Я в свою ходил атаку...

'Voĭna s Germanieĭ. Edu v Moskvu' - ėta korotkai͡a zapisʹ, sdelannai͡a Aleksandrom Tvardovskim 22 ii͡uni͡a 1941 goda, polozhila nachalo ego voennym dnevnikam, kotorye poėt budet vesti kazhdyĭ denʹ vse posledui͡ushchie chetyre goda. 'I͡A chuvstvui͡u sebi͡a v silakh sdelatʹ nechto ochenʹ nuzhnoe li͡udi͡am, kotorykh li͡ubli͡u tak, chto pri mysli o nikh serdt͡se szhimaetsi͡a…' - pisal poėt. I Tvardovskiĭ rabotaet - pomimo gazetnykh zametok, v kotorykh on podnimaet boevoĭ dukh boĭt͡sov, pishet stikhi. On videl mnogoe - gibelʹ pod Kievom otstupavshikh diviziĭ, vykhod iz okruzhenii͡a pod Kanevom, nastupatelʹnye operat͡sii 3-go Belorusskogo fronta. Zakonchil voĭnu v Germanii. Zdesʹ, na fronte, on sozdaet svoego znamenitogo 'Vasilii͡a Terkina'. Dnevniki, rabochie tetradi, pisʹma tekh let - best͡sennyĭ vklad poėta v letopisʹ Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ…

'The war with Germany. I'm going to Moscow' – this short entry made by Alexander Tvardovsky on June 22, 1941, marked the beginning of his military diaries, which the poet will keep every day for the next four years. "I feel able to do something very necessary to the people I love so much that the thought of them makes my heart shrink..." the poet wrote. And Tvardovsky works – in addition to newspaper notes in which he raises the morale of fighters, writes poetry. He saw a lot – the death of retreating divisions near Kiev, the exit from the encirclement near Kanev, the offensive operations of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He ended the war in Germany. Here, at the front, he creates his famous 'Vasily Terkin'. Diaries, workbooks, letters of those years are an invaluable contribution of the poet to the chronicle of the Great Patriotic War…