And the dawns here are quiet...
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 grades. Vaskov was married, but his wife ran away with the regimental veterinarian, and his son soon died.
It's quiet on the road. Soldiers arrive here, look around, and then begin to "drink and walk." Vaskov stubbornly writes reports, and, in the end, they send him a platoon of "non-drinking" fighters - anti-aircraft gunners. At first, the girls laugh at Vaskov, but he does not know how to deal with them. Rita Osyanina is in command of the first squad of the platoon. Rita's husband died on the second day of the war. She sent her son Albert to her parents. Soon Rita got into 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 from her department.
The Germans kill the carrier, instead they send Zhenya Komelkova, a slender red-haired beauty. In front of Zhenya a year ago, the Germans shot her loved ones. After their death, Zhenya crossed the front. She was picked up, protected "and not that he took advantage of defenselessness - Colonel Luzhin stuck to himself." He was a family man, and the military authorities, having found out about this, the colonel "took into circulation", and sent Zhenya "to a good team." Despite everything, Zhenya is "sociable and mischievous". Her fate immediately "crosses out Ritina's exclusivity." Zhenya and Rita converge, and the latter "thaws".
When it comes to transferring from the front line to the patrol, Rita is inspired and asks to send her squad. The junction is located near the city where her mother and son live. At night, Rita secretly runs into the city, carries her products. One day, returning at dawn, Rita sees two Germans in the forest. She wakes up Vaskov. He receives an order from his superiors to "catch" the Germans. Vaskov calculates that the route of the Germans lies on the Kirov railway. The foreman decides to go a short way through the swamps to the Sinyukhina ridge, stretching between two lakes, along which you can only get to railway, and wait for the Germans there - they will certainly go around. Vaskov takes Rita, Zhenya, Lisa Brichkina, Sonya Gurvich and Galya Chetvertak with him.
Liza is from Bryansk, she is the daughter of a forester. For five years, she took care of her terminally ill mother, because of this she could not finish school. A visiting hunter, who awakened her first love in Liza, promised to help her enter a technical school. But the war began, Liza got into the anti-aircraft unit. Liza 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, knows German. A neighbor from lectures, Sonya's first love, with whom they spent only one unforgettable evening in the park of culture, volunteered for the front.
Galya Chetvertak grew up in an orphanage. It was there that she met her first love. After the orphanage, Galya got into the library technical school. The war caught 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 fighters safely reach the lake and, hiding on the Sinyukhina ridge, are waiting for the Germans. Those appear on the shore of the lake only the next morning. There are not two of them, but sixteen. While the Germans have about three hours to go to Vaskov and the girls, the foreman sends Lisa Brichkin back to the siding - to report on a change in the situation. But Lisa, crossing the swamp, stumbles and drowns. No one knows about this, and everyone is waiting for help. Until then, the girls decide to mislead the Germans. They portray lumberjacks, shouting loudly, Vaskov felling trees.
The Germans retreat to Lake Legontov, not daring to go along the Sinyukhin ridge, on which, as they think, someone is cutting down the forest. Vaskov with the girls moves to a new place. He left his pouch in the same place, and Sonya Gurvich volunteers to bring it. Hurrying, she stumbles upon two Germans who kill her. Vaskov and Zhenya are killing these Germans. Sonya is buried.
Soon the fighters 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 to reconnaissance in " educational purposes". But Vaskov does not suspect what mark Sonya's death left in Gali's soul. She is terrified to death and gives herself away at the most crucial moment, and the Germans kill her.
Fedot Evgrafych takes the Germans on himself to lead them away from Zhenya and Rita. He is wounded in the hand. But he manages to get away and get to the 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 take the final stand. The Germans appear. In an unequal battle, Vaskov and the girls kill several Germans. Rita is mortally wounded, and while Vaskov is dragging her to safety, 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 that, he goes to the forest hut, where the five remaining Germans sleep. Vaskov kills one of them on the spot, and takes four prisoners. 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 Fedotovich, will bring a marble slab to Rita's grave.
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The story takes place in May 1942. The commander of the railway siding, Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov, asks the authorities to send him "non-drinking" soldiers, since everyone who comes to him at the siding, feeling how calm reigns there, soon begins to "drink and walk." Fedot Evgrafych himself does not accept such behavior. Finally, the authorities send him fighters with whom you really can not be afraid that they will start drinking - a female anti-aircraft platoon. The commander of this unusual platoon is Rita Osyanina, who simply hates the Germans, because of them she became a widow a day after the start of the war. She has a son, Albert, who lives with her mother. And when it came to the need to transfer someone from the front line to the junction under the command of Vaskov, Rita herself asks to transfer her platoon there, since the platoon is located near the city where her son and mother live. Rita's character is harsh, which all the girls from her platoon feel. Soon a new one is sent to the platoon - Zhenya Kamelkova. Zhenya is a very beautiful cheerful girl, she becomes close to Rita, helping her to thaw her soul.
Rita often secretly goes to the city to see her relatives. One day, making her way through the forest towards the junction, she comes across two Germans in the forest, about which she reports to Vaskov. He reports everything “upstairs” and receives an order to detain the Germans. Vaskov collects a squad of five girls - Rita, Zhenya, Sonya Gurvich, Lisa Brichkina and Gali Chetvertak. He understands that the Germans are going to the Kirov railway, and decides to go to the Sinyukhina ridge, where there is the only way to the railway crossing, a short way - straight through the swamp. He is the first to follow the path, which he knows well, the girls follow him. They get to the Sinyukhina ridge and prepare to meet the Germans. When the Germans appeared, Vaskov sees that there are not two of them, but sixteen. Therefore, he decides to send Lisa Brichkin for reinforcements - he and five girls will not be able to cope with so many Germans. In the meantime, Liza is running to the junction, Vaskov decides to deceive the Germans - he and the girls pretend to be lumberjacks. The Germans, having heard that someone is working in the forest right in front of them, decide to go the other way. Vaskov waits in vain for help - Lisa, returning to the junction, stumbled on the path and drowned in the swamp.
Vaskov and the girls decide to move to another place, but on Sinyukhina Ridge Vaskov forgets his pouch, and Sonya offers to bring it. In her haste, she does not notice the two Germans coming out of the forest and dies. These Germans are killed by Vaskov and Zhenya. They bury Sonya.
The Germans are already coming close to Vaskov and his detachment, Vaskov and the girls begin to shoot. The Germans do not see them and therefore retreat, because they do not know how many people are firing at them. Vaskov, along with Galya, goes on reconnaissance. But Galya is very frightened, and at the moment when the Germans pass next to them, her nerves fail, and she jumps up from the ambush. The Germans see her and shoot at her point-blank.
Vaskov decides to take the Germans away from the other girls. He is wounded in the arm, but manages to reach an island in the middle of the swamp. There he sees Lisa's skirt in the swamp and the terrible truth comes to him - you should not wait for reinforcements. He returns to the girls. Together they are going to fight. During the battle, Rita is wounded, Vaskov takes her to a safe place, at this time the Germans kill Zhenya, distracting them from Vaskov and the wounded Rita. Rita tells Vaskov about her son and asks him to take care of him. She herself, realizing that her wound is fatal, and not wanting Vaskov to be distracted by her at this moment, shoots herself. Vaskov buries Zhenya and Rita and goes to look for the remaining five Germans. He finds them in the forest lodge, kills one, and takes the rest prisoner. The four Germans themselves bind each other, as they do not even admit the thought that Vaskov is alone in the forest. He leads them through the woods and loses consciousness just at the moment when Russian soldiers come out to meet him.
The story ends with the fact that many years later a marble slab is brought to the grave where Rita is buried. They brought her a gray-haired old man without an arm and a captain named Albert Fedotovich.
“The Dawns Here Are Quiet” is a work by Boris Vasilyev dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and the role of women in it. Even summary"The Dawns Here Are Quiet" allows you to convey the entire tragedy of the situation described in the full version of the work. The action takes place in May 1942 at one of the railway sidings. Here the thirty-two-year-old Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov commands the anti-aircraft gunners.
In general, there is a calm atmosphere at the junction, which is sometimes disturbed by planes. All soldiers arriving at such an important post are first looked around, and then begin to lead a wild life. Vaskov quite often wrote reports on negligent soldiers, and the command decided to provide him with a platoon of anti-aircraft gunners. At first, Fedot and the anti-aircraft gunners get into awkward situations, this is shown in more detail in the full version of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", the summary of the story does not provide for such detailed details.
One of the platoon commanders is Margarita Osyanina, who became a widow on the second day of the war. She is driven by an uncontrollable thirst for revenge and hatred for all Germans, which is why she behaves quite strictly towards girls. After one of the fascist raids, a carrier dies, and Zhenya Komelkova arrives in her place, having her own motives for revenge: the fascists shot her entire family in front of her eyes.
As soon as Zhenya was at the front, she was caught in connection with the married Colonel Luzhin, and that is how she ended up at junction 171. The wife manages to get along with the cold Rita, and she begins to soften. Komelkova also managed to transform Galya Chetvertak, who was an ordinary gray mouse in the company, and she decided to stick with her. Summary "The dawns here are quiet", unfortunately, does not make it possible to colorfully paint the details of the transformation of Chetvertak.
Not far from the junction is the city where Rita's son and her mother live. At night, Osyanina brought food to them, and one day, moving through the forest, she noticed the Germans. Soon the command demanded that Vaskov and his platoon catch the Nazis. Fedot believes that the enemies are moving towards the railroad to disable it. To intercept a couple of Germans, Vaskov takes with him Osyanina, Komelkova, Chetvertak, as well as Elizaveta Brichkina, the daughter of a forester, and Sofya Gurvich, a girl from an intelligent family.
None of the detachment even imagined that the Germans would be not two, but sixteen. Fedot sends Liza for help, but she stumbles on a swamp path and dies. In parallel with this, the remaining members of the detachment are trying to deceive the invaders, portraying lumberjacks, and this maneuver is partly successful. Summary "The dawns here are quiet", unfortunately, is not able to demonstrate the complex path shown in the book and its film adaptation.
Vaskov leaves a pouch at the old place of deployment, and Gurvich decides to return it. Her indiscretion costs her life - she is killed by two Germans. Zhenya and Fedot avenge Sonya, after which they bury her. Seeing the Germans, the survivors open fire on them, and they hide, trying to understand who attacked them.
Fedot sets up an ambush for the Germans, but all plans are thwarted by Galya, whose nerves could not stand it. She ran out of hiding right under the bullets of the Nazis. The girl dies, and Fedot leads the Nazis as far as possible from Rita and Zhenya, during the maneuver he finds Brichkina's skirt and realizes that there will be no help. The tragedy of this situation cannot be felt using only the summary "The dawns here are quiet."
Fedot, Rita and Zhenya take the last fight. Rita is mortally wounded in the stomach, and while Fedot is dragging her to cover, Zhenya, distracting the Germans, dies. Osyanina asks Vaskov to take care of her son and kills herself with a shot to the temple. Fedot buries both.
Vaskov finds the hiding place of the Germans, breaks into their house and captures them, after which he leads them to the place of deployment of the platoon. The book ends with the fact that every year Fedot Vaskov and Captain Albert Fedotych, the son of Margarita Osyanina, arrive at the place of death of the girls. The story, which was created by Boris Vasiliev - "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", is included in the cycle of works dedicated to women's fate during the Great Patriotic War.
Boris Lvovich Vasiliev
“And the dawns here are quiet…”
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 grades. Vaskov was married, but his wife ran away with the regimental veterinarian, and his son soon died.
It's quiet on the road. Soldiers arrive here, look around, and then begin to "drink and walk." Vaskov stubbornly writes reports, and, in the end, he is sent a platoon of “non-drinking” fighters - anti-aircraft gunners. At first, the girls laugh at Vaskov, but he does not know how to deal with them. Rita Osyanina is in command of the first squad of the platoon. Rita's husband died on the second day of the war. She sent her son Albert to her parents. Soon Rita got into the regimental anti-aircraft school. With her husband's death, she learned to hate the Germans "quietly and mercilessly" and was harsh with the girls in her squad.
The Germans kill the carrier, instead they send Zhenya Komelkova, a slender red-haired beauty. In front of Zhenya a year ago, the Germans shot her loved ones. After their death, Zhenya crossed the front. She was picked up, protected "and not that he took advantage of defenselessness - Colonel Luzhin stuck to himself." He was a family man, and the military authorities, having found out about this, the colonel "took into circulation", and sent Zhenya "to a good team." Despite everything, Zhenya is "sociable and mischievous." Her fate immediately "crosses out Rita's exclusivity." Zhenya and Rita converge, and the latter "thaws".
When it comes to transferring from the front line to the patrol, Rita is inspired and asks to send her squad. The junction is located near the city where her mother and son live. At night, Rita secretly runs into the city, carries her products. One day, returning at dawn, Rita sees two Germans in the forest. She wakes up Vaskov. He receives an order from the authorities to "catch" the Germans. Vaskov calculates that the route of the Germans lies on the Kirov railway. The foreman decides to go a short way through the swamps to the Sinyukhina ridge, stretching between two lakes, along which it is the only way to get to the railway, and wait for the Germans there - they will certainly go by the roundabout. Vaskov takes Rita, Zhenya, Lisa Brichkina, Sonya Gurvich and Galya Chetvertak with him.
Lisa is from Bryansk, she is the daughter of a forester. For five years, she took care of her terminally ill mother, because of this she could not finish school. A visiting hunter, who awakened her first love in Liza, promised to help her enter a technical school. But the war began, Liza got into the anti-aircraft unit. Liza 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, knows German. A neighbor from lectures, Sonya's first love, with whom they spent only one unforgettable evening in the park of culture, volunteered for the front.
Galya Chetvertak grew up in an orphanage. It was there that she met her first love. After the orphanage, Galya got into the library technical school. The war caught 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 fighters safely reach the lake and, hiding on the Sinyukhina ridge, are waiting for the Germans. Those appear on the shore of the lake only the next morning. There are not two of them, but sixteen. While the Germans have about three hours to go to Vaskov and the girls, the foreman sends Lisa Brichkin back to the siding - to report on a change in the situation. But Lisa, crossing the swamp, stumbles and drowns. No one knows about this, and everyone is waiting for help. Until then, the girls decide to mislead the Germans. They portray lumberjacks, shouting loudly, Vaskov felling trees.
The Germans retreat to Lake Legontov, not daring to go along the Sinyukhin ridge, on which, as they think, someone is cutting down the forest. Vaskov with the girls moves to a new place. He left his pouch in the same place, and Sonya Gurvich volunteers to bring it. Hurrying, she stumbles upon two Germans who kill her. Vaskov and Zhenya are killing these Germans. Sonya is buried.
Soon the fighters 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 on reconnaissance for "educational purposes". But Vaskov does not suspect what mark Sonya's death left in Gali's soul. She is terrified and gives herself away at the most crucial moment, and the Germans kill her.
Fedot Evgrafych takes the Germans on himself to lead them away from Zhenya and Rita. He is wounded in the hand. But he manages to get away and get to the 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 take the final stand. The Germans appear. In an unequal battle, Vaskov and the girls kill several Germans. Rita is mortally wounded, and while Vaskov is dragging her to safety, 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 that, he goes to the forest hut, where the five remaining Germans sleep. Vaskov kills one of them on the spot, and takes four prisoners. They themselves tie each other with belts, because they do not believe that Vaskov is "all 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 Fedotovich, will bring a marble slab to Rita's grave.
In May 1942, the 171st railway siding was commanded by foreman Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov. He had a wife and a son, but his wife preferred a regimental veterinarian, and his son died. The trip was quiet, so all the fighters sent, after a while, began to tirelessly drink. Vaskov wrote an unthinkable number of reports when the girls from the anti-aircraft regiment were finally sent to him. It was difficult for him to manage them. The platoon commander was Rita Osyanina. On the second day she lost her husband, she decided to go to an anti-aircraft school. Son Albert went to be raised by Rita's parents. The commander from her turned out to be very severe. After the death of the carrier, a new one got into the platoon.
Zhenya Komelkova, was a beauty with red curls. The whole family perished before her eyes. Due to relations with the married Colonel Luzhin, the command sent Zhenya to Rita in order to isolate them from each other. When they met, the girls became friends. Upon learning of the transfer to the siding, Rita was delighted. It was close to the city where her relatives lived. Every night, secretly, she ran to her son and mother, bringing food to them. But, returning one morning, she noticed two Germans and told Vaskov about it. The military command orders to catch them. Vaskov decides to shorten the path, passing through the swamps to the Sinyukhina ridge. They will pass along the ridge, between two lakes and will wait for the enemy, who is likely to come around. Zhenya, Rita, Liza Brichkina, Sonya Gurvich and Galya Chetvertak set off with him. Lisa was the daughter of a forester, she was forced to leave school because of her sick mother, whom she looked after for five years. She fell in love with a guest who accidentally stopped by, and he promised to help in entering a technical school. The plans were interrupted by the war. The Belarusian girl Sonya Gurvich was born in a large friendly family of a local doctor. Galya Chetvertak grew up in an orphanage, where she found her first love.
The girls with the commander walked along the path, on both sides of which was surrounded by a quagmire. When they reached the lake, they fell silent, waiting for the enemy. Instead of two, sixteen people showed up the next morning. Vaskov sends Liza with a report to the command. But Lisa, passing along the path, stumbled and drowned. Vaskov does not know about this and waits for help to come. Depicting lumberjacks, the girls forced the enemy to retreat, thinking that they were cutting wood. Vaskov sent Sonya to fetch his pouch, which he forgot in the old place. Sonya gives herself away and is killed. Sonya's death hurt Galya very much, and at a crucial moment, she gave herself away, for which she paid with her life. Fedot takes the Germans on himself to save Zhenya and Rita. He is wounded, but reaches the swamp and notices Lisa's skirt.
He understands that they can't wait for help. Arriving at the place where the Germans stood, he kills one and goes in search of the girls. In another unequal battle, Zhenya is killed. Rita asked Fedot to take care of her son and shot herself. After burying the girls, he goes to the hut where the Germans are holy. One was killed, four were captured by Vaskov. Seeing that the Russians were coming, he lost consciousness. Many years later, Captain missile troops Albert Fedotovich and the armless old man will erect a marble monument on Rita's grave.
Year of writing: 1969
Genre of work: story
Main characters: Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov- foreman Rita Osyanina- commander, Zhenya Komelkova- tray, Liza Brichkina- the forester's daughter Sonya Gurvich- student, Galya Chetvertak- orphan.
Plot
It's 1942. The war is in full swing. The railway siding near the Russian village is managed by foreman Vaskov. Soldiers drink a lot. The foreman wrote a report on them. Therefore, anti-aircraft gunners are sent to command. All of them met with the war. Rita's son lives nearby, and she goes to the city. Once in the forest she noticed two Germans. Fedot Evgrafych found their trail and led five girls through the swamps. There are sixteen Germans. Liza goes for help and drowns in a quagmire. The Germans kill Sonya. Galya, horrified, betrays who she is and is also killed. Rita is mortally wounded, Zhenya, dragging her friend, loses her life. Rita shoots herself in the head. The foreman takes the remaining Germans prisoner. Seeing the Russians, he faints, exhausted.
Conclusion (my opinion)
The story conveys the full horror of war. The girls show courage and bravery. Their death is unjust.