Wait for me, and I will return

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov – poet, writer, playwright, journalist, war correspondent, editor, general of literature, who managed to publish not only his own works but also those of others. The Master and Margarita by M. Bulgakov, translations of E. Hemingway, A.... Miller, Y. O'Neill were published thanks to K. Simonov, who guided them through censorship hurdles. The poems of K. Simonov You remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolenshchina…, The Major brought the boy on a gun carriage…, Wait for me, and I will return…, which became the anthem for all girlfriends, wives, and mothers of Soviet warriors, 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 later as a participant in military events, reaching Berlin. Everything he saw, he described in both prose and poetry. His lines about love and fidelity, bravery and cowardice, friendship and betrayal, hope and faith were known by soldiers by heart, rewritten, and passed from one to another. The poet penetrated deep into the human soul and showed it from within. His poems helped people survive then, and they help survive even now.