Sofʹi︠a︡ Leonidovna. Orenburgskiĭ sled
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translation: Sofya Leonidovna. Orenburg trace
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The publication includes Konstantin Simonov’s story “Sofya Leonidovna,” published only once, in 1985, and an excerpt from his last work, “Through the Eyes of a Man of My Generation,” dictated in 1979 a few months before his death. Alexey Simonov - Soviet and Russian film director, writer, publicist - for the first time turns to an episode of his family chronicle and presents the reader with an amazing story about how his beloved aunt K.M. Simonova, Sofya Leonidovna Obolenskaya, expelled during the repressions of the 30s. XX century from Leningrad and shot in Orenburg, becomes the prototype of the heroine of the story - a Soviet underground worker who operated in German-occupied Smolensk in the winter of 1941/42.
