Love for the homeland and the dawns here are quiet. “And the dawns here are quiet.” Military prose. Description of the book “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...”

7 decades have passed since the Great Patriotic War ended. But these tragic, bloody events are still fresh in our memory. Based on them, many brilliant films were created, many poems and other literary works were written.

The story of B.L. Vasiliev “And the dawns here are quiet” is one of the most striking examples showing the severity of those events. The main characters here are girl soldiers with different backgrounds, with different characters, from different families. At first glance, it seems as if they are so different that nothing can bring them together. However, the war puts everything in its place. She united the reserved Rita Osyanina and the cheerful, desperate Zhenya.

Overnight, their destinies intertwined, uniting them with one goal - to stand up for the defense of the Fatherland, their native places. This good goal unites them in the fight against an uninvited enemy. To achieve this goal, they risk their lives, rush into battle, knowing that the forces are unequal. Girls consider this a sacred duty.

It is thanks to such heroic, selfless, brave girls that we owe victory in the war. They set an example of heroism. Their death was almost inevitable, because they were always in the center of battles. There were many such girls during the war. We will never even recognize many of their names, and their relatives will never be able to honor them at their graves, because their exact place of death is still unknown.

Lately, no matter how sad, people are beginning to forget about the feat of our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. But according to the chronicles of that time, thanks to the front-line authors, we can fully feel the pain, grief, courage, desire of ordinary people to save their loved ones and protect their Motherland.

Boris Vasiliev dedicated the book “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet...” to everyone who did not return from the cruel and bloody war, to his friends and comrades. It has become a real “book of memory” for the people of our country. The story described in the story is close to every person who honors the memory of the Great Patriotic War.

I felt very sorry for the simple girls who did not have time to truly live. Sonya Gurvich, Rita Osyanina, Zhenya Komelkova, Galya Chetvertak, Liza Brichkina - they are all real, alive, so young and bright. Each of them died for love, for their Motherland, for the future. The war broke off their “wings”, crossed out everything and everyone, dividing their lives into before and after, leaving them no choice but to fight back, taking up weapons in gentle women’s hands.

Fedot Vaskov feels so deeply guilty for the deaths of the girls that only a person without a heart would not grieve with him. A brave and courageous soldier, who had seen a lot during the war, understood that a woman should be close to her children, raise them and protect them, and not fight on an equal basis with men. He wanted to take revenge on the whole world and the fascists for the death of five strong-willed young girls, because their lives were not worth a dozen or hundreds of German soldiers.

The author wrote about what he saw with his own eyes, about what he felt. The story describes in vivid colors the events of the Great War, allowing the reader to temporarily travel back to the fateful forties. To see the horror that was happening at that time, because in the war they killed not just people, but they destroyed a specific person, someone’s love, something like a husband, son, brother, sister, mother. The war spared no one; it affected every Soviet family. Strong men, old people, children and women went into battle.

At the end of the work, the writer points out to us that good will still triumph over evil. In spite of everything, hope remains in the heart of the surviving foreman Vaskov; it is he and the son of the deceased Rita Osyanina who will tell future descendants about how strong love for the Motherland and hatred for the enemy can be. Five brave, courageous, strong-willed girls beyond their years will forever occupy an honorable place in the memory and heart of the Russian people; they will forever become heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

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1. The feat of women in Russian prose of the 20th century based on the story by Boris Lvovich Vasiliev “And the dawns here are quiet...”
2. I only saw hand-to-hand combat once. Once in reality and thousands in a dream. Whoever says that war is not scary knows nothing about war. Yu. Drunina
3. Biography of B.L. Vasiliev. Boris Lvovich Vasiliev was born on May 21, 1924 in Smolensk. At the age of seventeen he volunteered to go to the front, and after the Great Patriotic War he graduated from the Military Technical Academy of Armored and Mechanized Forces in 1948. Until 1954, Boris Vasiliev was an engineer, testing tanks, then he left the army and began to engage in literary activities. The writer's first major work (the story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...", published in 1969) brought him fame and love from readers. The theme of the Great Patriotic War was developed in the story “Not on the Lists” (1974).
4. Based on the scripts of Boris Vasiliev, the following films were made: “Tomorrow there was a war” (Yuri Kara), “The next flight”, “Officers” (Vladimir Rogovoy), “Aty-Bati, the soldiers were walking” (Leonid Bykov), “Were there or not were”, “Quench my sorrows”, “Greetings to you from Baba Lera...”, “And the dawns here are quiet...” (Stanislav Rostotsky).
5. Project goals: 1. To introduce Boris Vasiliev’s book “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...” 2. To trace what motivates the heroines, what makes them sacrifice themselves.
“And the dawns here are quiet...” In this story, Vasiliev describes the life and death of five female anti-aircraft gunners. Having come to the war of their own free will, almost unable to shoot, they die at the hands of fascist intelligence, defending themselves and their homeland. Women and girls, very young and young, the war does not set boundaries of age and gender, here everyone and everyone is a soldier. The narration is conducted on behalf of the commandant of the patrol, Vaskov. The whole story is based on his memories. Each of the characters in the story has their own attitude to the war, their own motives for fighting the Nazis, except for the main ones, and they are all different people. And it is these soldiers, young girls, who will have to prove themselves in war conditions; For some it’s their first time, and for others not. Not all girls show heroism and courage, not all remain firm and persistent after the first battle, but all girls die. Only foreman Vaskov remains alive and carries out the execution of the order to the end.
7. Lisa Brichkina The war destroyed her most cherished dream: to get an education at a technical school. He promised to place his father's guest, whom Lisa liked, in a technical school with a dormitory.
8. Lisa is drowning in the swamp, through which she was supposed to get help, but she crunched loudly under the weight of Elizabeth’s body when she was pulled into the quagmire and tried to get out, because the fate of the detachment depends on how quickly she gets to her people . The girl dies first, but they did not learn about her death soon.
9. Sonya Gurvich Sonya came to war from her student days. She does not part with a volume of her favorite poems. But Sonya Gurvich still has a family in the rear, and she dreams of bringing the end of the war closer, and therefore a meeting with her relatives.
10. Sonya Gurvich A student dies from fascist bullets. She ran for the pouch that was given to the sergeant major. But after a while Sonya’s scream was heard. Everyone ran to the place where the girl had gone, and there she lay with her eyes half-closed.
11. Galya Chetvertak Galya was an orphan and lived in an orphanage. On the first day of the war, their entire group was sent to the military commissar. Everyone was assigned, but Galya didn’t fit anywhere, either in age or height. The girl did not give up, and in the end she was assigned to an anti-aircraft gunner.
12. Galya Chetvertak with the foreman went on reconnaissance and, when she was sitting, hiding in the bushes, the Nazis passed two steps away from her. Galya cannot withstand the nervous tension and gives herself away. She tries to run, but the bullet catches her. This was the third loss in the small detachment.
13. Zhenya Komelkova In front of the red officer’s daughter, their mother, younger brother and sister were shot. Zhenya is hidden by a neighbor in her house. She goes to war to avenge the death of her loved ones.
14. Zhenya, firing back, lures enemies into the forest. But she alone cannot cope with them and dies from enemy bullets.
15. Rita Osyanina Rita's husband dies on the border in the first days of the war. Having learned that her husband is no longer alive, she goes to war in her husband’s place in order to protect her little son, who is left with his mother.
16. Rita Osyanina is the last to die. During a shootout with the Nazis, one of them threw a grenade, and a shrapnel hit her in the stomach. The pain was unbearable, and after the sergeant major went on reconnaissance, Rita shot herself in the temple to free it and enable her to complete the combat mission.
17. Each of the heroines has her own account for the enemy, but in the first place, probably, is not so much revenge as the desire to win, and they are driven not only by love for the loved ones whom they protect, but also by love for the Motherland.
Read the book “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...” by Boris Lvovich Vasiliev. This story has an amazing impact on the reader, it amazes with the courage shown by these fragile, beautiful, intelligent girls who gave their lives for peace on earth, and teaches us living today to be true patriots of our Motherland.

“And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” is a dramatic work that takes the reader back to the times of the Great Patriotic War. It introduces the courage and strength of ordinary Russian soldiers, among whom fate is entrusted to be not only men, but also very young girls. The dedication and fortitude of five young people, led by a young commander, awakens in the reader admiration and pride, mixed with deep sorrow and sadness. This is a novel in which not all heroes are destined to survive the war, protecting their mothers, children and homeland. “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” by Boris Vasiliev can be downloaded for free in fb2 format or read online.

History of the creation of the work

The book “The Dawns Here Are Quiet,” which can be downloaded from our website, was first published in 1969 in the Soviet magazine “Youth.” The story aroused great reader interest and was on the bestseller list for 10 years. It was repeatedly used in performances at Taganka and made into feature films, receiving heartfelt reviews of the works from touched viewers. The events of the Great Patriotic War stirred hearts, and the still very warm memory of past troubles made Boris Vasiliev’s story especially dramatic.

According to the author, the book is based on the heroic story of seven Soviet soldiers who served at one of the key stations of the Kirov Railway and were able to neutralize saboteurs of the German army who wanted to undermine an important section of the tracks. Only the sergeant who commanded the group survived, who later received a military award. The writer immediately begins working on the plot, but after writing seven pages he realizes that there are no fundamentally new plot lines in the story, and decides to make changes.

He remembers the women who happened to fight and admits that few people write about their exploits, unfairly forgetting the strength and courage they showed in the war. The author decides to make fragile young girls subordinate to the hero and easily builds an action-packed narrative line, closely intertwining the fates of completely different people. “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” is a genre of military drama, its text was written with piercing pain and a feeling of boundless love for the Motherland, helping soldiers not to give up and go into battle again.

The tragic plot of the work leaves a deep imprint on the soul of the reader, who, together with the heroes, is plunged into the hardships of war, finds himself face to face with death, when he has to find the strength to move on. Almost every review of a book is a reader’s confession of empathy and tears. A review written by one reader will certainly be repeated in another review text, since emotions about the book are unanimous.

“And the dawns here are quiet”: plot description

The main characters are 6 extraordinary, brave individuals with different life histories and social status, who were destined to meet and, despite the circumstances, move forward together to win. Among them:

Fedot Vaskov is the foreman of a group of female anti-aircraft gunners.
Liza Brichkina is a young 19-year-old daughter of a forester, who before the height of the war lived in one of the military cordons in the middle of the Bryansk forests.
Sonya Gurvich is a young, intelligent girl from a family of doctors who, after two semesters of university, went to the front.
Zhenya Komelkova is a 19-year-old girl whose family was shot by German soldiers before her eyes.
Rita Osyanina - a girl who got married early, her border guard husband dies at the very beginning of the war, leaving an heir. Rita hands the child over to her mother and goes to the front.
Galya Chetvertak is a dreamy girl from an orphanage who went to war deeply convinced of the romance of her act.

The story opens in 1942, where the reader is shown the life of the 171st railway siding, located at the epicenter of hostilities, with a couple of barely surviving yards. The relatively calm, quiet rhythm of life in this area allowed soldiers to abuse alcohol, as well as be tempted by the attention of the female half. The commandant of the patrol, Vaskov, regularly wrote reports with a request to send soldiers who did not drink to the unit, but with enviable consistency the story repeated itself again until the male anti-aircraft gunners were replaced by women.

With the arrival of the girls, life on the road became very calm and fun at the same time, despite the hardships of the time. Young ladies often made fun of Vaskov, who felt awkward in the company of new anti-aircraft gunners and was a little embarrassed by his lack of education, since he had only completed the 4th grade of school. Sometimes the foreman was indignant at the behavior of the girls, who, in his perception, were working “not according to the regulations.”

Rita is appointed commander of the anti-aircraft gunners. After the loss of her husband, her temper became harsh and her nature closed. She treated her associates quite strictly, but Zhenya Komelkova managed to soften her character, who experienced the loss of all her loved ones, but managed to remain an open and cheerful person. Secretly from everyone, Rita goes out at night to visit her mother and child, who live not far from the crossing.

A friendship develops between Rita and Zhenya, which is joined by Galya, who is reputed to be ugly. Komelkova finds her a tunic, fixes her hair, and the unprepossessing girl noticeably transforms.

One day Rita went into the forest without permission. Upon her return, she notices two people in camouflage gear, armed and carrying some kind of packages. Osyanina quickly reports what she saw to Vaskov. The commander concludes that she met with saboteurs of the German army who were moving towards the railway junction, and decides to intercept the enemy.

Vaskov receives command of 5 anti-aircraft gunners and they are sent to carry out the interception plan. Along the way, Vaskov tries to be optimistic, often jokes, wanting to cheer up his female fighters. The characters decide to take the German soldiers at Vop Lake, to which they take the shortest route through forests and swamps. Walking through the swamp, Galya Chetvertak stumbles, ending up up to her neck in water.

The company successfully reaches its destination. The commander, knowing about the numerical superiority of his group, expects quick reprisals against the enemies, but decides to play it safe and chooses a path for a possible retreat. While waiting for the Germans to appear, the girls manage to have lunch, after which Vaskov gives a combat order to detain the saboteurs and the heroes take up combat positions.

Galya catches a cold after falling into a swamp and is overcome by chills. The team spends the whole night waiting for saboteurs. Towards morning the Germans appear, but contrary to expectations, instead of two people they number sixteen. Vaskov decides to send Lisa on a patrol to tell about what happened and bring help. Brichkina loses his bearings and loses a noticeable pine tree, which marks the right turn to pass through the swamp. Moving through the swamp, she stumbles and, getting stuck in a quagmire, dies.

Meanwhile, the commander and anti-aircraft gunners, wanting to scare away the German soldiers and force them to take a roundabout route, act out a scene. Vaskov and the girls create the impression that lumberjacks are working in the forest. They begin a loud roll call and light fires. Fedot cuts down trees, and resourceful Zhenya goes for a swim, pretending not to notice the presence of enemies. The unsuspecting Germans leave.

The commander understands that the hidden enemy may be cunning and does not exclude the threat of an attack on his squad. Together with Osyanina, he goes on reconnaissance. Having found out that the saboteurs had settled down for a rest stop, Vaskov decides to change the location of the team and sends Rita to get the girls. Fedot remembers that he forgot his pouch and gets upset. Noticing his mood, Sonya decides to return for the loss.

The commander did not have time to stop Gurevich, who ran away after the pouch. Shots are heard. Sonya dies from the bullets of two German soldiers. The upset group buries the girl. Vaskov takes off her boots and gives them to Gala, who lost hers in the swamp, noting that he must take care of the living.

Having said goodbye to Sonya, the commander and anti-aircraft gunners begin a fierce pursuit of the Germans, wanting to avenge the death of their comrade. They overtake the enemy and, sneaking up unnoticed, Vaskov kills one of them, but he does not have the strength to fight the second. At this moment, Zhenya appears nearby and, having killed the saboteur with a rifle butt, saves the commander’s life. The Germans are retreating. Having realized the committed act, Komelkova is tormented by depressing thoughts for what she has done. The foreman tries to justify her decisive step, talking about the inhumanity and ruthlessness of the enemy.

Shocked by Sonya's death, the dreamy Galya throws her rifle aside during the oncoming battle and falls to the ground. The girls begin to accuse her of cowardice, but Vaskov justifies Chetvertak with inexperience and confusion. For educational purposes, the foreman takes Galya with him on reconnaissance.

While examining the surroundings of the forest, the scouts notice the corpses of Germans. It was estimated that there were still 12 German soldiers left. The foreman and Galya are hiding in ambush, ready to shoot at the approaching saboteurs. Suddenly, Chetvertak leaves the shelter and, mad with horror, gives himself away, receiving machine-gun fire from the Germans.

Vaskov decides to lead the enemy in a different direction from the place where Zhenya and Rita remained. Until nightfall, he tried to create noise in the forest, shot at enemy figures flashing between the trees, shouted and tried to lure the saboteurs closer to the swampy place. Having been wounded in the arm, he takes refuge in the swamp until the morning.

At dawn, the wounded commander gets out onto land and notices on the water the black skirt that Liza Brichkina was wearing. Vaskov understands that the girl has died, and the last hopes for help turn to dust. Depressed by heavy thoughts about losing “his war,” Vaskov goes in search of German soldiers.

In the forest, he encounters an abandoned hut, which turns out to be a shelter for saboteurs. Hiding, the sergeant-major watched the Germans, who were hiding explosives. Next, the whole group leaves for reconnaissance, leaving one soldier to guard the hut. Fedot kills the enemy, takes the weapon and goes to the bank of the river where they once acted out a scene in front of the saboteurs. There he tells the remaining anti-aircraft gunners about the death of Gali and Lisa, saying that soon they will have to take their last, probably, battle.

Saboteurs appear on the shore, and a terrible battle ensues. Vaskov fought relentlessly, defending his homeland and not allowing the enemy detachment to cross the river. Rita receives a severe shrapnel wound in the stomach. The wounded Zhenya continues to fire, leading the Germans with her and not noticing her wounds. The girl shot to the last bullet, sparing no effort and striking the enemy with her courage. The Germans shoot the unarmed Komelkova at point-blank range.

The dying Osyanina tells the foreman about her son Albert and asks him to take care of the baby. Vaskov, tormented by thoughts of the loss of the entire team, shares with Rita his feelings about what happened and asks the question: was the death of the young girls worth giving her away for trying to block the road to the Germans? Rita replies that they defended their Motherland and did everything right. Could they have acted differently and allowed the enemy to undermine the road? No.

Vaskov gets up and goes after the Germans again. He hears a shot and returns to Rita, who shot herself, not wanting to torment either herself or the foreman. Having buried both girls, with the last of his strength Fedot moved forward, where the Germans’ hut was located. He breaks inside, where he kills one of the saboteurs and takes four more prisoner. In a semi-delirious state, wounded and exhausted, he leads the Germans to the dispersal line. Realizing that he has reached the place, the foreman loses consciousness.

In the epilogue of the book, the author talks about a letter from a tourist, written many years after the war events. It tells about a gray-haired old man who came to the lake, who was missing an arm, and a rocket captain named Albert Fedotich. They installed a marble slab on the shore. The tourist says that, together with those who arrived, he goes in search of the graves of anti-aircraft gunners who once died here. And he notes how “quiet the dawns are here.”

Description of the book “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...”

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“And the dawns here are quiet...” - plot

May 1942 Countryside in Russia. There is a war with Nazi Germany. The 171st railway siding is commanded by foreman Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov. He is thirty-two years old. He has only four years of education. Vaskov was married, but his wife ran away with the regimental veterinarian, and his son soon died.

It's calm at the crossing. The soldiers arrive here, look around, and then start “drinking and partying.” Vaskov persistently writes reports, and, in the end, they send him a platoon of “teetotal” fighters - girl anti-aircraft gunners. At first, the girls laugh at Vaskov, but he doesn’t know how to deal with them. The commander of the first section of the platoon is Rita Osyanina. Rita's husband died on the second day of the war. She sent her son Albert to his parents. Soon Rita ended up in the regimental anti-aircraft school. With the death of her husband, she learned to hate the Germans “quietly and mercilessly” and was harsh with the girls in her unit.

The Germans kill the carrier and instead send Zhenya Komelkova, a slender red-haired beauty. A year ago, before Zhenya’s eyes, the Germans shot her loved ones. After their death, Zhenya crossed the front. He picked her up, protected her, “and not just took advantage of her defenselessness - Colonel Luzhin stuck her to himself.” He was a family man, and the military authorities, having found out about this, “recruited” the colonel, and sent Zhenya “to a good team.” Despite everything, Zhenya is “outgoing and mischievous.” Her fate immediately “crosses out Rita’s exclusivity.” Zhenya and Rita get together, and the latter “thaws out”.

When it comes to transferring from the front line to the patrol, Rita is inspired and asks to send her squad. The crossing is located not far from the city where her mother and son live. At night, Rita secretly runs into the city, carrying groceries for her family. One day, returning at dawn, Rita sees two Germans in the forest. She wakes up Vaskov. He receives orders from his superiors to “catch” the Germans. Vaskov calculates that the Germans’ route lies on the Kirov Railway. The foreman decides to take a shortcut through the swamps to the Sinyukhin ridge, stretching between two lakes, along which is the only way to get to the railway, and wait for the Germans there - they will probably take a roundabout route. Vaskov takes Rita, Zhenya, Lisa Brichkina, Sonya Gurvich and Galya Chetvertak with him.

Lisa is from the Bryansk region, she is the daughter of a forester. For five years I cared for my terminally ill mother, but because of this I was unable to finish school. A visiting hunter, who awakened Lisa’s first love, promised to help her enter a technical school. But the war began, Lisa ended up in an anti-aircraft unit. Lisa likes Sergeant Major Vaskov.

Sonya Gurvich from Minsk. Her father was a local doctor, they had a large and friendly family. She herself studied for a year at Moscow University and knows German. A neighbor at lectures, Sonya’s first love, with whom they spent only one unforgettable evening in a cultural park, volunteered for the front.

Galya Chetvertak grew up in an orphanage. There she was “overtaken” by her first love. After the orphanage, Galya ended up in a library technical school. The war found her in her third year.

The path to Lake Vop lies through the swamps. Vaskov leads the girls along a path well known to him, on both sides of which there is a quagmire. The soldiers safely reach the lake and, hiding on the Sinyukhina Ridge, wait for the Germans. They appear on the lake shore only the next morning. It turns out there are not two of them, but sixteen. While the Germans have about three hours left to reach Vaskov and the girls, the foreman sends Lisa Brichkina back to the patrol to report on the change in the situation. But Lisa, crossing the swamp, stumbles and drowns. Nobody knows about this, and everyone is waiting for help. Until then, the girls decide to mislead the Germans. They pretend to be lumberjacks, shout loudly, Vaskov cuts down trees.

The Germans retreat to Lake Legontov, not daring to walk along the Sinyukhin ridge, on which, as they think, someone is cutting down the forest. Vaskov and the girls are moving to a new place. He left his pouch in the same place, and Sonya Gurvich volunteers to bring it. While in a hurry, she stumbles upon two Germans who kill her. Vaskov and Zhenya kill these Germans. Sonya is buried.

Soon the soldiers see the rest of the Germans approaching them. Hiding behind bushes and boulders, they shoot first; the Germans retreat, fearing an invisible enemy. Zhenya and Rita accuse Galya of cowardice, but Vaskov defends her and takes her with him on reconnaissance missions for “educational purposes.” But Vaskov does not suspect what mark Sonin’s death left on Gali’s soul. She is terrified and at the most crucial moment she gives herself away, and the Germans kill her.

Fedot Evgrafych takes on the Germans to lead them away from Zhenya and Rita. He is wounded in the arm. But he manages to escape and reach an island in the swamp. In the water, he notices Lisa's skirt and realizes that help will not come. Vaskov finds the place where the Germans stopped to rest, kills one of them and goes to look for the girls. They are preparing to make their final battle. The Germans appear. In an unequal battle, Vaskov and the girls kill several Germans. Rita is mortally wounded, and while Vaskov drags her to a safe place, the Germans kill Zhenya. Rita asks Vaskov to take care of her son and shoots herself in the temple. Vaskov buries Zhenya and Rita. After this, he goes to the forest hut, where the five surviving Germans are sleeping. Vaskov kills one of them on the spot, and takes four prisoner. They themselves tie each other with belts, because they do not believe that Vaskov is “alone for many miles.” He loses consciousness from pain only when his own Russians are already coming towards him.

Many years later, a gray-haired, stocky old man without an arm and a rocket captain, whose name is Albert Fedotich, will bring a marble slab to Rita’s grave.

Story

According to the author, the story is based on a real episode of the war, when seven soldiers, who after being wounded served at one of the junction stations of the Kirov Railway, did not allow a German sabotage group to blow up the railway in this area. After the battle, only the sergeant, the commander of a group of Soviet soldiers, survived, and after the war he was awarded the medal “For Military Merit.” “And I thought: this is it! A situation when a person himself, without any order, decides: I won’t let you in! They have nothing to do here! I started working on this plot and have already written about seven pages. And suddenly I realized that nothing would work. This will simply be a special case in war. There was nothing fundamentally new in this plot. Work stopped. And then I suddenly came up with the idea - let my hero’s subordinates be not men, but young girls. And that’s it - the story immediately lined up. Women have the hardest time in war. There were 300 thousand of them at the front! And then no one wrote about them"

1. The cruelty of war.

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2.1. Five heroines.

2.2. Sergeant Major's pain.

3. A local battle.

War is a terrible word that carries pain and destruction, despair and anxiety, death and suffering. This is widespread grief, this general confusion. The torment suffered by a person who experienced war cannot be compared with anything; it cannot be conveyed.

Pain for your loved ones and for yourself, pain for the country and for the future - this is what the heart feels every minute, every second. This is exactly how Boris Vasiliev portrays the Great Patriotic War to us - without embellishment, without exaggeration.

Five young girls go to war to defend their land. Five different destinies, five unequal characters merge in unison in the fight against the fascists. Rita Osyanina is a young mother and widow who did not have time to enjoy family happiness. She is the most courageous and fearless, responsible and serious.

Galya Chetvertak is an orphanage and funny girl who dreams of becoming a great artist. Sonya Gurvich is an ordinary student - an excellent student, in love with a boy and engrossed in poetry. Lisa Brichkina, who grew up in the forest, dreams of city life and bustle. Zhenya Komelkova is the cheerful, mischievous daughter of a general, before whose eyes the whole family was shot.

All of them are bright individual personalities who have experienced severe grief and strive for only one thing - to serve the fatherland. And the girls succeeded. They receive an important task together with commander Vaskov, they are all brave, fearless, and courageous. Young beautiful heroines, full of strength and health, die one by one. Rita was hit by grenade fragments, Zhenya was riddled with machine gun shots, Sonya was killed with a dagger in the heart... These terrible, painful deaths did not shake the confidence of the girls, did not force them to betray their homeland, did not force them to lose courage.

Losing his comrades in arms, the foreman begins to understand how much they meant to him, with their girlish laughter, feminine jokes, and youthful enthusiasm. He admires their strength and fearlessness, their hatred of the enemy and love of life, their heroism and feat. The man mourns these terrible deaths: “What is it like to live now? Why is this so? After all, they don’t need to die, but give birth to children, because they are mothers!” How much sorrow, how much tenderness, how much pain in these words! And he took revenge on the Germans for the death of the girls, carrying with him throughout his life the memory of the valor of his “sisters.”

The events described in the story are events of local significance. It would seem that the girls’ feat did not affect the overall victory and was lost among the high-profile famous feats. But that's not true. If it were not for the heroic deeds of ordinary soldiers, if it were not for the courage of ordinary ordinary soldiers defending every centimeter of the earth, then a grandiose victory would not have become possible. Because without the little there can be no great.