Russian People. Plays

The play «Russian People» is included in the advanced reading program for literature in the 11th grade. Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915–1979) was a Soviet writer, war correspondent, and public figure. «Have you heard or not, writer? Have you heard or not, how Russian people go to their death?» «Russian People» (1942) — a play written in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, which played a huge role in raising the fighting spirit of Soviet soldiers and workers on the home front. The center of the play is ordinary «Russian people»: soldiers and partisans, whose courage and devotion to the Motherland are manifested in the inhuman conditions of war. The book also includes K. Simonov's play «The Story of One Love» (1951).