"The sky is our native home..."
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"The sky is our native home..."
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The popularity of the Russian Soviet poet and war veteran Alexei Ivanovich Fatyanov (1919–1959) for the war generation is comparable to the popularity of Vladimir Vysotsky for the generation of the sixties. But even now, even those who do not know the name of Alexei Fatyanov are familiar with his work. Songs based on his poems, heartfelt and sincere, still resonate in the heart and memory: “A brass band is playing in the city garden...”, “Where are you now, my friends and fellow soldiers?”, “The sky is blue over Russia...”, “When spring will come, I don’t know...” The whole country sang these songs following the heroes of the films “Dowry Wedding,” “Heavenly Slow-Motor,” “The House I Live In,” and “The Big Life.” “I spent my entire childhood among the rich nature of the central Russian strip, which I would not exchange for any of the gingerbread of Crimea and the Caucasus,” wrote Alexei Fatyanov. — Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales by Andersen, the Brothers Grimm and Afanasyev — these were my faithful companions on the country road from the village of Petrino to the provincial town of Vyazniki, where I entered school and, after studying there for three years, was taken to Moscow to conquer the world. I did not conquer the world, but I learned to read and write so much that I began to write poetry under the influence of Blok and Yesenin, whom I love madly to this day." Like many of his peers, Fatyanov had the difficult fate of a soldier. He met the war in an air garrison near Bryansk, received his first wound while breaking out of the German encirclement, the second — in December 1944 during the storming of the city of Székesfehérvár in Hungary. His life was full and bright, but, according to the sad tradition of Russian poets, short. Alexey Fatyanov passed away at the age of forty-one, leaving the country his poems — "the words of the people."
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