Wait for me, and I will return …: Konstantin Simonov

In January 1942, a military journalist and the already famous poet Konstantin Simonov proposed to the editor of the newspaper of the 44th Army Kokarev the poem “Wait for me.” The editor, by his own admission, “began to mumble something that the newspaper needed heroic, not intimate lyrical. And he beat himself on a bald head later, when these verses were published” Pravda “. For millions of people on the front line and in the rear, they became a prayer of fidelity, an oath of love, a symbol of the holiness of marital knots.
Compiled by V. Andreev

Author
Simonov Konstantin Mikhailovich
Editor
Andreev V.
Publisher
AST, 2010
Series
Poems and songs