Editing Andrei Tarkovsky (section)

===Childhood and early life===
Andrei Tarkovsky was born in the village of [[Zavrazhye, Kadyysky District, Kostroma Oblast|Zavrazhye]] in the [[Yuryevetsky District]] of the [[Ivanovo Oblast|Ivanovo Industrial Oblast]] (modern-day [[Kadyysky District]] of the [[Kostroma Oblast]], Russia) to the poet and translator [[Arseny Tarkovsky|Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky]], a native of Yelysavethrad (now [[Kropyvnytskyi]], Ukraine), and Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova, a graduate of the [[Maxim Gorky Literature Institute]] who later worked as a proofreader; she was born in Moscow in the Dubasov family estate.

Andrei's paternal grandfather Aleksandr Karlovich Tarkovsky (in {{langx|pl|link=no|Aleksander Karol Tarkowski}}) was a Polish nobleman who worked as a bank clerk. His wife Maria Danilovna Rachkovskaya was a Romanian language teacher who arrived from [[Iași]].<ref name='gordon'>{{cite web| url = http://www.tarkovskiy.su/texty/vospominania/MTarkovskaya04.html| title = Marina Tarkovskaya: "My brother enjoyed being a descendant of the Dagestanian princes"}} interview to the {{ill|Gordon Boulevard (newspaper)|uk|Бульвар Гордона|lt=Gordon Boulevard|italic=y}} newspaper at the ''Andrei Tarkovsky'' media archive, 2007 (in Russian).</ref> Andrei's maternal grandmother Vera Nikolayevna Vishnyakova (née Dubasova) belonged to an old Dubasov family of [[Russian nobility]] that traces its history back to the 17th century; among her relatives was Admiral [[Fyodor Dubasov]], a fact she had to conceal during the Soviet days. She was married to Ivan Ivanovich Vishnyakov, a native of the [[Kaluga Governorate]] who studied law at the [[Moscow State University]] and served as a judge in [[Kozelsk]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.itogi.ru/arts-exclus/2012/14/176471.html| title = Filming Eternity| access-date = 17 January 2017| archive-date = 18 January 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170118051501/http://www.itogi.ru/arts-exclus/2012/14/176471.html| url-status = dead}} interview with Tarkovsky's sister Marina Tarkovskaya, ''{{ill|Itogy|ru|Итоги (журнал)}}'' journal, 2 April 2012 (in Russian).</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/ЭСБЕ/Дубасовы| title = Dubasov family}} from the [[Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary]], 1890–1907 ([[Wikisource]], in Russian).</ref>

According to the family legend, Tarkovsky's ancestors on his father's side were princes from the [[Shamkhalate of Tarki]], Dagestan, although his sister, [[Marina Tarkovskaya]], who conducted detailed research on their genealogy, called it "a myth, even a prank of sorts," stressing that no document confirms this narrative.<ref name='gordon' />

Tarkovsky spent his childhood in [[Yuryevets, Ivanovo Oblast|Yuryevets]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Marina |last=Sipatova |script-title=ru:Тайна рода Тарковских |work=[[Moskovskij Komsomolets]] |year=2007 |url=http://www.mk.ru/blogs/MK/2007/02/20/culture/92002 |language=ru|access-date=25 November 2007}}</ref> <!--He was described by childhood friends as active and popular, having many friends and being typically in the center of action.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-13|title=Andrei Tarkovsky {{!}} people and places|url=https://videocide.com/namebook/andrei-tarkovsky/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921023907/https://videocide.com/namebook/andrei-tarkovsky/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=21 September 2020|access-date=2022-02-18|language=en-US}}</ref>--> His father left the family in 1937, subsequently volunteering for the army in 1941. He returned home in 1943, having been awarded the [[Order of the Red Star]] after being shot in one of his legs (which he would eventually need to have amputated due to gangrene).<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Donatella Baglivo |date=1984 |title=Un poeta nel Cinema: Andreij Tarkovskij|trans-title=Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema |medium=Documentary}}</ref> Tarkovsky stayed with his mother, moving with her and his sister Marina to Moscow, where she worked as a proofreader at a printing press.

In 1939, Tarkovsky enrolled at the Moscow School No. 554. During the war, the three evacuated to Yuryevets, living with his maternal grandmother. In 1943, the family returned to Moscow. Tarkovsky continued his studies at his old school, where the poet [[Andrei Voznesensky]] was one of his classmates. He studied piano at a music school and attended classes at an art school. The family lived on Shchipok Street in the [[Zamoskvorechye District]] in Moscow. From November 1947 to spring 1948 he was in the hospital with tuberculosis. Many themes of his childhood—the evacuation, his mother and her two children, the withdrawn father, the time in the hospital—feature prominently in his film ''[[Mirror (1975 film)|Mirror]]''.

In his school years, Tarkovsky was a troublemaker and a poor student.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_-vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 |title=Andrei Tarkovsky: The Winding Quest |page=2 |last=Green |first=Peter |publisher=Springer |date=1993 |isbn=978-1349119967}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HnTIHKpkbrAC&pg=PA230 |title=The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn |page=230 |last=Volkov |first=Solomon |publisher=Vintage Books |date=2009 |isbn=978-1400077861}}</ref> He still managed to graduate, and from 1951 to 1952 studied [[Arabic]] at the Oriental Institute in Moscow, a branch of the [[Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union]]. <!--Although he already spoke some Arabic and was a successful student in his first semesters, -->He did not finish his studies and dropped out to work as a prospector for the Academy of Science Institute for Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold. He participated in a year-long research expedition to the river [[Kureyka]] near [[Turukhansk]] in the [[Krasnoyarsk Krai|Krasnoyarsk Province]]. During this time in the [[taiga]], Tarkovsky decided to study film.