'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…