Mikhail Dudin: writer's biography

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dudin is one of the most significant, talented and original figures of contemporary Russian poetry. His fame he gained in the war years, and to this day his works disturb the hearts of fans of military poetry.

Mikhail Dudin: Biography

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dudin was born on November 20, 1916 in a family of peasants in the village of Klevnevo, Ivanovo region. Mikhail Alexandrovich's parents believed that a worthy education would be a real "voyage to life" for the boy, and they made great efforts to provide the son with a worthy future. The training of Dudin began with the school-factory, and continued in the Ivanovo Pedagogical Institute. The form of education in the university was evening, which allowed the future poet to combine training with the activities of a journalist. Already in those years Michael 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, sincerity and some naivety of Mikhail Alexandrovich. The issued brochures were a great success and became a reliable basis for further development of Dudin's creativity. Six years later, in 1940, the writer was able to release his first author's collection.

Military years

The war for Mikhail Alexandrovich began somewhat 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 Germany's attack on the USSR and the siege of Leningrad, Dudin Mikhail Alexandrovich was there, in Leningrad, where he continued to lead an active professional career.

Life and work after the war

The end of the war, like its beginning, met Mikhail Alexandrovich in Leningrad. The development of the post-war career of the writer was very dynamic. Dudin worked for 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 admitted to the party.
• In 1967, Mikhail Alexandrovich was instructed at a regular congress of the Union of Poets and Writers to make a report on the significance of poetry for the citizens of the USSR.
• In the period from 1986 to 1991, Mikhail Dudin held simultaneously 2 honorary posts: he was the head of the Union of Writers of the USSR and one of the leaders of the Writers' Union of Russia.
• In 1991, Mikhail Alexandrovich began political activity and became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.

How was Dudin's work noted and what awards did he receive?

Both Dudin's contemporaries and later critics of Mikhail Alexandrovich's creativity call it the main, most important achievement, organization and the subsequent holding of a poetic event of all-Union and even global significance and scale. We are talking about the All-Union Pushkin's poetic holidays, held in the Pskov region, in the village of Mikhailovskoye. For the organization of these events, Mikhail Dudin was awarded the title of an honorary citizen of the Pushkin Mountains. He repeatedly said that it is this award that appreciates the most and is proud of it.

It is also important that Dudin's poems were crowned by an 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 Michael Dudin possessed not only the talent of the writer, but also positive human qualities. It is well known that in 1989 Dudin received a very substantial fee for his work "Promised Land", written and published by him. It is also reliably known that Mikhail Aleksandrovich completely transferred money to help the victims of the earthquake that happened in those years in Armenia. It is noteworthy that the first readers of this work were the Yerevan residents, even before the tragedy.

The last years of life and work of the poet

Mikhail Alexandrovich spent the last years of his life working, translating his own 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 until the last hours of his life. The great poet died on the eve of 1994, on December 31. He was buried in the Ivanovo region in Vyazovskoye village, Furmanovsky district.

Despite the death of the poet, his poetry and prose works continue to enjoy widespread well-deserved popularity among both domestic and foreign readers. Such a high interest in the work of Dudin is due to the personal phenomenon of the writer, as well as the eternal relevance to topics that Dudin covered in his works.