Konstantin simonow stalin biography

          Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, arguably most famous....

          Konstantin Simonov

          The Poet

          Kirill (later called Konstantin) Simonov was born in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1915.

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          His mother had been born Princess Obolenskaya, in one of the oldest noble families of Russia. His father was a senior army officer: he went missing in the First World War and Kirill never knew him. The War led to the chaos of revolution and civil conflict; Simonova and her little son found themselves in the provincial town of Ryazan, where she met and married another older ex-Tsarist officer – Colonel Alexander Ivanischev.

          He brought up Kirill as his own son and no other children were born.

          The later chapters, which are being translated now, include his direct personal experience of Stalin after the War. 1.

        1. The later chapters, which are being translated now, include his direct personal experience of Stalin after the War. 1.
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        3. Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, arguably most famous.
        4. No mere messenger for Lenin, Stalin was a prominent activist long before the Russian Revolution.
        5. The Russian poet and novelist Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov () is best known for his patriotic verse dealing with World War II.

          6. Kirill's stepfather was now an instructor in a Red Army military college. Kirill's earliest memories were of barracks life – the parade ground was outside the window of their flat. He was close to his stepfather; Ivanischev was a strict disciplinarian for whom everything had its time and place, but he was very fond of his stepson: When the older man was preparing lessons in stra