Death is a constant companion of war. Soldiers die in battle, and this brings lasting pain to their loved ones. But their destiny is to defend their homeland and perform heroic deeds. The death of young women in war is a tragedy for which there is no justification. The story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” is dedicated to this topic. The characteristics of the heroes, who were invented by Boris Vasiliev, give the work a special tragedy.
Five female characters, so different and so alive, were created by a talented writer in a story, which was later filmed by an equally gifted director. The system of images in the work plays an important role. The story of five lives that ended tragically early is the story “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet.” The characteristics of the characters play a central place in the plot.
Fedot Vaskov
The sergeant major went through the Finnish War. He was married and had a child. But to the beginning Patriotic War I became an absolutely lonely person. The young son died. And there was not a person in the whole world who would yearn for Vaskov, would wait for him from the front and hope that he would survive this war. But he survived.
The main characters are not in the story “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet.” The characteristics of the heroes are nevertheless given by Vasiliev in some detail. Thus, the author depicts not just people, but the fates of five girls who barely managed to graduate from school, and a middle-aged front-line soldier. They have nothing in common. But the war connected them forever. And even after many years, Vaskov returns to the place where five lives of young anti-aircraft gunners were cut short.
Zhenya Komelkova
Why has the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” not lost interest among readers over the years? The characteristics of the characters in this book are presented so comprehensively that the death that befalls each of the girls begins to be perceived as the death of a familiar person.
Zhenya is a redhead beautiful girl. She is distinguished by her artistry and extraordinary charm. Her friends admire her. However important qualities Her character is strength and fearlessness. In war, she is also driven by the desire for revenge. The characteristics of the heroes of the work “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet” are connected with their destinies. Each of the characters is a person with his own sad story.
Most of the girls' parents were taken away by the war. But Zhenya’s fate is especially tragic, because the Germans shot her mother, sister and brother before her eyes. She is the last of the girls to die. Leading the Germans with her, she suddenly thinks about how stupid it is to die at eighteen... The Germans shot her point-blank, and then peered at her beautiful, proud face for a long time.
Rita Osyanina
She seemed older than the other girls. Rita was the only mother from a platoon of anti-aircraft gunners who died in the Karelian forests in those days. She gives the impression of a more serious and reasonable person compared to other girls. After being seriously wounded, Rita shot herself in the temple, thereby saving the life of the foreman. Characteristics of the heroes of the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” - a description of the characters and a brief background to the pre-war years. Unlike her friends, Osyanina managed to get married and even give birth to a son. The husband died at the very beginning of the war. But the war did not allow her to raise her son.
Other heroines
The above characters are the brightest in the story “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet.” The main characters, whose characteristics are presented in the article, are not only Vaskov, Komelkova and Osyanina. Vasiliev depicted three more female images in his work.
Liza Brichkina is a girl from Siberia who was raised without a mother and, like any young woman, dreamed of love. Therefore, when she meets the middle-aged officer Vaskov, a feeling awakens in her. The sergeant major will never know about him. While carrying out his task, Lisa drowns in a swamp.
Galina Chetvertak - former pupil orphanage. She didn’t lose anyone during the war, because in the whole world she didn’t have a single soul mate. But she so wanted to be loved and have a family that she indulged in her dreams with selflessness. Rita died first. And when the bullet caught up with her, she shouted “Mom” - a word she had never used to call any woman during her lifetime.
Once upon a time Sonya Gurvich had parents, brothers and sisters. During the war, all members of the large Jewish family died. Sonya was left alone. This girl was distinguished from others by her sophistication and education. Gurvich died when she was returning for a pouch forgotten by the foreman.
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Beloved Komelkova
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Galya Chetvertak is an orphan, a pupil of an 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, unable to withstand the nervous tension of waiting for the Germans, 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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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 is the first from the class to 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 elected to the women's council and enrolled in all the circles. 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 was not 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- 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 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 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 with 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 the Kirov railway, to the “canal named after. Comrade Stalin,” Vaskov “hid his confusion. I thought, 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 story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” is the writer’s best and most deeply felt creation. The author reveals to us heroic image girls in the fight against fascist invaders. From the first pages we are presented with examples of the main characters, the fearlessness and courage of the Russian people.
The plot of all events begins from the moment when two anti-aircraft guns were left at one railway crossing that survived the bombing in case of enemy resistance. But Commandant Vaskov did not have conscientious soldiers. The soldiers were drinking and their attention was distracted. The foreman asked to send him non-drinking military personnel, and the command complied with the request.
They sent him responsible fighters, but they all turned out to be girls. Order was immediately established, but Vaskov was embarrassed by the fact that he did not know how to handle them. Rita Osyanina with a tragic fate becomes the commander of the first squad.
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Her wife was killed at the beginning of the war, and her son was forced to live with her parents, due to the fact that she went to the front to pay off the Germans for the death of her husband. Here she meets Zhenya Komelkova, a striking girl, to whom she often makes comments and believes that such people have no place at the front. But Zhenya also had reasons to come here.
She personally saw how her relatives were shot, and a family friend, Colonel Luzhin, sends her to the girls so that she will thaw out from the tragic events.
One day, returning from her parents, and she carried food for them every night, Osyanina notices the Germans and informs the foreman. Fedot Efgrafych, having calculated the route of the Nazis, understands that they want to destroy railway. He decides to stop the Germans.
Six girls, led by Vaskov, cross the swamp and discover that there are sixteen Germans. To report the current situation, he sends Lisa Brichkina, whom Vaskov sympathized with, to move. And they themselves, pretending to be collective farmers, began to distract the enemy. Lisa did not reach the place; she was sucked into the quagmire.
When Sonya Gurvich is killed in battle, Vaskov understands that it is necessary to take the Nazis away from the girls. Returning, he sees that Zhenya was killed and Rita was seriously wounded. Dying, she asks Fedot Efgrafych to raise her son. Barely holding back his sobs and blaming himself for killing such young girls, he destroys all the Germans and, noticing the help of Russian soldiers, falls into unconsciousness.
Many years have passed since those military events. Vaskov keeps Osyanina’s promise and raises her son. And every year they come to the monument they themselves erected and honor the memory of the dead girls.
The work makes us remember what war is and how people died heroically, defending every piece of their land. Everyone in the family had a grandfather or great-grandfather who fought, and when we must not forget about their feat. And in peacetime it’s just us, modern generation, living in friendship and harmony, we can prevent such bloodshed!
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“And the dawns here are quiet” - summary
The story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” summary which is given later in the article, talks about the events taking place during the Great Patriotic War.
The work is dedicated to the heroic feat of anti-aircraft gunners who unexpectedly found themselves surrounded by Germans.
- Epilogue
- Conclusion
About the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”
The reason for writing the work was a real wartime episode.
A small group of 7 soldiers recovering from wounds prevented the Germans from blowing up the Kirov Railway.
As a result of the operation, only one commander survived, who subsequently received the medal “For Military Merit” at the end of the war.
The episode is tragic, however, in the realities of wartime this event is lost among the horrors terrible war. Then the author remembered the 300 thousand women who bore the hardships of the front along with male soldiers.
And the plot of the story was based on tragic destinies female anti-aircraft gunners who die during a reconnaissance operation.
Who is the author of the book “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”
The work was written by Boris Vasiliev in the narrative genre.
When the Great Patriotic War began, he had barely finished 9th grade.
Boris Lvovich fought near Smolensk, received a shell shock, and therefore knew first-hand about front-line life.
He became interested in literary work in the 50s, writing plays and scripts. The writer took up prose stories only 10 years later.
The main characters of the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”
Vaskov Fedot Evgrafych
The sergeant-major, whose command the anti-aircraft gunners were placed in, occupied the commandant’s position at the 171st railway siding.
He is 32 years old, but the girls gave him the nickname “old man” for his intractable character.
Before the war, he was an ordinary man from the village, had a 4th grade education, and at the age of 14 he was forced to become the sole breadwinner in the family.
Vaskov's son, whom he sued from ex-wife after the divorce, died before the start of the war.
Gurvich Sonya
A simple, shy girl from a large family, born and raised in Minsk. Her father worked as a local doctor.
Before the war, she managed to study for a year at Moscow State University as a translator and spoke German fluently. Sonya's first love was a bespectacled student studying in the library at the next table, with whom they timidly communicated.
When the war began, due to the excess of translators at the front, Sonya ended up in a school for anti-aircraft gunners, and then in Fedot Vaskov’s detachment.
The girl loved poetry very much, cherished dream she wanted to see her numerous household members again. During a reconnaissance operation, Sonya was killed by a German with two knife blows to the chest.
Brichkina Elizaveta
Country girl, daughter of a forester. From the age of 14 she was forced to leave school and take care of her terminally ill mother.
I dreamed of entering a technical school, so after my mother’s death, following the advice of one of my father’s friends, I was going to move to the capital. But her plans were not destined to come true; they were adjusted by the war - Lisa went to the front.
The gloomy Sergeant Vaskov immediately aroused great sympathy in the girl. During a reconnaissance mission, Lisa was sent through the swamp for help, but was in too much of a hurry and drowned. After some time, Vaskov will find her skirt in the swamp, then he will understand that he is left without help.
Komelkova Evgenia
Cheerful and beautiful red-haired girl. The Germans shot all members of her family; the merciless reprisal took place right before Zhenya’s eyes.
Her neighbor saved the girl from death. Burning with the desire to avenge the death of her relatives, Zhenya became an anti-aircraft gunner.
The girl’s attractive appearance and perky character made her the object of Colonel Luzhin’s advances, so the authorities, in order to interrupt the romance, redirected Zhenya to the women’s detachment, so she came under the command of Vaskov.
In reconnaissance, Zhenya twice showed fearlessness and heroism. She saved her commander when he was fighting a German. And then, exposing herself to bullets, she led the Germans away from the place where the foreman and her wounded friend Rita hid.
Chetvertak Galina
A very young and sensitive girl, she was short in stature and had a habit of making up stories and fables.
She grew up in an orphanage and didn’t even have her own last name. Because of her small stature, the elderly caretaker, who treated Gala in a friendly manner, came up with her surname Chetvertak.
Before being called up, the girl almost managed to complete 3 years of library college. During a reconnaissance operation, Galya was unable to cope with fear and jumped out of cover, falling under German bullets.
Osyanina Margarita
The senior person in the platoon, Rita was distinguished by her seriousness, was very reserved and rarely smiled. As a girl, she bore the surname Mushtakov.
At the very beginning of the war, her husband, Lieutenant Osyanin, died. Wanting to avenge the death of her loved one, Rita went to the front.
She gave her only son, Albert, to be raised by her mother. Rita's death was the last of five girls in intelligence. She shot herself, realizing that she was mortally wounded and was an unbearable burden for her commander Vaskov.
Before her death, she asked the foreman to take care of Albert. And he kept his promise.
Other characters in “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”
Kiryanova
She was Rita's senior comrade in the industrial platoon. Before serving on the border, she took part in the Finnish War. Kiryanova, along with Rita, Zhenya Komelkova and Galya Chetvertak, were redirected to the 171st crossing.
Knowing about Rita’s secret attacks on her son and mother during her service with Vaskov, she did not betray her long-time colleague, interceding for her that morning when the girl met the Germans in the forest.
A brief retelling of the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”
The events of the story are greatly abbreviated. Dialogue and descriptive moments are omitted.
Chapter 1
The action took place in the rear. At the inactive railway siding at number 171, there are only a few surviving houses. There were no more bombings, but as a precaution, the command left anti-aircraft installations here.
Compared to other parts of the front, there was a resort at the junction, the soldiers abused alcohol and flirted with local residents.
The beginning of the 70s was literally illuminated by the light of "Dawn". The people read Boris Vasiliev’s story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet,” published in 1969 in the magazine “Yunost.” Two years later, readers were already flocking to famous performance"Taganka". And 45 years ago, a two-part film by Stanislav Rostotsky was released, which was watched by 66 million in the first year - every fourth resident of the USSR, if you count infants. Despite subsequent film adaptations, the viewer gives the undisputed palm to this, mostly black and white, film and generally considers it one of best films about the war.
From the heroes of old
In those years they filmed the war often, and they filmed it superbly. The film about five dead girls and their rude, but such a sincere foreman managed to stand out from this constellation. Probably because former front-line soldiers gave him their memories, soul, experience, starting with the author of the script, writer Boris Vasiliev.
He knew how to write about war especially. His heroes were never perfect. Vasiliev seemed to be saying young reader: Look, people like you went to the front - those who ran away from classes, fought, fell in love at random. But there was something in them, which means there is something in you too.
The director of the film, Stanislav Rostotsky, also passed through the front. Vasiliev’s story interested Stanislav Iosifovich precisely because he wanted to make a movie about a woman in the war. He himself was carried out of the battle in her arms by nurse Anya Chegunova, who later became Beketova. Rostotsky found the savior, who, as it turned out, reached Berlin, then got married and gave birth to beautiful children. But by the time filming ended, Anna was already blind and dying from brain cancer. The director brought her to the studio screening room and recounted in detail what was happening on the screen throughout the film.
Chief cameraman Vyacheslav Shumsky, chief designer Sergei Serebrennikov, make-up artist Alexey Smirnov, assistant costume designer Valentina Galkina, director of the film Grigory Rimalis fought. They simply physically could not allow untruths to appear on screen.
Petty Officer Vaskov - Andrey Martynov
The difficult task was to find actors who would be believed. Rostotsky had the idea: let the foreman be played by someone famous, and the girls, on the contrary, be debutantes. He chose Vyacheslav Tikhonov for the role of Sergeant Major Vaskov, and Boris Vasiliev believed that front-line soldier Georgy Yumatov would do the best job. But it so happened that the search for “Vaskov” continued. The assistant saw the 26-year-old actor at his graduation performance.
Andrei Leonidovich was born in Ivanovo, and has been fascinated by the theater since childhood. And his hero was not only six years older, but also from the village, had a “corridor education”, he dropped words as if he were giving a ruble.
The first tests were very unsuccessful, but, apparently, Rostotsky was very attracted to the type of actor and his perseverance. In the end, Martynov played Vaskov, so much so that the viewer unconditionally fell in love with this ridiculous foreman after his on-screen fighters. Martynov performed superbly and final scenes film, where he, already gray-haired, one-armed, together with his adopted son, erects a modest tombstone in honor of his girls.
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The actor had another starring role - in the television series “Eternal Call”. Martynov worked successfully in cinema and theater. He voiced over more than 120 foreign films, including “ Godfather" and "Schindler's List".
Life gave him a peculiar surprise: his wife was a German citizen whom he met at a festival. Franziska Thun spoke excellent Russian. The couple had a son, Sasha. But Andrei did not want to live in Germany, although in his homeland his colleagues literally pecked him to death for marrying a foreigner. But Franziska did not want to move to the USSR. Their union eventually fell apart.
Rita Osyanina – Irina Shevchuk
Rita is the only one of the heroines who was married and became a widow in the very first days of the war. She stayed in the rear with her mother small child, he is then adopted by Vaskov.
Shevchuk helped play his heroine’s painful personal drama with her complex romance with the then gaining popularity actor Talgat Nigmatulin (“Pirates of the 20th Century”). But Irina got to experience the happiness of motherhood many years later. In 1981, she gave birth to a daughter, the famous actress Alexandra Afanasyeva-Shevchuk (the girl’s father is composer Alexander Afanasyev).
Irina Borisovna successfully combines acting and public careers. In 2016, she starred in the film “Stolen Happiness.” At the same time, Shevchuk is vice-president of one of the largest film festivals in Russia, Kinoshock.
Zhenya Komelkova – Olga Ostroumova
By the time of the filming of “The Dawns”, Olga played a memorable role in “We’ll Live Till Monday” with the same Rostotsky. Zhenya Komelkova - bright, daring and heroic - was her dream.
In the film, Ostroumova, whose grandfather was a priest, had to play “nudity,” which was completely unusual for the USSR. According to the scenario, the female anti-aircraft gunners washed themselves in the bathhouse. It was important for the director to show beautiful female bodies intended for love and motherhood, and not for being hit by bullets.
Olga Mikhailovna is still considered one of the most beautiful Russian actresses. Despite her extremely feminine appearance, Ostroumova has a strong character. She was not afraid to divorce her second husband, chief director of the Hermitage Theater Mikhail Levitin, although they had two children in their marriage. Now the actress is already a three-time grandmother.
In 1996, Olga Mikhailovna married actor Valentin Gaft. Two so bright creative person managed to get along, although Gaft is the star of Sovremennik, and Ostroumova works at the Theater. Mossovet. Olga Mikhailovna said that at any time she is ready to listen to Valentin Iosifovich’s poems, which he writes as talentedly as he plays in films and on stage.
Lisa Brichkina - Elena Drapeko
Lena, of course, really wanted to play Zhenya Komelkova. But in her, a thin girl who was born in Kazakhstan and studied in Leningrad, the director “saw” the full-blooded beauty Liza, who grew up in a remote forest village and was secretly in love with the foreman. In addition, Stanislav Iosifovich decided that Brichkina should not be a Bryansk, but a Vologda girl. Elena Drapeko learned to “okat” so well that for a long time she could not get rid of the characteristic dialect.
Some of the most difficult scenes for the young actress were the scenes when her character drowns in a swamp. Everything was filmed in natural conditions, Lena-Lisa was put on a wetsuit. She had to dive into the dirty slurry. She had to die, and everyone around laughed at what the “swamp kikimora” looked like. Moreover, she kept having her pasted-on freckles restored...
Elena Grigorievna’s unbending character was manifested in the fact that she became not only very famous actress, which is still being filmed, but also public figure. Drapeko is a State Duma deputy, candidate of sociological sciences.
Political activity did not always contribute to personal life. But Elena Grigorievna has a daughter, Anastasia Belova, a successful producer, and a granddaughter, Varenka.
Sonya Gurvich – Irina Dolganova
Irina Valerievna was as modest in life as her heroine, the quietest and most “bookish” among the five fighters. Irina arrived for the audition from Saratov. She didn’t believe in herself so much that she didn’t even leave her address. They barely found her and immediately sent her to play scenes at the skating rink with the then-beginning Igor Kostolevsky, otherwise she would have had to wait until the next winter.
Rostotsky forced Irina, as prescribed by the script, to wear boots two sizes larger, which caused the girl real agony. And from the scene when her Sonya dies from a blow with a German knife and her friends find her, Irina Shevchuk and Olga Ostroumova were truly horrified: Dolganova’s face looked so lifeless.
Despite the “modest” role, Irina received an offer to stay in Moscow, at the film studio. Gorky. But I decided that theater was more important for an actress. For many years now she has been playing in the Nizhny Novgorod Youth Theater. Irina Valerievna’s husband is a businessman and her son is a doctor. In her city, Dolganova is well known not only as an actress, but also as a defender of homeless animals.
Galya Chetvertak – Ekaterina Markova
For Markova, the realities of childhood and adolescence were sharply different from those that befell the orphanage Galka Chetvertak, whose last name was even invented due to her short stature. Ekaterina grew up in the family of a famous Soviet writer Georgy Markov. She was a very purposeful girl: she specifically went to study at an evening school for working youth, because she wanted to graduate from the studio at the Moscow Theater. Stanislavsky.
But what, of course, brought Katya and Galka together was their rich imagination. Galka imagined everything for herself: parents, a groom and a happy future, which was not allowed to come true by a German bullet. And Markova became a writer, without leaving work in one of the the best theaters countries - Sovremennik.
Several of Ekaterina Georgievna's stories have been successfully filmed.
Markova lived for many years in a happy union with the magnificent actor Georgy Taratorkin, who recently passed away. The couple raised two children. Son Philip is a historian by training, and has now been ordained a priest. And the viewer knows his daughter Anna Taratorkina well from films, TV series and roles in RAMT.
Characteristics of the heroes "and the dawns here are quiet"
- Fedot Vaskov
Fedot Vaskov was already in the Finnish War, and now he is protecting the rear of the Soviet troops. He is the commandant of the patrol, to whom, after lengthy requests to send soldiers who don’t drink and don’t party, they sent very young girls who had barely crossed the school threshold.
Vaskov is the only survivor of his entire squad, but he lost his arm due to an infection in the wound he received.There is no direct indication in the book that Vaskov serves in air defense. Anti-aircraft gunners were sent to the site to protect against air attacks. During the Winter War, Vaskov was a scout.
Zhenya KomelkovaA very beautiful red-haired girl, the other heroines were amazed at her beauty. Tall, slender, with fair skin. When the Germans captured Zhenya’s village, an Estonian woman managed to hide Zhenya herself. In front of the girl's eyes, the Nazis shot her mother, sister and brother.
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 and then shot her at point-blank range.In the film, the role of Komelkova was played by actress Olga Ostroumova.
Rita OsyaninaRita Mushtakova was the first of her class to marry Lieutenant Osyanin, with whom she gave birth to a son, Albert. Rita's husband died during a counterattack on June 23, 1941.
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.
Lisa BrichkinaLiza Brichkina is a simple village girl who is under pressure from her father. At the same time, a hunter-traveler comes to their house, with whom Lisa falls in love. But not having mutual feelings for Lisa, and seeing at the same time the conditions in which the girl is growing up, he invites her to come to the capital and enroll in a technical school. But Lisa never managed to become a student; the war began.
Lisa drowned in a swamp while carrying out an assignment for Sergeant Major Vaskov, for whom she had loving feelings.
Galya Chetvertak
Galina Chetvertak introduces herself as Marion Dixon (still from Rostotsky’s film)Galya grew up in an orphanage. It was there that she received her nickname for her short stature.
During the battle with the Germans, Vaskov took Galya with him, but she, unable to withstand the nervous tension of waiting for the Germans, ran out of cover and was shot by the Nazis. Despite such an absurd death, the foreman told the girls that she died in a shootout.
Sonya GurvichSonya Gurvich is a girl who grew up in a large Jewish family. She knew German and 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. - Zhenya is a red-haired beautiful girl. She is distinguished by her artistry and extraordinary charm. Her friends admire her. However, the important qualities of her character are strength and fearlessness. In war, she is also driven by the desire for revenge. The characteristics of the heroes of the work And the Quiet Dawns Here are connected with their destinies. Each of the characters is a person with their own sad story. Most of the girls' parents were taken away by the war. But Zhenya’s fate is especially tragic, because the Germans shot her mother, sister and brother before her eyes. She is the last of the girls to die. Leading the Germans with her, she suddenly thinks about how stupid it is to die at eighteen. The Germans shot her point-blank, and then peered at her beautiful, proud face for a long time.
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Fedot Vaskov Sergeant Major went through the Finnish War. He was married and had a child. But by the beginning of the Patriotic War, he became an absolutely lonely person. The wife left. The young son died. And there was not a person in the whole world who would yearn for Vaskov, would wait for him from the front and hope that he would survive this war. But he survived.
Rita Osyanina She seemed older than the other girls. Rita was the only mother from a platoon of anti-aircraft gunners who died in the Karelian forests in those days. She gives the impression of a more serious and reasonable person compared to other girls. After being seriously wounded, Rita shot herself in the temple, thereby saving the life of the foreman. Characteristics of the heroes of the story The Dawns Are Here quiet description characters and a brief background to the pre-war years. Unlike her friends, Osyanina managed to get married and even give birth to a son. The husband died at the very beginning of the war. But the war did not allow her to raise her son.
Liza Brichkina is a girl from Siberia who was raised without a mother and, like any young woman, dreamed of love. Therefore, when she meets the middle-aged officer Vaskov, a feeling awakens in her. The sergeant major will never know about him. While carrying out his task, Lisa drowns in a swamp.
Galina Chetvertak is a former pupil of an orphanage. She did not lose anyone during the war, because in the whole world she did not have a single soul mate. But she so wanted to be loved and have a family that she indulged in her dreams with selflessness. Rita died first. And when the bullet overtook her, Mom shouted out a word that she had never used to call any woman during her lifetime. Once upon a time Sonya Gurvich had parents, brothers and sisters. During the war, all members of the large Jewish family died. Sonya was left alone. This girl was distinguished from others by her sophistication and education. Gurvich died when she was returning for a pouch forgotten by the foreman. - “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 to a married and distant person. Sonya Gurvich is an excellent student, a refined poetic nature, as if she came out of a book of poems by Alexander Blok. Lisa Brichkina 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 the orphanage, notes and dreams... about long dresses, solo parts and universal worship. She wanted to become new love Orlova.
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