Vasily Terkin. Poems. Poems

What freedom, what a wonderful daring, what precision and accuracy in everything and what an extraordinary folk soldier's language – not a splinter, not a hint of a flaw, not a single false word! - wrote I. A. Bunin about... the poem Vasily Terkin by Alexander Tvardovsky - an outstanding Russian poet with a dramatic fate. The poem Vasily Terkin became one of the peaks of the poet's creativity, in which the folk soul came to life in all its fullness. The book also includes the poems House by the Road, Beyond the Distance - Distance, Terkin in the Other World, By Right of Memory, published only in 1987, which describes the tragic fate of Tvardovsky's father - a dispossessed and exiled peasant-blacksmith; landscape lyrics, military poems, and poems of recent years, stories, and essays.