Alexander Artemov - Soviet front-line poet

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The tragic fate of many poets and writers who died during the Patriotic War, as in an immovable water surface, reflected the geography and statistics of hostilities. One of these people was Alexander Artemov - a poet whose life was not long, but was meaningful. He always believed that real life is in action, not in peace. The poet traveled a lot, talked, and even in the few years that he managed to live, he did a lot.

Artemov Alexander (biography): life is just beginning

Alexander was born in 1912. In the 1920s, the Artemov family moved to the Far East, where the grown-up Sasha studied and participated in the construction of the Primorye railway. At the age of 15, Alexander Artemov begins to write his first poems. At first, he reads them to his comrades at Komsomol meetings and meetings.

After a short time, publishes them not only in well-known metropolitan and St. Petersburg magazines, but also in localFar Eastern press. The first creations of Alexander Artemov (poet) are placed in the city newspaper of Vladivostok "Red Banner" and in the magazine "On the Line". The young poet's poems are popular with the audience and are successful, because they are written in the spirit of the times, full of optimism, vivacity and hope.

Collections published during the poet's lifetime

In total, Alexander Artemov published four books in his short life. The first two books - a collection of poems "The Pacific Ocean" and a children's book of poems "The Adventure of Three Bears" were published in 1939. The third was a collection of poems "Winners". The year of its publication is 1940. The fourth and last book published during the life of the poet is a collection of poems “Attacking Word”.

The essence and meaning of A. Artemov's poems

The whole life of Alexander Artemov was connected with his profession and the Far East. Therefore, the theme of war and soldier's life runs like a red thread through all his work.

Due to the fact that on the eve of the war, Alexander Artemov preferred the difficult service of a border guard officer to any other speci alties, he devotes a fundamental part of his work to his fellow border guards. In addition, the poet is passionately interested in the history of the Far East and Siberia, he writes a lot about Semyon Dezhnev, Vitus Bering, as well as other explorers and explorers of the North.

Many times Alexander Artemov met with participants in the hostilities on Lake Khazan and Khalkhin Gol. The meetings resulted in new poems about war heroes.

A lotwritten by the poet Alexander Artemov also about the heroes of the Soviet army.

The Great Patriotic War and tragic death

In 1940, Alexander Artemov (poet) entered the Maxim Gorky Literary University in Moscow, which he was no longer destined to finish, as one of the greatest wars began - the Great Patriotic War.

In June next year, as a volunteer, he goes to the front. During the fighting, the poet actively writes poems about the war, soldier's life and the fight against fascism. In 1942, at the age of thirty, fighter Alexander Artemov died tragically in battle.