program of this educational institution and, upon graduation, was awarded a diploma for excellent success.

Then Edward served on the North Caucasian Front as the division's communications chief. Then he was transferred to the 4th Ukrainian Front as an assistant battery commander. And then he headed the battery of guards mortars.

Wound

The fighting gradually moved to the Crimea. One of the battles near Sevastopol in 1944 became fatal for the poet. How was the poet Asadov wounded? His biography is tragic.

On this day, Asadov's battery was practically destroyed by the enemy. However, the supply of shells remained. While at the neighboring firing point the supply of shells was exhausted. Therefore, Asadov decided on a desperate act: to transport shells to a nearby battery. To do this, he had to overcome a long open area, which was fired upon by the enemy from all sides.

Eduard's comrades-in-arms characterized his act as a real military feat, accomplished for the sake of the people, they believed that it was Asadov who turned the tide of the battle.

During this flight, the poet was seriously wounded, a shell fragment hit him in the head. But that didn't stop the fighter. He delivered his cargo to its destination and only after that he already lost consciousness.

Asadov was hospitalized and underwent several surgeries. At the Moscow hospital, doctors told him that his vision could not be restored. The poet was only 21 years old.

Awards

Asadov's biography is marked by recognition and awards both in wartime and in peacetime.

For the courage shown during the war years, Asadov was awarded Sevastopol", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", as well as the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Red Star. Residents of Sevastopol awarded him the title of Sevastopol". In honor of Eduard Asadov, a special stand has been set up in the Sevastopol Museum, where you can get acquainted with his life and creative path.

Already in peaceful life in the 90s and 2000s, the poet received numerous awards for the development of domestic literature and the development of interethnic relations. This is "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th degree, Friendship of Peoples.

In 1998, Asadov becomes a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Post-war creativity

The resulting injury affected not only Asadov's physical health. She left a certain imprint in the soul of the poet. There was a period of depression, but creativity took over. Asadov continues to write. How does Asadov's biography develop in peacetime? Interesting facts are connected primarily with the work of the poet.

To understand what his creative abilities are, Asadov sends his works for consideration to Chukovsky, who became famous in literary circles as a tough but fair critic. The answer simply inspired Edward: he was told that he was a real poet, and he needed to continue writing. And this despite the fact that Chukovsky wrote his remark on almost every line.

Inspired Asadov enters the Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky. He studies just fine, in 1951 he graduated with honors.

Already in the years of study, he began to publish. First in the magazine "Spark". His first work there is the poem "Back in Service", which also won the first prize in a student competition. Immediately after graduating from the institute, the first collection of the poet "Bright Road" is published. Asadov becomes a member of the Writers' Union, writes a lot, travels around the country, organizes reading evenings and meetings.

Thanks to his creativity, he becomes very popular. People understand, his works are close. Eduard Asadov touches on the most topical topics in his poems, writes about justice, patriotism, the beauty of the Motherland, loyalty, love. People wrote letters to him, went to his concerts with pleasure and, of course, bought his collections, which, by the way, came out in hundreds of thousands of copies, nevertheless did not linger in bookstores. About 50 poetry collections were published by Eduard Asadov.

Biography: poet's wife

Even during Asadov's hospitalization, both comrades and various girls visited him. One of them soon became his wife. However, this marriage did not last long, and the couple broke up. What does it say about whether Asadov was happy, biography? The personal life of the poet took shape already in 1961.

Asadov met his second wife Razumovskaya Galina Valentinovna at one of his concerts. The girl worked at the Mosconcert as an artist. Galina enthusiastically recited the poems of the poet. Asadov and Razumovskaya initially became friends, and then this friendship was crowned with a lasting marriage, despite the fact that the poet had never seen his wife. Galina Valentinovna became a faithful companion of all travels and creative evenings of the poet. She reprinted his poems clean, preparing them for publication.

But Asadov continues to live in his works, in the hearts of millions of people. His work is life-affirming, and it is especially popular among young people. More than one generation of our country has grown up on his bright, soulful lyrics.

But there is a way to immortality, my dear,

One should not climb into the saints, of course,

But live so that, perhaps, forever

Remain in the blessed memory of the people.

Eduard Asadov

Today, September 7, is the birthday of my favorite poet Eduard Asadov. I put a lot of his poems in my diary, but I never talked about him.

Why can E. Asadov be called a poet of the 60s, but only because it was in the 60s that the writer gained all-Union fame.

His collections, produced in huge editions, are “swept away” from store shelves by thousands of fans.

Evenings of Asadov's work are always crowded, the audience does not let the writer go even after several hours of performances. Communicating with ordinary people, Eduard Arkadyevich finds inspiration for his new works.

Perhaps it was because of this that his poems, written in a close and understandable language for ordinary people, gained popularity for decades.

But his life is reflected in one way or another in his works. But it also happens that the fate of a poet or artist is already a legend in itself, and in this case a special reader's interest arises in it.

Asadov's life is an example of such a fate.

The favorite of millions of Soviet citizens, poet and prose writer, Eduard Arkadevich Asadov was born on September 7, 1923 in the small town of Merv (Turkmenistan).

After the death of Arkady Grigoryevich, the writer's father in 1929, the family moved to Sverdlovsk.

Ivan Kalustovich, the grandfather of the writer, with whom the Asadovs stayed in Sverdlovsk, lived a stormy revolutionary life, knew N.G. Chernyshevsky.

The extraordinary experience and views of Ivan Kalustovich influenced the formation of Asadov's personality, instilling in him a heightened sense of justice, courage and love for people.

Already at the age of eight he wrote his first poems.

When your name was called to me,
I even thought it was a joke.
But soon we all knew in the class
That your name really is Forget-Me-Not.

And then the war broke out in the country. Thousands of volunteers responded to the call "All to the front"

... Eduard Asadov accomplished an amazing feat. A flight through death in an old truck, along a sun-drenched road, in full view of the enemy, under continuous artillery and mortar fire, under bombardment is a feat.

Riding almost to certain death for the sake of saving comrades is a feat ... Any doctor would confidently say that a person who has received such an injury has very little chance of surviving. And he is not able not only to fight, but in general to move.

But Eduard Asadov did not withdraw from the battle. Constantly losing consciousness, he continued to command, carry out a combat operation and drive a car to a goal that he now saw only with his heart. And brilliantly completed the task.

From the book about Eduard Asadov "For the sake of you, people"

In the battles for the liberation of Sevastopol on the night of May 3-4, 1944, having shown rare courage, dedication and will, Guard Lieutenant Asadov was seriously wounded and lost his sight. Life seems to have collapsed, extinguished, cut short ...

Now life had to start literally from scratch. And having started, overcome the most difficult frontiers and do everything that is possible, and even everything that is impossible. And he survived, continuing to write poetry between operations, as at the front - between battles.

There was everything: doubts and hopes, failures and joys, and of course, a stubborn desire: to win!

AND HE WON!

His whole life and all his work is a victory, he made his life creatively.

I so want to write poetry

so that every line

move life forward.

This song will win

such a song shall my people receive.

A.Asadov

Eduard Arkadievich died at an advanced age in April 2004, having received a huge number of awards and prizes in his life, and also leaving behind a legacy that is read with pleasure even in our time.

Eduard Asadov was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery. This was the last will of Eduard Asadov, who bequeathed to bury his heart in Sevastopol on Sapun Mountain.

Eduard Asadov is a lyric poet who fascinated people with his poetic lines about love, life, friendship, fidelity. He still has many admirers. Eduard Asadov has long been dead, but he still leaves a mark on the soul of every poetry lover.

A person in the poems of the poet sees a reflection of his experiences and, with the reading of the lines, rethinks himself. The article considers a brief description of the poems and describes the deep feelings of the writer.

Writer's childhood

Eduard Asadov was born into an intelligent Armenian family. Then no one could have imagined that in 1923, on September 7, a future celebrity appeared. Asadov's parents were teachers. They devoted a lot of time to raising their son, became fond of reading, talked about the beautiful world around them. Most likely, it was a bright attitude to life that eventually brought the writer a celebrity.

The boy's father died when he was only six years old. Mom had no choice but to move to her father Ivan in the city of Sverdlovsk. Edward studied well, attended a theater group.

When the boy moved to the second grade, he wrote the first poetic lines. Asadov's mother was invited to work in Moscow. They moved to the capital in 1939.

On the day of the Soviet Army on February 23, Eduard read his poems to the public. This was his first performance. He was then 16 years old. However, the biography of Eduard Asadov, of course, did not end there. His life is just beginning.

Youth years

Asadov was a creative person. So he doubted where he should go. He had two options: literary and theater institutes. However, the dream did not come true. On June 22, after the school graduation ball, the war began. The young man did not think long and joined the army as a volunteer.

Edward served near Moscow and Leningrad faithfully. Already in 1942 he was appointed commander of the gun. However, he did not stop writing poetry, devoting all his free time to creativity. Many poems about the war were included in numerous collections of poems.

In the fall of 1942, the young man entered the Omsk Artillery Mortar School, which he graduated with only five. After graduation, Edward received the rank of lieutenant. In 1943, in the spring, Asadov was appointed head of communications of the division. Over time, he became deputy battalion commander. He gave his all to the service. Therefore, later he became the commander of the battalion.

During a responsible mission, Asadov was seriously wounded, and he found himself between life and death. Doctors fought for the hero with all their might and performed a miracle. The young man survived, but, as it turned out, misfortune still overtook him. The biography of Eduard Asadov is complex, and at times it is hard to read, because the writer has come a long way.

The tragedy of Eduard Asadov

As mentioned earlier, the writer was a battalion commander. When most of the soldiers died, Asadov noticed that they had a lot of ammunition left. He decided that in the neighboring part they would be very needed. Therefore, without thinking twice, Eduard and the driver took the remaining ammunition there.

However, it so happened that they were driving through an open area. The enemy spotted them and opened fire. A shell exploded near the car, which wounded the writer. The shard had blown off most of the skull. Therefore, the doctors at the hospital decided that his injury was incompatible with life. They thought he only had a few days left. However, a miracle happened. Eduard Asadov survived, whose biography is interesting to many to this day.

That's not all, because the writer lost his sight, without which life becomes much more difficult. He traveled to different hospitals, and everywhere the experts issued the same verdict: it was impossible to restore vision.

The writer threw up his hands. He did not want to live and did not understand why he was saved. It seemed that without the colors of the world existence is impossible. Nevertheless, he continued to write and decided to devote himself entirely to creativity. The biography of Eduard Asadov is full of impressions. After reading it, each person thinks about his life and feels its value.

Biography of Asadov Eduard: personal life

When the writer was wounded in the war, he ended up in the hospital. There he was visited by numerous admirers. Six of them loved Edward and offered him their hand and heart. As a result, the writer could not resist. He chose his life partner. Young people got married, but soon divorced.

Eduard Asadov did not stop and in 1961 he married a second time. They met at one of the evenings where the future wife read poetry. She was well acquainted with the work of the writer and fell in love with him. They soon became husband and wife.

The poet's wife worked as an artist in the Moscow Concert. When her husband had literary evenings, she always attended them. She liked that the audience enthusiastically accepted the blind writer and was proud of her beloved.

The biography of the poet Eduard Asadov is exciting. Thanks to her, a person will better understand the works of the writer and look at him with completely different eyes.

Titles and awards of Eduard Asadov

The writer made a huge contribution to Russian literature. The government appreciated his merits and, by its decree, awarded E. Asadov with the Order of Friendship of Peoples. Through his work, Asadov strengthened interethnic cultural ties.

Eduard Asadov fought, sparing no effort. He was devoted to the Motherland, often risking his life, for which he was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War and the Red Star, and Sevastopol. In 1989, Asadov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He is remembered and loved to this day.

The creative activity of the writer after the war

Eduard Asadov left behind a huge poetic legacy. Biography, poems of the poet open a peculiar, pure world without malice and hatred. He wrote on a high note about everything: about life, nature, war and love.

In order for his creative activity to continue successfully, the hero of our article in 1946 enters the Literary Institute. He graduated with an honors student. Two years later, his poems began to appear on the pages of magazines.

The first collection was published in 1951. Then he became very popular. He had many readers who fell in love with his soulful poems and wrote him letters of various kinds. Some people praised the poet, others asked him for advice. The writer tried to give each reader as much time as possible.

Now Asadov began to be invited to literary evenings, so that he would please people with his poems. Despite the fact that he became a famous person, his character did not change for the worse. Asadov remained a modest and kind person.

It was easy for Eduard to write, he was inspired by his readers. Thanks to them, he knew, He had a goal to which he walked with confident steps.

About the poems of Eduard Asadov

It is often said about the writer: "he did not become a poet, he was born one." It really is. Asadov wrote from the heart about what he saw, heard or read. That is why readers love him so much. Wonderful poet Eduard Asadov. Biography, his poems tell us that he is also a Man. And very few poets can convey feelings and experiences the way the writer did.

Asadov has many poems about love. In them, he described his experiences and feelings. Almost every reader admires how vitally, in poetic form, he conveyed his emotions and attitude to life. He wrote not only about sadness, but also about happy love. Therefore, anyone who reads his poems will find his own in them.

During the war years, the writer composed spiritual poems about peace, anger and sadness, about girls whom the soldiers would not see soon. Knowing the biography of the poet, it is easy to imagine that every word was written in creative agony. In verse, he asked that he not be forgotten as a writer and front-line soldier who loved his homeland and fought for it, and even at the front composed poetry in his spare time.

Poems and miniatures of the writer

Asadov composed various poems. He was no stranger to voluminous poems and very short miniatures. In writing, he found peace of mind. He wrote poems in the days of inspiration, when he wanted to tell a story.

I created miniatures when a few interesting lines sounded in my head. In order not to forget them, he typed or wrote short poems instantly. Therefore, he always had a notebook and a pen in his pocket.

Miniatures Asadov wrote about women, nature, love and did not forget about life's difficulties. It was about them that he wrote most of all.

The life of Eduard Asadov is over

The Moscow Kuntsevo cemetery received the poet on April 21, 2004. He asked very much that his heart be buried in Sevastopol on Sapun Mountain. It was there that in 1944 he accomplished a military feat.

The death of Eduard Asadov brought fans a lot of sad emotions. After all, there will be no continuation of his creative activity. Thank you for leaving a lot of books that you can regularly re-read.

Many people came to bury the great poet and prose writer. Even at the cemetery they read his poems and dedicated their own to him. After all, everyone knew that Eduard Asadov was a creative person with a kind soul and great love for the people.

He lived for 81 years, experienced a sometimes difficult, sometimes happy life. Before his death, he said that he did not regret anything. For many years he walked with a black one, saw nothing, but felt everything.

Conclusion

Until recently, the wonderful poet Eduard Asadov lived in the world. A biography that cannot be briefly told has touched the hearts of most people. They loved the poet, but did not know the main thing - that he had been blind for many years. At first he suffered from it. A little later, when he saw the meaning of life, he continued his creative activity and was even able to get a red institute diploma.

There are people who did not like the poet Eduard Asadov. The biography of the lyrics will not be of interest to them. Many writers criticized poetry and poems. They believed that his work was not worthy of attention. It is good that there were few such critics.

The biography of Eduard Asadov will teach readers a lot. Indeed, despite his problems and tragedy, the poet did not stop, but continued to develop. This is a lesson for every person. Thanks to the writer, you can rethink yourself and understand the meaning of life. Learn, grow, no matter what. Someday your hour will come to become a successful person.

Eduard Arkadyevich (Artashesovich) Asadov (1923 - 2004) - Russian Soviet poet and prose writer.

Family and childhood

Eduard Asadov was born on September 7, 1923 in the city of Merv (now Mary) of the Turkmen ASSR into an Armenian family. The parents were teachers. Father Artashes Grigoryevich Asadyants (1898-1929) was born in Nagorno-Karabakh, studied at the Tomsk Technological Institute, a member of the AKP. On November 9, 1918, he was arrested in Altai and released on December 10, 1919 by a group of P. Kantselyarsky. He left prison as a Bolshevik, worked as an investigator for the Altai Gubernia Cheka. He met his future wife Lidia Ivanovna Kurdova (1902-1984) in Barnaul. In 1921 he left for the Caucasus, fought with the Dashnaks - commissar of a rifle regiment, commander of a rifle company. Since 1923 - a teacher in the city of Mary (Turkmenistan).

After the death of his father in 1929, Eduard Asadov moved with his mother to Sverdlovsk, where his grandfather, doctor Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov (1867-1938), a graduate of Kazan University, organizer of sanitary and epidemiological affairs and medical and preventive care in the Urals, lived. Uncle - artist Valentin Ivanovich Kurdov.

At the age of eight he wrote his first poem. He joined the pioneers, then was admitted to the Komsomol. Since 1939, he lived in Moscow on Prechistenka, in the former apartment building of Isakov. He studied at the 38th Moscow school, which he graduated in 1941.

The Great Patriotic War

A week after graduation, the Great Patriotic War began. Asadov volunteered for the front, was a mortar gunner, then assistant commander of the Katyusha battery on the North Caucasian and 4th Ukrainian fronts. Fought on the Leningrad front.

On the night of May 3-4, 1944, in the battles for Sevastopol near Belbek, he was seriously wounded by a shell fragment in the face. Losing consciousness, he drove a truck with ammunition to an artillery battery. After prolonged treatment in hospitals, doctors were unable to save his eyes, and from that time on, Asadov was forced to wear a black half-mask on his face until the end of his life.

The poet later recalled these tragic days:

“... What happened next? And then there was a hospital and twenty-six days of struggle between life and death. "To be or not to be?" - in the most literal sense of the word. When consciousness came, he dictated a postcard to his mother two or three words, trying to avoid disturbing words. When consciousness left, he was delirious.

It was bad, but youth and life still won. However, I had not one hospital, but a whole clip. From Mamashaev I was transferred to Saki, then to Simferopol, then to Kislovodsk to the hospital named after the Decade of October (now there is a sanatorium), and from there to Moscow. Moving, surgeons' scalpels, dressings. And here is the most difficult thing - the verdict of the doctors: “Everything will be ahead. Everything but the light." This is what I had to accept, endure and comprehend, to decide for myself the question: “To be or not to be?” And after many sleepless nights, weighing everything and answering: “Yes!” - set yourself the biggest and most important goal for yourself and go towards it, no longer giving up. I started writing poetry again. He wrote night and day, before and after the operation, he wrote persistently and stubbornly. I understood that it was not yet right, but I searched again and worked again. However, no matter how strong the will of a person, no matter how persistently he goes towards his goal and no matter how much work he puts into his business, true success is not yet guaranteed to him. In poetry, as in any other art, one needs abilities, talent, and vocation. It is difficult to assess the dignity of your poems yourself, because you are most partial to yourself.

Literary activity

In 1946 he entered the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, who graduated with honors in 1951. In the same year, he published his first collection of poems, The Bright Road, and was accepted as a member of the CPSU and the Writers' Union.

Asadov wrote lyrical poems, poems (including the autobiographical "Back in Service", 1948), short stories, essays, and the story "Gogolevsky Boulevard" (collection "Do not dare to beat a man!", Moscow: Slavyansky dialogue, 1998). At various times he worked as a literary consultant in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, the magazines Ogonyok and Molodaya Gvardiya, and in the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house. After the collapse of the USSR, he published in the publishing houses "Slavic Dialogue", "Eksmo" and "Russian Book".

... I will never forget this May 1, 1948. And how happy I was when I kept the issue of Ogonyok bought near the House of Scientists, in which my poems were printed. That's it, my poems, and not someone else's! Festive demonstrators walked past me with songs, and I was probably the most festive of all in Moscow!

Eduard Asadov - author of 47 books: "Snowy Evening" (1956), "Soldiers returned from the war" (1957), "In the name of great love" (1962), "Lyric pages" (1962), "I love forever" (1965 ), "Be Happy, Dreamers" (1966), "Island of Romance" (1969), "Kindness" (1972), "Song of Wordless Friends" (1974), "Winds of Restless Years" (1975), "Constellation of Hounds of the Dogs "(1976), "Years of Courage and Love" (1978), "Compass of Happiness" (1979), "In the Name of Conscience" (1980), "Smoke of the Fatherland" (1983), "I fight, I believe, I love!" (1983), "High Duty" (1986), "Fates and Hearts" (1990), "Dawn of War" (1995), "Don't give up, people" (1997), "Don't give up your loved ones" (2000), “Don't miss out on love. Poetry and prose” (2000), “Laughing is better than being tormented. Poetry and Prose” (2001) and others. In addition, Eduard Asadov also wrote prose (the stories "Dawn of War", "Scout Sasha", the story "Front Spring"), translated poems from poets of Bashkiria, Georgia, Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.

Asadov has become popular since the early 1960s. His books, published in 100,000 copies, instantly disappeared from the shelves of bookstores. Literary evenings of the poet, organized by the Propaganda Bureau of the Union of Writers of the USSR, Moskontsert and various philharmonics, for almost 40 years were held with a constant full house in the country's largest concert halls, accommodating up to 3,000 people. Their permanent participant was the wife of the poet - actress, master of the artistic word Galina Razumovskaya.

Eduard Asadov in his poems addressed the best human qualities - kindness, fidelity, nobility, generosity, patriotism, justice. He often dedicated poems to young people, trying to pass on his accumulated experience to the new generation.

Asadov was married to Galina Valentinovna Razumovskaya (1925-1997), an artist of the Moskontsert.

And, although the children of Eduard Asadov did not appear in this marriage, they lived a happy life. Despite the fact that the poet did not have his own children, he wrote such heartfelt poems about children that one can only wonder where such paternal feelings come from.

last years of life

In recent years, he lived and worked in the writers' village DNT Krasnovidovo.

He died on April 21, 2004 in Odintsovo, Moscow Region. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery. Eduard Asadov bequeathed to bury his heart on Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, however, according to the testimony of museum workers on Sapun Mountain, relatives were against it, so the poet’s will was not fulfilled.

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (February 7, 2004) - for great services in the development of national literature
Order of Honor (September 7, 1998) - for his great contribution to Russian literature
Order of Friendship of Peoples (October 20, 1993) - for merits in the development of domestic literature and the strengthening of interethnic cultural ties
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (March 11, 1985)
Order of the Red Star (1 February 1945)
Two Orders of the Badge of Honor (October 28, 1967; September 18, 1973)
Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
Medal "For the Defense of Sevastopol"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"
Honorary citizen of Sevastopol (1989)
On November 18, 1998, by the decree of the so-called permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Eduard Asadov was awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" with the Order of Lenin.

On Sapun Mountain in the Museum "Protection and Liberation of Sevastopol" there is a stand dedicated to Eduard Asadov and his work.