Konstantin (Kirill) Mikhailovich Simonov. Born November 28, 1915, Petrograd - died August 28, 1979, Moscow. Russian Soviet prose writer, poet, screenwriter, journalist and public figure. Hero of Socialist Labor (1974). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1974) and six Stalin Prizes (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950).
Konstantin Simonov was born on November 15 (28), 1915 in Petrograd in the family of Major General Mikhail Simonov and Princess Alexandra Obolenskaya.
Mother: Princess Obolenskaya Alexandra Leonidovna (1890, St. Petersburg - 1975).
Father: Mikhail Agafangelovich Simonov (husband of A.L. Obolenskaya since 1912). According to some sources, he is of Armenian origin. Major General, participant in the First World War, Knight of various orders, received his education at the Oryol Bakhtinsky cadet corps. Entered service on September 1, 1889. Graduate (1897) of the Imperial Nicholas Military Academy. 1909 - Colonel of the Separate Border Guard Corps. In March 1915 - commander of the 12th Velikolutsky infantry regiment. Awarded the Arms of St. George. Chief of Staff of the 43rd Army Corps (8 July 1915 - 19 October 1917). The latest information about him dates back to 1920-1922 and reports his emigration to Poland.
Stepfather: Alexander Grigorievich Ivanishev (husband of A.L. Obolenskaya since 1919).
I never saw my father: he went missing at the front during the First World War. world war(as the writer noted in his official biography, according to his son A.K. Simonov - traces of his grandfather were lost in Poland in 1922).
In 1919, mother and son moved to Ryazan, where she married a military expert, teacher of military affairs, former colonel of the Russian imperial army A. G. Ivanisheva. The boy was raised by his stepfather, who taught tactics at military schools and later became the commander of the Red Army.
Konstantin's childhood was spent in military camps and commander's dormitories. After finishing seven classes, he entered the factory school (FZU), worked as a metal turner, first in Saratov, and then in Moscow, where the family moved in 1931. So, while earning experience, he continued to work for two more years after he entered the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute to study.
In 1938, Konstantin Simonov graduated from the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute. By this time, he had already written several works - in 1936, Simonov’s first poems were published in the magazines “Young Guard” and “October”.
In the same year, Simonov was accepted into the USSR SP, entered graduate school at IFLI, and published the poem “Pavel Cherny.”
In 1939 he was sent as a war correspondent to Khalkhin Gol, but did not return to graduate school.
Shortly before leaving for the front, he finally changes his name and instead of his native one, Kirill takes the pseudonym Konstantin Simonov. The reason is in the peculiarities of Simonov’s diction and articulation: without pronouncing “r” and hard “l”, pronounce given name it was difficult for him. The pseudonym becomes a literary fact, and soon the poet Konstantin Simonov gains all-Union popularity. The poet’s mother did not recognize the new name and called her son Kiryusha until the end of her life.
In 1940, he wrote his first play, “The Story of a Love,” staged on the stage of the Theater. Lenin Komsomol; in 1941 - the second - “A guy from our city.” For a year he studied at the war correspondent courses at the Military Military Academy named after V.I. Lenin, on June 15, 1941 he received military rank quartermaster of the second rank.
At the beginning of the war, he was drafted into the Red Army, as a correspondent from the Active Army he was published in Izvestia, and worked in the front-line newspaper Battle Banner.
In the summer of 1941, as a special correspondent for Red Star, he was in besieged Odessa.
In 1942 he was awarded the rank of senior battalion commissar, in 1943 - the rank of lieutenant colonel, and after the war - colonel. During the war years he wrote the plays “Russian People”, “Wait for Me”, “So It Will Be”, the story “Days and Nights”, two books of poems “With You and Without You” and “War”.
Konstantin Simonov during the war
By order of the Armed Forces Western Front No.: 482 dated: 05/03/1942, senior battalion commissar Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Most of his military correspondence was published in Red Star.
11/04/1944 Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov, special. correspondent of the newspaper "Red Star", awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus".
As a war correspondent, he visited all fronts, walked through the lands of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany, and witnessed the last battles for Berlin.
By order of the Armed Forces of the 4th Ukrainian Front No.: 132/n dated: 05/30/1945, the correspondent of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, Lieutenant Colonel Simonov, was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, for writing a series of essays about soldiers of units of the 4th Ukrainian Front and the 1st Czechoslovak Corps, the presence of the commanders of the 101st and 126th Corps during the battles at the OP and the presence in units of the 1st Czechoslovak Corps during the offensive battles.
By order of the Main Administration of the Red Army dated July 19, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov was awarded the medal “For the Defense of Moscow.”
After the war, his collections of essays appeared: “Letters from Czechoslovakia”, “Slavic Friendship”, “Yugoslav Notebook”, “From Black to Barents Sea. Notes of a war correspondent."
For three years he spent numerous foreign business trips (Japan, USA, China), worked as editor-in-chief of the magazine " New world».
In 1958-1960 he lived and worked in Tashkent as Pravda’s own correspondent for the republics Central Asia. As a special correspondent for Pravda, he covered the events on Damansky Island (1969).
stills from the film "Star of the Epoch"
The Last Wife (1957) - Larisa Alekseevna Zhadova(1927-1981), daughter of Hero Soviet Union General A.S. Zhadov, widow of front-line comrade Simonov, poet S.P. Gudzenko. Zhadova graduated from the Faculty of Art History of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, a famous Soviet art critic, specialist in the Russian avant-garde, author of several monographs and many articles. Simonov adopted Larisa's daughter Ekaterina, then their daughter Alexandra was born.
Poems and poems by Konstantin Simonov:
"Glory";
“Winner” (1937, poem about Nikolai Ostrovsky);
“Pavel Cherny” (M., 1938, a poem glorifying the builders of the White Sea-Baltic Canal);
“Battle on the Ice” (poem). M., Pravda, 1938;
Real people. M., 1938;
Road poems. - M., Soviet writer, 1939;
Poems of the thirty-ninth year. M., 1940;
Suvorov. Poem. M., 1940;
Winner. M., Voenizdat, 1941;
The son of an artilleryman. M., 1941;
Poems of the year 41. M., Pravda, 1942;
Front line poems. M., 1942;
War. Poems 1937-1943. M., Soviet writer, 1944;
Friends and enemies. M., Goslitizdat, 1952;
Poems 1954. M., 1955;
Ivan and Marya. Poem. M., 1958;
25 poems and one poem. M., 1968;
Vietnam, winter of '70. M., 1971;
If your home is dear to you...;
“With you and without you” (collection of poems). M., Pravda, 1942;
“Days and Nights” (about the Battle of Stalingrad);
I know you fled in battle...;
“Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of the Smolensk region...”;
“The major brought the boy on a gun carriage...”
Novels and stories by Konstantin Simonov:
Days and nights. Tale. M., Voenizdat, 1944;
Proud man. Tale. 1945;
“Comrades in Arms” (novel, 1952; new edition - 1971);
“The Living and the Dead” (novel, 1959);
“They are not born soldiers” (1963-1964, novel; 2nd part of the trilogy “The Living and the Dead”);
« Last summer"(novel, 1971, 3rd (final) part of the trilogy "The Living and the Dead");
“Smoke of the Fatherland” (1947, story);
"Southern Tales" (1956-1961);
“The so-called personal life (From Lopatin’s notes)” (1965, cycle of stories);
Twenty days without war. M., 1973;
Sofya Leonidovna. M., 1985
Plays by Konstantin Simonov:
“The Story of One Love” (1940, premiere - Lenin Komsomol Theater, 1940) (new edition - 1954);
“A Guy from Our City” (1941, play; premiere of the play - Lenin Komsomol Theater, 1941 (the play was staged in 1955 and 1977); in 1942 - a film of the same name);
“Russian People” (1942, published in the newspaper “Pravda”; at the end of 1942 the premiere of the play was successfully held in New York; in 1943 - the film “In the Name of the Motherland”, directors - Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dmitry Vasiliev; in 1979 - a teleplay of the same name , directors - Maya Markova, Boris Ravenskikh);
Wait for me (play). 1943;
“So it will be” (1944, premiere - Lenin Komsomol Theater);
“Under the chestnut trees of Prague” (1945. Premiere - Lenin Komsomol Theater;
"Alien Shadow" (1949);
“Good Name” (1951) (new edition - 1954);
“The Fourth” (1961, premiere - Sovremennik Theater, 1972 - film of the same name);
Friends remain friends. (1965, co-authored with V. Dykhovichny);
From Lopatin's notes. (1974)
Scripts by Konstantin Simonov:
“Wait for me” (together with Alexander Stolper, 1943, director - Alexander Stolper);
“Days and Nights” (1944, director - Alexander Stolper);
“The Second Caravan” (1950, together with Zakhar Agranenko, production directors - Amo Bek-Nazarov and Ruben Simonov);
“The Life of Andrei Shvetsov” (1952, together with Zakhar Agranenko);
“The Immortal Garrison” (1956, director - Eduard Tisse);
“Normandy - Neman” (co-authors - Charles Spaak, Elsa Triolet, 1960, directors Jean Dreville, Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh);
“Levashov” (1963, teleplay, director - Leonid Pchelkin);
“The Living and the Dead” (together with Alexander Stolper, director - Alexander Stolper, 1964);
“Retribution” 1967, (together with Alexander Stolper, feature film, based on part II of the novel “The Living and the Dead” - “Soldiers are not born”);
“If your home is dear to you” (1967, script and text of the documentary, director Vasily Ordynsky);
“Grenada, Grenada, my Grenada” (1968, documentary film, director - Roman Karmen, film poem; All-Union Film Festival award);
“The Case of Polynin” (together with Alexei Sakharov, 1971, director - Alexei Sakharov);
“There is no such thing as someone else’s grief” (1973, documentary about the Vietnam War);
“A Soldier Walked” (1975, documentary);
« Soldier's memoirs"(1976, TV movie);
“Ordinary Arctic” (1976, Lenfilm, director - Alexey Simonov, introduction from the author of the film script and a cameo role);
“Konstantin Simonov: I remain a military writer” (1975, documentary film);
“Twenty days without war” (based on the story (1972), director - Alexey German, 1976), text from the author;
“We won’t see you” (1981, teleplay, directors - Maya Markova, Valery Fokin);
“Road to Berlin” (2015, feature film, Mosfilm - director Sergei Popov. Based on the story “Two in the Steppe” by Emmanuel Kazakevich and the war diaries of Konstantin Simonov).
Diaries, memoirs and essays of Konstantin Simonov:
Simonov K. M. Different days of the war. Writer's Diary. - M.: Fiction, 1982;
Simonov K. M. Different days of the war. Writer's Diary. - M.: Fiction, 1982;
“Through the eyes of a man of my generation. Reflections on J.V. Stalin" (1979, published in 1988);
Far to the east. Khalkingol notes. M., 1969;
"Japan. 46" (travel diary);
“Letters from Czechoslovakia” (collection of essays);
“Slavic Friendship” (collection of essays);
“Yugoslav Notebook” (collection of essays), M., 1945;
“From the Black to the Barents Sea. Notes of a War Correspondent" (collection of essays);
During these years. Journalism 1941-1950. M., 1951;
Norwegian diary. M., 1956;
In this difficult world. M., 1974
Translations by Konstantin Simonov:
Rudyard Kipling in Simonov's translations;
Nasimi, Lyrica. Translation by Naum Grebnev and Konstantin Simonov from Azerbaijani and Farsi. Fiction, Moscow, 1973;
Kakhkhar A., Tales of the Past. Translation from Uzbek by Kamron Khakimov and Konstantin Simonov. Soviet writer, Moscow, 1970;
Azerbaijani folk songs“Hey look, look here!”, “Beauty”, “Well in Yerevan”. Soviet writer, Leningrad, 1978
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His father Mikhail Simonov was a colonel General Staff and disappeared for years civil war. His mother, née Princess Alexandra Obolenskaya, moved with her son to Ryazan in 1919, where she married a former colonel, a military science teacher. tsarist army Alexander Ivanishev, who had a strong influence on the life principles of the future writer.
Kirill Simonov studied in Ryazan, graduated from a seven-year school in Saratov, where his stepfather was transferred. Then he continued his education at a factory school (FZU). In 1931, the family moved to Moscow, where Simonov worked as a turner at an aircraft factory, then as a turner in the workshops of Mezhrabpomfilm (now Mosfilm).
During these same years he began to write poetry. His first works appeared in print in 1934 and in the same year he entered the Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky, who graduated in 1938.
His fellow students were the poets Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Mikhail Matusovsky, Margarita Aliger.
In 1938, Simonov was appointed editor of the Literary Newspaper and was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
In the same year, he entered graduate school at the IFLI (Institute of History, Philosophy, Literature), but in 1939 he was sent as a war correspondent for the newspaper “Heroic Red Army” to Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia and never returned to the institute.
Shortly before leaving, he changed his name and instead of the original Kirill took the pseudonym Konstantin Simonov (it was difficult for him to pronounce his own name, since he could not pronounce the letter “r”).
In 1940, Simonov wrote his first play, “The Story of a Love,” staged on the stage of the Lenin Komsomol Theater; in 1941, his second play, “A Guy from Our City,” appeared.
For a year, Konstantin Simonov studied at war correspondent courses at the Military-Political Academy, receiving the military rank of quartermaster of the second rank.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), Simonov was drafted into the active army on the Western Front: he was his own correspondent for the newspapers “Red Star”, “Pravda”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Battle Banner”.
In 1942, Konstantin Simonov was awarded the rank of senior battalion commissar, in 1943 - the rank of lieutenant colonel, and after the war - colonel.
Most of his military correspondence was published in Red Star. Simonov became one of the best military journalists, having covered the entire war from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea. He visited all fronts, was in Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, went on a submarine to the Romanian rear, with scouts - to the Norwegian fjords, on the Arabat Spit - to attack with infantry and ended the war in Berlin; witnessed the last battles for Berlin, and then was present at the signing of the act of surrender of Nazi Germany.
The poet became famous for his poem “Wait for Me,” published in the newspaper Pravda in January 1942. During the war years, his lyrics (“Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of the Smolensk region...”, “Kill him!” (“If your home is dear to you”), etc.) gained great popularity.
During the war years, Konstantin Simonov published two books of poems “With You and Without You” and “War”, five collections of essays and stories, the story “Days and Nights”, plays “Russian People”, “So It Will Be”, “Under the Chestnuts” Prague", diaries, which later comprised two volumes of his collected works.
After the end of the war, he was on numerous foreign business trips. At the same time, his collections of essays “Letters from Czechoslovakia”, “Slavic Friendship”, “Yugoslav Notebook”, “From the Black to the Barents Sea. Notes of a War Correspondent” appeared.
In 1952, Konstantin Simonov’s first novel “Comrades in Arms” was published, in 1959 - the trilogy novel “The Living and the Dead” (1959), from 1963 to 1964 he wrote the novel “Soldiers Are Not Born”, the continuation of which was “The Last Summer” ", was written from 1970 to 1971, a cycle of stories "From Lopatin's Notes" (1957-1978).
In 1961, the Sovremennik Theater staged Simonov's play "The Fourth".
In 1976, the two-volume book “Different Days of the War” and the novel “So-Called Personal Life” were published.
Simonov’s memoirs “Diaries of the War Years” and his last book, “Through the Eyes of a Man of My Generation. Reflections on Stalin” (1979), are of great documentary value.
Konstantin Simonov headed various Soviet newspapers and magazines: in 1944-1946 - the magazine "Znamya", in 1946 - the newspaper "Red Star", in 1946-1950 and in 1954-1958 - the magazine "New World", in 1950 -1954 - "Literary Newspaper".
Since 1942, Simonov worked in cinema as a screenwriter. He was the screenwriter of the films “A Guy from Our City” (1942), “In the Name of the Motherland” (1943), “Wait for Me” (1943), “Days and Nights” (1943-1944), “Russian Question” (1948), “The Immortal Garrison” (1956), “Normandy-Niemen” (1960), “The Living and the Dead” (1964), “Retribution” (1969), “The Case of Polynin” (1971), “Twenty Days Without War” (1976 ).
Simonov was involved in cinematography for the last ten years of his life. Together with Roman Karmen, he created a documentary film and film poem “Grenada, Grenada, My Grenada”, and was the author of the script documentaries"If your home is dear to you" (1967). “There is no such thing as someone else’s grief” (1973), “A Soldier Walked” (1975), “A Soldier’s Memoirs” (1976).
In addition to creativity, Konstantin Simonov was engaged in social and political activities. In 1946-1954 he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1949-1979 he was a member of the presidium of the Soviet Peace Committee.
In 1956-1961 and since 1976, he was a member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU.
In 1946-1954 he served as Deputy General Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1954-1959 and in 1967-1979 he was secretary of the board of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
In 1974, Konstantin Simonov was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. He was a laureate of six State (Stalin) Prizes of the USSR (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950) and the Lenin Prize (1974). He was awarded three Orders of Lenin (1965, 1971, 1974), the Order of the Badge of Honor (1939), the Red Banner (1942), two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (May 1945, September 1945), and medals.
On August 28, 1979, Konstantin Simonov died in Moscow. Knowing that he was doomed - he had cancer, the writer left a will in which he asked that his ashes be scattered in a field in Buynichi near Mogilev, where he once fought. On the tenth day after Simonov's death, his last will was fulfilled.
The first wife of Konstantin Simonov is Evgenia Laskina (1915-1991), literary editor, head of the poetry department of the Moscow magazine. In 1939, their son Alexey was born, a Russian public figure, film director, and publicist.
In 1943-1957, Simonov was married to actress Valentina Serova. In May 1950, their daughter Maria was born.
The writer's last wife was Larisa Zhadova (1927-1981), daughter of Hero of the Soviet Union General Alexei Zhadov, widow of Simonov's front-line comrade, the poet Semyon Gudzenko. She was a famous art critic, a specialist in the Russian avant-garde. They had a daughter, Alexandra. Simonov adopted Larisa's daughter Ekaterina.
The material was prepared based on information from open sources
Biography and episodes of life Konstantin Simonov. When born and died Konstantin Simonov, memorable places and dates important events his life. Quotes from a writer, poet and public figure, Photo and video.
Years of life of Konstantin Simonov:
born November 28, 1915, died August 28, 1979
Epitaph
“But there is no envy or anger in the heart,
Words are wretched and helpless,
And only memory: what to do with it, Kostya?
There is no answer, but am I still alive..."
From a poem by Margarita Aliger in memory of Simonov
Biography
The lines of his poem “Wait for Me” became a spell for millions of people who survived the Great Patriotic War. In the biography of Konstantin Simonov there were ups and downs, personal victories and sometimes miscalculations, which are not surprising for the difficult times in which the writer lived. Nevertheless, he remained in the memory of his contemporaries and descendants as the author of wonderful poems, books and scripts.
Simonov's biography began in Petrograd, he did not know his father - he died in the war, and the future writer was raised by his stepfather. They lived quite poorly, like many in those days, so after seventh grade the boy went to school and worked as a turner. When Simonov was 16 years old, his family moved to Moscow. And although a seventh-grade education was not enough, he was accepted into the Literary Institute as a representative of the working class. By the time he graduated from the institute, Simonov was publishing his poems, and shortly before the war he wrote his first play, which was staged by the Lenkom Theater. Simonov went through the war as a war correspondent, reaching all the way to Berlin. Even before the war, he changed his name from Cyril to Konstantin, under which he later became famous throughout the USSR.
Simonov has always been considered a writer favored by the authorities. Films based on his scripts were released, his plays were staged, the number of awards for the writer, who was appointed to high literary positions, increased - Simonov worked for several years as editor of the magazine “New World” and “Literary Newspaper”. He fully supported the party's policies and was among the first to condemn Pasternak for the novel Doctor Zhivago and Solzhenitsyn for his "anti-Soviet actions and statements." But Simonov’s list of merits is also considerable - with his help, the novels of Ilf and Petrov were returned to Soviet readers, the book “The Master and Margarita” was published, and translations of plays by Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill were published. According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, in last years Simonov’s life seemed to blame himself for how zealously he carried out the party’s behests in the first years, and later, over the years, he chose a more independent position in relation to the authorities. Moreover, Simonov was a kind and generous person, he helped former front-line soldiers a lot - he arranged for them to undergo treatment, helped them obtain apartments and awards.
Simonov's death occurred on August 28, 1979. The funeral of Simonov, a famous and beloved literary figure by many, passed unnoticed. On September 2, Simonov’s relatives took his ashes and took them to Belarus to scatter them over the Buynichi field near Mogilev, as the writer bequeathed.
Life line
November 28, 1915 Date of birth of Konstantin (Kirill) Mikhailovich Simonov.
1933 Admission to the Literary Institute named after. A. M. Gorky.
1936 Publication of Simonov's first poems.
1938 Graduation from college.
1939 The birth of a son, Alexei, from his marriage to Evgenia Laskina.
1940 Separating from his wife, relationship with Valentina Serova, Simonov writing his first play, “The Story of a Love.”
1941 Conscription into the army.
1942 The release of the film “A Guy from Our City” based on Simonov’s script, the release of Simonov’s collection of poems “With You and Without You,” dedicated to Valentina Serova.
1943 Release of the film “Wait for Me” based on Simonov’s script, marriage to Valentina Serova.
1950 Birth of daughter Maria.
1952 Release of Simonov's first novel, Comrades in Arms.
1957 Parting with Serova, marriage with Larisa Zhadova, birth of daughter Alexandra.
1958-1960 Work in Tashkent as Pravda’s own correspondent.
1959 Release of the book "The Living and the Dead".
1961 Production of the play “The Fourth” by Simonov at the Sovremennik Theater.
1976 Release of the film “Twenty Days Without War” based on Simonov’s script.
August 28, 1979 Date of death of Simonov.
September 2, 1979 Simonov's funeral (the ashes were scattered over the Buinichi field).
Memorable places
1. Simonov’s house in Saratov, where he lived as a child.
2. Literary Institute named after. A. M. Gorky.
3. Theater named after. Lenin Komsomol, where Simonov's first play was staged.
4. The Sovremennik Theater, where Simonov’s play “The Fourth” was staged.
5. Monument to Simonov in Saratov.
6. Buinichi field, where Simonov was buried (the ashes were scattered) and where a memorial sign was erected in memory of Simonov.
Episodes of life
Simonov was married several times. His most striking romance was his relationship with actress Valentina Serova. Simonov was passionately in love with Serova, he courted her for a long time and finally they got married. Unfortunately, the marriage did not work out. When, a few years later, Serova died alone and oblivious, Simonov did not come to the funeral, but sent 58 pink roses to the coffin as a sign of past love.
Actress Valentina Serova and Konstantin Simonov were married for several years - the whole country followed their romance with bated breath
Covenant
"We can experience great grief,
We may be suffocating with sadness
Sink and swim. But in this sea
There must always be islands."
Documentary film about Konstantin Simonov
Condolences
“Simonov managed to guess the most important, the most universal, the most what people need then and thus helped them during the difficult time of the war.”
Margarita Aliger, Russian poetess
Name: Konstantin Simonov
Age: 63 years old
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
A place of death: Moscow
Activity: writer, poet, journalist
Family status: was married to Larisa Zhadova
Konstantin Simonov - biography
Konstantin Simonov is a famous writer, film scriptwriter, journalist, participant in the Great Patriotic War, colonel in the army of the Soviet Union. Hero of Socialist Labor. Winner of the Lenin and six Stalin Prizes. There is no person who does not remember his “Wait for me.” The biography is bright with poetic victories and reader recognition.
Konstantin Simonov - childhood, the poet's family
All readers do not even realize that the boy was originally given the name Kirill. He could not pronounce the letter “er”, so he began to call himself Konstantin. Born in St. Petersburg. My father died during the First World War; he was a military man. The mother had the title of princess, after the war she and her son moved to Ryazan, where she married a teacher. His stepfather treated Kostya well and managed to replace his father. After graduating from school and a factory school, the guy works at a factory as a turner.
The entire biography of the Simonov family consisted of moving around military camps. Ten years before World War II, the family moves to the capital. There Kostya successfully studies at the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute. He can already be considered a poet, a writer, since several collections of poems have been published. Successfully collaborates with the publications “October” and “Young Guard”. In 1936, he became a full member of the USSR Writers' Union.
War in Simonov's biography
The Great has begun Patriotic War, the writer goes to the front as a war correspondent, went through the entire war, and has military awards. He described everything that he saw and experienced in his works. The service began at Khalkin-Gol, here he met Georgy Zhukov. In the first year of the war, “The Boy from Our Town” is born. Simonov does it very quickly military career.
At first he became the senior commissar of the battalion, later received the rank of lieutenant colonel, and after the war he was awarded the rank of colonel. This period of his biography added to the list of significant works, such as:
"Wait for me",
"Russian people",
“Days and Nights” and several other collections of poems.
Besieged Odessa, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany - this is an incomplete list of what the writer defended and where he fought. Simonov outlined everything he saw there in his essays.
The work of Konstantin Simonov after the war
After the war, the writer worked for three years as editor of the New World magazine. He often went on business trips abroad to exotic countries (China, Japan). During this period, he creates works that cannot leave many directors indifferent. Feature films are made based on Simonov's works. Khrushchev, who replaced the deceased Stalin, does not favor the writer and removes him from the post of editor-in-chief at Literaturnaya Gazeta.
Konstantin Simonov - biography of personal life
Konstantin Simonov was married many times, but each of his chosen ones was a muse, an inspiration. First wife Natalia Ginzburg, a writer, is no less talented than her husband. Thanks to this union, the poem “Five Pages” appeared.
The second wife was also directly connected with literary activity spouse. She was a literary editor and a philologist by profession. She managed to insist on the publication of Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita”. From this marriage of the writer and Evgenia Laskina son Alexey was born. Family happiness did not last long.
Konstantin falls in love with actress Valentina Serova, from this love a daughter, Maria, is born. The actress played the main role in the film of the same name, as well as the poet’s poem “Wait for Me.” They lived side by side for fifteen years, and Valentina was Simonov’s inspiration for a long time. “A Boy from Our Town” was written especially for her. Serova did not play the role of Varya in the play, as she had not yet calmed down after the heroic death of her first husband.
The art critic becomes the fourth and last wife of the writer Larisa Zhadova. Simonov took her with her daughter Katya and adopted the girl. Later, Catherine's sister Alexandra was born. Love has finally found itself in this couple. Simonov, leaving this life, wrote a will in which he asked to scatter his ashes over the Buynichi field near Mogilev; his wife wanted to be close to her husband even after death, she made a similar will.
In memory of the writer Simonov
The place near Mogilev was not chosen by chance: at the very beginning of the war, Simonov was an eyewitness to terrible battles, which he would later describe in the novel “The Living and the Dead.” The line of the Western Front passed there, and in these places Simonov almost ended up surrounded by the enemy. Today, on the very outskirts of the field, there is a memorial plaque with the name of the writer. The work of Konstantin Simonov was repeatedly awarded with many awards during his lifetime. His works are known at home and abroad. His productions are still performed on the stages of many theaters.
Poems have been set to music, and many films have been made. He was lucky, as a military journalist, to be present at the signing of the act of surrender of enemy Germany. Simonov ended the war at the age of thirty. The Russian character and patriotism of the writer can be seen in every line, in every image. He was fortunate to be a messenger of peace in many foreign countries, met with writers who left Russia. Met with Ivan Bunin. Every corner preserves the memory of a famous writer and public figure Konstantin Simonov.