The photo was taken on Robert Rozhdestvensky’s birthday when he was thirteen years old. It depicts the future poet with his mother, stepfather Ivan Rozhdestvensky, and his sister Anna.
During the Great Patriotic War, Robert’s life was quite difficult. After his grandmother’s death, his mother Vera Pavlovna came to Omsk to take her son with her to the front. She filed papers with her military unit to list Robert as the regiment’s son. But when they arrived in Moscow, she found out that the army was preparing to attack and decided to temporarily leave her son in the Danilovsky Orphanage.
On September 1, 1944, Robert became a cadet of the Third Moscow Military Musical School of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and a fifth-grade student of a secondary school, which was located in close proximity to his music school. He played many musical instruments, was fond of poetry, and participated in performances at factories and plants, where he publicly read his poems.
In May, 1945, his mother picked Robert up from his school and brought him to East Prussia, where her military unit was located. Robert went to his sixth grade in Königsberg. The family moved often due to the military assignments of Ivan Rozhdestvensky, Vera Pavlovna’s second husband, and the poet’s stepfather. They lived in Kaunas, Taganrog, Vienna, and Moscow.
During the Great Patriotic War, Robert’s life was quite difficult. After his grandmother’s death, his mother Vera Pavlovna came to Omsk to take her son with her to the front. She filed papers with her military unit to list Robert as the regiment’s son. But when they arrived in Moscow, she found out that the army was preparing to attack and decided to temporarily leave her son in the Danilovsky Orphanage.
On September 1, 1944, Robert became a cadet of the Third Moscow Military Musical School of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and a fifth-grade student of a secondary school, which was located in close proximity to his music school. He played many musical instruments, was fond of poetry, and participated in performances at factories and plants, where he publicly read his poems.
In May, 1945, his mother picked Robert up from his school and brought him to East Prussia, where her military unit was located. Robert went to his sixth grade in Königsberg. The family moved often due to the military assignments of Ivan Rozhdestvensky, Vera Pavlovna’s second husband, and the poet’s stepfather. They lived in Kaunas, Taganrog, Vienna, and Moscow.
