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Konstantin Simonov was certainly one of the key figures in Soviet literature. Poet, writer, playwright, publicist, editor - over the 63 years of his life, Simonov managed to do a lot, not only to create and publish his own works, but also to break through the censorship barriers of others.

After the debunking of Stalin's cult of personality, Simonova was accused of faithful service to the leader, participation in the organized "condemnation" of Mikhail Zoshchenko, Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, in the campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans." But it was thanks to the “general from literature” that Simonov managed to publish Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”, remove the disgrace from the novels of Ilf and Petrov, and achieve the publication of translations of the most significant works of Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill. It is unknown how the fate of Alexei German’s film “Twenty Days Without War” would have turned out if the scriptwriter, Konstantin Simonov, had not become his lawyer.

Those who knew Simonov closely say that in the last years of his life he especially zealously, desperately tried to help talented people, tried to restore justice to the great works of literature and art that were considered alien by the Soviet authorities. Perhaps this was how remorse manifested itself. A talented man, Simonov in his youth really sincerely revered Stalin and gratefully accepted signs of the leader’s favor.

The poet’s son, writer and public figure Alexey Simonov, believes that, having become a public figure, Konstantin Mikhailovich was afraid of exposing a “dark” part of his family biography: his father, an officer in the tsarist army, went missing at the beginning of the Civil War - this fact could, on occasion, give authorities have the opportunity to brand Konstantin Simonov as the son of an enemy of the people. Alexei Simonov honestly and interestingly talks about Konstantin Mikhailovich’s attitude towards Stalin and the subsequent transformation of this topic in the writer’s mind. “My father is dear to me because he changed all his life”, says Alexey Simonov in a lecture he gave within the walls of the Library of Foreign Literature.

Simonov's father was replaced by her stepfather, military man Alexander Ivanishev. The boy spent his childhood in military garrisons. After graduating from the Literary Institute, Konstantin Simonov went as a war correspondent to Khalkhin Gol, and went through the entire Great Patriotic War in the same capacity.

War became and remained the main theme of Simonov, a poet, writer, and playwright, until the end of his life. Beginning in 1959, parts of his epic novel “The Living and the Dead” will be published (in 1964 the film of the same name by Alexander Stolper will be released) - a grandiose fresco about people at war. But the first films and performances based on Simonov’s military works appeared directly during the Great Patriotic War - and, according to the testimony of many, they became acts of enormous moral support for the soldiers and those who were waiting for the soldiers from the front.

“Wait for me” - this poem dedicated by Simonov to his beloved, actress Valentina Serova, became an anthem to all his friends, the wives of Soviet soldiers. It was copied by hand and kept in the breast pockets of tunics. Serova played the main role in the film of the same name “Wait for Me,” which was filmed based on Simonov’s script by director Alexander Stolper in 1943 at the Central United Film Studio in Almaty.

But even earlier, in 1942, Stolper shot the film “A Guy from Our Town,” based on the play of the same name by Konstantin Simonov. In it, Nikolai Kryuchkov played a fighter, and Lydia Smirnova played his bride, the beautiful actress Varenka. In “The Guy from Our City,” by the way, the song “Wait for Me” was performed for the first time, the music for which was written by composer Matvey Blanter. And also the popular song “The armor is strong, and our tanks are fast” (music by the Pokrass brothers, lyrics by Boris Laskin).

Films based on Simonov's scripts were shot in the 60s and 70s, and almost every one became a highlight. Simonov's faithful co-author, director Alexander Stolper, filmed his novel “Soldiers Are Not Born” in 1967 - the film was released under the title “Retribution.” In 1970, Alexei Sakharov’s film “The Case of Polynin” was released based on Simonov’s script - about the love of the brave pilot Polynin (Oleg Efremov) and an actress from the front-line acting brigade (Anastasia Vertinskaya). This plot is reminiscent of the dramatic love story of Valentina Serova and her first husband, pilot Anatoly Serov, who died while testing a new aircraft.

In the 1970s, based on Simonov’s story, Alexey German made the film “Twenty Days Without War,” in which he improved his signature method of “quasi-documentary,” that is, the maximum achievement of historical truth - everyday, costume, physiognomic, atmospheric. Surprisingly, - a man of a completely different generation and aesthetic faith - Simonov accepted and ardently defended Herman’s film from accusations of “blackness”, in an attempt to present “a fig in your pocket” instead of a picture for the next anniversary of the Victory. Today, the film “Twenty Days Without War” is certainly one of the most important Russian achievement films.

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 in the Oryol Bakhtin 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 Velikolutsk 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).

He never saw his father: he went missing at the front in the First 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. Ivanishev. 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”, it was difficult for him to pronounce his own name. 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 correspondents' courses at the VPA named after V.I. Lenin, and on June 15, 1941 received the military rank of 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 of the Western Front No. 482 dated May 3, 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 the Black to the Barents Sea. Notes of a war correspondent."

For three years he spent time on numerous foreign business trips (Japan, USA, China), and worked as editor-in-chief of the New World magazine.

In 1958-1960 he lived and worked in Tashkent as Pravda’s own correspondent for the republics of 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 of the 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);
“Soldiers are not born” (1963-1964, novel; 2nd part of the trilogy “The Living and the Dead”);
“The 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);
"A Soldier's Memoirs" (1976, TV movie);
“Ordinary Arctic” (1976, Lenfilm, director - Alexey Simonov, introduction from the author of the screenplay 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

Konstantin was born on November 15 (28), 1915 in Petrograd. But Simonov lived the first years of his life in Saratov and Ryazan. He was named Kirill by his parents, but then changed his name and took a pseudonym - Konstantin Simonov. He was raised by his stepfather, who was a military specialist and taught at military schools.

Education

If we consider Simonov’s brief biography, it is important to note that after completing seven years of school, the writer studied to become a turner. Then in the life of Konstantin Simonov, in 1931, he moved to Moscow, after which he worked at the plant until 1935.

Around the same time, Simonov’s first poems were written, and his works were published for the first time in 1936.

After receiving higher education at the Gorky Literary Institute (1938) and completing graduate school, he went to the front in Mongolia.

Creativity and military career

In 1940, Simonov’s first play, “The Story of a Love,” was written, and in 1941, the second, “A Guy from Our Town.”

Konstantin Simonov studied at war correspondent courses, then, with the beginning of the war, he wrote for the newspapers “Battle Banner” and “Red Star”.

Throughout his life, Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov received several military ranks, the highest of which was the rank of colonel, awarded to the writer after the end of the war.

Some of Simonov’s famous war works were: “Wait for Me,” “War,” “Russian People.” After the war, a period of business trips began in the biography of Konstantin Simonov: he traveled to the USA, Japan, China, and lived in Tashkent for two years. He worked as editor-in-chief of the Literaturnaya Gazeta and the New World magazine, and was a member of the Writers' Union. Films were made based on many of Simonov's works.

Death and legacy

The writer died on August 28, 1979 in Moscow, and his ashes were scattered, according to his will, over the Buinichi field (Belarus). Streets in Moscow and Mogilev, Volgograd, Kazan, Krivoy Rog and the Krasnodar Territory are named after him. Also, a library in Moscow was named in his honor, memorial plaques were installed in Ryazan and Moscow, a motor ship and an asteroid were named after him.

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Konstantin (Kirill) Simonov born November 15 (28), 1915 in Petrograd. He never saw his father: he went missing at the front in the First World War (as the writer noted in his official biography). In 1919, mother and son moved to Ryazan, where she married a military expert, teacher of military affairs, former colonel of the tsarist army A.G. Ivanishev. 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 large works - in 1936, Simonov’s first poems were published in the magazines “Young Guard” and “October”.

In the same 1938, K. M. Simonov was admitted to 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 the institute.

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 military correspondents' course at the Military Military Academy named after V.I. Lenin, and received the military rank of quartermaster of the second rank.

At the beginning of the war he was drafted into the army and worked for the newspaper “Battle Banner”. In 1942 he 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. 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”.

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. After the war, his collections of essays appeared: “Letters from Czechoslovakia”, “Slavic Friendship”, “Yugoslav Notebook”, “From the Black to the Barents Sea. Notes of a war correspondent."

After the war, he spent three years on numerous foreign business trips (Japan, USA, China). In 1958-1960 he lived and worked in Tashkent as Pravda’s own correspondent for the republics of Central Asia. As a special correspondent for Pravda, he covered events on Damansky Island, Ussuri River, (1969).

There are no words to describe them
All the intolerance of grief and sadness.
There are no words to tell,
How we mourn for you, Comrade Stalin...

The first novel, Comrades in Arms, was published in 1952, followed by a larger book, The Living and the Dead (1959). In 1961, the Sovremennik Theater staged Simonov’s play “The Fourth.” In 1963-1964 he wrote the novel “Soldiers Are Not Born”, in 1970-1971 - “The Last Summer”. Based on Simonov’s scripts, the films “A Guy from Our City” (1942), “Wait for Me” (1943), “Days and Nights” (1943-1944), “Immortal Garrison” (1956), “Normandie-Niemen” (1960) were produced , together with S. Spaakomi, E. Triolet), “The Living and the Dead” (1964), “Twenty Days Without War” (1976)

In 1946-1950 and 1954-1958 he was editor-in-chief of the New World magazine; in 1950-1953 - editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta; in 1946-1959 and 1967-1979 - secretary of the USSR SP.

Member of the USSR Supreme Council of the 2nd and 3rd convocations (1946-1954). Candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee (1952-1956). Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1956-1961 and 1976-1979.

Died on August 28, 1979 in Moscow. According to the will, the ashes of K. M. Simonov were scattered over the Buinichi field near Mogilev.

At the same time, Simonov participated in the campaign against “rootless cosmopolitans”, in pogrom meetings against Zoshchenko and in Leningrad, in persecution, and in writing a letter against Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov in 1973.

Konstantin (Kirimll) Mikhamilovich Simmonov (November 28, 1915, Petrograd - August 28, 1979, Moscow) - Russian Soviet writer, poet, public figure. Hero of Socialist Labor (1974). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1974) and six Stalin Prizes (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950). Deputy General Secretary of the USSR SP. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1942.

Konstantin (Kirill) Simonov was born on November 15 (28), 1915 in Petrograd. He never saw his father: he went missing at the front in the First World War (as the writer noted in his official biography). In 1919, mother and son moved to Ryazan, where she married a military expert, teacher of military affairs, former colonel of the tsarist 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 Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky.

In 1938, Konstantin Simonov graduated from the A.M. Literary Institute. Gorky. By this time, he had already written several large works - in 1936, Simonov’s first poems were published in the magazines “Young Guard” and “October”.

Also in 1938, K.M. 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 the institute.

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 correspondents' courses at the Military Military Academy named after V.I. Lenin, received the military rank of quartermaster of the second rank.

The first novel, “Comrades in Arms,” was published in 1952, then a large book, “The Living and the Dead” (1959). In 1961, the Sovremennik Theater staged Simonov’s play “The Fourth.” In 1963-1964 he wrote the novel “Soldiers Are Not Born”, in 1970-1971 - “The Last Summer”. Based on Simonov’s scripts, the films “A Guy from Our City” (1942), “Wait for Me” (1943), “Days and Nights” (1943-1944), “Immortal Garrison” (1956), “Normandy-Niemen” ( 1960, together with S. Spaak and E. Triolet), “The Living and the Dead” (1964), “Twenty Days Without War” (1976) In 1946-1950 and 1954-1958, he was editor-in-chief of the New World magazine "; in 1950-1953 - editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta (according to F. M. Burlatsky: A few days after the death of Stalin, K. Simonov published an article in Literaturnaya Gazeta in which he declared the main task of writers to reflect the great historical role of Stalin Khrushchev was extremely irritated by this article. He called the Writers' Union and demanded the removal of Simonov from the post of editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta); in 1946-1959 and 1967-1979 - secretary of the USSR SP. Member of the USSR Supreme Council of the 2nd - 3rd convocation (1946 - 1954). Candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee (1952-1956). Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1956-1961 and 1976-1979. Simonov, as editor-in-chief in 1956, signed a letter from the editorial board of the New World magazine refusing to publish Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago, as well as a letter from a group of Soviet writers to the editors of the newspaper Pravda on August 31, 1973 about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov.

Died on August 28, 1979 in Moscow. According to the will, the ashes of K. M. Simonov were scattered over the Buinichi field near Mogilev.

At the same time, Simonov participated in the campaign against “rootless cosmopolitans”, in pogrom meetings against Zoshchenko and Akhmatova in Leningrad, in the persecution of Boris Pasternak, in writing a letter against Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov in 1973].

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