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Valentina Serova (1943–1957) Signature. Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov ( Russian: Константи́н Миха́йлович Си́монов, 28 November [ O.S. 15 November] 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, arguably most famous for his 1941 ...
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- Valentina Serova (1943–1957)
- War poet, novelist, playwright, war correspondent
Soviet poet, playwright, and wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov was born in St. Petersburg into a military family. His father died shortly after World War I, and years later, when his stepfather was mistakenly arrested, Simonov and his mother relocated to Moscow, where he studied literature, history, and philosophy. His first poems were ...
Simonov's life, after his initial adventures in the first few weeks of the War, was never the comradely life of a soldier; it was the much more lonely life of an itinerant war correspondent. He was great poet and a great man; but also perhaps a lonely man, to the end. Konstantin Simonov was born Kiril Mikhailovich Simonov in 1915 in St Petersburg.
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Kiril Mikhailovich Simonov [1915-1979] was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He wrote his first poem in 1935 and was first published the following year. By 1940 he was working as a war correspondent and had changed his name to Konstantin and established himself as both poet and dramatist. His father was an army officer who died in World War I.
Konstantin Simonov. Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Soviet author. He was best known as a poet who wrote a popular poem, "Wait for Me," about a soldier at the front asking his beloved to await his return. Simonov addressed the poem to his future wife, the actress Valentina Serova. The poem was immensely popular at the time and remains one ...
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Wait for Me (poem) Wait for Me ( Жди меня ), written by the Russian poet and playwright turned war correspondent Konstantin Simonov, is one of the best known Russian World War II poems. The poem was written by Simonov over a few days in July 1941 after he left his love Valentina Serova behind to take on his new duties of war ...
Jul 14, 2020 · Of the writers appointed by Stalin’s leadership to Banner’s editorial board, the most influential was Konstantin Simonov (1915-1979), poet, playwright and novelist of Russian and Armenian ...
