Diary. 1950-1959: Alexander Tvardovsky

The diary of the 1950s captured the stormy, dramatic events in the life of the country and in the life of the author of the diary: the death of Stalin, the XX Congress of the Party, the appointment of the Twardowski editor-in-chief of the “New World” (1950), the restructuring of the magazine, the first overclocking of his editorial office in 1954, the prohibition of the poem “Terkin in the next world”, the beginning of “The Thaw” … with the maximum sincerity here is told here About the difficult relationship of the poet with A. Fadeev, their contradictory development and tragic conclusion. Unexpected strokes to the portrait of Khrushchev contain notes made by the poet immediately after many hours of meetings and conversations with the then head of the state. Many pages of the diary are devoted to friendship with M. Isakovsky, S. Marshak, E. Kazakevich, I. Sokolov-Mikitov …

Author
Tvardovsky Alexander Trifonovich
Publisher
Prose writer, 2013