Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky Shruti Chauhan or the need to accept

or the need to accept loss

despair and courage

Moments of tenderness

first impression form

caesura to dream” —Lisa Robertson

Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky Shruti Chauhan or the need to acceptVasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War. Published in army newspapers and broadcast on the radio between 1942 and 1945, it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers, many of whom believed it was about a real person was real. Private Tyorkin is an accordion playing Everyman figure, who moves between comedy and reluctant heroism. He is a cheerful grumbler always on the lookout for food and a quick kip,