Valentina Vasilyevna Serova (Russian: Ð'Ð°Ð»ÐµÐ½Ñ‚Ð¸Ì Ð½Ð°
Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ì Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð¾Ì Ð²Ð°; 23 December 1917 â€" 12
December 1975) was a Soviet film and theatre actress born in Ukraine.
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946). Winner of the Stalin Prize of the
second degree (1947).Serova was born Valentina Polovikova
(Ð'алентина Половикова) in 1917 in Kharkiv in the
family of actress Klavdiya Polovikova (born Didenko) and hydrologist
engineer Vasyl Polovyk. In 1938, she married her first husband,
Anatoli Serov, a Soviet Air Force general, a test and fighter pilot.
In 1939 Anatoli Serov died in an air crash together with Polina
Osipenko preparing his type rating on the I-16UTI-4.In 1939, her film
A Girl with a Temper had a huge success and she became one of the
biggest film stars of the Soviet Union.In 1940 she met Konstantin
Simonov, a famous Soviet author, whom she married in 1943. Simonov's
poem "Wait For Me", one of the most famous Russian war poems, is
dedicated to her. She subsequently inspired a series of love poems,
collected as "With You and Without You" ("С тобой и без
Ñ‚ÐµÐ±Ñ "). Their relationship was a troubled one. During the war it
was widely rumored that Serova was a mistress of Gen. K.K.
Rokossovski. While it's true that Serova, working as a hospital
volunteer, met Rokossovski several times while he was recovering from
a wound from a shell fragment in early 1942, it was not acknowledged.
Frontline soldiers saw the two often travelling together. Rokossovski
also had another mistress at this time, Dr. Lt. Galina Talanova, with
whom he had a daughter in 1945.
Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ì Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð¾Ì Ð²Ð°; 23 December 1917 â€" 12
December 1975) was a Soviet film and theatre actress born in Ukraine.
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946). Winner of the Stalin Prize of the
second degree (1947).Serova was born Valentina Polovikova
(Ð'алентина Половикова) in 1917 in Kharkiv in the
family of actress Klavdiya Polovikova (born Didenko) and hydrologist
engineer Vasyl Polovyk. In 1938, she married her first husband,
Anatoli Serov, a Soviet Air Force general, a test and fighter pilot.
In 1939 Anatoli Serov died in an air crash together with Polina
Osipenko preparing his type rating on the I-16UTI-4.In 1939, her film
A Girl with a Temper had a huge success and she became one of the
biggest film stars of the Soviet Union.In 1940 she met Konstantin
Simonov, a famous Soviet author, whom she married in 1943. Simonov's
poem "Wait For Me", one of the most famous Russian war poems, is
dedicated to her. She subsequently inspired a series of love poems,
collected as "With You and Without You" ("С тобой и без
Ñ‚ÐµÐ±Ñ "). Their relationship was a troubled one. During the war it
was widely rumored that Serova was a mistress of Gen. K.K.
Rokossovski. While it's true that Serova, working as a hospital
volunteer, met Rokossovski several times while he was recovering from
a wound from a shell fragment in early 1942, it was not acknowledged.
Frontline soldiers saw the two often travelling together. Rokossovski
also had another mistress at this time, Dr. Lt. Galina Talanova, with
whom he had a daughter in 1945.
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