Very briefly A young lieutenant gets into Brest fortress on the first day of the war. For ten months he stubbornly resists the Nazis and dies unbroken.
Part one
Nineteen-year-old Kolya Pluzhnikov is finishing military school with the rank of second lieutenant. Instead of a vacation, the commissioner asks him to help deal with the property of the school, which is expanding due to the complicated situation in Europe.
For two weeks, Pluzhnikov disassembles and takes into account military property. Then the general calls him and offers to remain in his native school as the commander of a training platoon with the prospect of continuing his studies at the Military Academy. Kolya refuses - he wants to serve in the army.
A commander... becomes a real commander only after serving in the troops, having a meal with soldiers from the same pot, having learned to command them.
Kolya is appointed a platoon commander and sent to the Special Western District with the condition that in a year he will return to the school.
Kolya goes to the duty station via Moscow. He saves a few hours to see his mother and younger sister Kolya's father died in Central Asia from the hands of the Basmachi. At home, Kolya meets his sister's friend. The girl has been in love with him for a long time. She promises to wait for Kolya and is going to visit him at a new duty station. The girl believes that the war will begin soon, but Kolya is convinced that these are empty rumors, and the Red Army is strong and will not let the enemy into our territory.
Kolya arrives in Brest in the evening. Not finding a canteen, he, along with random fellow travelers, goes to a restaurant where a self-taught violinist plays. It is restless in Brest, every night the roar of engines, tanks and tractors is heard beyond the Bug.
After dinner, Kolya parted ways with fellow travelers. They call him with them, but Pluzhnikov stays in the restaurant. The violinist plays for the lieutenant, and the musician's niece Mirra escorts Kolya to the Brest Fortress.
At the checkpoint, Kolya is sent to the barracks for business travelers. Mirrochka undertakes to see him off.
It was very quiet and very warm, and his head was spinning a little, and he thought with pleasure that he had nowhere to rush yet, because he was not yet on the lists.
Mirra, a lame Jewish girl working in the fortress, is aware of everything that happens both in the city and in the garrison. This seems suspicious to Kolya. Before the next checkpoint, he tries to open the holster of his service weapon and in a moment he is already lying in the dust under the guns of the duty officer.
Having settled the misunderstanding, Mirra undertakes to clean Kolya of dust and leads him to a warehouse in a large basement. There, the lieutenant meets two middle-aged women, a mustachioed foreman, a gloomy sergeant and an eternally sleepy young soldier. While Kolya is cleaning, it starts to get light, the night of June 22, 1941 ends. Kolya is seated to drink tea, and then the roar of explosions is heard. The foreman is sure that the war has begun. Kolya rushes upstairs in order to be in time for his regiment, because he is not on the lists.
Part two
Pluzhnikov finds himself in the center of an unfamiliar fortress. Everything around is on fire, people are burning alive in the garage. On the way to the KPK, Kolya hides in a crater along with an unfamiliar fighter, who reports: the Germans are already in the fortress. Pluzhnikov understands that the war has really begun.
Following a fighter named Salnikov, Kolya joins his own and, under the command of the deputy political officer, recaptures the club occupied by the Germans - a former church. Kolya is entrusted with keeping the church. For the rest of the day, the fortress is bombed. Kolya and a dozen fighters repulse the attacks of the Nazis with captured weapons. All the water goes to cool the machine guns, the river bank is already occupied by the Nazis, and the soldiers are thirsty.
He no longer felt fear or time: his stuffy ears rang, a dreary tickle in his parched throat, and out of habit, his hands were twitching from the beating German machine gun.
Between the attacks of Pluzhnikov and Salnikov, they examine the vast basement of the church - the women hiding there seem to have seen the Germans - but they do not find anyone. In the evening, the nimble Salnikov brings water. Kolya begins to realize that the Red Army will not help them.
In the morning the Germans break through the basement. Kolya and Salnikov run under fire to another basement, where a small detachment of soldiers, led by a senior lieutenant, sat down. He believes that the church had to be abandoned because of Pluzhnikov. Kolya also feels his guilt - he overlooked it - and undertakes to atone for it.
He sat on the floor, not moving, sullenly thinking that he had done the worst thing: he had betrayed his comrades. He did not look for excuses for himself, did not feel sorry for himself: he sought to understand why this happened.
Kolya receives an order to correct the mistake and recapture the church. They beat him back, and yesterday is repeated - bombings, attacks. Kolya lies behind the machine gun and shoots, burning himself on the red-hot hull.
They are changed in the morning. Kolya, Salnikov and a tall border guard retreat, come under fire and break into the basement compartment, from which there is no way out. Only at night they break through to the ring barracks, under which there is also a network of cellars. The enemy, meanwhile, changes tactics. Now German sappers are methodically blowing up the ruins, destroying places where you can hide.
In the cellars, Kolya meets a wounded political officer and learns from him that the Germans promise a heavenly life to the surrendered "valiant defenders of the fortress." The political instructor, on the other hand, believes that the Germans should be beaten so that they are afraid of every stone, tree and hole in the ground. Kolya understands that the political instructor is right.
The next day, Kolya ends up in the common cellars.
Days and nights merged into a single chain of sorties and bombings, ... fights with the enemy and short, like fainting minutes of oblivion. And a constant, debilitating, not passing even in a dream desire to drink.
The political instructor dies, taking several fascists with him, a tall border guard is mortally wounded during the assault on the bridge, then the commanders are sent to German captivity women and children so that they do not die of thirst in the cellars.
Kolya gets water for the wounded. The border guard asks to be taken to the exit from the basement - he wants to die under open sky. Helping a friend, Kolya says that everyone was ordered to "scatter in all directions." But there are no cartridges, and breaking through without ammunition is a senseless suicide.
After leaving the border guard to die, Kolya and Salnikov set out to look for an ammunition depot. The Germans have already occupied the fortress. During the day they destroy the ruins, and at night these ruins come to life.
Wounded, scorched, exhausted by thirst and battles, skeletons in rags rose from under the bricks, crawled out of the dungeons and ... destroyed those who risked staying overnight. And the Germans were afraid of the night.
Friends make their way to the warehouse during the day, hiding in the craters. In one of the funnels, a German discovers them. They begin to beat Salnikov, and Pluzhnikov is chased in a circle, "cheering" with automatic bursts, until he dives into an inconspicuous hole in the ground.
Kolya ends up in an isolated bunker, where he meets Mirra and her companions - senior sergeant Fedorchuk, foreman, Red Army soldier Vasya Volkov. They have a supply of food, they got water by breaking through the floor and pulling out a well. Having come to his senses, Kolya feels that he is at home.
Part three
The whole war for them, walled up alive in a deaf casemate, was now going on upstairs.
While Kolya was fighting, they made their way through the basements to this isolated bunker with two exits - to the surface and to the armory.
Pluzhnnikov decides to make his way to the remnants of the garrison who have settled in the distant basements, but is late: in front of his eyes, the Germans blow up the shelter and destroy the last defenders of the fortress. Now only scattered loners remain in the ruins.
Pluzhnikov returns to the basement and lies on the bench for a long time, remembering those with whom he fought all these days.
With amazing clarity, he could see them all now. Everyone who, covering him, rushed forward, rushed without hesitation, without hesitation, driven by something incomprehensible, incomprehensible to him.
Kolya passes a death sentence on himself and decides to shoot himself. Mirra stops him. The next morning, Pluzhnikov finally comes to his senses, arms the men who are under his command and arranges forays to the surface, hoping to find at least one of his own. Kolya believes that Salnikov is still alive and is constantly looking for him.
During one of the sorties, a shootout begins and the foreman is wounded in the leg. Fedorchuk disappears the next day. Kolya, together with Vasya Volkov, goes to look for him and sees how he voluntarily surrenders to the Germans. Pluzhnikov kills the traitor with a shot in the back.
He felt no remorse, having shot a man with whom he had sat at a common table more than once. On the contrary, he felt an evil, joyful excitement.
Vasya begins to fear his commander. Meanwhile, the Germans enter the fortress and begin to clean up the ruins. Kolya and Volkov retreat and stumble upon prisoners, among whom Pluzhnikov sees a familiar Red Army soldier. He informs Kolya that Salnikov is alive and is in the German infirmary. The prisoner is trying to betray him. Kolya has to run away, and he loses Volkov.
Pluzhnikov notices that Germans of a different kind have come to the fortress - not so grasping and fast. He takes one prisoner and finds out that it is a mobilized German worker from the guard team. Kolya understands that he must kill the prisoner, but he cannot do this and lets him go.
The foreman's wound rots, he feels that he will not last long, and decides to sell his life dearly. The foreman blows up the gate through which the enemy enters the fortress, along with himself and a large group of Germans.
Part Four
On the advice of the foreman, Kolya wants to send Mirra to the Germans as a prisoner, hoping that she can survive. The girl thinks that Kolya wants to get rid of her as a burden. She understands that the Germans will kill her, a cripple and a Jewess.
Pluzhnikov explores the labyrinth of cellars and stumbles upon two survivors - a sergeant and a corporal. They are going to leave the fortress and call Kolya with them. New acquaintances do not want to take myrrh with them. They believe that the Red Army is defeated and want to escape as soon as possible. Kolya refuses to leave the girl alone and forces the sergeant and corporal to leave, supplying them with cartridges.
Mirra is in love with Kolya, and he shares her feelings. They become husband and wife.
And again there was no darkness, no basement, no rats that squeaked in the corners. And again there was no war, but there were two. two on earth. Man and woman.
Time passes. Pluzhnikov patrols the fortress every day. In one of these sorties, he meets Vasya Volkov. He went crazy, but Pluzhnikova is still afraid. Seeing Kolya, Volkov runs away, stumbles upon the Germans and dies.
Autumn is coming. Mirra confesses to Kolya that she is expecting a baby and must leave. Kolya had already seen a detachment of captured women in the fortress who were clearing the rubble. He takes Mirra to them, she tries to mix with the prisoners, but they notice an extra woman. She is recognized by a German who was once spared by Kolya. Mirra is trying to move away so that Pluzhnikov, who is watching everything from the basement hole, does not understand anything and does not intervene. The girl is severely beaten and pierced with a bayonet.
A bright light flashed before her tightly closed eyes, and in this merciless light she suddenly saw that she would never have a little one, a husband, or life itself.
The half-dead girl is covered with bricks in a small funnel.
Part Five
Kolya falls ill and loses track of days. When Pluzhnikov recovers and gets out, there is already snow in the fortress. He again begins to hunt for German patrols.
He was alive and still felt like the owner of the Brest Fortress that had fallen silent under the snow.
Pluzhnikov is sure that Mirra has returned to her family, and tries not to think about her.
Kolya gets into the church, remembers how he fought for it, and understands: there is no death and loneliness, "because there is it, this is the past." The Germans are trying to catch him by quietly cordoning off the church, but Pluzhnikov escapes. In the evening, Kolya returns to his habitable corner and finds that it has been blown up - Pluzhnikov was given out traces in the freshly fallen snow.
Kolya goes to the unexplored cellars and meets the surviving foreman Semishny there. He was wounded in the spine and can no longer walk - he is gradually paralyzed. But the spirit of the foreman is not broken, he is sure that every meter of his native land resists the enemy. He forces Kolya to come out of the basement every day and kill the invaders.
To know: the fortress is alive. To be afraid of the dead. To order their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to Russia to meddle!
Kolya gradually begins to lose his sight, but stubbornly goes "hunting". The foreman is also getting worse, he can hardly sit, but does not give up, "with a fight giving death every millimeter of his body."
On the first day of 1942, Semishny dies. Before his death, he gives Kolya the regimental banner, which he wore under his clothes all this time.
On the twelfth of April, the Germans find Pluzhniki. As an interpreter, they bring a self-taught violinist who once played for Kolya. From him, Pluzhnikov learns that the Germans have been defeated near Moscow. Kolya feels that he has fulfilled his duty, and goes out to the enemies. He is ill, almost blind, but he holds himself upright. He goes to the ambulance through the formation of German soldiers, and they, at the command of the officer, put their hands to their caps.
But he did not see these honors, and if he did, he would not care anymore. He was above all conceivable honors, above glory, above life and above death.
Near the car, he falls "free and after life, trampling death by death."
Epilogue
Visitors to the museum of the Brest Fortress will be sure to be told a legend about a man who was not listed, but defended the fortress for ten months, they will show the only surviving regimental banner and “a small wooden prosthesis with the remnant of a woman’s shoe” found in a funnel under bricks.
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They don't need fame.
To things like us
She must call.
(Inscription on the obelisk in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra)
Wartime is far behind us. Years go by... Veterans are aging, there are fewer and fewer people who participated in bloody battles with fascism. But in the memory of new and new generations, the Great Patriotic War remains as a symbol of a great national feat, a moral height achieved by fathers and grandfathers and left to us, descendants. For grandchildren, letters from front-line soldiers, orders, cuttings from front-line newspapers are saved in families. But there are war documents that are the property of everyone. These are books about the war: A. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin", M. Sholokhov "The Fate of a Man", V. Bykov "Sotnikov", "Alpine Ballad", Y. Bondarev " Hot Snow"... They tell about the most ordinary people, whose youth coincided with the hour of the great trials of the people, who, having endured these trials, living or dead, bequeath the ideals of their time to us.
Boris Vasiliev is one of those writers who defended native land with weapons in hand. The most interesting, in my opinion, his works military theme the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” and the novel “He Was Not on the Lists”, revealing the beauty of the spiritual world of the Russian soldier.
The protagonist of the work is Lieutenant Nikolai Pluzhnikov, who recently graduated from a military school. This is an enthusiastic young man, full of hope and believing that "... every commander must first serve in the troops" Talking about short life lieutenant, B. Vasiliev shows how a young man becomes a hero.
Having been assigned to the Special Western District, Kolya was happy. As if on wings, he flew to the city of Brest-Litovsk, in a hurry to decide on a unit as soon as possible. His guide through the city was the girl Mirra, who helped him get to the fortress. Before reporting to the regimental duty officer, Kolya went into the warehouse to clean his uniform. And at that time the first explosion was heard ... So for Pluzhnikov the war began.
Barely having time to jump out before the second explosion, blocking the entrance to the warehouse, the lieutenant began his first battle. He aspired to accomplish a feat, thinking proudly: “I went on a real attack and, it seems, I killed someone. There is something to tell ... ”And the next day he was frightened by German machine gunners and, saving his life, abandoned the fighters who had already trusted him.
From this moment, the consciousness of the lieutenant begins to change. He blames himself for cowardice and sets himself the goal of preventing the enemies from capturing the Brest Fortress at all costs. Pluzhnikov realizes that true heroism and feat require courage, responsibility, readiness to “lay down one’s life for one’s friends” from a person. And we see how the awareness of duty becomes driving force his actions: you can’t think about yourself, because the Motherland is in danger. Having gone through all the cruel trials of the war, Nikolai became an experienced fighter, ready to give everything for the sake of victory and firmly believing that "it is impossible to defeat a person, even by killing."
Feeling a blood connection with the Fatherland, he remained faithful to his military duty, calling for him to fight his enemies to the end. After all, the lieutenant could have left the fortress, and this would not have been desertion on his part, because he was not on the lists. Pluzhnikov understood that defending the Motherland was his sacred duty.
Left alone in the ruined fortress, the lieutenant met the foreman Semishny, who from the very beginning of the siege of Brest wore the banner of the regiment on his chest. Dying of hunger and thirst, with a broken spine, the foreman kept this shrine, firmly believing in the liberation of our Motherland. Pluzhnikov accepted the banner from him, having received an order to survive at all costs and return the scarlet banner to Brest.
Nikolai had to go through a lot during these harsh days of trials. But no troubles could break a man in him and extinguish his fiery love for the Fatherland, because "in important eras In life, sometimes a spark of heroism flares up in the most ordinary person.
The Germans drove him into a casemate, from which there was no second way out. Pluzhnikov hid the banner and went out into the light, saying to the man sent for him: “The fortress did not fall: it simply bled out. I am her last drop...” How Nikolai Pluzhnikov is deeply revealed in his human essence in the final scene of the novel, when he, accompanied by Ruvim Svitsky, leaves the casemate. It is written, if you turn for an analogy to musical creativity, according to the principle of the final chord.
Everyone in the fortress looked with surprise at Nicholas, this "unconquered son of the unconquered Motherland." In front of them stood "an incredibly thin, no longer aged man." The lieutenant was “without a hat, long gray hair touched his shoulders ... He stood, straightening up strictly, throwing his head high, and, without looking up, looked at the sun with blinded eyes. And from those unblinking, intent eyes, tears flowed uncontrollably.
Marveling at Pluzhnikov's heroism, the German soldiers and the general gave him the highest military honors. “But he did not see these honors, and if he did, he would not care anymore. He was above all conceivable honors, above glory, above life, above death.
Lieutenant Nikolai Pluzhnikov was not born a hero. The author tells in detail about his pre-war life. He is the son of Commissar Pluzhnikov, who died at the hands of the Basmachi. Even at the school, Kolya considered himself a model of a general who participated in the Spanish events. And in the conditions of war, the unfired lieutenant was forced to take independent solutions; when he received the order to retreat, he did not leave the fortress. This structure of the novel helps to understand spiritual world not only Pluzhnikov, but all Russian people.
Nicholas died, but, as he himself said, the soldiers who fell on the battlefield as heroes did not die. They cannot be killed. Only those who cowardly surrendered and remained to live died.
Nikolai Pluzhnikov is a true defender of his Fatherland. A courageous patriot of the Motherland, he fought to the end for the happiness and freedom of the Russian people.
Death has no power over people like him, because at the cost own life these people stood up for the truth.
Each era brings forth its heroes. In the novel by B. Vasiliev “I was not on the lists”, such a hero was “ ordinary person» Nikolai Pluzhnikov.
Years have passed, we have become accustomed to the word "war" and when we hear it, we often do not pay attention, do not startle, do not even stop... Maybe because it was a long time ago? Or because, knowing everything about the war, we do not know only one thing: “What is it?” “War is a monstrous nonsense”, grief, suffering, loss and exploits of many nameless heroes. They died, but did not give up. The consciousness of duty to the Motherland and love for it drowned out the feeling of fear, and pain, and thoughts of death. This means that this action is not an unaccountable feat, but a conviction in the rightness and greatness of a cause for which a person consciously gives his life. ordinary people fought for the future, for the truth and a clear conscience of the world.
The memory of the Great Patriotic War still lives in the heart of every Russian person. And I want to say, together with the poet N. Dobronravov:
Let's bow to those great years,
To those glorious commanders and fighters,
And the marshals of the country, and the privates,
Let's bow to the dead and the living,
To all those who must not be forgotten,
Let's bow, bow, friends!
All the world, all the people, all the earth
Boris Vasiliev is one of the most famous Russian writers who wrote about the war. His novels "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...", "The Wilderness", "Don't Shoot the White Swans" are imbued with love for people and native nature.
We will consider the story "I was not on the lists", the analysis of which is useful for studying the work at school.
The beginning of the military career of Kolya Pluzhnikov
The story opens with a story young guy Nikolai Pluzhnikov, who has everything in his life: a career (he was assigned a junior lieutenant), new form, the upcoming vacation ... Pluzhnikov goes to one of the best evenings in his life - to the dance, where he invites the librarian Zoya! And even the request of the authorities to sacrifice their vacation and stay in order to deal with the property of the school does not overshadow the wonderful mood and life of Kolya Pluzhnikov.
After the commander asks about what Nikolai intends to do next, is he going to go to study at the academy. However, Kolya replies that he wants to "serve in the army", because it is impossible to become a real commander if he has not served. The general looks approvingly at Nikolai, beginning to respect him.
Nicholas is sent to the Western District, to the Brest Fortress.
Suddenly the war started...
An analysis of the work "He was not on the lists" (Vasiliev) is impossible without mentioning the intermediate stop of Kolya between the school and the fortress. This stop was his house. There Nikolai saw his mother, sister Varya and her friend Valya. The latter gave him a kiss and promised to wait without fail.
Nikolai Pluzhnikov leaves for Brest. There, Kolya hears that the Germans are preparing for war, but most of the townspeople do not believe in this, they do not take it seriously. In addition, Russians believe in the strength of the Red Army.
Kolya approaches the fortress, he is accompanied by the limping girl Mirra, who annoys Pluzhnikov with her chatter and awareness. They let Kolya through at the checkpoint, give him a room for business trips and promise to deal with his distribution later.
At 4 am on June 22, 1941, the Brest Fortress began to be bombed. Boris Vasiliev knew how to describe the war very realistically. "Not on the lists" analyzes and shows the whole situation in which soldiers like Kolya Pluzhnikov have to fight, their thoughts and dreams about home and relatives.
Last Hero
After the German attack, all the Russians who were at the Brest Fortress hope that the Red Army is about to arrive and provide assistance, the most important thing is to live to see help. But the Red Army is still gone, and the Germans are already walking around the fortress, as if at home. The story "He was not on the lists", the analysis of which we are doing, describes how a small handful of people sit in the basement of the fortress and eat up the found crackers. They sit without cartridges, without food. It's real Russian frost outside. These people are waiting for help, but it is still not available.
People sitting in the basement begin to die. Only Nikolai Pluzhnikov remains. He shoots the last bullets at the Germans, while he himself constantly hides in crevices. During one of the runs to another place, he finds a secluded place, climbs in there and suddenly ... hears human voice! There Pluzhnikov sees very thin man in a padded jacket. He is crying. It turns out that he has not seen people for three weeks.
Pluzhnikov dies at the end of the story. But he dies after being rescued by Russian troops. He falls to the ground, looks up to the sky and dies. Nikolai Pluzhnikov was the only living Russian soldier after the Germans invaded the Brest Fortress, which means that it was not completely conquered. Nikolai Pluzhnikov dies a free, undefeated man.
The story "He was not on the lists", the analysis of which we are doing, does not hold back tears in the finale of the work. Boris Vasiliev writes in such a way that every word literally touches the soul.
The history of the creation of the work
At the end of the story, readers watch a woman arrive at the Brest railway station and lay flowers. It is written on the tablet that during the Great Patriotic War the station was guarded by Nikolai (his last name is unknown). Boris Vasilyev became a witness to this story, which happened in reality.
“He didn’t appear on the lists” (an analysis of this story is impossible without relying on the following facts) - a work based on the fact that Vasilyev himself drove past the station in Brest and noticed a woman who was standing in front of a sign with an inscription about unknown Nicholas. He questioned her and found out that during the war there was such a soldier who fell a hero.
Boris Vasilyev tried to look for something about him in documents and archives, but found nothing. Because the soldier was not on the lists. Then Vasiliev came up with a story for him and conveyed it to our generation.
love line
First, Nikolai Pluzhnikov fell in love with Valya, his sister's friend. She promised to wait for him, and Kolya promised to return. However, in the war, Nicholas fell in love again. Yes, love broke out between him and that same lame Mirra. They sat in the basement and planned how they would get out of there and go to Moscow. And in Moscow they will go to the theater... Mirra will put a prosthesis and will no longer limp... Kolya and Mirra indulged in such dreams, sitting in a cold, gray, God-forsaken basement.
Mirra got pregnant. The couple realized that it was impossible for Mirra to stay in the basement and eat only breadcrumbs. She needs to get out to save the baby. However, it falls into the hands of the Germans. The Germans beat Mirra for a long time, then they pierce her with bayonets and leave her to die in front of Pluzhnikov.
Other characters in the story
Pluzhnikov is at war with the soldier Salnikov. It's amazing how war changes people! From a green youth, he turns into a stern man. Before his death, he blames himself for the fact that he often thought not about the course of the battle itself, but about how he would be met at home. He can't be blamed for this. None of the young guys who were at the Brest Fortress was warned and prepared to meet the enemies face to face.
One of the main characters mentioned above is Mirrochka. A girl who should not have been at the Brest Fortress at such a difficult time! She needed the protection of her hero - Kolya, whom she, perhaps, partly in gratitude and fell in love with.
Thus, Boris Vasiliev ("He was not on the lists"), whose work we analyzed, created the story of one hero, whose feat personifies the feats of all Russian soldiers in the Great Patriotic War.
The story “He was not on the lists” is an excited and pathetic story about the feat of one of the defenders of the Brest Fortress. A lot has been written about the heroes of Brest, and, of course, the talented documentary book by S. S. Smirnov comes to mind. Vasiliev's story also has a documentary basis: in the epilogue, the writer told what real Brest impressions the idea of the book arose from. But real impressions are only the foundation of the story.
Reality here is closely intertwined with folk legend about a hero whose name is Nikolai and military rank- Lieutenant, surname remained unknown.
The work was created in a different stylistic vein than the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...”, which is quite understandable and natural, since its hero is a legendary person, the last defender of the fortress that never bowed its head. The death of heroes is the apotheosis of freedom and immortality. The pathetic finale is a wreath to the courageous son of the unconquered Motherland, a story elevated to the level of a legend.
Boris Vasiliev usually prefers situations that are extreme, unusual, on the verge of life and death, peace and war, the plots are dynamic and complicated, sharp psychological portraits. Preparation for action, introduction or exposure are short. No exception and the story "The lists did not appear." The past of Lieutenant Pluzhnikov is said sparingly and not without light irony. Nikolai Pluzhnikov is very young, and his emotions and dreams, respectively, are very young, how young and therefore naive, clear, cloudless attitude to life.
The war in an instant weathered both the former moods and the completely understandable, natural vanity of the young commander of the Red Army. Nikolai very soon had to learn that he was still a bad commander, and his first actions in the war were quite rightly regarded as a crime for which execution was due.
The time has come for a merciless judgment of oneself. The young lieutenant Pluzhnikov “died” on the very first day of the war, immediately becoming a man without age, whose youth burned down without a trace in a terrible and ruthlessly destroying illusions fire. Pluzhnikov, having already paid the war bill in full, indifferently turns away from his new commander's overcoat, as from a dead past. “He sat on the floor, not moving, stubbornly thinking that he had done the worst thing - betrayed his comrades. He did not look for excuses, did not feel sorry for himself - he sought to understand why this happened. No, I didn't chicken out just now, he thought. - I chickened out in yesterday's attack. After it, I lost myself, lost control of my hands. I thought about what I would say. Not about how I will fight, but what I will tell ... "
Nikolai Pluzhnikov became a fighter of the invisible army of the night avengers of Brest, elusive and, it seemed, charmed from death. “Wounded, scorched, exhausted by thirst and battles, skeletons in rags rose from under the bricks, crawled out of the cellars and, in bayonet attacks, destroyed those who risked staying for the night. And the Germans were afraid of the night."
The heroes of Brest "died without shame", bringing them closer to terrible first months of war is still a distant day of victory. They knew they were doomed, but they continued to fight, defying death. They died undefeated. “A man cannot be defeated if he does not want to. You can kill, but you can’t win,” says Pluzhnikov. These words are not beautiful phrase, not a pathetic declamation, but the heroic formula of the Brest epic, as well as the prophetic foresight by Lieutenant Pluzhnikov of his own fate. “He fell on his back, spreading his arms wide, exposing the sun to the unseeing, wide open eyes. Fell free and after life, trampling death by death.
The political instructor, the paramedic, the foreman, who bequeathed to Pluzhnikov before his death the banner of the regiment, are links of a single, strong and eternal chain. On the first day of the war, Nikolai shouted in despair: “Let me go! I must join the regiment! To the regiment! I'm not on the list yet! Pluzhnikov was not destined to find his regiment and be enrolled in the lists. In the April days of 1942, after ten months of incredible trials, great losses and victories, he no longer thinks about lists or personal glory. He does not regret that his name will be lost in the endless list of nameless heroes, unknown soldiers. “He no longer felt his “I”, he felt something more - his personality ... And he calmly realized that it would never matter to anyone what this personality was called, where and how she lived, whom she loved and how she died. One thing was important - the important thing was that the link connecting the past and the future into a single chain of time was strong.
Lieutenant Nikolai Pluzhnikov had a higher, feat given the right to think so. But he was mistaken in one thing - the descendants are not at all indifferent to how they lived and how they died. heroic defenders Motherland.
Last months the life of Nikolai Pluzhnikov is the everyday feat of a man who continues to fight, in spite of everything, alone. The work “He was not on the lists ...” is a heroic epic, symbolizing the great moral victory of the Soviet soldier.
Boris Lvovich Vasiliev talented artist, knowing firsthand about the war, he himself went through the harsh roads of the war, being at the front as a very young boy. His books are a dramatic chronicle of the time and generation, on whose shoulders heavy trials fell.
The hero of the novel “He was not on the lists” is a little older than the author. Nikolai Pluzhnikov managed to finish the combined arms school before the war, to become a professional military man. But he, at first, is lost in this hell, which the Germans staged when they stormed the Brest Fortress. He has a military school behind him, but he does not have the experience that the selected German units demonstrated, thrown against the exhausted from wounds and due to lack of water, lack of ammunition and the unknown defenders of the fortress. Only for a moment Pluzhnikov forgot himself, put saving lives above all else, then he realized that the worst thing was panic. Nikolai realized that he would not leave the fortress, the order was to defend the fortress, not to leave positions, and only death could be a justified departure. Lieutenant Pluzhnikov went through fear and despair, despondency and the loss of loved ones, who became almost family to Denishchik, Stepan Matveyevich, Mirra, Semishny. In the struggle, Nikolai matures, gaining experience. He wages his war in the fortress, not allowing the Germans to calm down, to forget that they are in a foreign land.
The writer led his hero through the test of love. Nikolay proved himself worthy here. He loved and protected Mirra. He opened the beautiful soul of this woman. Nicholas himself drew from this feeling of strength for the struggle. The scene of the farewell of the heroes before the departure of Mirra is dramatic. Fate took pity on Pluzhnikov. He did not see the death of his beloved, but everything else was enough in full. But the lieutenant did not break down, even left alone, he fought to the last.
The pages of the novel tell about the feat and worthy death of a Russian soldier, even the enemies recognize his superiority, saluting him: they wanted to carry the Russian on a stretcher. But he went on his own... When asked by a German officer about his name and rank, he answered: "I am a Russian soldier." Turning to the general, he asked: “What, general, now you know how many steps are in a Russian verst.” The German lieutenant, after a little hesitation, raised his hand to his cap. The soldiers stretched out and froze. Such courage and steadfastness inspire respect even among enemies. But Lieutenant Pluzhnikov was above all the honors given to him. He was the last defender of the never surrendered fortress. Thanks to such selflessly devoted and courageous people, Russia survived and defeated fascism. We have no right not to know our history, not to be proud of our ancestors, their courage and steadfastness. Boris Vasiliev helps young people to realize their place in life, to find their way in this huge and beautiful world, recaptured by soldiers of the Great Patriotic War.
Lieutenant Pluzhnikov main character The story barely manages to arrive at the Brest Fortress on the eve of the war. Having passed through the fortress at night, he cannot find his bearings, but, what Nikolai knows for sure, he will not retreat in the face of difficulties, only death can cause him to leave his positions. It's all good to know and understand in theory, but in life everything turns out to be more difficult. Succumbing to panic, the lieutenant flees from the church, which he was ordered to hold. Pluzhnikov is not shot just because it is a pity for the cartridges, and the defenders of the fortress are countless. This served as a cruel lesson to Nicholas. From now on, he will remember well that there was no order to leave the fortress. Pluzhnikov will not leave Brest, when the opportunity arises, he will become a Russian soldier, defending the line entrusted to him to the end. Everything was on him thorny path: fear and horror of the first battle, momentary weakness, gaining confidence in yourself and your high mission as a defender of the fortress and love. Here, in this hell, Nikolai fell in love sincerely and strongly, as it happens to fall in love once. Love gave the lieutenant the strength to live and fight, but it also gave birth to a great sense of responsibility for his beloved. It is immensely difficult for Nikolai and Mirra to part, but for the sake of the future of their child, they go for it. Pluzhnikov was not allowed to go through another terrible test to see the death of his beloved. He believed to the end that Mirra was alive, that she would raise their child, that she would tell the truth about this terrible time.
The further the story goes, the harder it becomes to understand and believe that in inhuman conditions, in complete surroundings and loneliness, it was possible not only to exist, but also to wage your own war, and Pluzhnikov fought, haunted the Germans.
Exhausted, half-blind from constant darkness, he says to Svitsky, who was sent by the Germans for negotiations: Now I can go out. I have to go out and look them in the eye... Tell our people that I didn't surrender the fortress. Let them search. Let them search properly in all casemates. The fortress didn't fall: it just bled out. I am her last drop ... What date is April 12 today. Twenty years. And I miscalculated for seven whole days.
Svitsky did not understand what twenty years. But it was Lieutenant Pluzhnikov who was only twenty. In ten months of his war, the whole life of Nikolai fit in, so at the entrance to the basement stood an incredibly thin, no longer aged man. He went with his head held high, renounced from earthly honors, above glory, above life and death, the last defender of a fortress that never submitted.
Reading the story again and again, I am imbued with a sense of pride for my people, who defended their freedom in a bloody and prohibitively difficult war.
