Mikhail Dudin: biography of the writer

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Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin is one of the most significant, talented and original figures of modern Russian poetry. He gained his fame during the war years, and to this day his works disturb the hearts of fans of military poetry.

Mikhail Dudin: biography

Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin was born on 1916-20-11 in a family of peasants in the village of Klevnevo, Ivanovo Region. Mikhail Alexandrovich's parents believed that a decent education would be a real “ticket to life” for the boy, and they made a lot of efforts to provide their son with a decent future. Dudin's education began at the factory school and continued at the Ivanovo Pedagogical Institute. The form of education at the university was evening, which allowed the future poet to combine education with the activities of a journalist. Already in those years, Mikhail Dudin worked in a local newspaper.

First professional achievements

The first significant works of Dudin were offered to readers in 1934 in the form of information brochures. Even then, people were able to appreciate the originality, originality, sincerity and a certain naivety of Mikhail Alexandrovich. Releasedbrochures were a great success and became a reliable basis for the development of Dudin's further work. Six years later, in 1940, the writer was able to release his first author's collection.

War years

The war for Mikhail Alexandrovich began a little earlier than for most citizens of the USSR. Dudin worked as a field correspondent on the fronts of the Finnish-Soviet war. At the time of the German attack on the USSR and the siege of Leningrad, Dudin Mikhail Alexandrovich was right there, in Leningrad, where he continued to conduct active professional activities.

Life and work after the war

The end of the war, like its beginning, Mikhail Alexandrovich met in Leningrad. The development of the post-war career of the writer was very dynamic. Dudin worked in the peace committee. It was Mikhail Alexandrovich who initiated the creation of the "Green Belt of Glory". Further career growth happened like this:

• In 1951, Dudin was accepted into the party.
• In 1967, Mikhail Alexandrovich was instructed at the next congress of the Union of Poets and Writers to make a report on the importance of poetry for the citizens of the USSR.
• In the period from 1986 to 1991, Mikhail Dudin simultaneously held 2 honorary positions: he was the head of the Union of Writers of the USSR and one of the leaders of the Union of Writers of Russia.
• In 1991, Mikhail Alexandrovich began political activity and became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.

How was Dudin's work noted and what awards did he receive?

Both Dudin's contemporaries andlater critics of Mikhail Alexandrovich's work call his main, most important achievement the organization and subsequent holding of a poetic event of all-Union and even global significance and scale. We are talking about the all-Union Pushkin poetic holidays, held in the Pskov region, in the village of Mikhailovskoye. For organizing these events, Mikhail Dudin was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the Pushkin Mountains. He has said more than once that he appreciates this particular award more than others and is proud of it.

It is also important that Dudin's poems crowned the obelisk to the unknown soldier. Such an obelisk was installed at the main entrance to Mikhailovskaya Grove.

Contrary to popular belief, which is widespread among people who are little familiar with the work of Mikhail Alexandrovich, Dudin was not exclusively a military poet. In addition to military lyrics, Mikhail Aleksandrovich wrote scripts for films.

Charity activities

It is worth noting that Mikhail Dudin possessed not only the talent of a writer, but also positive human qualities. It is authentically known that Dudin in 1989 received a very substantial fee for the work he wrote and published, The Promised Land. It is also reliably known that Mikhail Alexandrovich donated the money in full to help the victims of the earthquake that happened in those years in Armenia. It is noteworthy that the first readers of this work were precisely Yerevan, even before the tragedy.

The last years of the life and work of the poet

Recent yearsMikhail Alexandrovich spent his life at work, translating his own and other people's poems into the languages of the peoples of the Soviet Union. Relatives and friends say that the poet Mikhail Dudin did not stop working literally until the last hours of his life. The great poet died on the eve of 1994, December 31. He was buried in the Ivanovo region in the village of Vyazovskoye, Furmanovsky district.

Despite the death of the poet, his poems and prose works continue to enjoy wide well-deserved popularity among both domestic and foreign readers. Such a high interest in Dudin's work is explained by the personal phenomenon of the writer, as well as the eternal relevance of the topics that Dudin covered in his works.