Biography K with Simonov

How I survived, we will only know you and I, - you just knew how to wait like no other. Konstantin Simonov first met actress Valentina Serova in the city of Konstantin Simonov fell in love with Valentina Serov without memory. This event was the beginning of their great love, it determined the fate of the poet and writer for many years to come. The whole country followed the development of this novel.

In his memoirs, Konstantin Mikhailovich said that he did not like to write letters and, in a continuous nomadic and dangerous life of a front -line journalist, wrote in fragments to his beloved poems. Only she alone ... In June-July, G. Simonov, like a military correspondent, was on the Western Front, almost died near Mogilev, and at the end of July was briefly in Moscow.

It remained to spend the night in the country at Leo Cassil in Peredelkino, and in one sitting wrote "Wait for me." At first he was not going to print the poem, he considered it too personal, read it only to the closest friends in front -line dugouts, dugouts, and on a halt. Simonov recalled: “Our“ Red Star ”was then placed in the same building as“ Pravda ”and“ Komsomolskaya Pravda ”.

After returning from Feodosia, on the way from the Machine Bureau, I met in the editorial corridor with the editor of Pravda Peter Nikolayevich Pospelov. But this time, against my expectation, the conversation came not about the trip, but about poetry. Having sown that in recent years there was not enough poems in Pravda, Pospelov asked if I had something suitable. At first I replied that no.

And in any case, not for "truth". Maybe just for Pravda. And I, a little hesitating, read Pospelov not taken into the “Red Star” “Wait for me”. When I read it to the end, Pospelov jumped up from the chair, deeply put his hands in the pockets of the blue quilted jacket and ran back and forth at his cold office. In my opinion, good verses, ”he said.

Why not? Only now you have a line “yellow rains” there ... Well, repeat this line for me. I repeated: - "Wait when yellow rains are sad ..." - why "yellow"? It was difficult for me to logically explain to him why the "yellow". I probably wanted to express his longing with this word. ” In December of the same G., poetry awaited a deafening success, the author at once became a famous poet.

And in the city later, the poems dedicated to Simonov Valentina Serova formed in the cycle "With you and without you." Stalin’s joke is known: “This book should be released in duplicate - for him and for her.” Simonov and V. Serov in the city, but relations in the family did not work out, and in the year they divorced. Valentina Vasilievna Serova did not find the strength to overcome failures in family life and work, began to abuse alcohol.

She died on December 11, Konstantin Simonov was not at the funeral, he was on vacation with a new family, sent a bouquet of flowers. The writer was born on November 28 by his father K. Simonov never saw. Mikhail Agafangelovich Simonov, was a royal officer, a graduate of the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy, in the city of Mom, Alexander Leonidovna Obolenskaya - Shakhovskaya, by origin of the princess, graduated from the Smolny Institute of noble girls.

She tried to hide her origin so as not to throw a shadow at her son, whom she loved very much, was proud of everything that he did. Later, the son of Konstantin Simonov, Alexei Simonov, film director and human rights activist, wrote that in the process of working on one of the films he found letters of his grandmother in the beginning of the 10ths to her sisters in Paris, where she writes that Mikhail was discovered in Poland and calls her with her son to herself there.

At that time, she already had an affair with A. Ivanishev, but, apparently, there was something else in these relations, which did not allow them to restore. The grandmother still retained the surname Simonov to her son. In the city, he raised a boy from 4 years old. The family moved to Ryazan, in the poem "Father" K. Simonov writes about the stepfather: how often I tortured the war long long: my father would lay or got up now, here, under mines?

Would my father crawl into the battalion so that everything is clear more clear? Or would he be stuck on the KP, believing the summary of the word? All the days of her and nights, my stepfather passed her full length with me. The writer’s childhood passed in military towns and commanding dormitories. After the end of the seven classes, he, despite the disapproval of his stepfather, entered the Factory School of the FZU in Saratov.

And since the fall of G., the specialty of Tokar was given to K. Simonov with difficulty, but to lag in the production for the “home” boy meant to get into the number of despised Belarusians, so K. Simonov tried as best he could. In the spring, G. Simonova was arrested and was under investigation, the command evicted a family from the apartment. Simonov recalled: “If my memory serves me, almost all that summer I worked.

In the FZU, classes and practice at the factory continued, there were no vacation, as at school, there was only a short vacation. I remember that after this vacation I was assigned the second category, and I began to receive not seventeen, as at the beginning, or not thirty -two, or thirty -four rubles, which was then with my mother very useful.The prison in which the stepfather was sitting was on one of the streets somewhere near the city center, they did not give dates with him, because he was under investigation, but the programs were accepted-twice a week.

Typically, my mother wore the programs, but sometimes I wore ... my mother, having recovered, immediately pulled herself together and agreed on the installation of the first September for teaching, teaching either French or German - she mastered both. ” From prison, stepfather was released after 4 months, he decided - to leave Saratov to Moscow and live temporarily with his native sister on Petrovka - she promised to temporarily blocked her room for this.

Soon the family moved to Moscow, K. Simonov entered the second year of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Named after Mandelstam, and the stepfather began to work as a teacher of the military department of the Industrial Institute named after Karl Liebknecht in a rampant. Having entered the evening working literary university, created on the initiative of Gorky, K.

Simonov was engaged in the evenings, and worked during the day at the Technical Film Fabric, and the next year he switched to the university’s day. K. Simonov did not hit the famous writer’s landing, but rewrote his poem “Belomorkanal” many times, and when he finished, he achieved a business trip to the construction site, went to the channel, lived in the zone, in the hut, in the camp of the camp teacher, once again overwhelmed everything in the poem, rewrote, but did not publish.

But thanks to her he entered the Literary Institute. Konstantin Simonov graduated from the Literary Institute named after A. in the same city of Chernyshevsky, published the poem "Pavel Black". Criticism noted K. Simonov’s poems about Mongolia, as one of the most noticeable phenomena in our poetry in those years: our time will still be listed on the tablets. In thick books they will write about people of the thirties.

They will be surprised at how easily we left our wives, how easily we took root from the smoke of our native cities ... During the year, K. Simonov studied at the courses of military correspondents at the V. Lenin Military-Political Academy, received the military rank of second-ranking quarter-ranking. Simonov wrote his first play “The Story of One Love”, set on the stage of the theater.

Lenin Komsomol. Actress V. Serova refused to play in a new performance, too fresh was still a wound from the loss of her beloved husband. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Most of his military correspondence was published in the Red Star newspaper. During the war years he wrote the plays “Russian People”, “So it will be”, the story “Days and Nights”, two books of poems “With you and without you” and “War”.

As a military correspondent, K. Simonov visited all fronts, walked along the lands of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany, and was a witness to the last battles for Berlin. After the war, his collections of essays “Letters from Czechoslovakia”, “Slavic friendship”, “Yugoslav notebook”, “From Black to Barents of the Sea” appeared. Notes of a military correspondent. " In - gg.

As a special correspondent of the newspaper Pravda, the first novel “Comrades in Weapons” covered the events on the island of Damansky G. Simonov, “Fourth”. According to the scenarios of K.