Characteristics of the main characters of the work The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Vasiliev. Their images and description

The writing

“And the dawns here are quiet...” - this is a story about the war. The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. At one of the railway sidings, soldiers of a separate anti-aircraft machine-gun battalion are serving. These fighters are girls, and they are commanded by foreman Fedot Evgrafych Baskov. At first this place was a quiet corner. The girls sometimes fired at the planes at night. One day something unexpected happened. The Germans showed up. Pursuing them in the forest, the girls, led by Vaskov, enter into an unequal battle with them. They die one after another, but rage and pain, the desire for revenge help Vaskov win.

The whole story is written in easy, colloquial language. Thanks to this, you better understand the thoughts of the characters and what they do. Against the backdrop of the terrible events of May 1942, this junction looks like a resort. At first it really was like this: the girls sunbathed, arranged dances, and at night they “recklessly thrashed from all eight trunks on flying German planes.”

There are six main characters in the story: five anti-aircraft gunners and foreman Vaskov.
Fedot Vaskov is thirty-two years old. He completed four classes of the regimental school, and in ten years he rose to the rank of foreman. Vaskov experienced a personal drama: after the 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 foreman always feels older than his years. He is executive.

Junior sergeant Rita Osyanina married the “red commander” at less than eighteen years of age. She sent her son Alik to his parents. Her husband died heroically on the second day of the war, and Rita found out about it only a month later.

Sonya Gurvich is an orphan. Her parents most likely died in Minsk. At that time she was studying in Moscow, preparing for the session. In the detachment, she was a translator.
Galya Chetvertak does not know her parents. She was thrown into an orphanage. Accustomed to surrounding everything with mystery, she made him worry about it. Galya told everyone that her mother is a medical worker. I believe that this was not a lie, but desires masquerading as reality.

Liza Brichkina was the daughter of a forester. One day, their father brought a guest to their house. Lisa liked him very much. He promised to place her in a technical school with a hostel, but the war began. Lisa always believed that tomorrow would come and be better than today.
Zhenya Komelkova, the first beauty of the trip, grew up in a good family. She loved to have fun, and one fine day she fell in love with Colonel Luzhin. It was he who picked her up at the front. He had a family, and Zhenya was sent to this siding for contact with him.

Once the girls were transferred from the front line to the facility (passage). Rita asked to send her department there, because from there it was easier to get to the city where her parents and son lived. Returning from the city, it was she who discovered the Germans.
The major ordered Vaskov to catch up with the saboteurs (Rita saw two) and kill them. It is in this campaign that the main action of the story unfolds. Vaskov helps the girls in everything. During a stop at the pass, friendly relations reign between them.
The Germans appear. It turns out that there are sixteen of them. Vaskov sends Lisa back to the junction. The first to die was Liza Brichkina. She drowned in the swamp, returning to the junction: “Liza saw this beautiful blue sky for a long time. Wheezing, she spit out dirt and reached out, reached out to him, reached out and believed. She believed until the last moment that tomorrow would come for her too.

Sonya Gurvich was shot when she returned to collect Vaskov's forgotten pouch.
Gali Chetvertak's nerves could not stand it when she was sitting with the foreman on patrol.

Rita Osyanina was wounded by a grenade, and Zhenya died while leading the Germans away from her. Rita, knowing that her wound was fatal, shot herself in the temple.

Together with the author, you experience these deaths and the pain of Vaskov, who managed to win.
The story is written in a very lively manner. Against the backdrop of the war, optimistic girls are shown. Vaskov's victory symbolizes the victory of the Russians over the Germans. A hard-won, loss-filled victory.

At the end of the story, in the epilogue, Boris Vasiliev shows a couple of heroes - Albert Fedotovich and his dad. Apparently, Albert is the same Alik, the son of Rita. Fedot Baskov adopted him, the boy considers him a real father.

This means that, despite all the difficulties and hardships, the Russian people are alive and will continue to live.
Very interesting picture of nature. Beautiful views drawn by the author set off everything that happens. Nature, as it were, looks at people with regret, participation, as if saying: "Stupid children, stop."

“And the dawns here are quiet...” Everything will pass, but the place will remain the same. Quiet, silent, beautiful, and only marble tombstones will turn white, reminding of what has already passed. This work serves as a magnificent illustration of the events of the Great Patriotic War.

This story amazed me a lot. The first time I read it, I sat with a handkerchief in my hand, because it was impossible to resist. It is because of this strong impression, so memorable to me, that I decided to write about this work. The main idea of ​​this story is the invincibility of people fighting for the freedom of the motherland, for a just cause.
I, like all my peers, do not know war. I do not know and do not want war. But after all, those who died did not want it, not thinking about death, that they would no longer see the sun, or grass, or leaves, or children. Those five girls didn't want war either!
The story of Boris Vasiliev shook me to the core. Rita Osyanina, Zhenya Komelkova, Lisa Brichkina, Galya Chetvertak. In each of them I find a little of myself, they are close to me. Each of them could be my mother, could tell me about the beautiful, teach me how to live. And I could be in the place of any of them, because I also like to listen to the silence and meet such “quiet, quiet dawns”.
I don't even know which one is closer to me. They are all so different, yet so similar. Rita Osyanina, strong-willed and gentle, rich in spiritual beauty. She is the center of their courage, she is the cement of achievement, she is the Mother! Zhenya... Zhenya, Zhenya, cheerful, funny, beautiful, mischievous to adventures, desperate and tired of war, of pain, of love, long and painful, for a distant and married man. Sonya Gurvich is the embodiment of an excellent student and a poetic nature - a "beautiful stranger" who came out of a volume of poetry by Alexander Blok. Liza Brichkina... “Oh, Liza-Lizaveta, you should study!” To study, to see the big city with its theaters and concert halls, its libraries and art galleries. And you, Liza... The war got in the way! Do not find your happiness, do not write lectures to you: I did not have time to see everything that I dreamed about! Galya Chetvertak, never matured, funny and awkwardly childish girl. Notes, escape from the orphanage and also dreams ... to become the new Lyubov Orlova.

None of them had time to fulfill their dreams, they just did not have time to live their own lives. Death was different for everyone, just as their fates were different: Rita had an effort of will and a shot in the temple; at Zhenya - desperate and a little reckless, she could hide and stay alive, but she did not hide; Sonya has a dagger stab at poetry; Gali's is as painful and merciless as she herself; from Lisa - “Ah, Liza-Lizaveta, she didn’t have time, she couldn’t overcome the quagmire of war ...”.

And there remains the foreman of the Basques, whom I have not mentioned yet, alone. Alone in the midst of pain, flour; one with death, one with three prisoners. Is it alone? He has five times more strength now. And what was best in him, human, but hidden in his soul, everything suddenly revealed, and what he experienced, he felt for himself and for them, for his girls, his “sisters”.
How the foreman laments: “How can we live now? Why is it so? After all, they don’t need to die, but give birth to children, because they are mothers! Tears well up as you read these lines.

But one must not only cry, one must also remember, because the dead do not leave the lives of those who loved them. They just do not age, remaining forever young in the hearts of people.
Why, then, is this particular work memorable to me? Probably because this writer is one of the best writers of our time. Probably because Boris Vasiliev managed to turn the theme of the war to that unusual facet, which is perceived especially painfully. After all, we, including myself, are used to combining the words "war" and "men", but here women, girls and war. Vasiliev managed to build the plot in such a way, to tie everything together in such a way that it is difficult to single out individual episodes, this story is a single whole, merged. A beautiful and inseparable monument: five girls and a foreman who stood in the middle of the Russian land: forests, swamps, lakes - against an enemy, strong, hardy, mechanically killing, who significantly exceeds them in number. But they did not miss anyone, they stood and are standing, poured out of hundreds and thousands of similar destinies, deeds, of all the pain and strength of the Russian people.

Women, Russian women who won the war and death! And each of them lives in me and other girls, we just don't notice it. We walk the streets, we talk, we think, we dream like them, but there comes a moment, and we feel confidence, their confidence: “There is no death! There is life and struggle for Happiness and for Love!”

THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN B. L. VASIL'EV'S STORY "THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET..."

1.Introduction.

Reflection of the events of the war years in literature.

2. The main part.

2.1 Depiction of the war in the story.

2.2 Gallery of female images.

2.3 Sergeant Major Vaskov is the main character of the story.

2.4 The image of the enemy in the story.

3. Conclusion.

True patriotism.

I've only seen melee 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 has not been affected by this tragedy. The theme of the Great Patriotic War has become one of the main themes not only in literature, but also in cinematography and fine arts of the 20th century. In the very first days of the war, essays by war correspondents appeared, as well as works by writers and poets who found themselves on the battlefields. It was written huge

number of stories, novellas and novels about the war. The story of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev “The dawns here are quiet ...” is one of the most lyrical works about the war. The events of the story unfold in 1942 in the north of Russia, in a battalion where fate, after being wounded, threw the protagonist, foreman Vaskov, the Hero is appointed to command a "female" platoon of anti-aircraft gunners. The author draws different women, not similar to each other, but united by one goal - the fight against the enemy of the Motherland. By the will of fate, the heroines ended up in a war, where a woman does not belong. Each of the girls has already faced death, the pain of loss. Hatred of enemies is what drives them, what gives them the strength to fight.

Rita Osyanina is the commander of the first squad of the platoon. Her husband, a border guard, died on the second day of the war "in the morning counterattack", and her son lives with his parents. Rita hates enemies "quietly and mercilessly". She is harsh, 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 in front of her eyes. After this tragedy, Zhenya ended up 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 matured early, took care of her sick mother for five years, managed the household, and managed to work on a collective farm. The war prevented the heroine from entering a technical school. Liza is thorough in a peasant way, she knows and loves the forest, she is not afraid of any work, she 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 for a year at the university, but the war began, her lover went to the front, and Sonya also could not stay at home.

Sonya does not know anything about the fate of the family that ended up in Nazi-occupied Minsk. She lives in the 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 German perfectly, 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 mother for herself - a "medical worker", she can lie. In fact, this is not a lie, the author says, but "desires masquerading as reality." Dreamy by nature

the girl entered the library technical school. And when she was in her third year, the war began. Galya was denied entry to the military registration and enlistment office, as she did not fit either in height or age, but she showed remarkable perseverance and “It’s okay

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

The characters don't look alike. It is these girls that Sergeant Major Vaskov takes with him to follow the Germans. But there are not two enemies, but much more. As a result, all the girls die, only

foreman. Death overtakes the heroines in different situations: both through negligence in the swamp, and in an unequal battle with enemies. Vasiliev admires their heroism. This is not to say 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 their fate, does not blame anyone. They understand that their lives have been sacrificed in the name of saving the Motherland. The author emphasizes the unnaturalness of what is happening when a woman, whose mission is to love, give birth and raise children, is forced to kill. War is an abnormal state for a person.

The protagonist of the story is foreman Fedot Vaskov. He comes from a simple family, finished his studies up to the fourth grade and was forced to drop out of school, as his father died. Nevertheless, he later graduated from the regimental school. Personal life

Vaskova failed: his wife ran away with the regimental veterinarian, and the little son died. Vaskov has already fought, was wounded, has awards. The female fighters at first laughed at their rustic commander, but soon appreciated his courage, directness, and warmth. He tries his best to help the girls who first come face to face with the enemy. 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 concisely. Before us are not specific people, their characters and feelings are not described by the author. These are fascists, invaders who encroached on the freedom of another country. They are cruel and merciless. Such

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

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

Liza Brichkina became a deputy

The daughter of the forester, Liza Brichkina, conquered Sergeant Vaskov by the fact that she also felt at home in the forest, knew the voices of all the birds and noticed every broken branch.

Liza is a ruddy, lively girl. Blood with milk, boobs with a wheel, - recalls the actress Elena Drapeko, who played this role. - And then I was a sophomore reed, not of this world, I studied ballet, played the piano and violin. What is my peasant grip?

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

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

As a result, Lisa Brichkina turned out to be a little different from her script - lighter, more romantic. And that's exactly what millions of viewers liked.

Elena often heard on the street: “The one who drowned in the swamp went out!” Soon after that, she changed her profession as an actress to an administrative position - now she is a people's deputy and deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture.

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

Zhenya Komelkova - screen star and wife of a people's artist

The most beautiful, cheerful and flirty, a real girl without complexes, Zhenya Komelkova distracted the attention of the Germans from her fighting girlfriends 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 the 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 red, and this is an important component of her image. And Ostroumova was blonde. She was repainted several times - and all the time it turned out wrong. There were opinions that she was not at all suitable for the texture of this role. But Rostotsky decided to take a chance and released the actress on the set as she was ...

After "Dawns" her creative destiny was the most successful of all. Ostroumova starred in the films "Earthly Love", "Fate", "Garage", played in the theater. Viewers and now often see her in the series - "Poor Nastya", "Do not be born beautiful", "Captain's Children". And many more know the actress as the wife of Valentin Gaft. The People's Artist of Russia laid eyes on her during the filming of Garage. But he decided to give free rein to his feelings only in 1995, when Ostroumova divorced Mikhail Levitin. Until now, the actors live in peace and harmony.

Rita Osyanina: a business woman and just a good woman

Round-faced, with plump lips and big eyes, Rita Osyanina looked like a child. But she had already gone to war in order 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 was the only memorable one. But she did her best in it - 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 would like to play a normal, good woman, so that everyone would cry with delight that such people exist.

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

Sonya Gurvich chose a 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 lying in ambush, recites poetry. By the way, Boris Vasiliev wrote it from his wife.

Irina Dolganova, a student at the Saratov Theater School, brought instant and stunning fame to this role. But she acted quite in the spirit of Sony - she returned to the province to work in the Gorky Youth Theater.

I met the main director of this theatre. I was bribed by the coincidence of his creative concept with the one by which I was taught in Saratov. They do not seek 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 in the war and she screamed “Mom!” ran out of the ambush straight under German bullets, naturally played, oddly enough, a prosperous Muscovite Ekaterina Markova, who had parents, and what ones: dad is the first secretary of the Writers' Union!

"Dawns", which was to be expected, gave a powerful impetus to her career - that's just not acting, but writing.

Thanks to the film, I also became a writer, like dad, she says. - I got so many impressions from the trips that I wrote an essay for the Soviet Screen magazine. Then the books “The Actress” and “The Caprice of a Favorite” came out, now I am 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 eyes.

GITIS graduate Andrei Martynov got this role by a miraculous accident. Initially, it was intended for the famous Georgy Yumatov. But on the tests, he looked more like an urban superman than a strong Vologda man. And then the assistant director remembered a young man whom she had seen at a student performance. At first, Rostotsky had doubts about his candidacy, because he was then only 26 years old, and according to the script, Fedot was well over thirty. But Martynov was approved by secret ballot 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:

The performer of the roles of Soviet soldiers, fiercely fighting the Nazis, married ... a German woman. With Francisca Thun, who graduated from Moscow State University and spoke fluent Russian, he lived for several years, but then they broke up. It is believed because they could not decide in which country they live. They have a son, a theater artist who lives in Germany, and three grandchildren.

Swamp, nudity - everything is real

Stanislav Rostotsky, himself a front-line soldier, decided at all costs to achieve complete realism on the set. Even before the start of the process, he brought young actresses to the remote Karelian village of Syargilakhta, gave out uniforms and forced them to get used to the role of marching, learning to handle weapons, crawling like a plastuna. If the script says that Sonya Gurvich rubbed her legs, then it should have been so 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 hardly walk because of terrible calluses.

The swamp crossing scene in the film takes only a few minutes, but in order to shoot 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 (at the front, the director lost his leg), he was the first to get into the dirty slurry with the saying “the woman sowed peas - oh!”.

But the hardest thing for the actresses was not even a dirty swamp, but an episode in the bathhouse, where they had to shoot naked. At that time, such a scene could be regarded as real pornography, and the girls tried to dissuade the director from her. But he gathered everyone together and explained: “Understand, girls, I need to show where the bullets fall. Not in male bodies, but in female ones, which should give birth.

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

The story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" written by Vasiliev Boris Lvovich (years of life - 1924-2013), was first born 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 "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", and describe a brief summary of this story.

War is tears and grief, destruction and horror, madness and extermination of all life. She brought trouble to everyone, knocking on every house: wives lost their husbands, mothers - 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 in the hardest of all wars ever endured by mankind. Let's start the analysis of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" with a brief description of the 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 he was forced to leave the army due to a severe shell shock. Thus, this writer knew the war firsthand. Therefore, his best works are about her, about the fact that a person manages to remain a person only by fulfilling his duty to the end.

In the work "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", the content of which is war, it is felt especially sharply, since it is turned by an unusual facet for us. We are all used to associate men with her, but here the main characters are girls and women. They stood up against the enemy alone in the middle of the Russian land: lakes, swamps. The enemy - hardy, strong, merciless, well-armed, greatly outnumbers them.

Events unfold in May 1942. Depicted is a railway siding and its commander - Fedor Evgrafych Vaskov, a 32-year-old man. Soldiers arrive here, but then they start to walk and drink. Therefore, Vaskov writes reports, and in the end they send him anti-aircraft gunners under the command of Rita Osyanina, a widow (her husband died at the front). Then Zhenya Komelkova arrives, instead of the carrier killed by the Germans. All five girls had their own character.

Five different characters: analysis

"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 person. Sonya Gurvich is an excellent student, a refined poetic nature, as if she had come 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 escape her. The latter, Galya, always lived more actively in the imaginary world than in the real one, therefore she was very afraid of this merciless terrible phenomenon, which is war. "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" depicts this heroine as a funny, never matured, clumsy, childish orphanage girl. Escape from the orphanage, notes and dreams ... about long dresses, solo parts and universal worship. She wanted to become the new Lyubov Orlova.

The analysis of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" allows us to say that none of the girls was 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 Motherland like no one else had ever fought anywhere. They hated the enemy with all their heart. The girls always carried out orders clearly, as young soldiers should. They experienced everything: losses, worries, tears. Right before the eyes of these fighters, their good friends were dying, but the girls held on. They stood to the death to the very end, they 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 the life paths followed by the heroes of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" were different. Rita was wounded by a grenade. She understood that she could not survive, that the wound was fatal, and that she would have to die painfully and for a long time. Therefore, gathering the rest of her strength, she shot herself in the temple. Gali's death was as reckless and painful as she herself - the girl could have hidden and saved her life, but did not. It remains only to speculate what motivated her then. Perhaps just a moment of confusion, perhaps cowardice. Sony's death was cruel. She didn't even know how the dagger blade had pierced her cheerful young heart. Zhenya is a little reckless, desperate. She believed in herself until the very end, even when she led the Germans away from Osyanina, she never doubted 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 improbable, 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 dragged into the swamp. The author writes that until the last moment the heroine believed that "tomorrow will be for her."

Petty Officer Vaskov

Sergeant Major Vaskov, whom we have already mentioned in the summary "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", is left alone in the midst of torment, misfortune, alone with death and three prisoners. But now he has five times more strength. What was in this fighter of the human, the best, but hidden deep in the soul, was suddenly revealed. He felt and experienced both for himself and for his "sister" girls. The foreman laments, he does not understand why this happened, because they need to give birth to children, and not die.

So, according to the plot, all the girls died. What guided them when they went into battle, not sparing their own lives, defending their land? Perhaps just a duty to the Fatherland, his people, perhaps patriotism? Everything was mixed up at that moment.

Sergeant Major Vaskov ultimately blames himself for everything, and not the Nazis he hates. As a tragic requiem, his words that he "put down all five" are perceived.

Conclusion

Reading the work "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" one involuntarily becomes an observer of the everyday life of anti-aircraft gunners at a bombed-out junction in Karelia. This story is based on an episode that is insignificant in the vast scale of the Great Patriotic War, but it is told in such a way that all its horrors stand before your eyes in all their ugly, terrible inconsistency with the essence of man. It is emphasized by the fact that the work is called "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", and by the fact that its heroes are girls who are forced to participate in the war.

Courageous death of girls in the work "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"
The work “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, which was written by Boris Lvovich Vasilyev (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, did not allow the Germans to undermine 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. The following is a brief summary of this work with comments.
The Great Patriotic War brought a lot of grief, devastation 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 nevertheless they withstood and became victors.
Vasiliev B. L. in 1941, when the war began, was still a schoolboy, but he, without hesitation, went to the front and served as a lieutenant. In 1943 he received a severe concussion and could not continue to fight. Therefore, he knew what battles were, and his best books were written specifically about war and how a person remained a person, fulfilling his military duty.
In the story of B.L. Vasiliev "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" tells about military events. But the main characters of this work are not men, as is usually the case, but young girls. They resisted the Nazis, being among the swamps and lakes. But the Germans outnumbered them and were strong, hardy, they had excellent weapons, and there was no pity at all.
The action of the story takes place in the May days of 1942 at the railway siding, commanded by Fedor Evgrafovich Vaskov, he was only thirty-two years old. Fighters arrived here, but a spree and even drunkenness began. Because of this, the commander wrote several reports and anti-aircraft gunners arrived at this patrol, they were commanded by Osyanina Margarita, she was widowed, having lost her husband at the front. Then the Nazis killed the carrier of shells, and Yevgenia Komelkova took her place. There were five girls in total, but they all had a different character.
Girls (Margarita, Sophia, Galina, Evgenia, Elizabeth), the author writes about them that they are different, but still similar to each other. Osyanina Margarita is tender, internally beautiful, has a strong-willed character. She is the bravest of all girls, she has motherly qualities.
Evgenia Komelkova has white skin, red hair, tall stature and the eyes of a child. She has a cheerful nature, and she is prone to excitement and adventure. This girl is tired of war, grief and difficult love for a man, because he is already married and is very far from her. Gurvich Sophia has a poetic, refined character of an excellent student, it seems 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, and not in the real world, she was very much 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 the actress Lyubov Orlova, wearing long beautiful dresses, getting attention from fans.
Unfortunately, the dreams of these anti-aircraft gunners did not come true, because they did not have time to really live in this world, they died very young.
The anti-aircraft gunners defended their country, they harbored hatred for the Nazis, they carried out orders invariably clearly. Losses, and tears, and experiences fell to their lot. Their girlfriends were dying next to them, but the girls did not give up and did not allow the enemy to pass through the railroad siding. Their feat allowed the Fatherland to win back freedom. There were a lot of such patriots.
These girls had a completely different life, 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 in the temple. Galina's death was in keeping with the character of the girl herself (with pain and recklessness). Galya could hide and stay alive, but she did not hide. Why this happened is not clear, maybe cowardice or short-term confusion. Sophia died from a dagger pierced into her heart.
Eugenia's death was somewhat reckless and desperate. The girl was self-confident until her death, even taking the Nazis away from Margarita, she thought that everything would end well. And having received the first bullet in the side, she was only surprised, because she did not believe that she was dying at nineteen. 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, misfortune and inhuman torment. But his inner strength became five times greater, all the best qualities hidden in the depths of his 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 had to live long and give birth to beautiful children. These girls died, not sparing their young lives, doing their duty to the country, they fought bravely, courageously, were a model of patriotism. Anti-aircraft gunners defended their Fatherland. But the foreman blames himself for their death, not the enemies. He claimed that it was he who "put all five."
After reading this story, there remains an indelible feeling that he himself watched the everyday life of these anti-aircraft gunners at the Karelian railway siding, 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 name "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" and the brave girls participating in these terrible events only emphasize this.