Aleksandr Tvardovsky
Soviet poet (1910–1971)
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (Russian: Александр Трифонович Твардовский, Russian pronunciation: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈtrʲifənəvʲɪtɕ tvɐrˈdofskʲɪj]; 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. During his editorship, the magazine published One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. As a poet, he is best known for his epic poem Vasili Tyorkin.
Biography
Tvardovsky was born into a Russian family in Zagorye, in the Smolensky Uyezd of the Smolensk Governorate of the Russian Empire. At the time of his birth, the family lived on a farm that his father had purchased in installments from the Peasant Land Bank. Tvardovsky's father, the son of a landless soldier, was a blacksmith by trade. The farm was situated on poor land, but Tvardovsky's father loved it and was proud of what he had acquired through years of hard labor. He transmitted this love and pride to Aleksandr. Tvardovsky's family was of Belarusian descent, and according to actor Zinovy Gerdt (a friend of Tvardovsky) he often spoke Trasianka in private.
Tvardovsky's father was a well-read and intelligent man who often read to Aleksandr and the rest of the family.
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