Biography of Simon Simonova

Konstantin Simonov - biography, news, personal life Age: From the birthday of death: 63 years old Konstantin Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov. Born November 28, Petrograd - died on August 28, Moscow. Russian Soviet prose writer, poet, film score, journalist and public figure. The Hero of Socialist Labor Laureate of the Lenin and six Stalinist prizes,,,,,, Konstantin Simonov, was born on November 15 28 in Petrograd in the family of Major General Mikhail Simonov and Princess Alexandra Obolenskaya.

Father: Mikhail Agafangelovich Simonov’s husband A. Obolenskaya since the year. According to some sources, it is of Armenian origin. Major General, a participant in the First World War, a cavalier of various orders, received education in the Oryol Bakhtinsky Cadet Corps. A graduate of the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy entered the service on September 1.

In March - the commander of the Great Lutsk Infantry Regiment. Awarded with St. George weapons. The chief of staff of the Army Corps on July 8 - October 19, the latest data on it dates back - for years and report his emigration to Poland. Stepmo: Alexander Grigoryevich, the husband A., did not see his father: he disappeared at the front in the First World War by the writer in the official biography, according to his son A.

Simonov - the traces of his grandfather are lost in Poland in the year. She moved to Mother with her son Ryazan, where she married a military commander, a military teacher, a former colonel of the Russian Imperial Army A. Boy, a stepfather who taught tactics in military schools, and then became the commander of the Red Army. Constantine’s childhood passed in military towns and commander dormitories.

After the end of the seven classes, he entered the FAZ Factory School, worked as a metal turner first in Saratov, and then in Moscow, where the family moved in the year. So, earning experience, he continued to work two years after he entered the Literary Institute named after A. In the year Konstantin Simonov graduated from the Literary Institute named after A. By this time he had already written several works - in the year in the magazines of the Young Guard and October, the first verses of Simonov were printed.

In the year he was sent as a military correspondent for Khalkhin Gol, he did not return to graduate school. Shortly before leaving for the front, he finally changes the name and instead of his native, Kirill takes the pseudonym Konstantin Simonov. The reason is the features of Simonov’s diction and articulation: without pronouncing “p” and solid “l”, it was difficult for him to pronounce his own name.

The pseudonym becomes a literary fact, and soon the poet Konstantin Simonov is gaining all -Union popularity. The poet’s mother did not recognize a new name and called her son Kiryusha until the end of her life. In the year he wrote his first play “The Story of One Love”, set on the stage of the theater. Lenin Komsomol; In the year - the second - "a guy from our city." Throughout the year he studied at the courses of military correspondents at the Sausa of V.

Lenin, on June 15, he received the military rank of the second -ranking quarter -rank. With the outbreak of war, he was called up in the Red Army, as a correspondent from the army was published in Izvestia, worked in the front -line newspaper Battle Banner. In the summer of the year, as a special correspondent of the Red Star, he was in the besieged Odessa. In the year he was awarded the title of senior battalion commissar, in the year the title of lieutenant colonel, and after the war, a colonel.

During the war years he wrote the plays “Russian people”, “Wait for me”, “It will be”, the story “Days and Nights”, two books of poems “With you and without you” and “War”. Most of his military correspondence was published in the Red Star. As a military correspondent visited all fronts, walked through 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. " For three years I have been in numerous foreign business trips Japan, the USA, China, worked as the editor -in -chief of the New World magazine. In years, he lived and worked in Tashkent as his own correspondent of Pravda in the republics of Central Asia.

As a special correspondent "Pravda" covered the events on the island of Daman. After the death of Stalin, the following lines of Simonov were printed: there are no words such to describe all the intolerance of grief and sadness. There are no words to tell them how we grieve for you, Comrade Stalin, the first novel “Comrades in Weapons”, saw the light of the year, then the big book - “Living and Dead” in the year the Contemporary Theater staged the play “Fourth”.

In the years, he writes the novel “Soldiers are not born”, B - “Last Summer”. According to Simonov’s scenarios, the films “Guy from our city”, “Wait for me”, “Days and nights”-, “Immortal garrison”, “Normandy-Neman”, together with Sh. Spiac and E. Triola, “Living and Dead”, “Retribution”, “Twenty Days without the War” in the years of Simonov was the main editor of the magazine “New World”.B - - editor -in -chief of the Literary Newspaper.

According to F. Burlatsky, a few days after the death of Generalissimo Simonov, he published an article in the Literary Newspaper in which he proclaimed the main task of writers to reflect the great historical role of Stalin. Khrushchev was extremely irritated by this article. He called the Union of Writers and demanded the displacement of Simonov from the post of editor -in -chief of the Literary Newspaper.

In the year, the Union of Writers appointed Simonov as chairman of the commission for preparation for the summer from the birthday of the poet Alexander Blok. Konstantin Simonov died of cancer on August 28 in Moscow. According to the will, the ashes of Simonov was scattered over the Buinichi field near the grave. Seven people participated in the procession: the widow of Larisa Zhadova, children, Mogilevsky veterans-fontovs.

A year and a half after the death of the writer, the ashes of the last wife of Simonov - Larisa were dispelled over the Buinichi field. She wished to be next to her husband. Simonov wrote: “I was not a soldier, I was just a correspondent, but I have a piece of land that I can’t forget,” a field near Mogilev, where for the first time in July I saw how ours knocked out and burned 39 German tanks about this in the novel “Living and the Dead” and the Different Days of the War.

On the huge boulder, installed on the edge of the field, the signature of the writer “Konstantin Simonov” and the date of his life were knocked out - and on the other hand, a memorial plaque with the inscription was installed on the boulder: “He remembered this field of the year of the year and bequeathed to dispel his ashes here.” Wait for me and I will return.

It was printed as a literary critic from a year, in the years it was in charge of the editors of prose in the Publishing House "Profizdat". A nine of its prose books has been published since the year. Simonov devoted to her the poem “Five Pages” the second wife - Evgenia Samoilovna Laskin, Orsha -, Moscow Boris Laskin's cousin, the philologist graduated from the Literary Institute on June 22, a literary editor, head of the Moscow magazine poetry.

In the year, she suffered during the campaign to combat cosmopolitanism. Thanks to her, Shalamov was printed, including readers owed her publication in the middle of the X Bulgakov novel “Master and Margarita”. In the year, their son Alexei was born. In the year, Simonov broke up with Laskina, carried away by actress Valentina Serova, a widow of shortly before that deceased pilot, Hero of Spain, brigade commander Anatoly Serova.

Love inspired Simonova in creativity. The dedication of Serova was the poem “Wait for me” according to literary scholars, this work the poet made the actress in the eyes of millions of Soviet readers with a symbol of fidelity - the load with which Valentina Vasilievna could not cope. In December of the same year, “Wait for me” published Pravda, and in M ​​the film of the same name was released, where my mother played a major role.

In the same forty year, Simonov writes the play "A guy from our city." Valentine is the prototype of the main character of the play, and Anatoly Serov is Lukonin. The actress refuses to play in a new performance, which staged the Lenin Komsomol Theater. The wound is too fresh from the loss of my beloved husband. The book could not be reached. Poems were copied by hand, taught by heart, sent to the front, read to each other out loud.

In those years, not a single poet knew such deafening success as Simonov knew after the publication "with you and without you." The Lenin Komsomol Theater, where Serov served, returned from evacuation in Ferghana only in April. In the same year, Serova agreed to become the wife of Simonov. They got married in the summer and healed one house in which there were always many guests.

The whole war, along with Simonov and, as part of the concert brigades, Serov went to the front. At the end of the war, information about the novel by Serova with a large Soviet military leader Konstantin Rokossovsky circulated in creative circles, which negatively affected her relations with Simonov. In the year, fulfilling the order of the government to return emigrant writers, Simonov went to France.

In the year, Simonov, who received the task of persuading the Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin to return to his homeland, took his wife with him to Paris. Bunin was fascinated by Serova, and she allegedly managed to whisper in his ear so that he would not think to return to his death.