Василий Теркин

The poem "Vasily Terkin" is the most famous work of Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky, an outstanding poet, a truly cult author of the military generation. The famous "Book about a fighter" consists of episodes united by the figure of the protagonist - the author's intention was that he himself and his readers could die at any moment ... Separate chapters were published in the newspaper "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda" and in popularity could not be compared with anything else. The poem has become an indispensable attribute of front-line life. Evidence has been preserved that these verses were not just repeated by heart, but helped to endure and survive. Written in a simple, clear, concise style, with a special confidential intonation, many lines were divided into quotations and simply turned into folklore.