here in front of me is a wonderful book, which was published in the state museum of the history of russiane, these are archival sound recordings and in it, in this book are presented. dozens of poets who are in one way or another connected with the war, well, probably, if we start talking about war poetry, then one of the poems kind of comes to mind first of all, right away, yes, yes, really, what, well , of course it’s simonov, wait for me, but what’s curious is that it immediately comes to mind for you and me, that ivan, who will read this poem, he didn’t know this... i will return to me, written in the very office where i am sitting at the computer, now in peredelkino near moscow, in the writers' town, so, of course, i feel some kind of special involvement in this particular poem, simonov was visiting kasilya, this poem was written very early, immediately after the start of the war, it was published only in january '42, immediately, yes, immediately such a reaction, just everything by heart, everyone knew, they rewrote everything, they sent everything to each other, yes, yes, and this i