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Brief summary of the novel “Hot Snow” by Yu. Bondarev.

Colonel Deev's division, which included an artillery battery under the command of Lieutenant Drozdovsky, along with many others, was transferred to Stalingrad, where the main forces of the Soviet Army were amassed. The battery included a platoon commanded by Lieutenant Kuznetsov. Drozdovsky and Kuznetsov graduated from the same school in Aktyubinsk. At the school, Drozdovsky “stood out with the emphasized, as if innate in his bearing, the imperious expression of his thin pale face - the best cadet in the division, the favorite of the combat commanders.” And now, after graduating from college, Drozdovsky became Kuznetsov’s closest commander.

Kuznetsov's platoon consisted of 12 people, among whom were Chibisov, the first gunner Nechaev and senior sergeant Ukhanov. Chibisov managed to be in German captivity. People like him were looked at askance, so Chibisov tried his best to be helpful. Kuznetsov believed that Chibisov should have committed suicide instead of giving up, but Chibisov was over forty, and at that moment he was thinking only about his children.

Nechaev, a former sailor from Vladivostok, was an incorrigible womanizer and, on occasion, loved to court the battery medical instructor Zoya Elagina.

Before the war, Sergeant Ukhanov served in the criminal investigation department, then graduated from the Aktobe Military School together with Kuznetsov and Drozdovsky. One day, Ukhanov was returning from AWOL through the toilet window, and came across a division commander who was sitting on a push and could not contain his laughter. A scandal broke out, because of which Ukhanov was not given the officer rank. For this reason, Drozdovsky treated Ukhanov with disdain. Kuznetsov accepted the sergeant as an equal.

At every stop, medical instructor Zoya resorted to the cars that housed Drozdovsky’s battery. Kuznetsov guessed that Zoya came only to see the battery commander.

At the last stop, Deev, the commander of the division, which included Drozdovsky’s battery, arrived at the train. Next to Deev, “leaning on a stick, walked a lean, unfamiliar general with a slightly uneven gait.<…>It was the army commander, Lieutenant General Bessonov.” The general's eighteen-year-old son went missing on the Volkhov front, and now every time the general's gaze fell on some young lieutenant, he remembered his son.

At this stop, Deev's division unloaded from the train and moved further by horse traction. In Kuznetsov's platoon, the horses were driven by riders Rubin and Sergunenkov. At sunset we took a short break. Kuznetsov guessed that Stalingrad was left somewhere behind him, but did not know that their division was moving “towards the German tank divisions that had begun the offensive in order to relieve Paulus’ army of thousands encircled in the Stalingrad area.”

The kitchens fell behind and got lost somewhere in the rear. People were hungry and instead of water they collected trampled, dirty snow. Kuznetsov spoke about this with Drozdovsky, but he sharply besieged him, saying that at the school they were equal, and now he is the commander. “Every word of Drozdovsky<…>arose in Kuznetsov such an irresistible, deaf resistance, as if what Drozdovsky did, said, ordered him was a stubborn and calculated attempt to remind him of his power, to humiliate him.” The army moved on, cursing in every possible way the elders who had disappeared somewhere.

While tank divisions Manstein began a breakthrough to the group of Colonel General Paulus, surrounded by our troops, the newly formed army, which included Deev’s division, was thrown south, on Stalin’s orders, to meet the German strike group “Goth”. This new army was commanded by General Pyotr Aleksandrovich Bessonov, an elderly, reserved man. “He didn’t want to please everyone, he didn’t want to seem like a pleasant interlocutor for everyone. Such petty games aimed at winning sympathy always disgusted him.”

IN Lately it seemed to the general that “his son’s whole life passed monstrously unnoticed, slipped past him.” All his life, moving from one military unit to another, Bessonov thought that he would still have time to rewrite his life completely, but in a hospital near Moscow “for the first time the thought came to him that his life, the life of a military man, could probably only be in one option, which he himself chose once and for all.” It was there that his last meeting took place with his son Victor, a newly minted junior lieutenant of the infantry. Bessonov's wife, Olga, asked him to take his son with him, but Victor refused, and Bessonov did not insist. Now he was tormented by the knowledge that he could have saved only son, but didn't do it. “He felt more and more acutely that his son’s fate was becoming his father’s cross.”

Even during Stalin’s reception, where Bessonov was invited before his new appointment, the question arose about his son. Stalin was well aware that Viktor was part of the army of General Vlasov, and Bessonov himself was familiar with him. However, Bessonov’s appointment as general new army Stalin approved.

From November 24 to 29, troops of the Don and Stalingrad fronts fought against the encircled German group. Hitler ordered Paulus to fight to the last soldier, then the order came for Operation Winter Storm - a breakthrough of the encirclement by the German Army Don under the command of Field Marshal Manstein. On December 12, Colonel General Hoth struck at the junction of the two armies of the Stalingrad Front. By December 15, the Germans had advanced forty-five kilometers to Stalingrad. The introduced reserves were unable to change the situation - German troops stubbornly made their way to the encircled Paulus group. The main task of Bessonov's army, reinforced by a tank corps, was to delay the Germans and then force them to retreat. The last frontier there was the Myshkova River, after which the flat steppe stretched all the way to Stalingrad.

At the army command post, located in a dilapidated village, an unpleasant conversation took place between General Bessonov and a member of the military council, divisional commissar Vitaly Isaevich Vesnin. Bessonov did not trust the commissar; he believed that he was sent to look after him because of a fleeting acquaintance with the traitor, General Vlasov.

In the dead of night, Colonel Deev’s division began to dig in on the banks of the Myshkova River. Lieutenant Kuznetsov's battery dug guns into the frozen ground on the very bank of the river, cursing the foreman, who was a day behind the battery along with the kitchen. Sitting down to rest for a while, Lieutenant Kuznetsov remembered his native Zamoskvorechye. The lieutenant's father, an engineer, caught a cold during construction in Magnitogorsk and died. My mother and sister remained at home.

Having dug in, Kuznetsov, together with Zoya, went to command post to Drozdovsky. Kuznetsov looked at Zoya, and it seemed to him that he “saw her, Zoya,<…>in a house comfortably heated at night, at a table covered for the holiday with a clean white tablecloth,” in his apartment on Pyatnitskaya.

The battery commander explained the military situation and stated that he was dissatisfied with the friendship that arose between Kuznetsov and Ukhanov. Kuznetsov objected that Ukhanov could be a good platoon commander if he received the rank.

When Kuznetsov left, Zoya remained with Drozdovsky. He spoke to her “in the jealous and at the same time demanding tone of a man who had the right to ask her that way.” Drozdovsky was unhappy that Zoya visited Kuznetsov’s platoon too often. He wanted to hide his relationship with her from everyone - he was afraid of gossip that would start circulating around the battery and seep into the headquarters of the regiment or division. Zoya was bitter to think that Drozdovsky loved her so little.

Drozdovsky was from a family of hereditary military men. His father died in Spain, his mother died the same year. After the death of his parents, Drozdovsky did not go to an orphanage, but lived with distant relatives in Tashkent. He believed that his parents had betrayed him and was afraid that Zoya would betray him too. He demanded from Zoya proof of her love for him, but she could not cross the last line, and this angered Drozdovsky.

General Bessonov arrived at Drozdovsky’s battery and was waiting for the return of the scouts who had gone for the “language.” The general understood that he had arrived crucial moment war. The testimony of the “language” was supposed to provide the missing information about the reserves of the German army. The outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad depended on this.

The battle began with a Junkers raid, after which they launched an attack German tanks. During the bombing, Kuznetsov remembered the gun sights - if they were broken, the battery would not be able to fire. The lieutenant wanted to send Ukhanov, but realized that he had no right and would never forgive himself if something happened to Ukhanov. Risking his life, Kuznetsov went to the guns together with Ukhanov and found there riders Rubin and Sergunenkov, with whom the seriously wounded scout was lying.

Having sent a scout to the OP, Kuznetsov continued the battle. Soon he no longer saw anything around him; he commanded the gun “in an evil rapture, in a gambling and frantic unity with the crew.” The lieutenant felt "this hatred for possible death, this fusion with the weapon, this fever of delirious rage and only at the edge of consciousness understanding what he is doing.”

Meanwhile, a German self-propelled gun hid behind two tanks knocked out by Kuznetsov and began to shoot at the neighboring gun at point-blank range. Having assessed the situation, Drozdovsky handed Sergunenkov two anti-tank grenades and ordered to crawl up to the self-propelled gun and destroy it. Young and frightened, Sergunenkov died without fulfilling the order. “He sent Sergunenkov, having the right to order. And I was a witness - and I will curse myself for the rest of my life for this,” thought Kuznetsov.

By the end of the day it became clear that the Russian troops could not withstand the onslaught of the German army. German tanks have already broken through to the northern bank of the Myshkova River. General Bessonov did not want to bring fresh troops into battle, fearing that the army did not have enough strength for a decisive blow. He ordered to fight until last shell. Now Vesnin understood why there were rumors about Bessonov’s cruelty.

Having moved to the Deeva checkpoint, Bessonov realized that it was here that the Germans directed the main attack. The scout found by Kuznetsov reported that two more people, along with the captured “tongue,” were stuck somewhere in the German rear. Soon Bessonov was informed that the Germans had begun to surround the division.

The chief of army counterintelligence arrived from headquarters. He showed Vesnin a German leaflet, which printed a photograph of Bessonov’s son, and told how well the son of a famous Russian military leader was being cared for in a German hospital. The headquarters wanted Bessnonov to remain permanently at the army command post, under supervision. Vesnin did not believe in Bessonov Jr.’s betrayal, and decided not to show this leaflet to the general for now.

Bessonov brought tank and mechanized corps into battle and asked Vesnin to go towards them and hurry them up. Fulfilling the general’s request, Vesnin died. General Bessonov never found out that his son was alive.

Ukhanov's only surviving gun fell silent late in the evening when the shells obtained from other guns ran out. At this time, the tanks of Colonel General Hoth crossed the Myshkova River. As darkness fell, the battle began to subside behind us.

Now for Kuznetsov everything was “measured in different categories than a day ago.” Ukhanov, Nechaev and Chibisov were barely alive from fatigue. “This is the only surviving weapon<…>and there are four of them<…>were awarded a smiling fate, the random happiness of surviving the day and evening of endless battle, and living longer than others. But there was no joy in life.” They found themselves behind German lines.

Suddenly the Germans began to attack again. In the light of the rockets, they saw the body of a man two steps from their firing platform. Chibisov shot at him, mistaking him for a German. It turned out to be one of those Russian intelligence officers that General Bessonov had been waiting for. Two more scouts, along with the “tongue,” hid in a crater near two damaged armored personnel carriers.

At this time, Drozdovsky appeared at the crew, along with Rubin and Zoya. Without looking at Drozdovsky, Kuznetsov took Ukhanov, Rubin and Chibisov and went to help the scout. Following Kuznetsov’s group, Drozdovsky joined forces with two signalmen and Zoya.

A captured German and one of the scouts were found at the bottom of a large crater. Drozdovsky ordered a search for the second scout, despite the fact that, making his way to the crater, he attracted the attention of the Germans, and now the entire area was under machine-gun fire. Drozdovsky himself crawled back, taking with him the “tongue” and the surviving scout. On the way, his group came under fire, during which Zoya was seriously wounded in the stomach, and Drozdovsky was shell-shocked.

When Zoya was brought to the crew with her overcoat unfurled, she was already dead. Kuznetsov was like in a dream, “everything that kept him in unnatural tension these days<…>suddenly he relaxed.” Kuznetsov almost hated Drozdovsky for not saving Zoya. “He cried so lonely and desperately for the first time in his life. And when he wiped his face, the snow on the sleeve of his quilted jacket was hot from his tears.”

Already late in the evening, Bessonov realized that the Germans had not been pushed off the northern bank of the Myshkova River. By midnight the fighting had stopped, and Bessonov wondered if this was due to the fact that the Germans had used all their reserves. Finally, a “tongue” was brought to the checkpoint, who reported that the Germans had indeed brought reserves into the battle. After interrogation, Bessonov was informed that Vesnin had died. Now Bessonov regretted that their relationship “was the fault of him, Bessonov,<…>did not look the way Vesnin wanted and what they should have been.”

The front commander contacted Bessonov and reported that four tank divisions were successfully reaching the rear of the Don Army. The general ordered an attack. Meanwhile, Bessonov’s adjutant found a German leaflet among Vesnin’s things, but did not dare to tell the general about it.

About forty minutes after the attack began, the battle reached a turning point. Watching the battle, Bessonov could not believe his eyes when he saw that several guns had survived on the right bank. The corps brought into battle pushed the Germans back to the right bank, captured crossings and began to encircle the German troops.

After the battle, Bessonov decided to drive along the right bank, taking with him all the available awards. He awarded everyone who survived after this terrible battle and German encirclement. Bessonov “didn’t know how to cry, and the wind helped him, gave vent to tears of delight, sorrow and gratitude.” The entire crew of Lieutenant Kuznetsov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Ukhanov was offended that Drozdovsky also received the order.

Kuznetsov, Ukhanov, Rubin and Nechaev sat and drank vodka with orders dipped into it, and the battle continued ahead.

Yuri Vasilievich Bondarev

"Hot Snow"

Summary

Nechaev, a former sailor from Vladivostok, was an incorrigible womanizer and, on occasion, loved to court the battery medical instructor Zoya Elagina.

At every stop, medical instructor Zoya resorted to the cars that housed Drozdovsky’s battery. Kuznetsov guessed that Zoya came only to see the battery commander.

The kitchens fell behind and got lost somewhere in the rear. People were hungry and instead of water they collected trampled, dirty snow from the roadsides. Kuznetsov spoke about this with Drozdovsky, but he sharply besieged him, saying that at the school they were equal, and now he is the commander. “Every word of Drozdovsky<…>arose in Kuznetsov such an irresistible, deaf resistance, as if what Drozdovsky did, said, ordered him was a stubborn and calculated attempt to remind him of his power, to humiliate him.” The army moved on, cursing in every possible way the elders who had disappeared somewhere.

While Manstein’s tank divisions began to break through to the group of Colonel General Paulus, surrounded by our troops, the newly formed army, which included Deev’s division, was thrown south, on Stalin’s orders, to meet the German strike group “Goth”. This new army was commanded by General Pyotr Aleksandrovich Bessonov, an elderly, reserved man. “He didn’t want to please everyone, he didn’t want to seem like a pleasant interlocutor for everyone. Such petty games aimed at winning sympathy always disgusted him.”

Lately it seemed to the general that “his son’s whole life had passed monstrously unnoticed, slipped past him.” All his life, moving from one military unit to another, Bessonov thought that he would still have time to rewrite his life completely, but in a hospital near Moscow “for the first time the thought came to him that his life, the life of a military man, could probably only be in one option, which he himself chose once and for all.” It was there that his last meeting took place with his son Victor, a newly minted junior lieutenant of the infantry. Bessonov's wife, Olga, asked him to take his son with him, but Victor refused, and Bessonov did not insist. Now he was tormented by the knowledge that he could have saved his only son, but did not. “He felt more and more acutely that his son’s fate was becoming his father’s cross.”

Even during Stalin’s reception, where Bessonov was invited before his new appointment, the question arose about his son. Stalin was well aware that Viktor was part of the army of General Vlasov, and Bessonov himself was familiar with him. Nevertheless, Stalin approved Bessonov’s appointment as general of the new army.

From November 24 to 29, troops of the Don and Stalingrad fronts fought against the encircled German group. Hitler ordered Paulus to fight to the last soldier, then the order came for Operation Winter Storm - a breakthrough of the encirclement by the German Army Don under the command of Field Marshal Manstein. On December 12, Colonel General Hoth struck at the junction of the two armies of the Stalingrad Front. By December 15, the Germans had advanced forty-five kilometers to Stalingrad. The introduced reserves could not change the situation - German troops stubbornly made their way to the encircled Paulus group. The main task of Bessonov's army, reinforced by a tank corps, was to delay the Germans and then force them to retreat. The last frontier was the Myshkova River, after which the flat steppe stretched all the way to Stalingrad.

Having dug in, Kuznetsov and Zoya went to the command post to see Drozdovsky. Kuznetsov looked at Zoya, and it seemed to him that he “saw her, Zoya,<…>in a house comfortably heated at night, at a table covered for the holiday with a clean white tablecloth,” in his apartment on Pyatnitskaya.

General Bessonov arrived at Drozdovsky’s battery and was waiting for the return of the scouts who had gone for the “language.” The general understood that the turning point of the war had come. The testimony of the “language” was supposed to provide the missing information about the reserves of the German army. The outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad depended on this.

The battle began with a Junkers raid, after which German tanks went on the attack. During the bombing, Kuznetsov remembered the gun sights - if they were broken, the battery would not be able to fire. The lieutenant wanted to send Ukhanov, but realized that he had no right and would never forgive himself if something happened to Ukhanov. Risking his life, Kuznetsov went to the guns together with Ukhanov and found there riders Rubin and Sergunenkov, with whom the seriously wounded scout was lying.

Having sent a scout to the OP, Kuznetsov continued the battle. Soon he no longer saw anything around him; he commanded the gun “in an evil rapture, in a gambling and frantic unity with the crew.” The lieutenant felt “this hatred of possible death, this fusion with the weapon, this fever of delirious rage and only at the edge of his consciousness understanding what he was doing.”

Meanwhile, a German self-propelled gun hid behind two tanks knocked out by Kuznetsov and began to shoot at the neighboring gun at point-blank range. Having assessed the situation, Drozdovsky handed Sergunenkov two anti-tank grenades and ordered him to crawl to the self-propelled gun and destroy it. Young and frightened, Sergunenkov died without fulfilling the order. “He sent Sergunenkov, having the right to order. And I was a witness - and I will curse myself for the rest of my life for this,” thought Kuznetsov.

By the end of the day it became clear that the Russian troops could not withstand the onslaught of the German army. German tanks have already broken through to the northern bank of the Myshkova River. General Bessonov did not want to bring fresh troops into battle, fearing that the army did not have enough strength for a decisive blow. He ordered to fight until the last shell. Now Vesnin understood why there were rumors about Bessonov’s cruelty.

Having moved to K.P. Deev, Bessonov realized that it was here that the Germans directed the main attack. The scout found by Kuznetsov reported that two more people, along with the captured “tongue,” were stuck somewhere in the German rear. Soon Bessonov was informed that the Germans had begun to surround the division.

Kuznetsov, Ukhanov, Rubin and Nechaev sat and drank vodka with orders dipped into it, and the battle continued ahead. Retold Yulia Peskovaya

Kuznets and his classmates were supposedly going to the Western Front, but after stopping in Saratov it turned out that the entire division was being transferred to Stalingrad. Shortly before unloading at the front line, the locomotive makes a stop. The soldiers, waiting for breakfast, went out to warm up.

Medical instructor Zoya, in love with Drozdovsky, the battery commander and classmate of Kuznetsov, constantly came to their cars. At this stop, Deev, the division commander, and Lieutenant General Bessonov, the army commander, joined the squad. Bessonov was approved by personal meeting Stalin himself, presumably due to his reputation for being brutal and willing to do anything to win. Soon the entire division was unloaded and sent towards Paulus's army.

The division had gone far ahead, but the kitchens were left behind. The soldiers were hungry, eating dirty snow, when the order came to join the army of General Bessonov and go out to meet the fascist strike group of Colonel General Goth. Bessonov’s army, which included Deev’s division, was tasked by the country’s supreme leadership with the task of keeping Hoth’s army at any sacrifice and not allowing them to reach Paulus’s group. Deev's division is digging in at the line on the banks of the Myshkova River. Fulfilling the order, Kuznetsov’s battery dug in guns near the river bank. Afterwards, Kuznetsov takes Zoya with him and goes to Drozdovsky. Drozdovsky is dissatisfied that Kuznetsov is making friends with another of their classmates, Ukhanov (Ukhanov was unable to receive a worthy title, like his classmates, only because, returning from unauthorized absence through the window of the men's toilet, he found the general sitting on the toilet and laughed for a long time). But Kuznetsov does not support Drozdovsky’s snobbery and communicates with Ukhanov as an equal. Bessonov comes to Drozdovsky and waits for the scouts who have gone to get the “language”. The outcome of the battle for Stalingrad depends on the denunciation of the “tongue”. Suddenly the battle begins. Junkers flew in, followed by tanks. Kuznetsov and Ukhanov make their way to their guns and discover a wounded scout. He reports that the “tongue” with two intelligence officers is now in the fascist rear. Meanwhile, the Nazi army encircles Deev's division.

In the evening, all the shells at the last surviving dug-in gun, behind which Ukhanov stood, ran out. The Germans continued to attack and advance. Kuznetsov, Drozdovsky with Zoya, Ukhanov and several other people from the division find themselves behind German lines. They went to look for scouts with a “tongue”. They are found near the explosion crater and try to rescue them from there. Under fire, Drozdovsky is shell-shocked and Zoya is wounded in the stomach. Zoya dies and Kuznetsov blames Drozdovsky for this. She hates him and sobs, wiping her face with snow hot from tears. The “language” delivered to Bessonov confirms that the Germans have introduced reserves.

The turning point that influenced the outcome of the battle was the guns dug in near the shore and, by luck, surviving. It was these guns, dug in by Kuznetsov’s battery, that pushed the Nazis back to the right bank, held the crossings and allowed them to encircle the German troops. After the end of this bloody battle, Bessonov collected all the awards that he had and, driving along the banks of the Myshkova River, awarded everyone who survived the German encirclement. Kuznetsov, Ukhanov and several other people from the platoon sat and drank.

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The author of “Hot Snow” raises the problem of man in war. Is it possible in the midst of death and
without becoming hardened by violence, without becoming cruel? How to maintain self-control and the ability to feel and empathize? How to overcome fear and remain human when you find yourself in unbearable conditions? What reasons determine people's behavior in war?
The lesson can be structured as follows:
1. Opening remarks by teachers of history and literature.
2. Defense of the project “Battle of Stalingrad: events, facts, comments.”
Z. Defense of the project “The historical significance of the battle on the Myshkova River, its place during the Battle of Stalingrad.”
4. Defense of the project “Yu. Bondarev: front-line writer.”
5. Analysis of the novel by Yu. Bondarev “Hot Snow”.
6. Defense of the projects “Restoration of the destroyed Stalin city” and “Volgograd today”.
7. Final word teachers.

Let's move on to the analysis of the novel "Hot Snow"

Bondarev's novel is unusual in that its events are limited to just a few days.

— Tell us about the time period and plot of the novel.
(The action of the novel takes place over two days, when Bondarev’s heroes selflessly defend a tiny patch of land from German tanks. In “Hot Snow,” time is compressed more tightly than in the story “Battalions Ask for Fire”: this is a short march of General Bessonov’s army disembarking from the echelons and the battle , who decided so much in the fate of the country; these are cold
frosty dawns, two days and two endless December nights. Without lyrical digressions, it’s as if the author’s breath was taken away from constant tension.

The plot of the novel “Hot Snow” is connected with the true events of the Great Patriotic War, with one of its decisive moments. The life and death of the novel's heroes, their destinies are illuminated with an alarming light true history, as a result of which everything under the writer’s pen acquires weight and significance.

— During the battle on the Myshkova River, the situation in the Stalingrad direction was tense to the limit. This tension is felt on every page of the novel. Remember what General Bessonov says at the council about the situation in which his army found itself. (Episode at the icons.)
(“If I believed, I would pray, of course. On my knees I asked for advice and help. But I don’t believe in God and I don’t believe in miracles. 400 tanks - that’s the truth for you! And this truth is put on the scales - a dangerous weight on scales of good and evil. A lot depends on this now: a four-month
the defense of Stalingrad, our counter-offensive, the encirclement of the German armies here. And this is true, as is the fact that the Germans launched a counter-offensive from outside, but the scales still need to be touched. Is it enough?
Do I have the strength for this? .. ")

In this episode, the author shows the moment of maximum tension of human strength, when the hero is faced with the eternal questions of existence: what is truth, love, goodness? How can we make sure that good outweighs the scales? Is it possible for one person to do this? It is no coincidence that in Bondarev this monologue takes place near the icons. Yes, Bessonov does not believe in God. But the icon here is a symbol of the historical memory of the wars and suffering of the Russian people, who won victories with extraordinary fortitude, supported by the Orthodox faith. And the Great Patriotic War was no exception.

(The writer assigns almost the main place to Drozdovsky’s battery. Kuznetsov, Ukhanov, Rubin and their comrades are a particle great army, they express the spiritual and moral traits of the people. In this wealth and diversity of characters, from privates to generals, Yuri Bondarev shows the image of the people who stood up to defend the Motherland, and does it brightly and convincingly, it seems, without special effort, as if it were dictated by life itself.)

— How does the author introduce the characters to us at the beginning of the story? (Analysis of the episodes “In the Carriage”, “Bombing the Train”.)
(We discuss how Kuznetsov, Drozdovsky, Chibisov, Ukhanov behave during these events.
Please note that one of the most important conflicts in the novel is the conflict between Kuznetsov and Drozdovsky. Let's compare the descriptions of the appearance of Drozdovsky and Kuznetsov. We note that Bondarev does not show Drozdovsky’s internal experiences, but reveals Kuznetsov’s worldview in great detail through internal monologues.)

— During the march, Sergunenkov’s horse breaks its legs. Analyze behavior
heroes in this episode.
(Rubin is cruel, he offers to beat the horse with a whip so that it gets up, although everything is already pointless: it is doomed. Shooting at the horse, he misses the temple, the animal suffers. He swears at Sergunenkov, who is unable to hold back his tears of pity. Sergunenkov is trying to feed the dying horse Ukhanov wants to support young Sergunenkov, to encourage him. Drozdovsky barely
holding back his rage because the battery is not in order. “Drozdovsky’s thin face seemed calmly frozen, only suppressed rage splashed in the pupils.” Drozdovsky screams
orders. Kuznetsov dislikes Rubin's evil determination. He suggests lowering the next gun without horses, on the shoulders.)

“Everyone experiences fear in war. How do the characters in the novel experience fear? How does Chibisov behave during shelling and in the case of a scout? Why?
(“Kuznetsov saw Chibisov’s face, gray as the earth, with frozen eyes, his wheezing mouth: “Not here, not here, Lord ...” - and visible down to individual hairs, as if the stubble on his cheeks had fallen away from the gray skin. Leaning down, he rested his hands on Kuznetsov’s chest and, pressing his shoulder and back into some narrow non-existent space, screamed
prayerfully: “Children! Children... I have no right to die. No! .. Children! .. "". Out of fear, Chibisov squeezed into the trench. Fear paralyzed the hero. He cannot move, mice are crawling on him, but Chibisov sees nothing and does not react to anything until Ukhanov shouts at him. In the case of the intelligence officer, Chibisov is already completely paralyzed by fear. They say about such people at the front: “The living dead.” “Tears rolled from Chibisov’s blinking eyes along the unkempt, dirty stubble of his cheeks and the balaclava pulled over his chin, and Kuznetsov was struck by the expression of some kind of dog-like melancholy, insecurity in his appearance, a lack of understanding of what had happened and was happening, what they wanted from him. At that moment, Kuznetsov did not realize that it was not physical, devastating powerlessness and not even the expectation of death, but animal despair after everything Chibisov had experienced... Probably the fact that in blind fear he shot at the scout, not believing that he was his own, Russian , was the last thing that finally broke him.” “What happened to Chibisov was familiar to him in other circumstances and with other people, from whom the anguish before endless suffering seemed to pull out everything holding him back, like some kind of core, and this, as a rule, was a premonition of his death. Such people were not considered alive in advance; they were looked at as dead.

— Tell us about the case with Kasyankin.
— How did General Bessonov behave during the shelling in the trench?
— How does Kuznetsov deal with fear?
(I don’t have the right to do this. I don’t! This is disgusting powerlessness... I need to take panoramas! I
afraid to die? Why am I afraid to die? A shrapnel to the head... Am I afraid of a shrapnel to the head? .. No,
I'll jump out of the trench now. Where is Drozdovsky? ..” “Kuznetsov wanted to shout: “Wrap up
wrap it up now!” - and turn away so as not to see these knees of his, this, like a disease, his invincible fear, which suddenly pierced sharply and at the same time, like a wind, arose
somewhere the word “tanks”, and, trying not to give in and resisting this fear, he thought: “Don’t
May be")
— The role of a commander in war is extremely important. The course of events and the lives of his subordinates depend on his decisions. Compare the behavior of Kuznetsov and Drozdovsky during the battle. (Analysis of the episodes “Kuznetsov and Ukhanov remove their sights”, “Tanks are advancing on the battery”, “Kuznetsov at Davlatyan’s gun”).

— How does Kuznetsov decide to remove the sights? Is Kuznetsov following Drozdovsky’s order to open fire on the tanks? How does Kuznetsov behave near Davlatyan’s gun?
(During an artillery shelling, Kuznetsov struggles with fear. It is necessary to remove the sights from the guns, but getting out of the trench under continuous fire is certain death. With the power of the commander, Kuznetsov can send any soldier on this mission, but he understands that he has no moral right to do this. “ I
I have and I don’t have the right,” flashed through Kuznetsov’s head. “Then I’ll never forgive myself.” Kuznetsov cannot send a person to certain death, it is so easy to dispose of human life. As a result, they remove the sights together with Ukhanov. When the tanks approached the battery, it was necessary to get them to a minimum distance before opening fire. To discover yourself ahead of time means to come under direct enemy fire. (This happened with Davlatyan’s gun.) In this situation, Kuznetsov shows extraordinary restraint. Drozdovsky calls the command post and enragedly orders: “Fire!” Kuznetsov waits until the last minute, thereby saving the gun. Davlatyan's gun is silent. The tanks are trying to break through in this place and hit the battery from the rear. Kuznetsov runs alone to the gun, not yet knowing what he will do there. He takes on the battle almost alone. “I’m going crazy,” thought Kuznetsov... only realizing at the edge of his consciousness what he was doing. His eyes eagerly caught in the crosshairs the black streaks of smoke, oncoming bursts of fire, the yellow sides of tanks crawling in iron herds to the right and left in front of the beam. His trembling hands threw shells into the smoking throat of the breech, his fingers, with a nervous, hurried groping, pressed the trigger.)

— How does Drozdovsky behave during a fight? (Commented reading of the episodes “U
Davpatyan's guns", "Death of Sergunenkov").What does Drozdovsky accuse Kuznetsov of? Why?How do Rubin and Kuznetsov behave during Drozdovsky’s order?How do the heroes behave after the death of Sergunenkov?
(Having met Kuznetsov at Davlatyan’s gun, Drozdovsky accuses him of desertion. This
the accusation seems completely inappropriate and ridiculous at that moment. Instead of understanding the situation, he threatens Kuznetsov with a pistol. Just a little explanation from Kuznetsov
calms him down. Kuznetsov quickly navigates the battlefield, acts prudently and intelligently.
Drozdovsky sends Sergunenkov to certain death, does not appreciate human life, doesn't think
about people, considering himself exemplary and infallible, he shows extreme selfishness. People for him are only subordinates, not close, strangers. Kuznetsov, on the contrary, tries to understand and get closer to those who are under his command, he feels his inextricable connection with them. Having seen the “tangibly naked, monstrously open” death of Sergunenkov near the self-propelled gun, Kuznetsov hated Drozdovsky and himself for not being able to interfere. After the death of Sergunenkov, Drozdovsky is trying to justify himself. “Did I want him dead? — Drozdovsky’s voice broke into a squeal, and tears began to sound in it. - Why did he get up? .. Did you see how he stood up? For what?")

— Tell us about General Bessonov. What caused his severity?
(The son has gone missing. As a leader, he has no right to weakness.)

— How do subordinates treat the general?
(They ingratiate themselves, care too much.)

- Does Bessonov like this servility?
Mamaev kurgan. Be worthy of the memory of the fallen... (No, it irritates him. “Such petty
the vainglorious game for the purpose of winning sympathy always disgusted him, irritated him in others, repulsed him, like empty frivolity or the weakness of an insecure person")

— How does Bessonov behave during the battle?
(During the battle, the general is at the forefront, he himself observes and controls the situation, he understands that many soldiers are yesterday’s boys, just like his son. He does not give himself the right to weakness, otherwise he will not be able to make tough decisions. Gives the order: “ Fight to the death! Not a step back." The success of the entire operation depends on this. He is harsh with his subordinates, including Vesnin)

— How does Vesnin soften the situation?
(Maximum sincerity and openness of relationships.)
— I’m sure that you all remember the heroine of the novel, Zoya Elagina. Using her example, Bondarev
shows the gravity of the situation of women in war.

Tell us about Zoya. What attracts you to her?
(Throughout the entire novel, Zoya reveals herself to us as a person, ready for self-sacrifice, capable of embracing with her heart the pain and suffering of many. She seems to go through many tests, from annoying interest to rude rejection, But her kindness, her patience, her compassion are enough to "The image of Zoya somehow imperceptibly filled the atmosphere of the book, its main events, its harsh, cruel reality with the feminine principle, affection and tenderness."

Probably the most mysterious thing in the world of human relationships in the novel is the love that arises between Kuznetsov and Zoya. War, its cruelty and blood, its timing overturn the usual ideas about time. It was the war that contributed to such a rapid development of this love. After all, this feeling developed in those short periods of march and battle when there is no time to think and analyze one’s feelings. And it begins with Kuznetsov’s quiet, incomprehensible jealousy: he is jealous of Zoya for Drozdovsky.)

— Tell us how the relationship between Zoya and Kuznetsov developed.
(At first, Zoya is captivated by Drozdovsky (confirmation that Zoya was deceived in Drozdovsky was his behavior in the case of the intelligence officer), but imperceptibly, without noticing how, she singles out Kuznetsov. She sees that this naive boy, as she thought, turned out to be in a hopeless situation, one fights against enemy tanks. And when Zoya is threatened with death, he covers her with his body. This man thinks not about himself, but about his beloved. The feeling that appeared between them so quickly ended just as quickly.)

— Tell us about Zoya’s death, about how Kuznetsov experiences Zoya’s death.
(Kuznetsov bitterly mourns the death of Zoya, and it is from this episode that the title is taken
novel. When he wiped his face wet from tears, “the snow on the sleeve of his quilted jacket was hot from his
tears,” “He, as in a dream, mechanically grabbed the edge of his overcoat and walked, not daring to look down in front of him, where she lay, from where a quiet, cold, deadly emptiness wafted: no voice, no groan, no living breath... He was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to stand it now, that he would do something furiously crazy in a state of despair and his unthinkable guilt, as if his life had ended and nothing had happened now.” Kuznetsov cannot believe that she is gone, he tries to reconcile with Drozdovsky, but the latter’s attack of jealousy, so unthinkable now, stops him.)
— Throughout the entire narrative, the author emphasizes Drozdovsky’s exemplary bearing: a girl’s waist, tightened with a belt, straight shoulders, he is like a taut string.

How it changes appearance Drozdovsky after Zoya's death?
(Drozdovsky walked ahead, swooning and swaying loosely, his always straight shoulders were hunched, his arms were turned back, holding the edge of his overcoat; he stood out with an alien whiteness
bandage on his now short neck, the bandage was slipping onto his collar)

Long hours of battle, the senseless death of Sergunenkov, the mortal wound of Zoya,
which Drozdovsky is partly to blame for - all this creates a gulf between the two young
officers, their moral incompatibility. In the finale this abyss is further indicated
more sharply: the four surviving artillerymen “bless” the newly received orders in a soldier’s bowler hat; and the sip that each of them takes is, first of all, a funeral sip - it contains bitterness and grief of loss. Drozdovsky also received the order, because for Bessonov, who awarded him, he is a survivor, a wounded commander of a surviving battery, the general does not know about Drozdovsky’s grave guilt and most likely will never know. This is also the reality of war. But it’s not for nothing that the writer leaves Drozdovsky aside from those gathered at the soldier’s bowler hat.

— Is it possible to talk about the similarity of the characters of Kuznetsov and Bessonov?

“The ethical and philosophical thought of the novel, as well as its emotional
tension reaches in the finale, when an unexpected rapprochement between Bessonov and
Kuznetsova. Bessonov awarded his officer along with others and moved on. For him
Kuznetsov is just one of those who stood to the death at the turn of the Myshkova River. Their closeness
turns out to be more sublime: this is a kinship of thought, spirit, outlook on life.” For example,
Shocked by the death of Vesnin, Bessonov blames himself for the fact that his unsociability and suspicion prevented the development of warm and friendly relations with Vesnin. And Kuznetsov worries that he could not do anything to help Chubarikov’s crew, which was dying before his eyes, and is tormented by the piercing thought that all this happened “because he did not have time to get close to them, to understand each one, to love ....”

“Separated by the disproportion of responsibilities, Lieutenant Kuznetsov and the army commander, General Bessonov, are moving towards the same virgin land, not only military, but also spiritual. Suspecting nothing about each other's thoughts, they think about the same thing and seek the truth in the same direction. Both of them demandly ask themselves about the purpose of life and whether their actions and aspirations correspond to it. They are separated by age and related, like father and son, or even like brother and brother, love for the Motherland and belonging to the people and to humanity in the highest sense of these words.”

— The novel expresses the author’s understanding of death as a violation of the highest justice andharmony. Can you confirm this?
We remember how Kuznetsov looked at the murdered Kasymov: “Now a shell box lay under Kasymov’s head, and his youthful, mustacheless face, recently alive, dark, had become deathly white, thinned by the eerie beauty of death, looked in surprise with damp cherry
with half-open eyes at his chest, at his padded jacket torn to shreds, as if
and after his death he did not understand how it killed him and why he was never able to stand at gunpoint. Kuznetsov feels the loss of his driver Sergunenkov even more acutely. After all, the very mechanism of his death is revealed here. The heroes of “Hot Snow” die: battery medical instructor Zoya Elagina, member of the Military Council Vesnin and many others... And the war is to blame for all these deaths.

In the novel, the feat of the people who rose up to war appears before us in a completeness of expression previously unprecedented in Bondarev, in the richness and diversity of characters. This is a feat of young lieutenants - commanders of artillery platoons - and those who are traditionally considered to be people from the people, such as private Chibisov, the calm and experienced gunner Evstigneev or the straightforward and rough riding Rubin, a feat of senior officers, such as the division commander Colonel Deev or the army commander General Bessonov. But all of them in that war, first of all, were soldiers, and each in his own way fulfilled his duty to the Motherland, to his people. And the great Victory that came in May 1945 became their Victory.

LITERATURE
1. GORBUNOVA E.N. Yuri Bondarev: essay on creativity. - M., 1981.
2. ZHURAVLYOV S.I. Memory of burning years. - M.: Education, 1985.
3. SAMSONOV A.M. Battle of Stalingrad. - M., 1968.
4. Stalingrad: history lessons (memories of battle participants). - M., 1980.
5. Hieromonk PHILADELPH. Zealous Intercessor. - M.: Shestodnev, 2003.
6. World of Orthodoxy, - NQ 7 (184), July 2013 (Internet version).

Bondarev’s novel “Hot Snow,” written in 1970, tells the story of real events that occurred during the Great Patriotic War. The book describes one of the most important battles that decided the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Main characters

Bessonov– general, mature, reserved, responsible man.

Kuznetsov- young lieutenant, platoon commander.

Drozdovsky- commander of an artillery battery, a disciplined, strong-willed guy.

Zoya Elagina- medical instructor, love object of Kuznetsov and Drozdovsky

Other characters

Ukhanov- senior sergeant, gun commander.

Chibisov- a man of about forty, the oldest in the platoon.

Evstigneev– gunner, calm and experienced fighter.

Nechaev- gunner of the first gun.

Ruby– driving, straightforward and rough.

Deev– division commander

Vesnin- Member of the Military Council.

Davlatyan- commander of the second platoon.

Chapters 1-2

Lieutenant Kuznetsov learns that Colonel Deev’s division is “urgently being transferred to Stalingrad, and not to the Western Front, as was initially assumed.” The division also includes an artillery battery under the command of Lieutenant Drozdovsky, which in turn includes a platoon of Lieutenant Kuznetsov.

The train stops for a long time in the steppe, outside - thirty degrees below zero, no less. Kuznetsov goes to the battery commander Drozdovsky, with whom he studied at a military school. Even then he was “the best cadet in the division, the favorite of the combatant commanders.” Now Drozdovsky - immediate superior Kuznetsova.

Kuznetsov's platoon consists of twelve people, among whom Chibisov, Ukhanov and Nechaev stood out. Chibisov was the eldest, he had already been in German captivity, and now he tried in every possible way to prove his devotion.

Before the war, Ukhanov served in the criminal investigation department, and after that he studied at the same school with Drozdovsky and Kuznetsov. It is not easy for the latter to communicate as a commander with his former classmate, who at one time “for unknown reasons” was not allowed to take the exams.

During the forced stop, the soldiers and, in particular, Nechaev, dashingly flirt with the pretty Zoya Elagina, the battery’s medical instructor. Kuznetsov guesses that Zoya often looks into their carriage not to check, but to see Drozdovsky.

At the last stop, division commander Deev arrives at the train, accompanied by army commander Lieutenant General Bessonov. He often thinks “about his eighteen-year-old son, who went missing in June on the Volkhov Front,” and every time he sees the young lieutenant, he remembers his son.

Chapters 3-4

Deev's division is unloaded from the train and continues its journey on horseback. Kuznetsov guesses that Stalingrad is left somewhere behind, but still does not know that their division is moving towards the enemy with one goal - “to relieve Paulus’ army of thousands encircled in the Stalingrad area.”

The field kitchen is lagging behind, and the hungry soldiers have no choice but to eat snow. Kuznetsov conveys the indignation of his subordinates to Drozdovsky, but he only harshly orders to prepare “the personnel not for thoughts of food, but for battle.”

Chapters 5-7

Manstein's tank divisions begin fighting with the goal of breaking through to “Stalingrad, tormented by the four-month battle,” to the army of many thousands of General Paulus, squeezed on all sides by Soviet troops.

At the same time, the “newly formed army in the rear” under the command of General Bessonov, which included Deev’s division, was sent south “towards the army strike group “Goth”.”

At this time, Hitler’s operation called “Winter Sleep” was in full swing, the purpose of which was to encircle the “Don”. This is being prevented by the troops of the Don and Stalingrad fronts. Paulus demands Hitler's consent to retreat, but he gives the order “not to leave Stalingrad, maintain a perimeter defense, fight to the last soldier.”

The Germans are slowly but confidently advancing towards Stalingrad, and the main task of Bessonov’s army is to detain the Germans on the outskirts of the city.

Chapters 8-14

After a two-hundred-kilometer throw, Deev’s division takes up defensive positions on the northern bank of the Myshkova River, which became “the last barrier before Stalingrad.”

Drozdovsky orders Kuznetsov and Davlatyan to appear to inform them of the unstable situation ahead. To find out the location of the Germans, “reconnaissance was sent from the rifle division.” If everything goes well, reconnaissance should reach the bridge at night. Drozdovsky orders "to observe and not open fire on this area, even if the Germans start."

Zoya comes to Drozdovsky, and he expresses his dissatisfaction with the fact that she spends a lot of time with Kuznetsov. The commander is jealous of the girl, and at the same time wants to hide his relationship with her.

Drozdovsky shares painful childhood memories with Zoya: his father died in Spain, and his mother died the same year. He did not go to an orphanage, but moved to distant relatives in Tashkent and “slept on chests like a puppy for five years - until he graduated from school.” Drozdovsky believes that the parents he loved so much betrayed him, and is afraid that Zoya will also betray him “with some brat.”

Deev and Bessonov arrive to personally question the scouts, who should return with the “language”. The general understands that a turning point in the war is coming: the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad will depend on the testimony of a captured German.

The battle begins with the approach of “heavily loaded Junkers,” followed by German tanks to attack. Fierce battles do not stop for a minute, and by the end of the day Soviet army cannot withstand the onslaught of the Germans. Enemy tanks break through to the northern bank of the Myshkova River. Bessonov does not plan to bring fresh troops into battle in order to save his strength for the decisive blow. He orders to fight “until the last shell.” Until the last bullet."

Feeling success, the Germans rush to expand and deepen their breakthrough before darkness. In the confrontation between the two armies, one observes either “a critical situation, or a state of the highest point of the battle, when a stretched arrow has strained to the limit, ready to break.”

Chapters 15-17

One scout barely manages to break through to “his people.” He reports that the remaining scouts discovered by the Germans were forced to give battle, and are now “stuck together with the taken “tongue”” somewhere in the German rear.

Bessonov is informed that the division is surrounded and “the Germans can cut off communications.” Meanwhile, Vesnin is brought a German leaflet, which shows a photograph of Bessonov’s missing son with the inscription “The son of a famous Bolshevik military leader is being treated in a German hospital.” Vesnin refuses to believe in Bessonov Jr.’s betrayal, and decides not to show the leaflet to the general for now. While carrying out the order, Vesnin dies, and Bessonov never finds out that his son is alive.

Chapters 18-23

The only “miraculously surviving Ukhanov gun” completely falls silent in the evening - all the shells brought from other guns have run out. General Hoth's tanks cross the Myshkova River. As darkness fell, “the battle began to move away and gradually fade away behind us.”

Ukhanov, Chibisov and Nechaev are barely alive from fatigue. These four have great happiness - “to survive the day and evening of endless battle, to live longer than others.” They don’t yet know that they are behind enemy lines.

Kuznetsov finds Zoya in the dugout. She gives the platoon commander a note from the mortally wounded Davlatyan, who asks him to write a letter to his mother and beloved girl in case of death.

Suddenly the attack begins. In the light of the rockets, Chibisov notices stranger and, mistaking him for a German, shoots him. He turns out to be one of the scouts that General Bessonov was waiting for. He reports that two more scouts with a “tongue” hid in the shell crater.

Kuznetsov, accompanied by Ukhanov, Chibisov and Rubin, goes to help the scouts. Following them, Drozdovsky advances with Zoya and two signalmen. The group attracts the attention of the Germans and comes under fire, during which Zoya is hit by machine gun fire and Drozdovsky is shell-shocked.

Zoya dies, and Kuznetsov blames Drozdovsky for her death, who, in turn, is jealous of his beloved even after death.

Chapters 24-26

Already late in the evening, Bessonov realized that, despite all efforts, “the Germans could not be pushed off the north-bank bridgehead they had captured by the end of the day.” From the “tongue” delivered to the command post, the general learns important news - the Germans brought all reserves into battle. Soon he is informed that four tank divisions are moving towards the rear of the Don Army. In turn, Bessonov gives the order to attack.

Forty minutes later, “the battle in the north-bank part of the village reached a turning point.” Bessonov cannot believe his eyes when he notices on the right bank several miraculously surviving guns and soldiers, cut off from the division, who begin to fire at the enemy. The enemy is slowly retreating.

Touched by the courage of his soldiers, General Bessonov goes to the right bank to personally reward everyone who survived after the terrible battle and fascist encirclement.

Bessonov presents the four fighters who survived from Kuznetsov’s platoon with the “Order of the Red Banner on behalf of the supreme power.” Ukhanov suggests immediately washing the medals: “If it’s ground, there will be flour.” We are ordered to live."

Conclusion

In his work, Yuri Bondarev reveals as fully as possible the tragedy of the Great Patriotic War and the unparalleled heroism of the entire Soviet people. Moral and psychological aspects occupy a key place in the book.

For a more complete understanding of the writer’s work, we recommend that after reading a brief retelling“Hot Snow” read the entire novel.

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Of all the works about the Great Patriotic War Bondarev’s novel “Hot Snow” stands out for its scale. It is dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad - one of the most important battles that turned the tide of the war. It is known that the work is based on real events.

The focus is on military units. They were commanded by fellow students - officers who studied at the same military school. Lieutenant Drozdovsky commanded the battery, and the two platoons included in it were headed by lieutenants Davlayatyan and Kuznetsov. Drozdovsky, already during his studies, stood out for his imperious character and love for strict discipline.

Now, it seems, the time has come for Drozdovsky to test his education in action. His rifle battery received a responsible task: to gain a foothold on the river and resist attacks by German divisions. It was necessary to contain them because they were trying to save General Paulus, a serious fighting unit of the Nazis, from the army.

Kuznetsov’s unit included a certain Chibisov, who had previously been captured by the Germans. Such people were treated unkindly, so Chibisov tried to curry favor in order to prove his devotion to the fatherland. Kuznetsov also disliked Chibisov, believing that he should have shot himself, but he was over 40, and he also had children who needed to be provided for.

Another member of the platoon is Sergeant Ukhanov, who served as a policeman in civilian life. He was supposed to receive an officer rank, but as a result of the scandal he lost this opportunity. Returning from AWOL, he decided to climb into the building through the window in the toilet, and when he saw the commander sitting on the toilet there, he involuntarily laughed. Because of this, Drozdovsky did not like the sergeant, but he and Kuznetsov were friends.

The next participant is a certain Nechaev, in Peaceful time worked as a sailor. What distinguished him was passionate love To female: He did not abandon this habit even during the fighting, at every opportunity he tried to care for the nurse Zoya. However, it soon became clear that Zoya herself preferred to communicate not with him, but with Drozdovsky.

Colonel Deev's division, where the said battery was located, traveled in train, making regular stops. At the last of them, the division unloaded and met with the colonel himself. Near Deev there was a very old general with a sad look. As it turns out, he has his own sad story. His son, who was eighteen years old, went missing at the front, and now the general remembers his son every time he sees some young fighter.

The division continued its further journey on horseback. At night we decided to take a break. Kuznetsov, it seemed to him, was ready for combat, but did not imagine that he would soon face a huge enemy armored division.

At this time, Drozdovsky suddenly became too domineering. It seemed to Kuznetsov that the commander simply enjoyed his power and used it to humiliate his colleagues. Internal resistance grew in his soul. The commander himself strictly responded to Kuznetsov’s remarks and complaints that now he must obey him unquestioningly, since the time when they studied and were equal was over.

The soldiers at that moment had to starve, because the field kitchen was too behind. This is what displeased Kuznetsov. But the division stubbornly moved on - towards the enemy.

This large unit was part of the impressive army formed by Stalin and sent towards the fascist tank group "Goth". This army was commanded by the same old general named Bessonov. It turned out that he was a rather gloomy and withdrawn person, but he was sincere in his intentions. He didn’t want to seem kind and pleasant to everyone, he was just himself.

Meanwhile, Deev's division approached the Myshkova River and entrenched itself on it; a command post was located in the nearest village. During preparations for hostilities, many disagreements arose between the soldiers, officers and sent commissars.

General Bessonov did not trust the commissars, who, as it seemed to him, were assigned to watch him: Bessonov had some acquaintance with General Vlasov, a traitor who went over to the side of the enemy; Bessonov’s missing son also served with him. Drozdovsky and Kuznetsov looked at each other unkindly because of the nurse Zoya: the battery commander wanted her to belong only to him, but Zoya herself decided who she should be friends with.

A long battle began, during which everyone characters tested for strength. Drozdovsky again turns out to be a tough, domineering and not entirely fair commander; So, he sent a young and inexperienced soldier to blow up a German self-propelled gun, but he was unable to carry out the order and died.

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