Aleksandr Tvardovsky

Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Три́фонович Твардо́вский) (June 21 [O.S. June 8] 1910–18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer, chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered in English as Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovski, Aleksandr Tvardovski, and Alexander Tvardovsky (though "Aleksandr Tvardovsky" is by far the most common spelling). Tvardovsky was born into a Russian family in Zagorye, Smolensk Governate. At the time of his birth, the family lived on a farm that his father had purchased in installments from The Peasant Land Bank. Tvardovsky's father, the son of a landless soldier, was a blacksmith by trade. The farm was situated on poor land,...