Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin is one of the most significant, talented and distinctive figures of contemporary Russian poetry. He gained his fame during the war years, and to this day his works disturb the hearts of fans of military poetry.
Mikhail Dudin: biography
Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin was born on 11/20/1916 in a family of peasants in the village of Klevnevo, Ivanovo Region. Parents of Mikhail Alexandrovich believed that a worthy education would be a real “ticket to life” for the boy, and made a lot of efforts in order to provide his son with a decent future. Dudin’s training began with a factory school, and continued at the Ivanovo Pedagogical Institute. The form of study at the university was evening, which allowed the future poet to combine education with the activities of a journalist. Already in those years, Mikhail Dudin worked in a local newspaper.
First professional achievements
The first significant works of Dudin were offered to readers in 1934 in the form of information brochures. Even then, people were able to appreciate the originality, originality, sincerity and a certain naivety of Mikhail Alexandrovich. The brochures issued were a great success and became a reliable basis for the development of Dudin's further work. Six years later, in 1940, the writer was able to release his first author's collection.
War years
The war for Mikhail Alexandrovich began a little earlier than for most citizens of the USSR. Dudin worked as a field correspondent on the fronts of the Finnish-Soviet war. At the time of the German attack on the USSR and the siege of Leningrad, Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin was there, in Leningrad, where he continued to conduct active professional activities.
Life and work after the war
The end of the war, as well as its beginning, Mikhail Alexandrovich met in Leningrad. The development of the post-war career of the writer was very dynamic. Dudin worked on the Peace Committee. It was Mikhail Alexandrovich who initiated the creation of the Green Belt of Glory. Further career growth was as follows:
- In 1951, Dudin was accepted into the party.
- In 1967, Mikhail Alexandrovich was instructed at the next congress of the Union of Poets and Writers to make a report on the significance of poetry for citizens of the USSR.
- In the period from 1986 to 1991, Mikhail Dudin held simultaneously two honorable posts: he was the head of the Union of Writers of the USSR and one of the leaders of the Union of Writers of Russia.
- In 1991, Mikhail Alexandrovich began political activity and became a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR.
How was the work of Dudin noted and what awards did he receive?
Both contemporaries of Dudin and later critics of Mikhail Alexandrovich's work call him the main, most important achievement, the organization and subsequent holding of a poetic event of all-Union and even global significance and scale. We are talking about the all-Union Pushkin poetry holidays held in the Pskov region, in the village of Mikhailovsky. For organizing these events, Mikhail Dudin was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Pushkin Mountains. He has repeatedly said that it is this award that is valued more than others and is proud of it.
It is also important that the verses of Dudin crowned the obelisk to an unknown soldier. Such an obelisk was installed at the central entrance to the Mikhailovsky Grove.
Contrary to popular belief, which is widespread among people who are little familiar with the work of Mikhail Alexandrovich, Dudin was not exclusively a military poet. In addition to military lyrics, Mikhail Alexandrovich wrote scripts for films.
Charity
It is worth noting that Mikhail Dudin possessed not only the talent of a writer, but also positive human qualities. It is reliably known that in 1989 Dudin received a very substantial fee for his work “The Promised Land” written and published by him. It is also reliably known that Mikhail Alexandrovich completely transferred the money to help the victims of the earthquake that happened in Armenia in those years. It is noteworthy that the first readers of this work were precisely the residents of Yerevan, even before the tragedy.
The last years of the poet’s life and work
The last years of his life, Mikhail Alexandrovich spent in his work, translating his and other people's poems into the languages of the peoples of the Soviet Union. Relatives and friends say that the poet Mikhail Dudin did not stop working literally until the last hours of his life. The great poet died on the eve of 1994, December 31. He was buried in the Ivanovo region in the village of Vyazovskoye, Furmanovsky district.
Despite the death of the poet, his poems and prose works continue to enjoy wide well-deserved popularity among both domestic and foreign readers. Such a high interest in the work of Dudin is explained by the personal phenomenon of the writer, as well as the eternal relevance of those that Dudin covered in his works.