For the Victory Day Zulfiya Chotchaeva presented a song and video based on poems by Eduard Asadov - “I will wait for you”
Eduard Asadov, a veteran and disabled veteran of the Great Patriotic War, is the author of fifty poetry collections, which over the years included such well-known poems as “Back in Line,” “Shurka,” “Galina,” and “The Ballad of Hatred and Love.” .
In 1941, Eduard Asadov volunteered for the front, was a mortar gunner, then assistant commander of the Katyusha battery on the North Caucasian and 4th Ukrainian fronts. Fought on the Leningrad front, in the Crimea.
On the night of May 3-4, 1944, in the battles for Sevastopol near Belbek, he was seriously wounded by a shell fragment in the face. Losing consciousness, he drove a truck with ammunition to an artillery battery. For this feat of the guard, Lieutenant Asadov was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Followed by prolonged treatment in hospitals. Doctors saved his life but failed to save his sight; and since that time, Asadov was forced to wear a black half-mask on his face until the end of his life (2004).
One of the fundamental features of Eduard Asadov’s poetry is a heightened sense of justice. His poems captivate the reader with enormous artistic and life truth, originality and uniqueness of intonation, polyphonic sound. A characteristic feature of his poetic work is the appeal to the most pressing topics, the attraction to action-packed verse, to the ballad. He is not afraid of sharp corners, does not avoid conflict situations, on the contrary, he strives to resolve them with the utmost sincerity and directness (“Slanderers”, “An Uneven Battle”, “When Friends Become Bosses”, “The Needed People”, “The Break”). Whatever topic the poet touches on, whatever he writes about, it is always interesting and bright, it always excites the soul. These include hot, emotional poems on civil topics (“Relics of the Country”, “Russia did not begin with a sword!”, “Coward”, “My Star”), and poems about love imbued with lyricism (“They were students”, “My love”, “Heart”, “Don’t doubt it”, “Love and cowardice”, “I will see you off”, “I can really wait for you”, “On the wing”, “Fates and hearts”, “Her love” and others works).
One of the main themes in the work of Eduard Asadov is the theme of the Motherland, loyalty, courage and patriotism (“Smoke of the Fatherland”, “Twentieth Century”, “Forest River”, “Dream of Ages”, “About What You Can’t Lose”, lyrical monologue "Motherland") Poems about the Motherland are closely connected with poems about nature, in which the poet figuratively and excitedly conveys the beauty of his native land, finding bright, rich colors for this. These are “In the Forest Land”, “Night Song”, “Taiga Spring”, and other poems, as well as a whole series of poems about animals (“Bear Cub”, “Bengal Tiger”, “Pelican”, “Ballad of the Damn Pensioner”, “ Yashka,” “Zoryanka” and one of the poet’s most widely known poems, “Poems about the Red-haired Mutt”). Eduard Asadov is a life-affirming poet: even his most dramatic line carries a charge of ardent love for life.
Eduard Asadov died on April 21, 2004. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery. But he bequeathed to bury his heart on Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol, where on May 4, 1944 he was wounded and lost his sight.
Eduard Asadov
I can wait for you...
I can wait for you very much,
A long, long and true-true,
And at night I can not sleep
A year, and two, and all my life, probably!
Let the leaves of the calendar
They will fly like leaves by the garden,
Only to know that everything is not in vain,
What do you really need!
I can follow you
On the thicket and perelazam,
Along the sands, without roads, almost,
On the mountains, on any path,
Where the hell did not happen once!
I'll pass it all, no one's crust,
I will overcome any anxieties,
Only to know that everything is not in vain,
What then you do not betray on the road.
I can give for you
All that I have and will be.
I can accept for you
Bitterness is the worst fate in the world.
I will be happy to consider giving
The whole world to you every hour.
Only to know that everything is not in vain,
That I love you not in vain!
Video director: Nuradin Satyrov, "Octava"
