Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky (Russian: Арсений Александрович Тарковский; 25 June [O.S.

His father, Oleksandr Tarkovsky was a public figure repressed by the Soviets under a court case of "Ukrainian socialists", had been a student of the actor and playwright Ivan Karpenko-Karyi and his mother was Maria Danilovna Rachkovskaya.

[1] By 1924 Tarkovsky moved to Moscow, and from 1924 to 1925 he worked for a newspaper for railroad workers called Gudok, where he managed an editorial section written in verse.

The leg wound he received caused gas gangrene, and Tarkovsky had to undergo six gradual amputations.

Arseny Tarkovsky was mainly known as a translator of Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri, Nizami, Magtymguly, Kemine, Sayat-Nova, Vazha-Pshavela, Adam Mickiewicz, Mollanepes, Grigol Orbeliani and many other poets.