Wait for me and I will return
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Wait for me and I will return
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Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov is a poet, writer, playwright, publicist, war correspondent, editor, "general of literature", who managed to publish not only his own works, but also others. "The Master and Margarita" by M. Bulgakov, translations of E. Hemingway, A. Miller, Yuri O'Neill were published thanks to K. Simonov, who led them through censorship obstacles.
K. Simonov's poems "Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolensk ...", "The major brought the boy on a gun carriage ...", "Wait for me, and I will return ...", which became the anthem of all girlfriends, wives, mothers of Soviet soldiers, are known and loved by more than one generation of readers.
The Great Patriotic War remained his main theme for many years. Simonov was one of the first to go to the front as a correspondent, and then as a participant in military events and reached Berlin. Everything he saw, he described both in prose and in poetry. Soldiers knew his lines about love and loyalty, bravery and cowardice, friendship and betrayal, hope and faith by heart, copied them, passed them on to each other. The poet penetrated deep into the human soul and showed it from the inside. His poems helped to survive then, and help to survive now.
K. Simonov's poems "Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolensk ...", "The major brought the boy on a gun carriage ...", "Wait for me, and I will return ...", which became the anthem of all girlfriends, wives, mothers of Soviet soldiers, are known and loved by more than one generation of readers.
The Great Patriotic War remained his main theme for many years. Simonov was one of the first to go to the front as a correspondent, and then as a participant in military events and reached Berlin. Everything he saw, he described both in prose and in poetry. Soldiers knew his lines about love and loyalty, bravery and cowardice, friendship and betrayal, hope and faith by heart, copied them, passed them on to each other. The poet penetrated deep into the human soul and showed it from the inside. His poems helped to survive then, and help to survive now.
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