Alexei Surkov biography of the war years. Awards and memory. The history of the birth of "Dugout"

In Yaroslavl, a survey was conducted on whether residents know the famous song "In the dugout." People of different ages happily picked up the text, almost without mistakes in words. But not everyone could name the author. Alexey Surkov, whose biography is forever connected with the Yaroslavl region, is the author of famous lines that came out from under his pen at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. What is known about this outstanding person?

"In people"

Born before the revolution (October 1, 1899) in the small village of Serednevo (Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl province) in a family of peasants, Alexei Surkov began his studies at a local school, absorbing the beauty of nature and the simplicity of rural life. Having shown a craving for learning, at the age of 12 he goes to St. Petersburg, where he has to live in the master's house and earn extra money. Such living was called "in people", but it allowed the teenager to read newspapers and develop. The working biography began with work as an apprentice in a printing house, a furniture store, and carpentry workshops. He met the revolution in a trading port, where he worked as a weigher.

In 1918, Krasnaya Gazeta published poems by a certain A. Gutuevsky. Alexei Surkov initially chose such a pseudonym for himself, whose photo in these years can be seen in the article. It was his first attempt at writing. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Red Army, serving as a machine gunner and mounted scout until 1922.

"Sing"

In peacetime, the future poet returns to his small homeland, where he is engaged in enlightenment work. Until 1924, in a neighboring village, he worked in a reading room, became a village correspondent for the local county newspaper. The profession of a journalist soon becomes the main one for A. Surkov. Already in 1924, his new poems were published in the Pravda newspaper, and in 1925 he became a participant in the congress of writers of the province. In the same year, having joined the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Alexei Surkov was at Komsomol work, at the same time being a correspondent for the newly created newspaper Severny Komsomolets in the province. For three years (1926-1928) he headed it as chief editor, doubling the circulation and creating a "Literary Corner" where beginning poets and prose writers could publish.

In May 1928, he was delegated to Moscow for the 1st Congress of Writers, after which he did not return to the Yaroslavl Region, having been elected to the RAPP. The beginning of real poetic creativity was laid by the first collection, published in 1930. It was called "Zapev". The poems were distinguished by political poignancy and a sense of patriotism, which was in great demand. During these years, the poet Alexei Surkov was truly born.

Biography: family of the master of the word

Becoming a regular at literary meetings, the poet meets Sofia Antonovna Krevs, his future wife. The couple has two children: son Alexei, born in 1928. and daughter Natalia, born in 1938. During the war years, the family would be evacuated to Chistopol, where Alexei Surkov would write his letters from the front. In the future, the daughter will choose the profession of a journalist for herself, doing musicology. The son will become a military engineer-colonel of the Air Force.

The 30s were marked by the fact that A. Surkov had to make up for the lack of education: he would not only graduate from the Institute of Red Professors, but also defend his dissertation, becoming a teacher at the Literary Institute. He will not leave his editorial work either, collaborating with M. Gorky in Literary Education, a magazine of that time. While working at the Lokaf, he continues to write poems and songs about the heroes of the civil war: “Peers”, “Offensive”, “Homeland of the Courageous”. Some works become songs: "Chapaevskaya", "Konarmeyskaya".

war correspondent

"Combat Onslaught", "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda", "Red Star" - those publications in which the military commander Alexei Surkov was published since 1939. The poet participated in two military conflicts on the eve of the Great Patriotic War: the Finnish campaign and the campaign in Western Belarus. Despite his indefensible age, from the first day of the war he went to the front, having risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1943. Here he will meet with many poets of war hard times. It is to him that Konstantin Simonov will dedicate the famous lines: "Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of the Smolensk region ...".

As the editor-in-chief of Novy Mir, he publishes poems, feuilletons and songs of the heroic time. He will publish several poetry collections: "Poems about Hate", "Offensive", "Soldier's Heart". In 1942, he almost died near Rzhev, later writing poignant lines:

“And we are unharmed from bullets, and we don’t burn with heat,

I walk along the edge of the fire.

It can be seen that the mother with her exorbitant suffering

Bought me from death ... "

But the most popular in his work will be songs. Among them: "Song of the Brave", "Song of the Defenders of Moscow" and, of course, the famous "Dugout".

The history of the birth of "Dugout"

The song was born in November 1942 in the vicinity of Istra (the village of Kashino, Moscow region), where he had to leave the encirclement. Then he really felt that there were only a few steps to death. When the danger had passed, the entire overcoat was cut with shrapnel. Already in Moscow, he had the lines of a famous poem sent to his wife in Chistopol. When the composer Konstantin Listov appeared in the editorial office, Alexei Surkov handed him the handwritten lines, and a week later his friend Mikhail Savin performed the song for the first time.

With her first appearance, she immediately went to the front, becoming the favorite work of the soldiers. It was performed by Lidia Ruslanova, and at first they even released records with a recording. But then they were completely destroyed, because political workers saw decadence in the lines of the poem and demanded to change the words. But the song has already gone to the people. There is evidence that the soldiers went into battle, shouting: "Sing, harmonica, blizzard out of spite!" A monument was erected to the famous song near the village of Kashino. This is a real recognition to the author, who was awarded the State Prize for a cycle of works in 1946.

Last years

After the war, Alexei Surkov, whose biography became associated with party and state activities, as the editor-in-chief of Ogonyok and the rector, did a lot to discover new talents. He published Anna Akhmatova, defending her name before I. Stalin. At the same time, being a staunch communist, he does not recognize the work of B. Pasternak, he will oppose A. Solzhenitsyn and the Poet will head the Writers' Union of the USSR for several years.

In 1969, the government will mark his merits with the Star of the Hero for labor achievements. After the death of a man in 1983, for many, he will remain a wonderful poet who glorified the Yaroslavl land.

Alexey Alexandrovich Surkov(October 1 (13), 1899, Serednevo village, Rybinsk district, Yaroslavl province - June 14, 1983, Moscow) - Russian Soviet poet, journalist, public figure. Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Winner of two Stalin Prizes (1946, 1951). Battalion Commissar (1941).

Biography

Alexey Aleksandrovich Surkov was born on October 1 (13), 1899 in the village of Serednevo, Georgievskaya volost, Rybinsk district, Yaroslavl province (now the Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl region) into a peasant family, his ancestors were serfs of the Mikhalkov nobles. He studied at the Middle School. From the age of 12 he served "in the people" in St. Petersburg: he worked as an apprentice in a furniture store, in carpentry workshops, in a printing house, in an office and as a weigher in the Petrograd commercial port. He published his first poems in 1918 in the Petrograd Krasnaya Gazeta under the pseudonym A. Gutuevsky.

In 1918, he volunteered for the Red Army, a participant in the Civil War and the Polish campaign. He served until 1922 as a machine gunner, mounted reconnaissance; participated in the battles on the North-Western Front and against the rebels of A. S. Antonov.

After the end of the civil war, he returned to his native village. In 1922-1924, he worked as a hut - an employee of a reading hut in the neighboring village of Volkovo, secretary of the volost executive committee, political education organizer, rural correspondent in the county newspaper. In 1924, his poems were published by the Pravda newspaper. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1925. October 11, 1925 was a delegate to the I Provincial Congress of Proletarian Writers. In 1924-1926 he was the first secretary of the Rybinsk organization of the Komsomol. Since 1925, he was a selkor of the newly created provincial newspaper Severny Komsomolets, and in 1926-1928 - its editor-in-chief. Under him, the newspaper doubled its circulation, began to publish twice a week instead of one, junkors were actively involved in the work, on his initiative the heading “Literary Corner” appeared, which contained poems and stories of readers, a literary group was created at the editorial office.

In May 1928, Surkov was delegated to the First All-Union Congress of Proletarian Writers, after which he remained to work in Moscow. In 1928 he was elected to the leadership of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). In 1931-1934 he studied at the Faculty of Literature at the Institute of Red Professors, after which he defended his dissertation.

In 1934-1939 he taught at the Editorial and Publishing Institute and the Literary Institute of the Union of Writers of the USSR; was deputy editor of the journal Literary Studies, where he worked under the direct supervision of M. Gorky. In the magazine he acted as a critic and editor. Author of a number of articles on poetry and articles on song (mainly defensive). Participated in the creation and further activities of the Literary Association of the Red Army and Navy (LOKAF). In the 1930s, collections of his poems "Zopev", "The Last War", "The Motherland of the Courageous", "The Way of the Song" and "So We Grew Up" were published. He married Sofya Antonovna Krevs, whom he met in literary circles; daughter Natalya and son appeared.

He took part in a campaign in Western Belarus and in the Finnish campaign. In the latter he was an employee of the army newspaper "Heroic Campaign"; when he returned, he published the December Diary dedicated to this war. In 1940-1941 he worked as the editor-in-chief of the Novy Mir magazine. Songs based on Surkov's poems are featured in Alexander Row's film The Little Humpbacked Horse (1941).

In 1941-1945, Surkov was a war correspondent for the front-line newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda and a special correspondent for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, and also worked for the Combat Onslaught newspaper. Participated in the defense of Moscow, fought in Belarus. On November 27, 1941, near Istra, Surkov was surrounded at the command post. When he was still able to get out of the dugout and get to his own, then his entire overcoat turned out to be cut by fragments. Then he said: “He did not take a step further than the headquarters of the regiment. Not a single one ... And there are four steps to death ”; after that, it only remained to add: “It’s not easy for me to reach you ...” Returning to Moscow, he wrote his famous poem “In the dugout” (which soon became a song) and sent his text to his wife (who was then evacuated with her daughter in the city of Chistopol) in a soldier's letter-triangle.

Surkov Alexey Alexandrovich - Russian Soviet poet, public figure.

Born on October 1 (13), 1899 in the village of Serednevo, now in the Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl region, into a peasant family. Russian. He studied at the Middle School. From the age of 12 he served "in the people" in St. Petersburg: he worked as an apprentice in a furniture store, in carpentry workshops, in a printing house, in an office and as a weigher in the Petrograd commercial port.

In 1918, he volunteered for the Red Army, until 1922 he served as a machine gunner and mounted scout. Member of the Civil War: fighting on the North-Western Front, the Polish campaign, the suppression of the Tambov peasant uprising led by A.S. Antonov.

At the end of the civil war, A.A. Surkov returned to his native village. In 1922-1924 he worked as an employee of a reading hut in the neighboring village of Volkovo, secretary of the volost executive committee, political education organizer, rural correspondent in the county newspaper. In 1924, his poems were published in the Pravda newspaper. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1925. October 11, 1925 was a delegate to the I Provincial Congress of Proletarian Writers. In 1924-1926 he was the first secretary of the Rybinsk organization of the Komsomol. Since 1925, he was a selkor of the newly created provincial newspaper Severny Komsomolets, and in 1926-1928 he was its editor-in-chief. Under him, the newspaper increased its circulation by 2 times, began to appear twice a week instead of one, junkors were actively involved in the work, on his initiative the heading "Literary Corner" appeared, which contained poems and stories of readers, a literary group was created at the editorial office.

In May 1928, Surkov was delegated to the First All-Union Congress of Proletarian Writers, after which he remained to work in Moscow. In 1928 he was elected to the leadership of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). In 1931-1934 he studied at the Faculty of Literature at the Institute of Red Professors, after which he defended his dissertation.

In 1934-1939 he taught at the Editorial and Publishing Institute and the Literary Institute of the Union of Writers of the USSR; was deputy editor of the journal "Literary Studies", where he worked under the direct supervision of A.M. Gorky. In the magazine he acted as a critic and editor. Author of a number of articles on poetry and articles on song (mainly defensive). Participated in the creation and further activities of the Literary Association of the Red Army and Navy (LOKAF).

He wrote patriotic poems, glorifying the heroism of the Civil War. He published the collections "Peers" (1934), "Poems" (1931), "On the approaches to the song" (1931), "Offensive" (1932), "The Last War" (1933), "The Motherland of the Courageous" (1935), " The way of the song "(1936)," Soldiers of October "," So we grew up "(1938)," It was in the north "(1940). The author of poems that have become folk songs, such as "Chapaevskaya", "These are not clouds, thunderclouds", "Early-early", "In the vastness of the wonderful Motherland", "Konarmeiskaya", "Terskaya marching".

During the process on the case of the "Parallel Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center", during the years of repression (1937-39), he spoke with accusatory verses directed at the "enemies of the people".

In 1939-40 he took part in a campaign in Western Belarus and in the Finnish campaign. In the latter he was an employee of the army newspaper "Heroic Campaign"; when he returned, he published the December Diary dedicated to this war. In 1940-1941 he worked as the editor-in-chief of the Novy Mir magazine.

In 1941-1945, Surkov was a war correspondent for the front-line newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda and a special correspondent for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, and also worked for the Combat Onslaught newspaper. Participated in the defense of Moscow, traveled to the Rzhev region, fought in Belarus. Near Rzhev in the fall of 1942, he almost died near the villages of Glebovo and Vydrino in the valley of the Boinya River.

Alexei Surkov is dedicated to one of the most famous and most heartfelt poems of the Great Patriotic War "Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of the Smolensk region", written by Konstantin Simonov in 1941.

The author of the texts of famous patriotic songs “Song of the Brave” (music by V. Bely, 1941), “Dugout” (“Fire beats in a cramped stove ...”; music by K. Listov, 1941), “Song of the Defenders of Moscow” (music by B. Mokrousov, 1942) and others. He took part in the creation of poetic feuilletons about the brave, successful Russian soldiers Vasya Granatkin (the army newspaper Heroic Campaign, 1939-40) and Grisha Tankin (the newspaper of the Western Front Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda, 1941-42). During the war years, he published collections of poems “December near Moscow”, “Roads lead to the West”, “Soldier's heart”, “Offensive”, “Poems about hatred”, “Songs of an angry heart” and “Punishing Russia”.

Based on the results of the business trip, in 1944 he published a book of essays “The Lights of the Greater Urals. Letters about the Soviet rear. In the same year, he participated in the discussion of the draft of the new Anthem of the USSR.

In 1944-1946 he was the editor-in-chief of the Literaturnaya Gazeta. In June 1945 he visited Berlin, Leipzig and Radebeuse, and then Weimar; Based on the materials of the trip, he wrote a collection of poems “I sing Victory”. He graduated from the war with the rank of lieutenant colonel (1943).

In the postwar years, A.A. Surkov, who always felt the situation well, fulfilling the social order, wrote poetry, calling for the struggle for peace. He traveled extensively as part of literary and public organizations. Impressions from these travels and meetings inspired his poems, included in the collections: “Peace to the World” (1950; State Prize of the USSR, 1951), “East and West” (1957), “Songs about Humanity” (1961), “What is happiness?" (1969). In addition to poetry, A.A. Surkov wrote critical articles, essays and journalism. He published a collection of articles and speeches on questions of literature "Voices of the Time" (1965). He translated the poems of Mao Zedong and other poets.

In 1945-1953, A.A. Surkov was the executive editor of the Ogonyok magazine. In the 1950s, he was the rector of the A.M. Gorky Literary Institute. Since 1962, the editor-in-chief of the Brief Literary Encyclopedia. Member of the editorial board of the Poet's Library.

Actively participated in the persecution of writers "not corresponding" to the party line, a singer of the Stalin era. In 1947, A.A. Surkov published an article "On Pasternak's Poetry", directed against the poet. He was one of the signatories of the Letter of a group of Soviet writers to the editorial office of the Pravda newspaper on August 31, 1973 about A.I. Solzhenitsyn and A.D. Sakharov.

Member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU (1952-1956), candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1956-1966). Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 4th-8th convocations and of the RSFSR of the 2nd-3rd convocations (since 1954). Member of the World Peace Council and the Soviet Peace Committee. Since 1949 - Deputy Secretary General, in 1953-1959 - First Secretary of the Writers' Union of the USSR.

By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 14, 1969, outstanding services in the development of Soviet literature, fruitful social activity and in connection with the seventieth birthday Surkov Alexey Alexandrovich He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.

Honorary citizen of Rybinsk (1976). School No. 28 in the city of Rybinsk, streets in Rybinsk and Yaroslavl, a new four-deck river boat were named after A.A. Surkov.

He was awarded 4 Orders of Lenin (31/01/1950, 13/10/1959, 28/10/1967, 14/10/1969), Orders of the October Revolution (12/10/1979), Orders of the Red Banner (23/09/1945), 2 Orders of the Red Star (21/05/1940, 22/02. 1942), the Order of the Badge of Honor (01/31/1939), medals, a foreign award - the Order of Cyril and Methodius.

Twice winner of the Stalin Prize (1946, 1951). International Botev Prize (1976).

In Moscow, on the house where the poet lived, a memorial plaque was erected.

Surkov Alexey Alexandrovich

10/1/1899, the village of Sereznevo, Rybinsk district, Yaroslavl province - 14/6/1983

Poet, public figure, lieutenant colonel (1943), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969), twice winner of the Stalin Prize (1946, 1951).

Educated at the Faculty of Literature of the Institute of Red Professors (1934).

Member of the Civil and Soviet-Finnish wars.

In 1925 he joined the CPSU(b).

He wrote jingoistic verses, glorifying the heroism of the Civil War. In 1934 he published the collection Peers, and then others.

The author of the texts of popular songs, among which the most famous are "Konarmeyskaya", "Fire beats in a cramped stove", "Song of the Brave", etc. A characteristic example of his work was the poems published in Pravda on 26.1.1937 during the trial of the "Parallel Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center":

Here are all of them: - the lackeys of the generals,

Spies by blood and friends of spies -

Serebryakov, Sokolnikov, Muralov,

Two-faced Radek, vile Pyatakov.

Death to scoundrels who have trampled trust into the mud

A country covered in victories!

During the Great Patriotic War, a war correspondent for the newspapers Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda; published 10 collections of poems, incl. "Roads lead to the West" (1942), "Soldier's heart" and "Poems about hatred" (1943), "Songs of an angry heart" and "punishing Russia" (1944). In 1944 he was editor-in-chief of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, in 1945-53 - the magazine Ogonyok.

After the Great Patriotic War, Surkov, who always felt the situation well, fulfilled the social order, wrote poetry, calling for the struggle for peace (collection Peace to the World, 1950). From 1949 secretary, in 1950-53 deputy., 1st deputy. General Secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Actively participated in the persecution of writers "not corresponding" to the party line, a singer of the Stalin era. In 1952-56 he was a member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU, in 1956-66 he was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In 1953-59 1st Secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since 1954 he has been a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

For the sake of historical truth, one could without any exaggeration call Aleksey Alexandrovich Surkov a living embodiment of Andrey Platonov's prose, one of the characters of the same "Chevengur". In the novel, on almost every page, there are words that could become an epigraph to his life. Take, for example, the statement of Ignatius Moshonkov: "I give socialism! The rye will not ripen yet, but socialism will be ready! .. And I look: what am I yearning for? It was I who missed socialism."

Alexei Surkov liked to call himself "the same age as the century." And it really went through most of the historical path with the 20th century, in some ways reflecting it, in some ways becoming its reflection itself. That is why poetry and the fate of Surkov are of interest not only as a literary fact, but also as a socio-psychological phenomenon of their time.

Who could have imagined that a simple boy who was born a hundred years ago in the Yaroslavl village of Serednevo in the family of a poor peasant would become, over the years, not only a famous poet, but also a major writer's official, a statesman. No special signs and signs of grace, indicating his future chosen destiny, shone over him. True, some wonderful strangeness ("Chevengursky" color!) Flashed through the promise of something unexpected in the name of Surkov's great-grandfather, who, God only knows for what reason, was called Pompey.

Surkov was, in the language of his peer Nikolai Tikhonov, from the generation of "festive, cheerful, possessed." He did not just participate in the Civil War, he smashed his own brothers, who were distraught from hunger and violence by the rebellious peasants of the Tambov province, whom he called "Antonov's kulak gangs." In his notorious speech at the First Congress of Writers, Surkov, with all Bolshevik frankness, will say about his past: "The question of parting with the past ... has never been raised." In other words, he admits without hesitation or a shadow of embarrassment that people without a past, without memory, without culture, without a language, without a clan or tribe have burst into literature and life - just like himself.

The arrival in literature of all these Surkovs, Zharovs, Utkins, Bezymenskys, Altauzens, Tikhonovs, Dolmatovskys was called "a great rise in the creative amateur activity of the masses." The first poems of Alexei Surkov appeared in 1918 in Krasnaya Gazeta, when Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Valery Bryusov, Fyodor Sologub were still alive in the full bloom of their creative aspirations.

At the First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934, the hardened Alexei Surkov rushes into battle with Bukharin himself (in fact, with the Party!), arguing with his report on poetry, where he opposed Mayakovsky's civil line, as obsolete, intimacy and apolitical nature of Pasternak's poetry .

During his long life, Alexei Alexandrovich released several dozen collections of poems, for which he received orders and state prizes. He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the RSFSR, secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR, was elected a member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU, a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Finally, he became a Hero of Socialist Labor.

Reading the poems of the young Alexei Surkov, you are convinced that he had the makings of a great poet. He has a strong, energetic line, filled with the air of revolutionary romance. He perfectly felt the new linguistic element. But his main quality is a non-false lyrical voice and free poetic intonation.

The poem "Fire is beating in a cramped stove" has actually become a folk song. Perhaps this song was remembered because in it, Alexei Surkov, referring to his beloved woman, expressed the most secret thing that he had carried in himself all his life, but which he could not admit to anyone: “I want you to hear how my voice yearns alive..."

But this lively, yearning voice made itself felt less and less often in colorless verses that become completely dead over the years... , all the villages around Serednev disappeared without a trace from the face of the earth, went to the bottom of the Rybinsk reservoir, although Serednevo still miraculously survived. The poet will sadly write about this in verse: "The world of my childhood has disappeared at the bottom of the sea ..." and will call the lost "village Atlantis."

Did he himself renounce the past? And the past took revenge on him. Atlantis, alas, turned out to be the era that he served so long and faithfully. Slogans, ideas, victories and tragedies have gone under the water of time, and now he himself, along with his poetry, orders and titles, is being pulled to the bottom. And only Serednevo, clinging to the edge of the creeping shore, reminds that a man with a lively and longing voice was once born there ...

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Many people in our country are familiar with this name - Aleksey Aleksandrovich Surkov. Representatives of the older generation will even be able to recite lines from the poems of a wonderful poet by heart.

Peru Surkov owns many works, but the most famous were his poems written during the Great Patriotic War.

Biography milestones

The future poet was born into a peasant family in the Yaroslavl province at the very end of the 19th century. Due to poverty, like many of his comrades, at the age of 12 he was forced to go to work "into the people" in the capital of the then tsarist Russia - the city of St. Petersburg.

The revolution and the civil war found him young, dreaming of transforming the country and the opportunity to get a good education in order to publish his poems.

The glory of the poet is not long in coming. Back in 1930, Surkov published his first collection of poems, which was called Zapev.

In this and his subsequent collections, he glorifies the courageous fighters for a bright future, writes about military feat and valor.

In those years, his most popular works were the poems "Konarmeyskaya song", "The Last War", "So we grew up." The poet is appointed editor of the young journal "Literary Studies", is active in social activities, takes part in the Soviet-Finnish war.

At the same time, Surkov creates a family. He marries a young and beautiful woman - the writer Sofya Antonovna Krevs. The marriage produced a daughter and a son.

The Great Patriotic War

The war found the poet at the front. As a front-line correspondent, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Surkov visited most of the battles of the Great Patriotic War.

Surkov Alexey Alexandrovich, whose work includes about 20 collections of poetry, a huge number of literary critical articles, has achieved real fame. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, he was the Laureate of two Stalin Prizes. Surkov also achieved great heights in the leadership of the CPSU. Conducted active political work.

Colleagues in the literary workshop differently evaluated his creative heritage and social activities. Among them were those who called Surkov a party functionary, but there were people who understood the subtle lyricism of his poems, guessing that he was primarily a writer.

The poet died at the age of 83. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

The meaning of creativity

Many years have passed since the death of Surkov. The socio-political system has changed, the country itself has changed. Much has been forgotten, many events have been rethought.

But the name of Surkov is known today to many Russians because once this man wrote wonderful poetic lines about courage and love that the whole country knows: “Fire beats in a cramped stove ...”. And I want to always sing this song and admire its beauty and sincerity.