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Famous poet / Konstantin Simonov. 1915-1979. 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.
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His first poems were published in 1936, and by 1942, he was a recognized playwright and poet in Moscow as well as a war correspondent and senior battalion commissar serving in World War II. His poem “Wait for Me,” written during the war, is considered one of the best-known poems in Russian literature.
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 correspondent on the battlefront.
His poem "Wait for Me", about a soldier in the war asking his beloved to wait for his return, remains one of the best-known poems in Russian literature. The poem was addressed to his future wife, the actress Valentina Serova.
- Russian
- Valentina Serova (1943–1957)
- War poet, novelist, playwright, war correspondent
With his writing ability Simonov quickly became the Russian army’s patriotic poet and wrote a number of verses to stir the troops including Wait for Me and If God in his Almighty Power, a poem which was written during the siege of Odessa when he faced certain death.
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And Russians die only the face to the foe. Alyosha, till now we've been spared by the bullets. The great bitter land I was born to defend. Who kissed me three times in a Russian farewell! July 1941. Remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolenshchina, Remember the rain and the mud and the pain, The women, exhausted, who brought milk in pitchers, And ...
This site is intended as a small tribute to a great poet, Konstantin Simonov. Simonov's verse is meant to be read aloud; we have read and recorded some of the poems.
