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Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky russian recipes with a sideline in contrabandTranslated by James Womack Vasili 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. Private Tyorkin is an accordion playing Everyman figure, who moves between comedy and reluctant heroism, a cheerful grumbler happy to share his last tobacco