Biography of the Tarkovsky poet

Tarkovsky’s grave in Peredelkino Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky was born 25 12 in the old style of June, his father Alexander Karlovich, a former member of the People’s Volya party, who served in prison in prison served in a bank. Mother worked as a teacher. Arseny was the second child in the family. His elder brother Valery died in battle against the gangs of Ataman Grigoryev in the city of Seversyanin, K.

Balmont, F. He himself began to write poetry early. In the beginning of the x. The young man managed to escape. He wanders around Ukraine and Crimea, starving, at times earning a boot craft, working in the fishing artel. In the city, he attends the highest state literary courses, where he meets Maria Vishnyakova, who became Tarkovsky’s second wife in the middle of the X in February. Still studying in literary courses, Tarkovsky begins to write literary feuilletons for the Gudok newspaper where at that time such famous writers as M.

Bulgakov, Yu. Olesha, I. Ilf, E. Petrov, V. he also works for radio and theater. He writes “on the table”, while actively working as a translator from Azerbaijani, Chechen, Turkmen, Serbian, Polish and other languages. In or G. As it turned out many years later, it was to him that Tsvetaeva dedicated her last poem. Tarkovsky, took his wife and adoptive daughter to evacuation; He stubbornly asks for the front and at the beginning of G.

then the poet took part in the battles near Moscow, in the West, Bryansk, 2nd Belorussian and 1st Baltic Fronts. After the wound and amputation, the legs were demobilized with the rank of captain. In the post -war period, actively engaged in translation activities, he continues to write poetry “in the table” a number of manuscript collections have been preserved. Tarkovsky, prepared in the same year, met Akhmatova, who highly appreciated his work.

The friendship of poets will last until her death. Tarkovsky divorces a marriage with A. Bokhonova, in the city for 15 years Tarkovsky’s poems appeared in the press only episodically. For a long time, as a poet, he remained an unknown mass reader. His magnificent translations of oriental poets were still published, but such an activity for a person with a pronounced creative personality was a certain burden.

The collection “Before the snow”, appreciated by Akhmatova as “A precious gift to the modern reader”, was only published in the city Almost simultaneously, the film of Andrei Tarkovsky “Ivanovo Childhood” was released on the screens, where Arseny Tarkovsky’s poems sounded in copyright. Arseny Tarkovsky died on May 27, he was buried in Peredelkino.