War is no place for a woman. But in a rush to protect their country, their fatherland, even representatives of the beautiful half of humanity are ready to fight. Boris Lvovich Vasiliev in the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet…” was able to convey the plight of five anti-aircraft gunner girls and their commander during the second war.

The author himself claimed that a real event was chosen as the basis of the plot. Seven soldiers who served on one of the sections of the Kirov railway, were able to repulse the Nazi invaders. They fought with a sabotage group and prevented their site from being blown up. Unfortunately, in the end, only the commander of the detachment remained alive. He will later be given the medal "For Military Merit".

This story seemed interesting to the writer, and he decided to put it on paper. However, when Vasiliev began writing the book, he realized that in the post-war period many feats were covered, and such an act is only a special case. Then the author decided to change the gender of his characters, and the story began to play with new colors. After all, not everyone decided to cover the women's share in the war.

The meaning of the name

The title of the story conveys the effect of surprise that hit the characters. This siding where the action took place was really quiet and peaceful place. If in the distance the invaders bombed the Kirov road, then "here" harmony reigned. Those men who were sent to protect him drank too much, because there was nothing to do there: no fights, no Nazis, no tasks. As in the back. That is why the girls were sent there, as if knowing that nothing would happen to them, the site was safe. However, the reader sees that the enemy only lulled his vigilance by planning an attack. After the tragic events described by the author, it remains only to complain bitterly about the failed justification of this terrible accident: "And the dawns here are quiet." The silence in the title also conveys the emotion of mourning – a moment of silence. Nature itself mourns, seeing such abuse of man.

In addition, the title illustrates the peace on earth that the girls sought by giving their young lives. They achieved their goal, but at what cost? Their efforts, their struggle, their cry with the help of the union "a" is opposed by this blood-washed silence.

Genre and direction

The genre of the book is a story. It is very small in volume, read in one breath. The author deliberately took out from the military everyday life, well known to him, all those everyday details that slow down the dynamics of the text. He wanted to leave only emotionally charged fragments that cause a genuine reaction of the reader to what he read.

Direction - realistic military prose. B. Vasiliev tells about the war, using real life material to create a plot.

essence

Main character- Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov, is the foreman of the 171st railway district. It is calm here, and the soldiers who arrived in this area often begin to drink from idleness. The hero writes reports on them, and in the end, anti-aircraft gunners are sent to him.

At first, Vaskov does not understand how to deal with young girls, but when it comes to hostilities, they all become a single team. One of them notices two Germans, the main character understands that they are saboteurs who are going to pass secretly through the forest to important strategic objects.

Fedot quickly gathers a group of five girls. They follow the local path to get ahead of the Germans. However, it turns out that instead of two people in the enemy squad, there are sixteen fighters. Vaskov knows that they cannot cope, and he sends one of the girls for help. Unfortunately, Liza dies, drowning in a swamp and not having time to convey the message.

At this time, trying to deceive the Germans by cunning, the detachment tries to take them as far as possible. They pretend to be lumberjacks, shoot from behind boulders, find a resting place for the Germans. But the forces are not equal, and in the course of an unequal battle, the rest of the girls die.

The hero still manages to capture the remaining soldiers. Many years later, he returns here to bring a marble slab to the grave. In the epilogue, young people, seeing the old man, understand that it turns out that there were battles here too. The story ends with the phrase of one of the young guys: "And the dawns here are quiet, quiet, I just saw it today."

Main characters and their characteristics

1. Fedot Vaskov- the only survivor of the team. He subsequently lost his arm due to a wound. Brave, responsible and reliable person. Considers drunkenness in war unacceptable, zealously defends the need for discipline. Despite the difficult nature of the girls, he takes care of them and is very worried when he realizes that he did not save the fighters. At the end of the work, the reader sees him with his adopted son. Which means that Fedot kept his promise to Rita - he took care of her son, who became an orphan.

Images of girls:

1. Elizabeth Brichkina is a hardworking girl. She was born into a simple family. Her mother is sick and her father is a forester. Before the war, Liza was going to move from the village to the city and study at a technical school. She dies while following orders: she drowns in a swamp, trying to bring soldiers to help her team. Dying in a quagmire, she does not believe to the last that death will not allow her to realize her ambitious dreams.
2. Sofia Gurvich- an ordinary fighter. Former student of Moscow University, excellent student. She studied German and could be a good translator, she was predicted a great future. Sonya grew up among a friendly Jewish family. Dies trying to return a forgotten pouch to the commander. She accidentally meets the Germans, who stab her with two blows to the chest. Although she did not succeed in the war, she stubbornly and patiently fulfilled her duties and accepted death with dignity.
3. Galina Chetvertak- The youngest of the group. She is an orphan, raised in orphanage. He goes to war for the sake of "romance", but quickly realizes that this is not a place for the weak. Vaskov takes her with him for educational purposes, but Galya cannot withstand the pressure. She panics and tries to escape from the Germans, but they kill the girl. Despite the cowardice of the heroine, the foreman tells the others that she died in a shootout.
4. Evgenia Komelkova- a young beautiful girl, the daughter of an officer. The Germans capture her village, she manages to hide, but her entire family is shot in front of her eyes. In war, he shows courage and heroism, Zhenya shields his colleagues with himself. First, she is wounded, and then shot at close range, because she took the detachment to herself, wanting to save the others.
5. Margarita Osyanina- junior sergeant and commander of the anti-aircraft gunners squad. Serious and reasonable, was married and has a son. However, her husband dies in the first days of the war, after which Rita began to hate the Germans quietly and ruthlessly. During the battle, she is mortally wounded and shoots herself in the temple. But before dying, he asks Vaskov to take care of his son.

Themes

1. Heroism, sense of duty. Yesterday's schoolgirls, still very young girls, go to war. But they don't do it out of necessity. Each comes of its own accord and, as history has shown, each has put all its strength into resisting the Nazi invaders.
2. woman at war. First of all, in the work of B. Vasiliev, the fact that the girls are not in the rear is important. They fight for the honor of their homeland on an equal footing with men. Each of them is a person, each had plans for life, her own family. But cruel fate takes it all away. From the lips of the protagonist sounds the idea that the war is terrible because, taking the lives of women, it destroys the life of an entire nation.
3. Little man's feat. None of the girls were professional fighters. These were ordinary Soviet people with different characters and fates. But the war unites the heroines, and they are ready to fight together. The contribution to the struggle of each of them was not in vain.
4. Courage and boldness. Some heroines especially stood out from the rest, showing phenomenal courage. For example, Zhenya Komelkova saved her comrades at the cost of her life, turning the persecution of enemies on herself. She was not afraid to take risks, as she was sure of victory. Even after being wounded, the girl was only surprised that this happened to her.
5. Motherland. Vaskov blamed himself for what happened to his wards. He imagined that their sons would rise up and rebuke the men who had failed to protect the women. He did not believe that some kind of White Sea Canal was worth these sacrifices, because hundreds of fighters were already guarding it. But in a conversation with the foreman, Rita stopped his self-flagellation, saying that the patronymic is not the canals and roads that they protected from saboteurs. This is the whole Russian land, which required protection here and now. This is how the author represents the homeland.

Problems

The problematics of the story covers typical problems from military prose: cruelty and humanity, courage and cowardice, historical memory and oblivion. She also conveys a specific innovative problem - the fate of women in war. Consider the most striking aspects with examples.

1. The problem of war. The struggle does not make out who to kill and who to leave alive, it is blind and indifferent, like a destructive element. Therefore, weak and innocent women accidentally die, and the only man survives, also by chance. They accept an unequal battle, and it is quite natural that no one had time to help them. Such are the conditions of wartime: everywhere, even in the quietest place, it is dangerous, destinies break everywhere.
2. Memory problem. In the finale, the foreman comes to the place of the terrible massacre with the heroine's son and meets young people who are surprised that battles took place in this wilderness. Thus, the surviving man perpetuates the memory of the dead women by installing a memorial plate. Now the descendants will remember their feat.
3. The problem of cowardice. Galya Chetvertak was unable to cultivate the necessary courage in herself, and with her unreasonable behavior she complicated the operation. The author does not blame her strictly: the girl was already brought up in the most difficult conditions, she had no one to learn to behave with dignity. Her parents left her, fearing responsibility, and Galya herself was frightened at the decisive moment. Using her example, Vasiliev shows that war is not a place for romantics, because the struggle is always not beautiful, it is monstrous, and not everyone can withstand its oppression.

Meaning

The author wanted to show how Russian women, who have long been famous for their willpower, fought against the occupation. It is not in vain that he talks about each biography separately, because they show what trials the fair sex faced in the rear and on the front line. There was no mercy for anyone, and in these conditions the girls took the blow of the enemy. Each of them went to the sacrifice voluntarily. In this desperate tension of the will of all the forces of the people lies the main idea of ​​Boris Vasiliev. Future and present mothers sacrificed their natural duty - to give birth and raise future generations - in order to save the whole world from the tyranny of Nazism.

Of course, the main idea of ​​the writer is a humanistic message: women have no place in war. Their lives are trampled on by heavy soldier's boots, as if they come across not people, but flowers. But if the enemy encroached on his native land, if he mercilessly destroys everything that is dear to his heart, then even a girl is able to challenge him and win in an unequal struggle.

Conclusion

Each reader, of course, sums up the moral results of the story on his own. But many of those who thoughtfully read the book will agree that it tells about the need to preserve historical memory. We need to remember those unthinkable sacrifices that our ancestors voluntarily and consciously made in the name of peace on Earth. They went into a bloody battle to exterminate not only the invaders, but the very idea of ​​Nazism, a false and unjust theory that made possible many unprecedented crimes against human rights and freedoms. This memory is needed so that the Russian people and their equally brave neighbors realize their place in the world and its modern history.

All countries, all peoples, women and men, old people and children were able to unite for a common goal: the return of a peaceful sky overhead. This means that today we “can repeat” this association with the same great message of goodness and justice.

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One of the most touching, heartfelt and tragic works about the Great Patriotic War. There are no historical facts, grandiose battles or the greatest personalities here, this is a simple and at the same time very bitter story. The story of five brave girls, defenders of the motherland, who were not spared by the ruthless war. B.L. Vasiliev in his story reflects the strength and patriotism of the Russian people, and in particular the young women who defied fate and twelve German soldiers. The young girls did not manage to endure the cruel blows of the war to the end, and they died in the swampy Karelian forests.

The story of B.L. Vasilyeva shows us all the ruthlessness of war, which does not stop at anything, even before weak women. A woman should not force herself to go against cruelty, violence, injustice, vanity, should not allow herself to kill, her lot is a happy and peaceful life under the bright sun.

Read the summary And the dawns here are quiet ... Vasilyeva

May 1942 Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov, the commandant of the railway siding, demands from the leadership to send him responsible soldiers to protect the territory. And then Fedot Evgrafych was in for a surprise, a female anti-aircraft platoon was sent to him. The commander of the women's army is Rita Osyanina, a widow who lost her husband in the war, this loss made her firm and merciless. Rita has a son, Albert, who lives with his parents, not far from the village where she was sent (at her own request) under the command of Vaskov.

Soon, a newcomer Zhenya Komelkova, a very beautiful, kind and cheerful girl, joins the detachment of women fighters. Rita and Zhenya feel like family, trust each other with the most intimate. In front of Zhenya, all her relatives were shot - her mother, little brother and sister. After their death, she went to the front, where she had an affair with Colonel Luzhin. The authorities found out about the connection of the colonel with Komelkova and she was forced to leave for the girl's squad of anti-aircraft gunners.

Oatmeal Rita often secretly goes to town to tell her son and mother. After the next trip, returning to the junction, Rita meets German soldiers nearby. Vaskov, having learned the news from Rita, receives an order from the leadership to stop the German soldiers. Having learned that the enemy's path lies on the Kirov railway, Fedot Evgrafych decides to go into military reconnaissance and five volunteers join him - Rita, Zhenya, Liza, Galya and Sonya. This is the most epic and fateful moment with the words of Fedot "In the evening the air is here, dense, and the dawns here are quiet ...".

The girls, together with commander Vaskov, go on reconnaissance.

Next comes the acquaintance with Sonya Gurvich. Sonya grew up in a large family. During the war, I did not hear anything about my family. She studied at the institute, studied German. We also know that Sonya has a first love, a young man who also went to the front.

The next hero of the story, Galya Chetvertak, grew up in an orphanage. Until the war began, she studied at the library technical school, managed to finish three courses.

Before the girls and the leader of the detachment is not an easy way through the swamp. All successfully overcome the obstacle. Now it remains only to reach the lake and wait for the damned enemies, who should be there by morning.

And during this time, the author will talk about Liza Brichkina. This is a forester girl who did not go to school because she was caring for her sick mother. One day, she falls in love with a hunter who was staying at their house. Lisa shows sympathy for Fedot. Death overtakes the girl, not the enemy, hurrying back to the junction to call for reinforcements, she drowns in the swamp.

Voskov and the girls are sitting in ambush, but seeing the Germans, they decide to change their location, at this moment Voskov forgets the pouch, Sonya returns for him, and finds her death. The girl is buried. The team manages to scare the opponents and buy some time. Galya and Fedot go to reconnaissance, Galya is very afraid of everything that is happening. Unable to stand it and screaming, she betrays herself, and they kill her.

The brave commander leads the enemies away from Rita and Zhenya, they understand that there is no one to wait for help, Lisa died. Here comes the last fight. Three fighters managed to defeat several German soldiers. Rita was mortally wounded, Zhenya died. Fedot promises Rita to take care of her son. Voskov buries the girls.

Voskov finds the rest of the enemies, kills one, then by cunning captures the rest, he sees his own and loses consciousness. Fedot Evgrafych takes care of the orphan Albert.

Boris Vasiliev revealed to us the fate of women who had a wonderful future, but the war took everything from them.

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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 family, 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 of the Rocket Forces Albert Fedotovich and an armless old man will erect a marble monument on Rita's grave.

“The Dawns Here Are Quiet” is a short story that tells with piercing sincerity about the fate of five young girls who died in the swampy Karelian forests. This book, written by Boris Vasiliev in 1969, tells the story of the military events of 1942 so truthfully and touchingly that in a relatively short period it twice managed to attract the attention of filmmakers. We will try to summarize the summary of “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” so that this work does not seem to the reader a dry presentation of facts, but makes him familiarize himself with the original.

Chapter first

There is a war going on. The action takes place in May 1942. Thirty-two-year-old Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov, with the rank of foreman, commands the 171st railway siding. Shortly before the Finnish war, he got married, but when he returned, he found that his wife had gone south with the regimental veterinarian. Vaskov divorced her, and returned the common son, Igor, through the court and gave it to his mother to raise. A year later, the boy was gone.

Everything is calm in his part. The servicemen, looking around, begin to drink. Vaskov scribbling reports to the authorities. He is sent a platoon of girls who make fun of his timidity.

This is the main essence of the first chapter, its summary. “The dawns here are quiet” Vasiliev dedicated to those girls who served and accomplished their feat for the good of the Motherland.

Chapter Two

The commander of the first section of the platoon was a strict girl, Rita Osyanina. Her beloved husband died at the very beginning of the war. Son Albert is now being raised by her parents. Having lost her husband, Rita hated the Germans fiercely and treated the girls of her department harshly.

However, her harsh character softened after the cheerful beauty Zhenya Komelkova entered her department. Even the summary of “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” cannot ignore her tragic fate. In front of this girl, her mother, brother, sister were shot. Zhenya went to the front after their death, where she met Colonel Luzhin, who defended her. He - family man, and the military authorities, having learned about their romance, sent Zhenya to the girls' team.

The three girls were friends: Rita, Zhenya and Galya Chetvertak - an unsightly ugly girl whom Zhenya helped to "bloom" by adjusting her tunic and building her hair.

Rita visits her mother and son at night, who live nearby in the city. Of course, no one knows about this.

Chapter Three

Returning to the unit from mother and son, Osyanina notices Germans in the forest. There were two of them. She reports this to Vaskov.

This episode in a key way determines the further summary of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet." Vasiliev arranges events in such a way that a fatal accident affects the subsequent narrative: if Rita had not run to the city to her mother and son, there would have been no whole subsequent story.

She reports what she saw to Vaskov. Fedot Efgrapych calculates the route of the Nazis - the Kirov railway. The foreman decides to go there a short way - through the swamps to the Sinyukhina ridge and already there to wait for the Germans, who, as he expected, will go along the ring road. Five girls go with him: Rita, Zhenya, Galya, Liza Brichkina and Sonya Gurvich.

Fedot tells his wards: "In the evening the air is damp here, dense, and the dawns here are quiet ...". Summary can hardly convey the tragedy of this small work.

Chapters four, five

The girls, led by Vaskov, cross the swamp.

Sonya Gurvich is from Minsk. She comes from a large family, her dad is a local doctor. What happened to her family now, she does not know. The girl graduated from the first year of Moscow University, speaks good German. Her first love - a young man with whom she attended lectures together, went to the front.

Galya Chetvertak is an orphan. After the orphanage, she entered the library technical school. When she was in her third year, the war began. When crossing the swamp, Galya loses her boot.

Chapter six

All six safely crossed the swamp and, having reached the lake, are waiting for the Germans, who appear only in the morning. There are sixteen Germans, not two, as they expected.

Vaskov sends Liza Brichkina to report on the situation.

While waiting for help, Vaskov and four girls pretend to be lumberjacks to mislead the Germans. Gradually they move to a new place.

Chapter Seven

Lisa Brichkina's father is a forester. The girl could not finish school, because she took care of her sick mother for five years. Her first love is a hunter who once stopped for the night in their house. She likes Vaskov.

Returning to the junction, when crossing the swamp, Liza drowns.

Chapters eight, nine, ten, eleven

Vaskov discovers that he has forgotten the pouch, Sonya Gurvich volunteers to bring it, but she is killed by two Germans. The girl is buried.

Soon Vaskov and the girls see the rest of the Germans approaching them. Having hidden, they decide to shoot first, in the expectation that the Nazis will be afraid of an invisible enemy. The calculation turns out to be correct: the Germans are retreating.

There is a disagreement between the girls: Rita and Zhenya blame Galya for being a coward. Vaskov stands up for Galya, and together they go on reconnaissance. Sonya, screaming, betrays herself, the Germans kill her.

Fedot Evgrafych leads the enemies away from Zhenya and Rita. He understands that Liza did not reach, and there will be no help.

We have almost outlined the summary of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet." An analysis of this work, of course, cannot be carried out without knowing how it ended.

Chapters twelve, thirteen, fourteen

Vaskov returns to the girls, they are preparing for the last battle, in which they manage to kill several Germans. Rita is mortally wounded. Vaskov is looking for a safe place for her. Zhenya is killed by the Germans. Rita turns to Vaskov with a request to take care of her son and shoots herself in the temple. Vaskov buries Rita and Zhenya, goes to the location of the enemy. After killing one, he orders the remaining four to tie themselves up and takes them prisoner. Seeing his own, Vaskov loses consciousness.

Fedot Evgrafych keeps his promise to Rita and brings up her son.

This is the summary of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet." Boris Vasiliev spoke chapter by chapter about the fate of many girls of that time. They dreamed of great love, tenderness, family warmth, but a cruel war fell to their lot ... A war that did not spare a single family. The pain inflicted then on people lives in our hearts to this day.

The story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” by Boris Vasiliev is one of the most penetrating and tragic works about the Great Patriotic War. First published in 1969.
The story of five anti-aircraft gunners and a foreman who fought sixteen German saboteurs. Heroes speak to us from the pages of the story about the unnaturalness of war, about the personality in war, about the strength of the human spirit.

The main theme of the story - a woman at war - reflects all the "ruthlessness of war", but the topic itself was not raised in the literature about the war before the appearance of Vasiliev's story. To understand the series of events in the story, you can read the summary of “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” chapter by chapter on our website.

Main characters

Vaskov Fedot Evgrafych- 32 years old, foreman, commandant of the patrol, where anti-aircraft gunner girls are assigned to serve.

Brichkina Elizabeth-19 years old, the daughter of a forester, who lived before the war on one of the cordons in the forests of the Bryansk region in "a premonition of dazzling happiness."

Gurvich Sonya- a girl from an intelligent “very large and very friendly family” of a Minsk doctor. After studying for a year at Moscow University, she went to the front. Loves theater and poetry.

Komelkova Evgeniya- 19 years. Zhenya has his own account with the Germans: her family was shot. Despite the grief, "her character was cheerful and smiling."

Osyanina Margarita- the first of the class got married, a year later she gave birth to a son. Her husband, a border guard, died on the second day of the war. Leaving the child to her mother, Rita went to the front.

Chetvertak Galina- a pupil of an orphanage, a dreamer. She lived in the world of her own fantasies, and went to the front with the conviction that war is romance.

Other characters

Kiryanova- Sergeant, platoon commander of anti-aircraft gunners.

Summary

Chapter 1

In May 1942, several yards survived at 171 railway sidings, which turned out to be inside the hostilities going around. The Germans stopped bombing. In case of a raid, the command left two anti-aircraft installations.

Life at the junction was quiet and calm, the anti-aircraft gunners could not stand the temptation of female attention and moonshine, and according to the report of the commandant of the junction, foreman Vaskov, one half-platoon “swollen from fun” and drunkenness replaced the next ... Vaskov asked to send non-drinkers.

Arrived "non-drinking" anti-aircraft gunners. The fighters turned out to be very young, and they were ... girls.

It was quiet at the crossing. The girls teased the foreman, Vaskov felt embarrassed in the presence of "learned" fighters: he had only 4 classes of education. The main concern was caused by the internal “disorder” of the heroines - they did everything not “according to the charter”.

Chapter 2

Having lost her husband, Rita Osyanina, the commander of the anti-aircraft gunners, became harsh and withdrawn. Once a carrier was killed, and instead of her they sent the beautiful Zhenya Komelkova, in front of whom the Germans shot her loved ones. Despite the tragedy. Zhenya is open and mischievous. Rita and Zhenya became friends, and Rita "thawed out".

Galya Chetvertak becomes their friend.

Hearing about the possibility of transferring from the front line to the junction, Rita perks up - it turns out that she has a son next to the junction in the city. At night, Rita runs to visit her son.

Chapter 3

Returning from an unauthorized absence through the forest, Osyanina discovers two strangers in camouflage robes, with weapons and packages in their hands. She hurries to tell the commandant of the section about this. After carefully listening to Rita, the foreman understands that she has encountered German saboteurs moving towards the railway, and decides to go to intercept the enemy. 5 female anti-aircraft gunners were allocated to Vaskov. Worried about them, the foreman tries to prepare his "guard" for a meeting with the Germans and cheer him up, joking, "so that they laugh, so that cheerfulness appears."

Rita Osyanina, Zhenya Komelkova, Liza Brichkina, Galya Chetvertak and Sonya Gurvich, with the group leader Vaskov, set out on a short path to Vop-Ozero, where they expect to meet and detain saboteurs.

Chapter 4

Fedot Evgrafych safely leads his fighters through the swamps, bypassing the swamps (only Galya Chetvertak loses his boots in the swamp), to the lake. It's quiet here, like in a dream. “And before the war, these lands were not very crowded, and now they are completely wild, as if lumberjacks, and hunters, and fishermen went to the front.”

Chapter 5

Expecting to quickly deal with the two saboteurs, Vaskov nevertheless chose the retreat path "for safety net". While waiting for the Germans, the girls had lunch, the foreman gave a combat order to detain the Germans when they appeared, and everyone took up positions.

Galya Chetvertak, drenched in a swamp, fell ill.

The Germans appeared only in the morning: “grey-green figures with machine guns at the ready came out of the depths,” and it turned out that there were not two of them, but sixteen.

Chapter 6

Realizing that "five laughing girls and five clips for a rifle" cannot cope with the Nazis, Vaskov sends the "forest" resident Lisa Brichkina to report that reinforcements are needed.

Trying to frighten off the Germans and force them to go around, Vaskov and the girls pretend that lumberjacks are working in the forest. They loudly call to each other, scorch fires, the foreman cuts down trees, and the desperate Zhenya even bathes in the river in full view of the saboteurs.

The Germans left, and everyone laughed "to tears, to exhaustion", thinking that the worst was over ...

Chapter 7

Lisa "flew through the forest as if on wings", thinking about Vaskov, and missed a conspicuous pine tree, near which she had to turn. With difficulty moving in the swamp slurry, she stumbled - and lost the path. Feeling the bog engulfing her, she saw the sunlight for the last time.

Chapter 8

Vaskov, who understands that the enemy, although he has fled, can attack the detachment at any moment, goes with Rita to reconnaissance. Having found out that the Germans settled on a halt, the foreman decides to change the location of the group and sends Osyanina for the girls. Vaskov is upset to find that he forgot his pouch. Seeing this, Sonya Gurvich runs to pick up the pouch.

Vaskov does not have time to stop the girl. After a while, he hears "a distant, weak, like a sigh, voice, an almost soundless cry." Guessing what this sound could mean, Fedot Evgrafych calls Zhenya Komelkova with him and goes to his former position. Together they find Sonya killed by enemies.

Chapter 9

Vaskov furiously pursued the saboteurs to avenge Sonya's death. Having imperceptibly approached the "Fritz" walking without fear, the foreman kills the first one, there is not enough strength for the second one. Zhenya saves Vaskov from death by killing the German with a gun butt. Fedot Evgrafych "was full of sadness, full to the throat" because of Sonya's death. But, understanding the state of Zhenya, who painfully endures the murder she committed, she explains that the enemies themselves have violated human laws and therefore she needs to understand: “these are not people, not men, not even animals - fascists.”

Chapter 10

The detachment buried Sonya and moved on. Looking out from behind another boulder, Vaskov saw the Germans - they were walking straight at them. Starting an oncoming battle, the girls with the commander forced the saboteurs to retreat, only Galya Chetvertak, out of fear, threw away her rifle and fell to the ground.

After the battle, the foreman canceled the meeting where the girls wanted to judge Galya for cowardice, he explained her behavior by inexperience and confusion.

Vaskov goes on reconnaissance and takes Galya with him for educational purposes.

Chapter 11

Galya Chetvertak followed Vaskov. She, who always lived in her fictional world, at the sight of the murdered Sonya was broken by the horror of a real war.

The scouts saw the corpses: the wounded were finished off by their own. There were 12 saboteurs left.

Hiding with Galya in an ambush, Vaskov is ready to shoot the Germans who appear. Suddenly, Galya Chetvertak, who did not understand anything, rushed across the enemies, and was struck down by machine gun fire.

The foreman decided to take the saboteurs as far as possible from Rita and Zhenya. Until night, he rushed between the trees, made noise, briefly shot at the flickering figures of the enemy, shouted, dragging the Germans closer and closer to the swamps. Wounded in the arm, hid in the swamp.

At dawn, getting out of the swamp to the ground, he saw Brichkina's army skirt blackening on the surface of the swamp, tied to a pole, and realized that Liza had died in the quagmire.

There was no hope for help now ...

Chapter 12

With heavy thoughts that "he lost his whole war yesterday", but with the hope that Rita and Zhenya are alive, Vaskov goes in search of saboteurs. He comes across an abandoned hut, which turned out to be a refuge for the Germans. He watches how they hide explosives and go to reconnaissance. Vaskov kills one of the remaining enemies in the skete and takes the weapon.

On the bank of the river, where yesterday “a performance was staged for the Fritz”, the foreman and the girls meet - with joy, like sisters and brothers. The foreman says that Galya and Liza died the death of the brave, and that they all have to take the last, apparently, battle.

Chapter 13

The Germans went ashore, and the battle began. “Vaskov knew one thing in this battle: do not retreat. Do not give the Germans a single shred on this shore. No matter how hard, no matter how hopeless - to keep. It seemed to Fedot Vaskov that he was the last son of his Motherland and its last defender. The detachment did not allow the Germans to cross to the other side.

Rita was seriously wounded in the stomach by a grenade fragment.

Shooting back, Komelkova tried to take the Germans away with her. Cheerful, smiling and resilient Zhenya did not even immediately realize that she had been wounded - after all, it was stupid and impossible to die at the age of nineteen! She fired as long as she had bullets and strength. “The Germans finished her off at close range, and then looked at her proud and beautiful face for a long time ...”

Chapter 14

Realizing that she is dying, Rita tells Vaskov about her son Albert and asks him to take care of him. The foreman shares with Osyanina his first doubt: was it worth protecting the canal and the road at the cost of the death of girls who had their whole lives ahead of them? But Rita believes that “Motherland does not begin with canals. Not from there at all. And we protected her. First her, and only then the channel.

Vaskov went towards the enemies. Hearing the faint sound of a shot, he returned. Rita shot herself, not wanting to suffer and be a burden.

Having buried Zhenya and Rita, almost exhausted, Vaskov wandered forward to the abandoned monastery. Bursting into the saboteurs, he killed one of them, and took four prisoners. In delirium, the wounded Vaskov leads saboteurs to his own, and, only realizing that he has reached, loses consciousness.

Epilogue

From a letter from a tourist (it was written many years after the end of the war) who is relaxing on quiet lakes, where there is “complete carlessness and desertion”, we learn that a gray-haired old man without an arm and rocket captain Albert Fedotych who arrived there brought a marble slab. Together with visitors, the tourist is looking for the grave of anti-aircraft gunners who once died here. He notices what quiet dawns…

Conclusion

For many years, the tragic fate of the heroines does not leave readers of any age indifferent, making them realize the price of a peaceful life, the greatness and beauty of true patriotism.

The retelling of “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” gives an idea of ​​the storyline of the work, introduces its characters. It will be possible to penetrate into the essence, to feel the charm of the lyrical narration and the psychological subtlety of the author's story when reading the full text of the story.