1910. Alexander Twardowski was born

105 years ago, on June 21, 1910, Alexander Trifonovich Twardowski, Russian poet, editor -in -chief of the New World, Laureate of Leninsky, three Stalinist and State Prizes was born. In the 60s, the “New World” under Tvardovsky was the main tribune of the liberal current within the framework of communist ideology. But on the pages of the magazine, works that went against this ideology, such as Solzhenitsynsky, “One Day of Ivan Denisovich” were also published.

In the materials of the KGB, the following words of Alexander Trifonovich were given the mood of Tvardovsky after his forced departure from the “New World”: “True, I wrote a lot of poems about the“ Native Father ”. But then I did not shout my soul, as I am sure that many did not shout. No need to be ashamed that we wrote during the Finnish war a congratulation to Stalin in verses. We believed that we were doing a high business. It should be ashamed of those who are trying to pole Stalin today, for in their souls they know what they are doing. ”