“And the dawns here are quiet...”: the actors continued the fates of the heroes
On the eve of June 22, we remember terrible war, which claimed millions of lives. For several generations already, all the horror of that time has been conveyed by the most tragic war film - “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet...” by Stanislav Rostotsky based on the story by Boris Vasiliev, filmed in 1972. The fate of five girls who died in a clash with German saboteurs in the Karelian forest makes us freeze with sadness, fear and injustice.

Today I can’t even believe that Sergeant Major Vaskov or Zhenya Komelkova could have been played by someone else. But then most of the actors were approved for the roles by chance, sometimes even contrary to common sense. It was fate itself that guided Rostotsky’s hand! She also made the star cast live the way their heroes would have done.

Liza Brichkina became a deputy

The forester's daughter Liza Brichkina captivated Sergeant-Major Vaskov because she also felt at home in the forest, knew the voices of all the birds and noticed every broken twig.

Lisa is a rosy, lively girl. “Blood with milk, tits in wheels,” recalls actress Elena Drapeko, who played this role. - And I was then a second-year student with a cane, out of this world, studying ballet, playing the piano and violin. What peasant acumen do I have?

Because of this, they even wanted to remove her from the role. But then they lightened the eyebrows, painted red freckles on the face, etched out the hair - and left it.

If other girls played themselves, then I had to remake myself,” says Elena Drapeko.

As a result, her Liza Brichkina turned out to be a little different from the one in the script - lighter, more romantic. And that’s exactly how millions of viewers liked her.

Elena often heard on the street: “There goes the one who drowned in the swamp!” Soon after this, she changed her profession from an actress to an administrative position - now she people's deputy and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture.

If Lisa had not drowned in the swamp, but had studied at a technical school, she would also have become a deputy! - Elena Drapeko laughs.

Zhenya Komelkova - screen star and wife of the People's Artist

The most beautiful, cheerful and flirtatious, real girl without complexes, Zhenya Komelkova distracted the Germans’ attention from her fighting friends either by striptease by the river or by singing songs in the forest. Olga Ostroumova, who played her, is the only one of the five actresses for whom this film was not a debut - by that time she had already played tenth-grader Rita Cherkasova in the film “We'll Live Until Monday” by Stanislav Rostotsky. The director really wanted to see the young actress in this film.

According to the script, Zhenya was supposed to be a redhead, and this is an important component of her image. And Ostroumova was blonde. It was repainted several times - and it always turned out wrong. There were opinions that she was not suitable for this role at all. But Rostotsky decided to take a risk and released the actress onto the set as she was...

After “Dawns” her creative destiny was more successful than anyone else’s. Ostroumova starred in the films “Earthly Love”, “Fate”, “Garage”, and played in the theater. Viewers even now often see her in TV series - “Poor Nastya”, “Don’t Be Born Beautiful”, “Captain’s Children”. And many also know the actress as the wife of Valentin Gaft. National artist Russia had his eye on her during the filming of Garage. But he decided to give vent to his feelings only in 1995, when Ostroumova divorced Mikhail Levitin. Until now, the actors live in peace and harmony.

Rita Osyanina: businesswoman and just a good woman

Chubby, with plump lips and big eyes, Rita Osyanina looked like a child. But she had already gone to war to avenge her murdered husband and to be able to visit her little son in the city, next to which a detachment of anti-aircraft gunners was stationed.

For actress Irina Shevchuk, this role became the only memorable one. But in it she gave it her all - when Rita was wounded in the stomach, the actress felt the death throes of her heroine so realistically that after filming she had to be pumped out.

Now she dreams:

I want to play normal good woman so that everyone would cry with delight that such things exist.

So far she has not been offered such a role, but she is not upset and is very successfully realizing herself in another field - as a businesswoman and director of the Kinoshock festival.

Sonya Gurvich chose quiet service to society

Sonya is an atypical female image for Soviet cinema. An intelligent Jewish girl who went to the front straight from the university, and while lying in ambush, recites poetry. By the way, Boris Vasiliev wrote it with his wife.

Saratov student theater school This role brought instant and stunning fame to Irina Dolganova. But she acted quite in the spirit of Sonya - she returned to the province to work in the Gorky Youth Theater.

I met the main director of this theater. I was captivated by the coincidence of his creative concept with the one I was taught in Saratov. They don’t look for good from good: realizing this, I continued my school in Gorky.

Galya Chetvertak writes detective stories

A seventeen-year-old girl from an orphanage whose nerves could not stand it during the war and she shouted “Mom!” ran out of the ambush straight into the German bullets, played naturally, oddly enough, by the prosperous Muscovite Ekaterina Markova, who had parents, and what kind of parents: her father is the first secretary of the Writers' Union!

“The Dawns,” as one might expect, gave a powerful impetus to her career—but not as an actor, but as a writer.

Thanks to the film, I also became a writer, like my dad,” she says. - I accumulated so many impressions from the trips that I wrote an essay for the magazine “Soviet Screen”. Then the books “Actress” and “The Favorite’s Caprice” were published, and now I’m working on detective novels.

Fedot Vaskov married... a German woman

The images of the dead girls in our minds are inextricably linked with the fearless, kind and worldly wise foreman Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov, his lush mustache and colorful face.

GITIS graduate Andrei Martynov got this role by miraculous chance. At first it was intended for the famous Georgy Yumatov. But during the auditions he looked more like an urban superman than a strong Vologda man. And then the director’s assistant remembered a young man whom she had seen at a student performance. At first, Rostotsky had doubts about his candidacy, because he was only 26 years old at the time, and according to the script, Fedot was well over thirty. But Martynov was approved by secret vote by the entire film crew, including lighting and stage workers.

After Vaskov, the actor had another starring role - Kiryan Inyutin in the serial film “Eternal Call”. And soon a paradoxical event occurred in his personal life:

Performer Soviet soldiers, fiercely fighting the Nazis, married... a German woman. He lived with Franziska Thun, who graduated from Moscow State University and spoke fluent Russian, for several years, but then they separated. It is believed that they could not decide in which country to live. They have a son theater artist, who lives in Germany, and three grandchildren.

Swamp, nudity - everything is for real

Stanislav Rostotsky, a front-line soldier himself, decided to achieve complete realism at any cost. film set. Even before the start of the process, he brought young actresses to the remote Karelian village of Syargilakhta, gave them uniforms and forced them to get used to the roles of marching, learning to handle weapons, and crawling on their bellies. If the script says that Sonya Gurvich rubbed her feet, then that’s what should have happened on the set.

“I asked for a long time to give me boots of my size,” recalls Irina Dolganova, “but Stanislav Lvovich categorically refused. As a result, I could barely walk because of terrible calluses.

The scene of crossing the swamp in the film takes only a few minutes, but in order to film it, you had to wallow in the swamp for days on end. However, Rostotsky himself honestly shared all the hardships with the actresses. Every morning, creaking with his prosthesis (the director lost his leg at the front), he was the first to get into the dirty slurry with the saying “the woman was sowing peas - oh!”

But the most difficult thing for the actresses was not even the dirty swamp, but the episode in the bathhouse, where they had to act naked. At that time, such a scene could be regarded as real pornography, and the girls tried to dissuade the director from it. But he gathered everyone together and explained: “Understand, girls, I need to show where the bullets fall. Not into men’s bodies, but into women’s bodies that must give birth.”

As a result, Rostotsky’s film really turned out to be so touching that he himself could not keep his cool. When the director edited the footage, he cried because he felt sorry for the girls.

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Beloved Komelkova

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Galya Chetvertak - orphan, pupil orphanage. In the orphanage she received her nickname for her short stature. Dreamer. She lived in a world of her own fantasies, and went to the front with the conviction that war is romance. After the orphanage, Galya ended up in a library technical school. The war found her in her third year. 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. During the battle with the Germans, Vaskov took Galya with him, but she could not stand it nervous tension from waiting for the Germans, she ran out of cover and was shot by the Nazis. Despite such a “ridiculous” death, the foreman told the girls that she died “in a shootout.”

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One of the main heroines of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev’s story “And the dawns here are quiet...”.

Zhenya is a very beautiful red-haired girl, the other heroines were amazed at her beauty. Tall, slender, with fair skin. My wife is 19 years old. Zhenya has her own account with the Germans: when the Germans captured Zhenya’s village, Zhenya herself managed to hide the Estonian woman. In front of the girl's eyes, the Nazis shot her mother, sister and brother. She goes to war to avenge the death of her loved ones. Despite the grief, “her character was cheerful and smiling.” In Vaskov's platoon, Zhenya showed artistry, but there was also enough room for heroism - it was she who, calling fire on herself, led the Germans away from Rita and Vaskov. She saves Vaskov when he fights the second German who killed Sonya Gurvich. The Germans first wounded Zhenya and then shot her point-blank.

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Senior sergeant, deputy platoon commander of female anti-aircraft gunners.

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One of the main heroines of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev’s story “And the dawns here are quiet...”.

Liza Brichkina is a simple village girl, originally from the Bryansk region. The forester's daughter. One day, their father brought a guest to their house. Lisa really liked him. Seeing the conditions in which the girl is growing up, the guest invites Lisa to come to the capital and enter a technical school with a dormitory, but Lisa did not have the chance to become a student - the war began. Lisa always believed that tomorrow would come and be better than today. Lisa died first. She drowned in a swamp while carrying out the task of Sergeant Major Vaskov.

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Postman

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Sergeant Major Vaskov's landlady

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One of the main heroines of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev’s story “And the dawns here are quiet...”.

Rita is strict, she never laughs, she just moves her lips a little, but her eyes still remain serious. “Rita was not one of the lively ones...” Rita Mushtakova, the first of her class, out of great love, married senior lieutenant Osyanin, with whom she gave birth to a son, Albert. And there was no happier girl in the world. At the outpost she was immediately selected to women's council and enrolled in all the clubs. Rita learned to bandage the wounded and shoot, ride a horse, throw grenades and protect against gases, and then... war. On the very first day of the war, she turned out to be one of the few who did not get confused and did not panic. She was generally calm and reasonable. Rita's husband died on the second day of the war during a counterattack on June 23, 1941. 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. They wanted to send Rita to the rear, but she asked to go into battle. They drove her away, forced her into the heated vehicles, but the persistent wife of the deceased deputy head of the outpost, Senior Lieutenant Osyanin, appeared again at the fortified area headquarters every other day. In the end, she was hired as a nurse, and six months later she was sent to the regimental anti-aircraft school. The authorities valued the unsmiling widow of the hero-border guard: she noted it in orders, set it as an example, and therefore respected her personal request - to be sent, after completing her studies, to the area where the outpost stood, where her husband died in a fierce bayonet battle. Now Rita could consider herself satisfied: she had achieved what she wanted. Even the death of her husband faded into the farthest corner of her memory: Rita had a job, and she learned to hate quietly and mercilessly... In Vaskov’s platoon, Rita became friends with Zhenya Komelkova and Galya Chetvertak. She died last, putting a bullet in her temple and thereby saving Fedot Vaskov. Before her death, she asked him to take care of her son. The death of Rita Osyanina is psychologically the most difficult moment of the story. Boris Vasiliev very accurately conveys the state

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One of the main heroines of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev’s story “And the dawns here are quiet...”.

Sonya Gurvich is a girl who grew up in a large, friendly Jewish family. Sonya is originally from Minsk. Her father was a local doctor. She herself studied for a year at Moscow University and knew well 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. Knowing German, she could have been a good translator, but there were many translators, so she was assigned to an anti-aircraft gunner (of whom, in turn, there were few). Sonya is the second victim of the Germans in Vaskov's platoon. She runs away from the others to find and return Vaskov’s pouch, and stumbles upon patrol saboteurs who killed Sonya with two stabs in the chest.

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Major, Vaskov's commander

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The main character of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev's story "And the dawns here are quiet...".

Petty Officer Fedot Vaskov is the commandant of the 171st patrol in the Karelian wilderness. The crews of the anti-aircraft installations of the patrol, finding themselves in a quiet situation, begin to suffer from idleness and get drunk. In response to Vaskov’s requests to “send non-drinkers,” the command sends two squads of female anti-aircraft gunners there... Fedot completed four classes of the regimental school, and in ten years rose to the rank of senior officer. Vaskov experienced a personal drama: after Finnish war his wife left him. Vaskov demanded his son through the court and sent him to his mother in the village, but the Germans killed him there. The sergeant major always feels older than his years. The author emphasizes the peasant mind and peasant spirit in the “gloomy foreman” Fedot Vaskov. “Solid taciturnity”, “peasant slowness”, special “masculine thoroughness” since “he was the only man left in the family - the breadwinner, the water provider, and the breadwinner.” The female anti-aircraft gunners subordinate to him call thirty-two-year-old Vaskov behind his back as “an old man” and “a mossy stump who has twenty words in reserve, and even those from the regulations.” “All his life, Fedot Evgrafovich followed orders. He did it literally, quickly and with pleasure. He was the transmission gear of a huge, carefully adjusted mechanism.” Having encountered with his “search group” of five “girls with three-rulers in an embrace” sixteen armed fascist thugs from head to toe, rushing through the Sinyukhin ridge to Kirovskaya railway, to the “channel named after. Comrade Stalin,” Vaskov “hid his confusion. I thought and thought, turned my heavy brains, sucked at all the possibilities of the upcoming deadly meeting. From his military experience, he knew that “playing Hovanki with a German is almost like playing with death”, that the enemy “must be beaten. Beat until he crawls into the lair,” without pity, without mercy. Realizing how difficult it is for a woman, who always gives birth to life, to kill, he taught and explained: “These are not people. Not people, not people, not even animals - fascists. So look accordingly"

THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN THE STORY BY B. L. VASILIEV “AND THE DAWNINGS HERE ARE QUIET...”

1.Introduction.

Reflection of the events of the war years in literature.

2. Main part.

2.1 Depiction of war in the story.

2.2 Gallery of female images.

2.3 Sergeant Major Vaskov - main character stories.

2.4 The image of the enemy in the story.

3. Conclusion.

True patriotism.

I've only seen hand-to-hand combat once.

Once - in reality. And a thousand - in a dream.

Who says that war is not scary?

He knows nothing about the war.

Yu.V. Drunina

The Great Patriotic War is one of the defining events in the history of our country. There is practically no family that is not affected by this tragedy. Great Theme Patriotic War became one of the main themes not only in literature, but also in cinematography, fine arts XX century. In the very first days of the war, essays by war correspondents and works by writers and poets who found themselves on the battlefields appeared. A huge amount was written

number of stories, novellas and novels about the war. The story of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev “And the dawns here are quiet ...” is one of the most lyrical works about the war. The events of the story take place in 1942 in the north of Russia, in a battalion where fate, after being wounded, threw the main character, Sergeant Major Vaskov. The Hero is appointed to command a “female” platoon of female anti-aircraft gunners. The author depicts different women, different from each other, but united by one goal - the fight against the enemy of the Motherland. As fate would have it, the heroines found themselves in a war where a woman had no place. Each of the girls has already faced death, the pain of loss. Hatred for their enemies is what motivates them, what gives them strength to fight.

Rita Osyanina - commander of the first squad of the platoon. Her husband, a border guard, died on the second day of the war “in a morning counterattack,” and her son lives with his parents. Rita hates her enemies “quietly and mercilessly.” She is stern, reserved, strict with herself and other fighters.

Zhenya Komelnova is a bright beauty, tall, red-haired. Zhenya, like Rita, also has a “personal score” with the Nazis. The whole family was shot before her eyes. After this tragedy, Zhenya found herself at the front. Despite this, the heroine retained her natural cheerfulness. She is sociable and mischievous, funny and flirtatious.

Lisa Brichkina is the daughter of a forester. She grew up early, cared for her sick mother for five years, ran a household, and managed to work on a collective farm. The war prevented the heroine from entering a technical school. Liza is thorough, like a peasant, knows and loves the forest, is not afraid of any work, and is always ready to help her friends.

Sonya Gurvich is a girl from a “very large and very friendly” family. Her father was a doctor in Minsk. The girl studied at the university for a year, but the war began, her lover went to the front, and Sonya also could not stay at home.

Sonya knows nothing about the fate of the family who found themselves in Nazi-occupied Minsk. She lives in hope that they managed to survive, although she understands that this hope is illusory. Sonya is smart and educated, “an excellent student at school and university,” speaks perfect German, and loves poetry.

Galya Chetvertak was brought up in an orphanage, she is a foundling. Maybe that’s why she lives in an imaginary world, invents a “health worker” for herself, and maybe lies. In fact, this is not a lie, says the author, but “desires presented as reality.” Dreamy by nature

the girl entered the library technical school. And when she was in her third year, the war began. Gala was rejected by the military registration and enlistment office because she did not fit in either height or age, but she showed remarkable perseverance and “I’m fine.”

exceptions” she was sent to the anti-aircraft unit.

The heroines are not alike. It is these girls that Sergeant Major Vaskov takes with him to follow the Germans. But it turns out there are not two enemies, but much more. As a result, all the girls die, leaving only

sergeant major Death overtakes the heroines in different situations: both through negligence in a swamp, and in an unequal battle with enemies. Vasiliev admires their heroism. It cannot be said that girls are unfamiliar with the feeling of fear. The impressionable Galya Chetvertak is very frightened by the death of Sonya Gurvich. But the girl manages to overcome fear, and this is her strength and courage. At the moment of death, none of the girls complains about fate, does not blame anyone. They understand that their lives were sacrificed in the name of saving the Motherland. The author emphasizes the unnaturalness of what is happening when a woman, whose purpose is to love, give birth and raise children, is forced to kill. War is an abnormal state for a person.

The main character of the story is Sergeant Major Fedot Vaskov. He comes from a simple family, studied until the fourth grade and was forced to leave school because his father died. Nevertheless, he later graduated from the regimental school. Personal life at

Vaskova was unsuccessful: his wife ran away with the regimental veterinarian, and his little son died. Vaskov has already fought in war, was wounded, and has awards. The girl fighters at first laughed at their simple-minded commander, but soon appreciated his courage, directness, warmth. He tries in every possible way to help the girls who are coming face to face with the enemy for the first time. Rita Osyanina asks Vaskov to take care of her son. Many years later, an elderly foreman and Rita’s adult son will install a marble slab at the site of her death. The images of enemies are drawn by the author schematically and laconically. There is no specific people, their characters and feelings are not described by the author. These are fascists, invaders who have encroached on the freedom of another country. They are cruel and merciless. This

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The courageous death of girls in the work “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”
The work “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet,” written by Boris Lvovich Vasiliev (lived from 1924-2013), was published in 1969. This story, as the writer himself said, was written on the basis of an episode that happened during the terrible and terrible Great Patriotic War, when wounded soldiers, there were only seven of them, prevented the Germans from blowing up the railway. After this cruel and terrible battle, only one soldier remained alive, the one who commanded the Soviet detachment and had the rank of sergeant. Next we will talk about a brief summary of this work with comments.
The Great Patriotic War brought a lot of grief, destruction and death. It destroyed many lives and families, mothers buried their still very young sons, children lost their parents, wives became widows. Soviet citizens experienced all the hardest hardships of the war, its horror, tears, hunger, death, but still survived and became winners.
Vasilyev B.L. was still a schoolboy in 1941, when the war began, but he, without hesitation, went to the front and served with the rank of lieutenant. In 1943 he received a severe concussion and was unable to fight further. Therefore, he knew what battles were, and his best books were written precisely about war and how a man remained a man while fulfilling his military duty.
In the story by B.L. Vasiliev “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” tells about military events. But the main thing actors of this work They are not men, as is usually the case, but young girls. They resisted the Nazis, being among swamps and lakes. But the Germans outnumbered them and were strong, resilient, they had excellent weapons, and there was a complete lack of pity.
The action of the story takes place in the May days of 1942 at a railway crossing, commanded by Fedor Evgrafovich Vaskov, he was only thirty-two years old. The fighters arrived here, but a spree and even drunkenness began. Because of this, the commander wrote several reports and female anti-aircraft gunners arrived on this patrol; they were commanded by Margarita Osyanina, she was widowed, having lost her husband at the front. Then the Nazis killed the shell carrier, and Evgenia Komelkova took her place. There were five girls in total, but they all had different personalities.
The girls (Margarita, Sophia, Galina, Evgenia, Elizaveta), the author writes about them, are different, but still similar friend on a friend. Osyanina Margarita is gentle, internally beautiful, and has a strong-willed character. She is the bravest of all the girls and has motherly qualities.
Evgenia Komelkova has white skin, red hair, tall stature and the eyes of a child. She has a cheerful character and is prone to excitement and adventure. This girl is tired of war, grief and complicated love for a man, because he is already married and is very far from her. Sophia Gurvich has the poetic, refined character of an excellent student; one gets the impression that Blok wrote about her in his poems.
Brichkina Elizaveta believed that her destiny was to be alive, she knew how to wait. And Galina preferred life in the world of imagination rather than in the real world; she was very afraid of war. This girl is presented in the story as a funny, still immature, clumsy girl from an orphanage. She ran away from the orphanage and dreamed of being like actress Lyubov Orlova, wearing long beautiful dresses, get attention from fans.
Unfortunately, the dreams of these anti-aircraft gunner girls did not come true, because they did not have time to really live in this world and died very young.
The anti-aircraft gunners defended their country, they hated the fascists, and always carried out orders accurately. They suffered losses, tears, and experiences. Their friends were dying next to them, but the girls did not give up and did not allow the enemy to pass through the railroad crossing. Their feat allowed the Fatherland to win freedom. There were a lot of such patriots.
These girls had completely different lives, and death overtook them in different ways. Margarita was wounded by a grenade, and in order not to die long and painfully from this mortal wound, she killed herself with a shot to the temple. Galina's death matched the character of the girl herself (with pain and recklessness). Galya could have hidden and survived, but she didn’t hide. Why this happened is unclear, maybe cowardice or short-lived confusion. Sophia died from a dagger pierced into her heart.
Eugenia's death was somewhat reckless and desperate. The girl was confident in herself until her death, even leading the fascists away from Margarita, she thought that everything would end well. And when she received the first bullet in the side, she was only surprised, because she did not believe that she was dying at nineteen years old. Elizabeth's death was stupid and unexpected - she drowned in a swamp.
After the death of the anti-aircraft gunners, their commander Vaskov was left alone with three captured Germans. He saw death, troubles and inhuman torment. But his internal strength became five times greater, that's all. best qualities, hidden in the depths of the soul, appeared unexpectedly. He felt and lived not only for himself, but also for his “sisters”.
Vaskov grieved for them, did not understand why they died, because they were supposed to live long and give birth to beautiful children. These girls died without sparing their young lives, fulfilling their duty to the country, they fought bravely, courageously, and were examples of patriotism. Anti-aircraft gunners defended their Fatherland. But the foreman blames himself, not his enemies, for their deaths. He claimed that he “put down all five of them.”
After reading this story, I am left with an indelible feeling that I myself observed the everyday life of these anti-aircraft gunner girls at a Karelian railway crossing destroyed by bombing. The basis of this work was an episode, although, of course, it was insignificant on the scale of the terrible Great Patriotic War, but it is described in such a way that all its severity and horrors appear in all its ugliness and unnaturalness of human essence. The title “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” and the brave girls participating in these terrible events only emphasize this.

The story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet,” written by Boris Lvovich Vasiliev (life: 1924-2013), first appeared in 1969. The work, according to the author himself, is based on a real military episode when, after being wounded, seven soldiers serving on the railway prevented a German sabotage group from blowing it up. After the battle, only one sergeant, the commander of the Soviet fighters, managed to survive. In this article we will analyze “And the dawns here are quiet”, we will describe summary this story.

War is tears and grief, destruction and horror, madness and the extermination of all living things. She brought misfortune to everyone, knocking on every house: wives lost their husbands, mothers lost their sons, children were forced to be left without fathers. Many people went through it, experienced all these horrors, but they managed to survive and win the hardest war ever endured by humanity. Let's start the analysis of "And the Dawns Here Are Quiet" with brief description events, commenting on them along the way.

Boris Vasiliev served as a young lieutenant at the beginning of the war. In 1941, he went to the front while still a schoolboy, and two years later was forced to leave the army due to severe shell shock. Thus, this writer knew the war firsthand. Therefore it best works- precisely about her, about the fact that a person manages to remain human only by fulfilling his duty to the end.

In the work “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet,” the content of which is war, it is felt especially acutely, since it is turned on an unusual side for us. We are all used to associating men with her, but here the main characters are girls and women. They stood up against the enemy alone in the middle of Russian land: lakes, swamps. The enemy is hardy, strong, merciless, well armed, and many times outnumbers them.

The events take place in May 1942. A railway siding and its commander are depicted - Fyodor Evgrafych Vaskov, a 32-year-old man. The soldiers arrive here, but then start partying and drinking. Therefore, Vaskov writes reports, and in the end they send him anti-aircraft gunner girls under the command of Rita Osyanina, a widow (her husband died at the front). Then Zhenya Komelkova arrives, replacing the carrier killed by the Germans. All five girls had their own character.

Five different characters: analysis

“And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” is a work that describes interesting female images. Sonya, Galya, Lisa, Zhenya, Rita - five different, but in some ways very similar girls. Rita Osyanina is gentle and strong-willed, distinguished by spiritual beauty. She is the most fearless, courageous, she is a mother. Zhenya Komelkova is white-skinned, red-haired, tall, with childish eyes, always laughing, cheerful, mischievous to the point of adventurism, tired of pain, war and painful and long love for a married and distant man. Sonya Gurvich is an excellent student, a refined poetic nature, as if she came out of a book of poems by Alexander Blok. She always knew how to wait, she knew that she was destined for life, and it was impossible to avoid it. The latter, Galya, always lived more actively in the imaginary world than in the real one, so she was very afraid of this merciless terrible phenomenon that is war. “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” portrays this heroine as a funny, never-grown-up, clumsy orphanage girl. Escape from an orphanage, notes and dreams... oh long dresses, solo parts and general worship. She wanted to become new love Orlova.

The analysis of “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” allows us to say that none of the girls were able to fulfill their desires, because they did not have time to live their lives.

Further developments

The heroes of “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” fought for their homeland like no one had ever fought before. They hated the enemy with all their souls. The girls always followed orders precisely, as young soldiers should. They experienced everything: losses, worries, tears. Right before the eyes of these fighters they died good friends, but the girls held on. They fought to the death until the very end, did not let anyone through, and there were hundreds and thousands of such patriots. Thanks to them, it was possible to defend the freedom of the Motherland.

Death of Heroines

These girls had different deaths, just as they were different life paths, which the heroes of “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” followed. Rita was wounded by a grenade. She understood that she could not survive, that the wound was fatal, and she would have to die painfully and for a long time. Therefore, gathering the rest of her strength, she shot herself in the temple. Galya's death was as reckless and painful as she herself - the girl could have hidden and saved her life, but she did not. One can only guess what motivated her then. Perhaps just momentary confusion, perhaps cowardice. Sonya's death was cruel. She did not even manage to understand how the blade of the dagger pierced her cheerful young heart. Zhenya’s is a little reckless and desperate. She believed in herself until the very end, even when she was leading the Germans away from Osyanina, and did not doubt for a moment that everything would end well. Therefore, even after the first bullet hit her in the side, she was only surprised. After all, it was so implausible, absurd and stupid to die when you were only nineteen years old. Lisa's death happened unexpectedly. It was a very stupid surprise - the girl was pulled into the swamp. The author writes that until the last moment the heroine believed that “there will be tomorrow for her too.”

Sergeant Major Vaskov

Sergeant Major Vaskov, whom we have already mentioned in summary“And the dawns here are quiet,” in the end he remains alone in the midst of torment, misfortune, alone with death and three prisoners. But now he has five more strength. What was human in this fighter, the best, but hidden deep in the soul, was suddenly revealed. He felt and worried both for himself and for his girls “sisters”. The foreman laments, he does not understand why this happened, because they need to give birth to children, not die.

So, according to the plot, all the girls died. What guided them when they went into battle without sparing own life defending your land? Perhaps just a duty to the Fatherland, to one’s people, perhaps patriotism? Everything was mixed up at that moment.

Sergeant Major Vaskov ultimately blames himself for everything, and not the fascists he hates. His words that he “put all five down” are perceived as a tragic requiem.

Conclusion

Reading the work “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet,” you involuntarily become an observer of the everyday life of anti-aircraft gunners at a bombed crossing in Karelia. This story is based on an episode that is insignificant in the enormous scale of the Great Patriotic War, but it is told in such a way that all its horrors appear before the eyes in all their ugly, terrible inconsistency with the essence of man. It is emphasized both by the fact that the work is titled “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” and by the fact that its heroes are girls forced to participate in the war.