Background
Serova was born Valentina Polovikova (Валентина Половикова) in 1917 in Kharkiv.
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Valentina Serova
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Russian University of Theatre Arts.
Career
In 1939 Anatoli Serov died in a crash testing a new plane. In the same year, her film "Devushka s harakterom" (engineering "A Girl with Character") 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 Foreign Maine", 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 тебя"). Their relationship was a troubled one.
During the war it was widely rumored that Serova was a mistress of General 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, there is no evidence that they were lovers.
Rokossovski already had a mistress at this time, Doctor Lieutenant
Galina Talanova, with whom he had a daughter in 1945. Her career declined after the 1940s. Simonov left her in 1957.
She became an alcoholic and died in Moscow in 1975.
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Nationality
Soviet Union