TARKOVSKY Arsenij

Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky (1907 - 1989), poet.

Born on June 12 (25 NS) in the family Elizavetgrad the People. Children and youth have fallen to the difficult time Russia's history, that the future poet felt fully.

In 1920 Tarkovsky lived in Moscow since 1924 working in the newspaper "Whistle", within two years leading department poetic lampoon.

In 1925 comes to study in higher state literary courses, which graduated in 1929. Writes poetry, publishes them in a student's Miscellany (1926).

Since 1932 actively engaged in translation, focusing on classical poetry of the East. He owned and translations of poems from Turkmen, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic.

During the war he worked in the army newspaper "Alarm". His long poem by Tarkovsky did not publish, they appear in print, when the poet for 50 years. Then, for twenty years in various journals and anthologies have been unprintable verses, . of six collections of poetry: "Before the snow" (1962), "Earth, earth" (1966), "Vestnik" (1969), "Poems" (1974), "Winter Day" (1980), "Favorites" (1982),
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In 1983, leave the "Poems of various years, uniting the best of the printed. The last book of the poet - "From youth to old age".

Andrei Tarkovsky always kept away from literary vanity, for many years lived in Peredelkino. He owns the theoretical and critical articles and reviews. Andrei Tarkovsky died in 1989 in Moscow.