Irina Smirnova
47 minutes ago
Valentina Serova A new monument has appeared on the grave of Stalin-era film star Valentina Serova, who died in 1975 and is believed to have been dedicated by her husband, poet and military commissar Konstantin Simonov, the most famous poem of the Great Patriotic War, “Wait for Me.”
The relationship of Konstantin Simonov (real name – Kirill) with the actress lasted from 1940 to 1957. In 1950, the couple had a daughter, Masha.
By the mid-1970s, not a trace of the former brilliant beauty remained in Serovaya. Poorly dressed and often drunk, she spent time with the marginalized over a bottle of cheap alcohol. When in December 1975 her body was found in the corridor of her own apartment, an extensive hematoma blackened on her head: either she hit her head when she fell, or someone hit her. But they did not begin to understand the causes of death.
To the coffin, who did not live 12 days before the 58th birthday of his ex-wife, Simonov, who was then resting in Kislovodsk, sent 58 roses. She was buried at the Golovinsky cemetery in Moscow next to her father, the repressed hydrological engineer Vasily Polovikov.
For many years, a rather modest monument of gray stone stood on Serova’s grave, and although it was not easy to find it, fans brought carnations and meringues, which Valentina Vasilievna loved so much, there.
At the end of last year, at the age of 50, the grandson of the actress, the writer Alexei Foflin, died suddenly. He was buried next to the famous grandmother. And now, Serova’s daughter and mother Foflin, Maria Kirillovna, has changed the monument at the place of their burial, where she decided to write her name.
Photo source: Maxim Smirnov/EG, Globalookpress.com
