The platoon of Soviet intelligence officers joined the village. It was the usual West Ukrainian village. Scouts commander Lieutenant Herkin thought about his people. Of the eighteen former, proven fighters, he has only twelve. The rest were just scored, and what they will be in business - it is unknown. And ahead was a meeting with the opponent: the division fell.

Herbin was highly peculiar to selfless attitude to business and absolute unconsciousness - it was for these qualities that the scouts loved this young, closed and incomprehensible lieutenant.

Light intedent showed that the Germans are not far away, and the division has moved to defense. We gradually pulled the rear.

The head of the army broken down to the division set the task of sending a group of scouts to the rear of the enemy before coming SERBICHENKO: according to the data came, there was a regrouping, and there was a reason for the presence of reserves and tanks. The best candidate for the leadership of this unusually difficult operation was Herkin.

Now Herkin has had a lot of classes. With his peculiar persistence, he was driving intelligence officers through the student stream, forced them to cut the wire, check the long-term army affairs the non-visiting mine fields and jump through the trench. I just ended the military school younger lieutenant Meshchersky - a slim blue-eyed twenty-year-old young man. Looking at how zealously he is engaged, Herkin thought approvingly: "It will be an eagle ..."

Arranged the last training session. The call sign was finally established - "Star", the call sign division - "Earth". At the last moment, Anikanova was decided to send instead of Meshcherski so that in the case of which the scouts did not remain without an officer.

The ancient game of man with death began. Explaining the procedure for the movement of the movement, Herkin silently nodded the officers remaining in the trench, passing through the brush and silently moved to the river bank. The same thing for him was done by other intelligence and support saps.

Scouts were crawled through the cut wire, passed the German trench ... An hour later, they deepened in the forest.

Meshchersky and the commander of the sapper company have keenly peered into the darkness. Something and other officers approached them - learn about those who went to the raid. But the red rocket - the signal "detected, leaving" - did not appear. So they passed.

Forests, where the group was kisheli, Germans and German technique. Some German, shining with a pocket lantern, came close to herkina, but did not notice anything. He sat down to change, grind and sighing.

A kilometer of one and a half crawled, they almost no sleeping Germans, at the dawn finally got out of the forest, and something terrible happened on the edge. They literally disappeared on the three unpaired Germans lying in the truck, one of them, she accidentally glanced on the edge, dumbfounded: Seven shadows in green hoods were completely silently walked along the trail.

Herkina saved composure. He realized that it was impossible to run. They gone past the Germans even, unhurried step, entered the grove, quickly moved this grove and meads and deepened in the next fishing line. After making sure that there are no Germans here, herbin handed over the first radiogram.

We decided to move on, adhering to the marshes and forests, and on the western edge of the grove immediately saw the detachment of SSS. Soon, the intelligencemen went to the lake, on the opposite coast of which there was a big house, from which sometimes came either moans, or shouts. A little later, Herkin saw the German house leaving the house with a white bandage on his hand and understood: the house served as a hospital. This German is discharged and goes into his part - no one will look for him. The German gave valuable testimony. And despite the fact that he turned out to be a worker, he had to kill him. Now they knew that the SES was concentrated here. Viking. Herkin decided to premature himself not to detect, "languages" do not yet take. We need only a well-aware German, and it will have to get after the exploration of the railway station. But the Chernomorets Mamochkin, prone to the violation, broke the ban - a hefty sieper, fluffed into the forest right on him. When Hauptsharfuer was dropped into the lake, Herkin contacted "Earth" and handed over everything established by him. According to votes from "land", he realized that his message was taken as something unexpected and very important.

A well-aware-awareness of Germans and Mamokhn took, as they gathered, at the station. The pigeon was killed by that time. Scouts went back. On the way, Deannikov were killed, Semenov and Anikanov were injured. The radio station hanging on the back of Bykov, was flattened by bullets. She saved him life, but it was no longer suitable for work.

The detachment went, and around him everything was already tightened by the loop of a huge region. The division of the Viking Division, advanced companies of the 342nd Grenadier Division and the rear parts of the 131st infantry division were raised.

The Supreme Commander, having received the information mined by grass, immediately understood that something more serious was chosen: the Germans want Kontrudar to disrupt the breakthrough of our troops to Poland. And the disposal was given to strengthen the left flank of the front and move there several parts.

And the good girl's lovely girl in herbs in the grass, the evening, the day and night I gamble: "Star". "Star". "Star".

No one was waiting, she waited. And no one dared to remove the walkie-talkie with the reception until the offensive began.

Repeated

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© E. G. Kazakevich. Text. Heirs

© A. T. Tvardovsky. Preface. Heirs

E. G. Kazakevich

Kazakevich, perhaps, the first of the currently well-known Writers of the military theme, which during the war years did not write - they passed the four-year-old "normal school" of the war, that is, fought. The war was for them everyday labor and life - troops or march - with rest in the rear at the hospital bed after another injury.

From there, from the fire, they came to the literature when the war ended, came with her, special value, artistic evidence of her.

And although the pen of those who waged with their professional experience and literary name, honestly served their service in these Terrible years, now it has not always could be equal to the unconditional reliability, the richness of the paints and the accuracy of details with the new, post-war replenishment of Soviet literature.

Among the works of these writers, the title place belongs to the "star" Kazakevich, a small one in terms of the host of military work and the tragic death of a group of scouts.

The appearance of this story immediately referred to the coming to Russian Soviet literature of a large, quite distinctive and bright talent and, moreover, a new step in the development of the material of the Great Patriotic War.

Unlike its literary peers who were still kept in the coverage of the front-line life of the techniques of the genre of a memoir-chronic or essay, Kazakevich in the "Star" gave a brilliant sample of the genre actually a story, an artistic organization of material, independent of the passport authenticity of the names of heroes, calendar accuracy of time and geographic - Actions.

Rare deposit of the shape, the proportionality of the parts and the completeness of the whole, the musical roll call is the ending with deep lyrics and the dramatism of the content, an unforgettable leisure of persons of the heroes, their human charm put this story in a number of the best works of Soviet literature, not losing their impressive power in time.

In the work of the Kazaquing "Star" remains a capital stub among his works dedicated to military topics: "Spring on Oder", "House on Square", "Heart of a friend", several stories and essays, although they caused the great interest of readers, numerous responses Print. The death of Kazakiewicz prevented him to please us, maybe the same staged work of his literary maturity, which was the "star" for his literary youth.

In recent weeks, and even the days of severe illness, overcoming suffering, he rose to dictate the continuation of the new novel "Thirty years", over which a number of years worked; Shared with friends with passing plans, by the way, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe book about the Soviet doctors, whose noble work he had a sad opportunity to learn from the experience of the last years of his life.

A few days before the end, he in a conversation with me, as always avoiding such a characteristic and quite understandable in his position the topic of the disease, only said that he was exhausted.

"I don't want anything, no fellow lifestyle idle, no rest - I want to write: terrible to turn around everything in my head ..."

Anyone who knew him closely celebrate a rare charm of his personality, mind and kindness, wit and the funity of innocuous mischief, vitality and hardworking, hardness and principle in views, assessments, judgments on literary and political life.

The outer portrait of this intelligent person in glasses, with deep earliest galshains and seeding, giving a presentation as if about the cabinets only the inclinations and skills of the book and the household, strongly did not coincide with the most significant features of the behavior and character properties.

Sometimes it seemed to me that he consciously, the power of the Spirit, opposed such a banal idea of \u200b\u200bthe person of an intelligent, cabinet form. He really wrote a lot and even more reading at home and in the special books of books - it was one of the most zealous readers among our writers, already in adulthood aged and successfully studied foreign languages, in a word, was an affordable, a man of harsh discipline of labor, perceptibility and regularity.

But he was both a passionate traveler, a hunter, perfectly shooting, drove the car without any discounts on amateur rights, was a merry and witty, the soul of a friendly feast, the Russian folk and soldiers' songs were well singing - no wonder at the time of the rhot walked. Finally, he was truly brave man in war, although it never emerged from his own hesitarian memories.

For example, I have been friends with him for many years, when I derigan's general, the division commander, where Kazakevich was the head of intelligence, heard that Emmanuel Henrikhovich had received his first order for the production of "language" in the most difficult time for such a task for a long defense .

Only then he himself told me how, with careful observation, having examined the planned section of the opponent's defense, in a dawn hour, more filling success than the most immentive night, he fell into a trench of the Germans and after a short hand-to-hand, capturing one Of these, the drill in their location. "Most of all," he told himself with the usual humor for him, "they were afraid by connecting the opponent with her burden under the enemy's machine-gun fire, that the bullet would get into this German, and then everything was - as a rush, since it would be impossible to repeat such an operation."

In the direct combat communication with the soldiers and officers of the army in the harsh time of the war KazAkevich, the historical experience of the people deeply took the historical experience of the people, his truly unparalleled feat, performed by the greatness and tragedy. And there, in the war, the outstanding master of Russian Soviet prose was born, known to the war only as the author of poems and poems in Jewish.

This is a special complexity, the circumstance of the literary biography put in front of KazAkevich, in which he gave himself a complete report, and the special task of deepening and enriching the memory of knowledge of the living Russian language in the most subsoils of people's life.

Soon after the war, Kazakevich goes to the "business trip" in one of the villages of the Vladimir region for a year, with his wife and children - the whole house. There I caught him one day, a summer day, in a collective farm, with his favorite books, writing machine, a gun and a petty fishing tackle.

Another time he is sent for a long time in Magnitogorsk, studies the life of a large metallurgical enterprise, meets people, leads everyday detailed records. A long-term sight here was collecting material to the novel about the 1930s, but the closest result of this trip was excellent, many of his essay "in the capital of ferrous metallurgy".

Once I saw Emmanuel Henrykhovich in some unusual for the metropolitan resident of the Armed Forces with breast pockets and in army boots. "On the road," he explained and really went together with a friend of the artist in a hiking bypass of several regions of the middle strip in winter. The unhealthy has grown him with half a threaters, but this is a business trip - where on foot, where with a passing car or sleigh, with overnight stays in the village of Rustic and district houses of the collective farmer, unusual meetings and busy adventures - he recalled with a special hunt.

The less, the writer's life of this writer-Muscovite could be laid in the notorious formula "Apartment - Dacha - Resort". By the way, I don't remember something that Kazakhevich traveled simply to the resort, just relax. And in recent years we went for weeks and months of rest unwinding in sanatoriums and hospitals.

Remembering forever gone, we often talk about their sensitivity and responsiveness, but more in general form. But, in my opinion, though small, not catchy, but a very expressive example of active responsiveness for someone else's need or misfortune.

One old writer turned to Kazakevich, somehow lost the right to his apartment for the years of evacuation, with a request for help. Kazakevich, at one time, a man washed in the corners and rooms, shooting at different times, now occupied a good apartment. Of course, he called and wrote where it is necessary, but seeing that the case is a protracted, and a man who, by the way, was not his brother, nor a matchmaker, simply nowhere to spend the night, put it on, settling the old man with his wife in his opinion before His housing. They lived for about a year. I do not think that such a simple form of responsiveness met us too often.

And how many examples of Emmanuel Gerichovich's ever need to give examples to help the most active, practically brother to the writer who came to him with a manuscript that fell into the editorial and publishing jam, beginning from the province, a student, a disabled front line, every kind person knocked in his a door.

As rarely, who he knew how to rejoice at the well-deserved success of a friend, to wear with any magazine novelty or recommend, to promote someone's manuscript in which he saw something real, substantial, at least not perfect in shape.

I got acquainted to all of us, his friends, and his caustic mercility of the characteristics of what is found in the literature of the pretentious-inflated, false, self-adhesive.

For a long time, we will lack it for a long time as amazing about the urgency in conversation, about anything we will have to go, - from a half-clow, with a hint.

Neither at a business meeting, in the editorial office, nor in the home environment, or in the far road (one of my Siberian trips, I completed with him; We drove places where he was once the director of the theater, then the chairman of the collective farm), nor in his homeland neither abroad (early in the early spring of this year we wandered with him late at night along the streets of Rome, he is excellent - the scout skill - oriented in any new place) - never anywhere with him could be bored, except for some of our long meetings. But in the latter case, it was worth only, having imagined a minute, go to smoke with him, and everything, what was the discouragement about the meeting, acquired much more busy interest.

However, I note that, with his viability of the character, energy and the hoods of a combat commander, he, unlike many of our fellows, was not a speaker - here he was shy to extreme.

Long and for a long time will miss the opportunity to talk to him about just read book, newspaper news, about any trip, on the case of the field of literary life, about funny and serious, most serious and significant (right up to such pondays, which Coming to us these days still so fresh loss).

And millions of his readers will miss that feeling of interested expectations, which has been drawn on those of us who firmly remembered something, whose word is particularly expensive and necessary for every day.

Maybe it does not happen otherwise, but bitterly that this is not the only case when we lose the friend who seemed to be appreciated, and respected, and loved during life, only now suddenly in the new, much larger volume we comprehend The meaning of his work, its capabilities, its presence among us ...

A. Tvardovsky

Chapter first

Division, coming, deepened in the endless forests, and they swallowed it. What was failed to be neither German tanks, nor German aviation, nor the gangster hay, managed to make these extensive forest areas with the roads, broken by the war and blurred spring dishthele. In distant forest edges stuck trucks with ammunition and food. In the huts lost among forests, sanitary buses were blamed. On the shores of unnamed rivers, left without fuel, an artillery regiment was scattered off her guns. All this with every hour catastrophically distinguished from the infantry. And the infantry, one and the same, still continued to move forward, cutting the diet and trembling over every cartridge. Then she began to pass. The head was becoming weaker, all the uncertainty, and, taking advantage of this, the Germans came out from under the blow and hastily removed to the West.

The enemy disappeared.

The infantrymen, even left without an enemy, continue to do the case, for which they exist: they occupy the territory disheveled by the enemy. But there is nothing irretrievably speckled from the enemy of scouts. As if losing the meaning of existence, they walk along the roads of the road, like bodies devoid of souls.

One such group caught up on his "Willis" commander of the division Colonel Serbichenko. He slowly got out of the car and stopped in the middle of a dirty, broken road, manpered his hands in the sides and smiling mockingly. Scouts, seeing the commander, stopped.

"Well," he asked, "the enemy lost, eagles? Where is the opponent, what does he do?

He learned in ahead of Lieutenant herkina in front of Lieutenant (Komdiv remembered the face of all his officers) and choking her head chokoriznarly:

- And you, herbin? "And I absolutely continued:" Merry war, nothing to say, "in the villages stagger, it's a pile of pupil ... So you will reach Germany and you will not see the enemy with you. And it would be good, eh? - He asked unexpectedly fun.

The head of the division was sitting in the car. A minute before that, the colonel mercilessly splashed him for the unspoiltness, and Galiev was silent with a dead view.

The mood of the comda changed at the sight of scouts. Colonel Serbichenko began his service in 1915 with a pedestal intelligence. In the intelligence, he received fighting baptism and earned the St. George Cross. Scouts remained his weakness forever. His heart played at the sight of their green maskhalates, tanned faces and silent steps. They are relentlessly after his boyfriend, they are on the side of the road, ready to disappear at any moment, dissolve in the silence of forests, in the irregularities of the soil, in twilight's shimmering shadows.

However, Komdiv's reproaches were serious reproaches. To give the enemy to leave, or - as it says on the solemn language of military charters - to give it to break away, is a large trouble for scouts, almost shame.

In the words of the colonel, the opposing anxiety for the fate of the division was felt. He was afraid of meeting with the enemy because the division was bleeding, and the rear behind. And at the same time, he wanted to meet with this disappeared enemy, clutch with him, to find out what he wants what he was capable of. And, in addition, it would be time to stop, lead people and household in order. Of course, I didn't even want to confess myself that his desire contradicts the passionate gust of the whole country, but he dreamed that the offensive was suspended. These are the secrets of the craft.

And the scouts stood silently, drooping from legs to the leg. The appearance of them was quite pitiful.

"Here they are, your eyes and ears," said the head of his headquarters, dismissively told the head of his headquarters. "Willis" moved.

Scouts stood another minute, then herbin slowly went further, and the rest were moved behind him.

After habit, listening to every rustle, Herkin thought about his platoon.

Like Comda, Lieutenant and wished and afraid of meeting with the enemy. I wished because he commanded the debt, and therefore, that the days of forced inaction are adversely affect the scouts, entangling their dangerous web and carelessness. I was afraid because of the eighteen, the person who had in the beginning of the offensive remained only twelve. True, among them - the well-known Division of Anikanov, Fearless Marchenko, Liya Mamochkin and tested old scouts - brands and bulls. However, the rest were in most yesterday's arrows scored from parts during the offensive. These people still really like to go in the scouts, walk with small groups each friend, using freedom, unthinkable in the infantry part. They are surrounded by honor and respect. This, of course, can not but flatter them, and they look with eagles, but they will be in business - it is unknown.

Now Herkin realized that these reasons were and forced him to hurry. He was upset by the reproaches of Komdiv, especially since he knew the weakness of Serbichenko to scouts. The green eyes of the Colonel looked at him with a tricky view of the old, experienced reconnaissance of the past war, Unter-Officer Serbichenko, who was given by their years and fate, as if tested by: "Well, let's see what you are young, against me, old."

Meanwhile, the platoon entered the village. It was the usual West Ukrainian village, scattered in a farmer.

From a huge, in three human growth, the cross looked at the soldier crucified Jesus. The streets were deserted, and only bark dogs in the courtyards and barely noticeable movement of journaling canvas curtains on the windows showed that people who are intimidated by gangster hayrs carefully look at the soldiers passing around the village.

Herkin led his squad to a lonely house on the hillock.

The door opened the old grandmother.

She drove a big dog and leisurely looked at the soldier deeply seated eyes from under dense gray eyebrows.

"Hello," Herkin said, "we have a rest to you on an hour."

Scouts entered the clean room with a painted floor and a lot of icons. The icons, as soldiers noticed more than once in these parts, were not as in Russia, - without Reese, with the candidate-beautiful peers of saints. As for the grandmother, she was exactly in the Ukrainian old worm from under Kiev or Chernigov, in countless canvas skirts, with dry, housing handles, and differed from them only to unkind light prickly eyes.

However, despite her sullen, almost hostile silence, she served as the soldiers of fresh bread, milk, thick, like cream, salted cucumbers and full cast iron potatoes. But all this - with such an unfriendly, that a piece did not climb into the throat.

- Here is a gangster mammy! - grumbled one of the scouts.

He guessed half. The younger son of the old woman really went on the gangster forest path. The eldest came to the red partisans. And while the mother of the gangster was harshly silent, the mother of the partisan hospitably opened the door of his hut's fighters. After reconnaissance for the snack of fried swine salts and kvass in the clay jug, the mother of the partisan gave way to the mother of the gangster, which with a gloomy look at the weaving machine, which occupied the Polits.

Sergeant Ivan Anikanov, a calm person with a wide rustic face and young, great eye peams, told her:

- What are you silent, how much, granted? Would love with us, or what, yes, told something.

Sergeant Mamochkin, sutured, thin, nervous, mockingly mumbled:

- Well, the cavalier is the same Anikanov! Hunt him to chat with the old woman! ..

Herbin, busy with his thoughts, came out of the house and stopped near the porch. Dremal village. By Kosoyaro, there were stroned peasant horses. It was completely quiet, as it may be quietly only in the village after the rapid passage of the two warring armies.

- Our lieutenant thought, "Anikanov spoke, when herbin came out. - How did you say comdive? Merry war? By the villages of stagger, jointer drink ...

Mamochkin boiled:

- What comdive said there, this is his business. What are you climbing? You do not want milk - do not drink, water in the tub. This is not your business, but the lieutenant. He is responsible for the highest bosses. You want to be nanny when lieutenant. And who are you? Village. Would you get to me in Kerch, I would be a section in five minutes, we sold and fish for lunch.

Anikanov laughed freely:

- It's right. Sit down, delight is in your part. Well, about dinners you master. About it said Comda.

- So what? - Mamchkin has sharpened, as Alicanova's tranquen removed. - And you can dine. Scout with head lunch is better than the general. Dinner courage and smelting adds. Clear?

Rose-colored, with linen hair of the brahnikov, a round-blooded, freckled bulls, seventeen-year-old boy Yura Golubovsky, whom all the name "Pigeon", high handsome feoxists and the rest smiled, listened to the hot southern tongues of Mamochka and a calm, smooth speech of Anikanova. Only Marchenko - Widewriting, Whitework, dark - all the time stood near the old woman with a weaving machine and with the naive surprise of the city man repeated, looking at her little sudden handles:

- This is the whole factory!

In the disputes of Mamochka with Anicanov - then merry, then fierce disputes for any reason: about the advantages of the Kerch herds before Irkutsk Omul, about the comparative qualities of the German and Soviet cars, about whether Hitler's crazy or just bastard, and about the timing of the second front - Mamochkin He was an attacker side, and Anikanov, the slyly of Picky the smartest little eyes, good-natured, but it was intactly defended, shifting Mamokhna to rage by his tranquility.

Mamochka, with his inconsistency of Buzoter and neurasthenik, annoyed Anikanovsky village solidity and good nature. The feeling of a secret envy was mixed. Aikanova had an order, and he had only a medal; To Anicanov, the commander belonged almost to equal, and almost as all else to him. All this vulled Mamchkin. He consoled himself by the fact that Anikanov - the parties and therefore, they say, enjoys particular confidence, but in the soul he himself admired the cold-blooded courage of Anicanova. The courage of Mamochkina was often poscommunication, he needed an indifferent attack of pride, and he understood it. Self-adequacy in Mamochkin was even debugged, the glory of a good intelligence officer was established, and he really participated in many glorious affairs, where the first role was played by Aynanov.

But in the interruptions between military assignments, Mamochkin knew how to show the goods face. Young scouts who have not yet been in the case, admired them. He fucked in the wasteful sharovars and chrome yellow boots, the gate of his gymnisters was always unbuttoned, and the Black Chub was peeling himselfly from under Kubanka with bright green riding. Where it was to him massive, widecit and rustic Aikanov!

The origin and pre-war Being of each of them: the collective farm grip of Siberian Ainikanova, the reducingness and accurate calculation of Metalist Marchenko, the port of Mamokhna's portor - all this imposed her mark on their behavior and temper, but the past was already extremely far away. Not knowing how much the war will last, they went to her with their heads. The war has become a life for them and this platoon is the only family.

A family! It was a strange family, the members of which did not enjoy the joint life for too long. Some went to the hospital, others - even further, where no one comes back. She had his own small, but a bright story transmitted from the "generation" into the "generation". Someone remembered how Anicanov appeared in the platoon. For a long time he did not participate in the case - none of the elders decided to take him with them. True, the huge physical strength of Siberian was great dignity - he could freely shit in an oakha and strangle, if necessary, even two. However, Anikanov was so huge and hard that the scouts were afraid: what if he was killed or wounded? Try to pull out of the fire. In vain, he walked and swear, that if he was wounded, he would crash himself, and kill: "Damn with you, throw me that I am German, will do it!" And only relatively recently, when the new commander came to them, Lieutenant Herkin, who replaced the wounded lieutenant Skvortsov, the situation changed.

Herkin in the first search took Aikanov. And "this commander" crude a hefty German is so deft that the rest of the scouts and the hut did not have time. He acted quickly and silently like a huge cat. Even herbin hardly believed that the half-hearted German, "Language", - Division's dream for a whole month begins in the Anicanova's campground.

Another time, Anikanov, together with Sergeant Marchenko, seized the German captain, while Marchenko was wounded in his leg, and Anikanov had to drag German and Marchenko together, gently pressing the comrade and enemy to each other and fear to damage both equally.

Stories about the exploits of crowded intelligence officers were the main theme of long night conversations, they excited the imagination of beginners, they had a predetermined sense of exclusivity of their craft in them. Now, in the period of long inaction, away from the enemy, people disagree.

Tightly singing and slightly tightened by Machorka, Mamochkin expressed a desire to stay in the village for the night and get a moonshine. Marchenko said vaguely:

- Yes, there is nothing to rush here ... do not catch up. Great breaks in German.

At this time, the door was opened, herbin entered and, showing a finger into the window on the stroned horses, asked the hostess:

- Grandmother whose horses are it?

One of the horses, a big bonding mare with a white spot on his forehead, belonged to the old woman, the rest - the neighbors. After twenty minutes, these neighbors were convened in Starukhin the hut, and Herbin, hurriedly scribbling receipt, said:

- If you want, send someone from your guys with us, he will lead the horses back.

This proposal liked the peasants. Each of them knew perfectly well that only thanks to the rapid advancement of Soviet troops, the German did not have time to catch the entire cattle and burn the village. They did not blame the obstacles to Herkin and immediately allocated subpask, which was supposed to go with the detachment. The sixteen-year-old boy in the sheepskin Tuluochik was also proud and frightened to him with a responsible behalf. By unwinding horses and waving them, and then drinking from the well, he soon said that you could touch.

After a few minutes, the detachment of the connants was launched a large trot to the west. Anikanov drove up to herkina and, asking for a galloping pair, quietly asked:

- And will not heal, comrade lieutenant, for such requisition?

"Yes," Herbin answered, thinking, "can align." And the Germans are still catching up.

They smilefully smiled at each other.

Running horse, prevailed herbin into silent distance of ancient forests.

The wind fiercely blends into his face, and horses seemed like birds.

West lit up a bloody sunset, and, as if catching up with this sunset, rushed to the West riders.

Heroic-romantic story

E. Kazakevich "Star": Philosophical Paphos,

symvenience, style features

I know two works of war:

"Sevastopol stories" Leo Tolstoy

and the "star" Emmanuel Kazakevich.

Louis Aragon

For many years, the topic of the Great Patriotic War was the main theme of Soviet literature of the 20th century. From the first military days, Soviet writers and poets together with simple people stood on the defense of the Motherland.

The immortal heroic feat of our people and the unwanted memory of the victims of the war made again and again to refer to the military theme of those writers who sought truthfully to show how the Soviet man survived in the difficult war years, and what price got a victory.

Of the best works about the Great Patriotic War, we learn about the tragism and heroism of Russian soldiers, the moral qualities of warriors, the right of choice in difficult situations ...

Mikhail Sholokhov and Yuri Bondarev, Victor of Bykov and Yevgeny Nosov, Victor Astafiev and Grigory Baklanov and many other artistic words known to us, wrote about the war. The power of military works is in the huge, truly popular talent of the authors. All works are penetrated by patriotic, heroic and, at the same time, romantic pathos. In each row of military book, we see the selfless heroism of Soviet people, courage and durability, i.e. All that have possessed front-line writers themselves.The heroic-patriotic pathos needed during the war, determined in the works and system of characters, and speech system, and details, and the plot.At the heart of military prose liesdocumentary accuracy of the image of military reality.

After the end of the war, the genre of military lead appeared in the literature with her heroic-romantic pathos. The people needed support after the surviving horrors of war, and therefore the heroic and romantic idealization, romanticization and the globe of the Russian soldier were simply needed to raise the People's Spirit.

Military works in Russian literature entered Emmanuel Henrikhovich Kazakevich. The Great Patriotic War found him aged twenty-eight years. He lived then with his family near Moscow, fully dedicated himself to creativity: wrote poems, translated the classics and modern poets, studied various materials and developed the stories. Helling about war he took with a sense of personal involvement in a raging event. He always attracted the army, but he did not serve. Due to severe myopia, he was recognized as unfit to military service and issued a "white ticket". Kazakevich was visible, because He believed that a man should go through everything and temper himself in trials. Writer attracted military heroic. He tried to go into the army with the help of his father, a member of the bureau of the Commander party. Did not work out. The written appeal to Moscow, to the Commissar of Defense, did not help. For the same reason, he remained aside from universal mobilization when the war began. But as soon as I hit the Nabat of the Moscow folk militia, he went to the front volunteer. Competent, who knew several languages, the junior lieutenant fell into the intelligence division. His group often made a raid in the rear of the enemy, mined valuable information. He graduated from the war officer of the army headquarters.

The soldiers loved to go to intelligence with Kazakevich, they respected him for resourcefulness, courage and courage, loved for mind and kindness. The soldiers often shared their experiences, read him letters from the house, asked for some time to help write a letter. Three injuries, eight orders and medals - this is the combat characteristic of a person similar to its appearance on the office scientist! To go through such a military path, it was necessary and the courage, the ability, and courage, and, most importantly, is absolute willingness to serve the homeland not in words, but in practice.

One of the best works about the truthful image of war is the "star" Emmanuel Gerhrowki Kazaquime. The story became the first "peaceful feat" author. The work is written in Russian (the author wrote to him on Idish). Initially, the story was called "Green Ghosts". But the editorial office of the magazine "Banner" in 1946 printed him called "Star". In 1947, the work was published by a separate publication and after personal approval I.V. Stalin got the Stalin Prize. The work is based on the Military Experience of the Writer himself. The story sustained more than fifty editions and reissued by more than twenty languages. In 1949 and 2002, the story "Star" was fused.

From the first pages of the story "Star" surprises the peacefulness of the soldiers' "rear" everyday life. The forest on the border of the USSR and Poland seems to be endless in the month of the front cluster in the summer of 1944. It seems that the enemy disappeared, dissolved, nothing detects itself, except for the rare "disturbing" fire. The events of the story occur a month before the operation "Bagration" to liberate Belarus. Russians need to make sure that the German troops were transferred to the southern direction, because The direction of the main impact will be held north.

Such is the framing of the narrative. But the story is distinguished by in-depth psychologism, lyricism and romantic raveness against the background of the front cloth. The story "Star" is often called the "poem in prose", some consider it to be an accusatory act of the Soviet system, which forgot its own heroes who committed the feat and the remaining unknowns.

The Genre "Stars" combines the military adventure, heroic-romantic and military-domestic installations. In the center of the narration there is a story about the bold operation of a small intermarpter, in front of which there was a task of declassifying a plan of the enemy, lost in a huge forest. The enemy's loss puts to the Center for the Tale of Scouts, capable of mining and change the situation. Intelligents will have to raid in the rear of the enemy.

The main theme of the story A. T. Tvardovsky determined like this: "... about the military work and the tragic death of the intelligence officers." But the topics of the story is much wider. It sounds the topic of the Motherland, and the topic of Russia. You can talk about the theme of unrequited love, which gives the story a special lyricity.

The artistic space of the work is organized so that the reader understands that heroes are fighting for. Explorer heroes protect their homeland. They came to the front from different parts of our Motherland: Mamochkin - from Kerch, Anikanov - from Siberia, Marchenko - from Kharkov; Volzhan - Herkin and Bugork, Galiyev - Bakinets; Maksimenko - from Kremenchug; Feoktists - from under Kazan; Semenov - from Ryazan; Dove - from Kursk. Thus, the author builds the model of the world, which expresses its spatial ideas by the language. The model of the author's world accommodates the USSR "from Moscow to the most up to the Okrain." This space is real, it lives in the memories of the heroes about their favorite corner, sometimes heroes even argue about whose land is better. Mamkin and Anicanov often argue. Their disputes are merry, then fierce for any occasion: about the advantages of the Kerch herds in front of the Irkutsk Omul, about the comparative qualities of the German and Soviet machines, about whether Hitler is crazy or just bastard, and about the timing of the second front. Each hero absorbed what historically developed and entered the mentality of residents of any terrain. For example, Anikanov - reasonable, unperturbed Siberian and Mamochkin - hot, reckless, cheerful southerners - they are very different, but in the face of deadly danger become "countrymen": "... they called each other" countrymen ", for they were from the same country - countries Believe in their business and ready to give life for her. " So the author creates the image of the homeland, one and individual at the same time. And completes his image of Moscow. Kazakevich writes that the voice of the city is heard in impassable forests under the jetty: "... She said, sang, played on the violin." Moscow - "Eternally awake, mighty and invulnerable."

In the narration of the Great Patriotic War, the motive of space is traced. He is not accidental. From the philosophical point of view, the motive of space helps to realize the scale of what is happening on Earth, where millions of people died, and the fortress of the Spirit and the unity of the hearts in a desire to stand up for their people are amazing. The author shows us the willingness of the Soviet people die if the Motherland orders. And the whole people, as "they and he" (Herkin and his intelligence officers), constituted one whole, eternal, like a lion of Tolstoy, "... Want to fulfill all the people." For example:

"The closer to the front edge, the intense and alternate the air, as if this is the atmosphere not the land, and some kind of immeasurably large, unknown planet."

"A mysterious interplanetary conversation was distributed under the Dark Vaults, and people felt like lost in world space."

"If" Earth "he could provide them with the right to live his own separate life, to have his weaknesses, here, on this lonely" star ", they and it accounted for one whole."

Katya waited for herkina, waited and slack in the void of "Star, Star - I am Earth", but there was silence in response.Sung star and the next day and later. And with horror, Suddenly Katya thought that, maybe, it was useless to sit here, in the apparatus, and her endless stars calls. Star rolled out and went out. But how can she leave here? And what if he speaks? And what if he hides somewhere in the depths of the forests? And, full of hope and iron perseverance, she waited. No one was waiting, she waited. And no one dared to remove the radio from the reception until the offensive began.

Like a distant star and land, and the lovers never met anymore, only in the sky his star was buried as a memoir about love.

Cosmos's motive removes the metonymy of call sign "Earth" - "Star". Having done the feat, the scouts remain "on this single" star "leading them to immortality, in eternity."

The composition of the work is also not accidental and carries a meaningful and semantic load. She helps the reader to understand the basic idea of \u200b\u200bthe work and the point of view of the author. Structure Tale: Eleven Heads and Conclusion. It begins and ends the belly of the officer Serbichenko. At the beginning of the work, he meets the group of Lieutenant Herkina, in the final - a group of intelligence officers, which is already the other lieutenant. "One such group caught up on his" Willis "commander of the division Colonel Serbichenko. He slowly got out of the car and stopped in the middle of a dirty, broken road ... ". In conclusion, we read the story: "Major General Serbichenko caught up with his" Willis "group of scouts ...". The composite receipt of the author creates a ring composition that carry a special artistic meaning: a writer shows us a closed circle of life, even the monstrous forces of war are not capable of breaking. But this circle is presented at some other, the new turn of the development of events. Already the summer of 1944, hostilities are held on Polish land, and Serbichenko is already a major general. All this gives events to lead a life-affirming meaning, leaves the hope that the victory is close.

The story is conducted from a third party, it gives the author a greater freedom in conducting a story about the lives of scouts, plays a significant role in the psychological disclosure of the character of the hero, allows you to "penetrate" the hero in the inner world, hear the most intimate. For example: "Having lined in direct allets, he (tubercles) thought:" It would be nice to end, finally, with this war, go to my hometown and there to do your own thing again: Build new houses, inhale the sweet smell of planed boards ... ".

There are copyright retreats. They do not contain the characteristics of the heroes and their relationship. In all departures, the voice of the author himself openly sounds, and they all are philosophical. The author's retreats of the story "Star" have Paphos citizenship. For example: "The vital task of these young people is often unusually brief. They grow, learn, hope, are experiencing ordinary sorrow and joy, sometimes in order to be in one misty morning, we only have time to raise their people in the attack, fall on a wet land and do not get up more. Sometimes fighters can not even remember their goodwalk: the acquaintance was too short-term and character traits remained unknown. What was the heart under this gymnaster? What was happening under this young forehead? "

"Owing a camouflage bathrobe, tightly knitting all the laces: At the ankle, on the stomach, under the chin and on the back of the head, the scout is rewned from the life of the bustle, from the Great and from the Small. The scout no longer belongs to himself or his heads or their memories. He confuses the grenade and knife to the belt, puts the pistol for the sinus. So he refuses all human establishments, puts himself out of law, relying from now on. He gives the elder all his documents, letters, photos, orders and medals, partnership - its party or Komsomol ticket. So he refuses his past and the future, keeping it all only in his heart. It does not have a name like a forest bird. He could well refuse from a self-split speech, limiting the bird whistle to serve signals to comrades. It grows with the fields, forests, ravines, becomes the spirit of these spaces - the spirit of dangerous, lumping, in the depths of his brain, carrying one thought: Histask. So the ancient game begins in which the actors only two are:

man and death. "

The special meaning of Kazakevich in the narrative attaches the image of the road: "As if losing the meaning of existence, they walk along the roads of the road, like body devoid of souls."

"And the group of Husk on the side of the road moved to the front edge, where herbin expected her."

"What has failed to be neither German tanks, nor German aviation, nor the gangster hay, managed to make these extensive forest areas with the roads, broken by the war and blurred spring dishthele."

The image of the road repeats many times and becomes a leitmotif of the work, also involved in the formation of an annular composition. The road in the story is a kind of chronotope - the point of origin and the place of making various events.

"The West was illuminated by a bloody sunset, and, as if by catching up this sunset, rushed to the West riders."

"The chatter of the first birds was broadcast in the forest, closed over a narrow dear crown of old trees."

Landscape sketches in the story indicate the place of action, they are always associated with the category of time. Following the chapters and wringing words-images from sketches, pointing to the time, we get the following: Sunset (1 ch.), Cold Dawn (2 ch.), Night (4 ch.), Cold dawn (5 ch.), Night ( 6 ch.), Cold and foggy dawn (8 ch.), Slowly occurred dawn (8 ch.), Thunderstorm (9 ch.), True spring has occurred (10 ch.). Thus, the landscape in the story indicates the nature of the year and the time of day. Each word-image also indicates psychological time, i.e. It transmits that alarming, the difficult state of waiting for scouts preparing for the raid in the opponent's rear.

A conflict of the story is traced through the character system. And images of enemies, and images of Soviet soldiers The author depicts using the same techniques: prehistory, portrait, speech characteristic. But, creating images of enemies, the writer seeks to generalize. For example: "It was important that the fact that focused in these forests is to strike a shock in the Soviet troops, the selected division with the Grozny name" Viking "is doomed to death. And machines, and tanks, and armored personnel carriers, and this SESSET, with a terrific flashing pensne, and those Germans in the supply with live pigs, and all these Germans are generally frightening, rods, guessing the surrounding forests, all these Gillas, Mullenkampa, Gargays, All These careerists and karaderi, gums and killers are walking along forest roads straight to their death, and death releases their punishing hand for all these fifteen thousand. " Here the image of the punishable hand correlates with the classically "clubs", "which rose from all the Grozny and the majestic force" and "nail" the French in the partisan war of 1812. These great historical events in the life of the Russian people talk about the heroic persistence of Russian soldiers, about the moral majesty of ordinary people connected with each other consciousness of their rightness in the fight against the enemy-invader.

Heroes of the story representing the Soviet Army are difficult to divide on the main and minor. Each image is made from the prehistory of the hero, a psychological portrait, speech characteristic. The character is given in the assessment of his fighters around him, in cooperation with them. Each hero is individual. Depicting Russian soldiers, E. Kazakevich, sought to show some many ordinary people who were defending their homeland. There is no heroes among the soldiers, because all defenders unites the will to victory and willingness to die for the right thing.

In the story "Star" the author sought to create the image of a real hero. Vladimir Trashkin - a twenty-one-year-old lieutenant, the best intelligence officer of the division, the commander of the speakers. Herkin is a modest, serious, faithful man. I walked forever in sight of death, closer to her ... He hated a lie. In the free evening, the episodes of combat life told. He always talked about the merits of comrades, and somehow went around, exposing a kind of eyewitty. Selflessly referred to the case and was intense. According to Brantikov, he thought all about the Germans and more about anything, all the schemes of German defense draw. Katya Simakova considered him harsh, proud and clean, Roblala in his presence. Going to the task, Herkin became especially silent, and this was worth him of a considerable effort of will. In some situations, he was helped by composure. All intelligence officers of their group he considered part of himself, because He depended on the life of the whole group of each of them: he and they constituted one. Despite his youth, he is experiencing in business and strict in relations with subordinates, he understands the weaknesses and strength of every soldier. Preparing for surgery, Herkin led to observing the enemy, mastered the work with the walkie-talkie, was engaged in German, daily prepared his group to surgery. And if he suddenly came across the manifestation of cowardice, laziness, fabulous, meanness, he quickly made decisions. For him, the intermarpter became a family where everyone is responsible for everyone, and everyone is for everyone.

In Lieutenant, herbin detects bright, strong, solid personality. The image is given in the focus of sympathies and antipathies. For Colonel Serbichenko, he was just a good guy and a bold reconnaissance, reminding his own youth.

"The soul and the right" commander of the spernaya company Bugorkas loved herkina and as his countryman-Volzhanin, and as a "modest, serious faithful man," which "walks forever in sight of death."

And for the degraded, terrible Mamochkin, the main thing in Herkin is "selflessly attitude to the case" and "absolute selflessness", i.e. What he himself is deprived of, because the day could not live without small rutting and de-acquirement.

For the young scout Yura, the pigeon herkin was a sample to which he wanted to be equal. Soviemaker Katya Simakov lives a high sense of love for the lieutenant, for her he is the perfect hero.

The heroic-romantic pathos of the story is created primarily by the character of the hero, distinguished among other powers of the spirit, high buildings of thoughts and feelings.

The romantization of the hero of the harsh, noble and clean became the main way to create the literary characters of the story, each of which is difficult to go down to the heights of his spirit. Such were the real prototypes of the heroes of the story, and they would be "missing", if it were not for the story of Kazakiewicz "Star", which attracted attention to one of the episodes of the Great Patriotic War.

Scouts ceased to be ordinary people, because Before them stood "the task of exploration in the rear of the enemy and report to the command on the radio," they lived this task, throwing everything ordinary. They donated not only their lives, but also a memory of herself. Dentially completing the task, they disappeared without a trace. In the representation of KazAkevich, their feat is disinterested and unnamed, he emphasizes the role of a unlucky person in the history of the "mysterious interplanetary conversation" with the urgent "land" and "star".

In the story you can select some symbolic images: the apostolic number of twelve is mentioned twice in the scouts, the actions unfold around the Easter Date (Katya Simakov brings the Willow Spreads in Dugout), and the star's image itself does not exclude an allusion bond with a Christmas star. "Star" - a work about high. The name itself is already symbolic. This is not just a call sign of grass. The star is a romantic symbol of high, inaccessible ... And infinity, and beauty, and mystery ... Scouts, going to the task, taking off from "their", stopped feeling the land under their feet. As on someone else's planet. And there were strange words on the air: "Earth, I'm a star!". And call sign, and height, and the brightness of the human soul, which is visiting the elevation, striking "depth and purity" ...

Women's images are a symbolic center of heroic-romantic ages. In the story of E. Kazakevich female characters little. Twice in the story there are images of mothers. First, in the episode "Agreement of intelligence officers with farmers, as a result of which they acquire twelve horses" the mistress, which stops the scouts, are perceived by them in different ways. They call it from the neutral "grandmother", "old woman", "woman" to the unexpected - "Gangster Mother", so called her Mamochkin. Scouts do not even realize how popular their comrade is close to truth: two sons of farms were in the hostile camps - "White" and "Red".

The second time the image of the mother arises in connection with the letter that travelers gets from home. Here the mother becomes the keeper of a family legend and a generic memory. Mother recalls the Son about his pre-war physics in physics - these are not only memories of the past, but also hope for the future.

The image of the Lena - sisters of grasshis is shown as "beats of youth, carelessness." And the image of Katya Simakova is a cute, young, girl in love, who believes in a beautiful future, full of hope and iron perseverance.

The story "Star" is tragic. The tragic start of the work is expressed by the annular composition. At the beginning - the mention that one interlock was already died in the enemy's rear, not mining information. In the final - another interlock is sent to check information and dies. So the author shows the tragic endless death of people in war.

The tragian of the narrative is also pronounced in lyric retreats. The platoon commander is the most "mortal" profession in war. The young man lives, builds plans, gets education, falls in love, knows the world only to go to the front and die. The death of a person in war is inevitable, but from a philosophical point of view, each death is a contrast between universal and military consciousness.

The main stylist feature of the story of Emmanuil Kazakevich "Star" is herlyricism . It manifests itself in highemoto-noauthor's subjectivity, leitmotive nature of building a work, in refusal of factuality, specifics. The story fits into the romantic tradition of the image of the war. Not accidentally declared in it the topic of love unfolds into an independent storyline. Traditionally, against the background of Soviet literature, the image of the enemy looks like. The images of the Germans are presented in accordance with the canon, they are depicted by coward and stupid. Kazakevich introduces in the story the image of the investigator of the prosecutor's office of Ukraine, the leading case of the intelligence officer of Mamokhna. The writer shows that the Soviet people are not free even in their liberation war.Kazakiewicz's attempt to opens the war leads the author to the creation of uncharacteristic verbal decorations, unreasonably complicated syntax, the absence of expressive vocabulary, military slang, which makes the speech characteristic of the heroes rather unified and vague. The author on the pages of the story managed to avoid the showing of the corpses, atrocities. He managed to tactfully talk about war. The story of the story situations "worked" to create the nature of the chief hero and the author was able to present the war as a constant test of mortal danger, and as an opportunity to find a man of higher spiritual qualities (military debt and human dignity).

Emmanuel Kazakevich. Star

CHAPTER FIRST

Division, coming, deepened in the endless forests, and they swallowed it.

What was failed to be neither German tanks, nor German aviation, nor the gangster hay, managed to make these extensive forest areas with the roads, broken by the war and blurred spring dishthele. In distant forest edges stuck trucks with ammunition and food. In the huts lost among forests, sanitary buses were blamed. On the shores of unnamed rivers, left without fuel, an artillery regiment was scattered off her guns. All this with every hour catastrophically distinguished from the infantry. And the infantry, one and the same, still continued to move forward, cutting the diet and trembling over every cartridge. Then she began to pass. The head was becoming weaker, all the uncertainty, and, taking advantage of this, the Germans came out from under the blow and hastily removed to the West.

The enemy disappeared.

The infantrymen, even left without an enemy, continue to do the case, for which they exist: they occupy the territory disheveled by the enemy. But there is nothing irretrievably speckled from the enemy of scouts. As if losing the meaning of existence, they walk along the roads of the road, like bodies devoid of souls.

One such group caught up on his "Willis" commander of the division Colonel Serbichenko. He slowly got out of the car and stopped in the middle of a dirty, broken road, manpered his hands in the sides and smiling mockingly.

Scouts, seeing Komdiv, stopped.

"Well," he asked, "the enemy lost, eagles? Where is the opponent, what does he do?

He learned in walking ahead of Lieutenant herkina in front of Lieutenant (Kitdiv remembered the face of all his officers) and shouted his head chokoriznarly:

- And you, herbin? "And I absolutely continued:" A cheerful war, nothing to say, "you drink milk in the villages and stagger in Baba ... So you will reach Germany and you will not see the enemy with you. And it would be good, eh? - He asked unexpectedly fun.

The head of the division was sitting in the car. A minute before that, the colonel mercilessly splashed him for the unspoiltness, and Galiev was silent with a dead view.

The mood of the comda changed at the sight of scouts. Colonel Serbichenko began his service in 1915 with a pedestal intelligence. In the intelligence, he received fighting baptism and earned the St. George Cross. Scouts remained his weakness forever. His heart played at the sight of their green maskhalates, tanned faces and silent steps. They are relentlessly after his boyfriend, they are on the side of the road, ready to disappear at any moment, dissolve in the silence of forests, in the irregularities of the soil, in twilight's shimmering shadows.

However, Komdiv's reproaches were serious reproaches. Give the enemy to leave, or - as it says on the solemn language of military charters - give him break away - It is a large trouble for scouts, almost shame.

In the words of the colonel, the opposing anxiety for the fate of the division was felt. He was afraid of meeting with the enemy because the division was bleeding, and the rear behind. And at the same time, he wanted to meet with this disappeared enemy, clutch with him, to find out what he wants what he was capable of. And besides, it was just time to stop, bring people and household in order. Of course, I didn't even want to confess myself that his desire contradicts the passionate gust of the whole country, but he dreamed that the offensive was suspended. These are the secrets of the craft.

And the scouts stood silently, drooping from legs to the leg. The appearance of them was quite pitiful.

"Here they are, your eyes and ears," said the head of his headquarters, dismissively told the head of his headquarters. "Willis" moved.

Scouts stood another minute, then herbin slowly went further, and the rest were moved behind him.

After habit, listening to every rustle, Herkin thought about his platoon.

Like Comda, Lieutenant and wished and afraid of meeting with the enemy. I wished because he commanded the debt, and therefore, that the days of forced inaction are adversely affect the scouts, entangling their dangerous web and carelessness. I was afraid because of the eighteen, the person who had in the beginning of the offensive remained only twelve. True, among them - the well-known Division of Anikanov, Fearless Marchenko, Liya Mamochkin and tested old scouts - brands and bulls. However, the rest were in most yesterday's arrows scored from parts during the offensive. These people still really like to go in the scouts, walk with small groups each friend, using freedom, unthinkable in the infantry part. They are surrounded by honor and respect. This, of course, can not but flatter them, and they look with eagles, but they will be in business - it is unknown.

Our article will be dedicated to the writer not very well known today - this is Emmanuel Gene Khakhevich. "Star" (a summary of the work we will state below) - the story that made it famous. That is why we turn to this book.

About the author and works

Soviet prose and poet is Emmanuel Kazakevich. "Star" (a summary of the story is the main topic of our article) was first published in 1947 on the pages of the magazine "Banner". Like almost all works of this period, the story-story is devoted to the Great Patriotic War.

The author himself served all the war years in a reconnaissance company, where the way from ordinary to captain passed. And it is not surprising that in the work of the star describes the everyday life of the scouts, because their life was a writer not acquainted.

E. Kazakevich, "Star": summary

Actions occur in Western Ukraine. Here in one of the local villages includes an intelligence Soviet platoon. Intelligents commanded Lieutenant Herkin, characterized by worry about his fighters. Under his command was 18 soldiers, 12 of them were proven warriors. The rest were recently recruited, and what to expect from them during the battle, it was unknown. Ahead of them was waiting for a meeting with the enemy - Soviet troops fell.

Herkin was very young, he did not always understand the comrades, but nevertheless he earned their love and respect for selfless attitude towards their duties and selflessness.

Scouts are sent to a brief light raid, during which it turns out that the Germans are already close. Therefore, the division moves to defense, and the reinforcement troops are tightened from the rear.

Workout

With the knowledge of the case describes the military realities Emmanuel Kazakevich ("Star"). A brief content tells how the head of the intelligence department of the army arrives in the division, which puts a group of intelligence groups to the enemy's rear to the enemy rear - there were evidence that enemy troops produce regrouping, so it was possible to find out the amount of tanks and reserve troops. The best candidates for the implementation of this operation turns out to be grass.

From this point on, Herkin begins to exercise with his squad every night. He stubbornly chased his subordinate vyhod through the cold stream, forced to learn correctly cut the wire, detect mines and move through the trenches.

Meshchersky, junior lieutenant, just graduated from a military school asked for a group of scouts. It was a blue-eyed slim young man of twenty years. He is selflessly trained, without complaining and not retreating. It causes respect to the newcomer at grass.

Passed recent workouts. Installed callsign for intermarpters - "Star", and for the division - "Earth". However, at the last moment, the command makes the decision to send instead of the Meshchership officer Anicanova.

Raid to the rear of the enemy

The work of the intelligence officers depicts a man's game with the death of Kazakevich E. G. "Star" (a summary has already noted that it was just such a call sign assigned a group of scouts) after the last briefing put forward to the task. Herkin heads the detachment to which they were also joined as compulsory support of the sapper.

Scouts managed to overcome barbed wire and pass German trenches. An hour later, they already deepen in the forest.

The remaining troops do not look at darkness in darkness, waiting for the scout signal. Meshchersky, commander of the company's company and other soldiers gathered here. Other officers are suitable for them to them, asking whether the detachment was returned. However, the signal that would say that the scouts are detected and retreating, there was no. So, while the group is progressing successfully.

Meeting with the Germans

The most important, but also the most dangerous military work describes the work of the "Star" (KazAkevich). A summary of the story demands to tell how closer to the dawn, the scouts got on the edge of the forest and then suddenly met three Germans. The enemies lay in the truck, and one of them accidentally looked out at the moment when Soviet soldiers appeared.

However, the group saved Herkina's composure. He realized that they could not run. Therefore, soldiers, no faster and not slowing down the step, went on. The German discovered from the seen - seven green shadows in the hoods passed before him, and did not raise the alarms.

After that, the detachment crossed the meadow, and then herbin was able to transfer the radiogram.

Captive and Return

Continues to describe the journey of scouts Kazakevich ("Star"). A summary will not cost and without a story about how, having passed the swamp and the forest, the soldiers saw the Essa squad. Walking it out, they went to a small house, from which the moans and screams came. Later it turned out that this is a hospital. The Germans, who came out from there, caught and interrogated. From the interrogation they found out that there is a tank division. Herkin contacted "Earth" and reported to everything that managed to learn.

After that, the group has advanced to the railway station. Here, Mamokhina and Anicanov managed to take a well-aware of the SS. However, the pigeon died.

Scouts moved back to the way back, but now the Germans knew about them and began to pursue. Aliennikov and Semenov are injured on the way. The radio station that hung over the shoulders of Bykov comes into disrepair - bullets fell into it. Now the squad lost the opportunity to contact the headquarters.

Junction

Suitable by the end of the story, which describes Kazakevich. "Star" (brief content is submitted here) - a story about the feat of the scouts who risk their lives in the war more than anyone.

Intelligents did not manage to get to their own - the Germans began the cloud, took them into the ticks and shot. The commander-in-chief who received the information of the intelligence officers understands that the Germans are preparing conrtudar to prevent Soviet troops to break through to Poland, and gives an order to strengthen the left flank.

The only one who still is waiting for the reconnaissance returns, - Katya, the sense of love in Love in Herkina. Until the beginning of the offensive, she sent a call sign "Star".