Boris Lvovich Vasiliev

"Don't Shoot the White Swans"

All the inhabitants of the village called Yegor Polushkin the poor-bearer. Where the first two letters disappeared - no one remembered. Even Polushkin's wife, Kharitina, called her husband "nonhuman overseas" and "damn poor." Kharitina was originally from Zaonezhye, and her grievances began from early childhood, when a drunken priest gave her this impossible name. Her sister called her Tina, and kind neighbors - Kharey. Sister Maryitsa lured the Polushkins to this village, built at a woodworking factory. Once upon a time, endless forests rustled around the village. For several decades they were cut down. They realized it when there was only one grove left near the Black Lake. She was recognized as a "reserved" and assigned a forester - the husband of Maryitsa and Polushkin's cousin, Fyodor Ipatovich Buryanov. Buryanov became the richest and most respected person in the village.

The house at the Buryanovs is a five-walled mansion, cut down by the golden hands of Polushkin. When Yegor with his wife and children - son Nikolai and daughter Olga, moved to the village. Buryanov gave his cousin his old, unsightly hut, from where he even took the floors and logs from the cellar. In return, Yegor built a solid five-wall for Fedor Ipatovich, skillfully carved a cockerel for the roof.

Polushkinn's son, Kolka, "a clear-eyed peasant", all went to his father. The boy was quick-witted, patient, but very clean and trusting. He rarely cried, and not because of resentment or pain, but only because of pity and sympathy for others. And most of all, Kolka was offended when his father was called the poor-bearer. But Vovka, the son of Buryanov, was offended often and strongly, and roared only because of his own insults.

In his native collective farm, Yegor Polushkin was in good standing, but it didn’t work out in a new place. All Polushkin's troubles stem from the fact that he couldn't work without a soul. The first two months, when Yegor Fyodor Ipatovich built a house from dawn to dusk, he worked in joy, "as his heart commanded." The cunning Buryanov knew that rushing the masters is more expensive for himself. Then they took Polushkkin to a carpenter's construction team - and an endless black streak began. Egor, a skilled carpenter, did not know how to work in haste. He did everything slowly, as if "for himself", and disrupted the construction team's plan.

Having gone through all the construction teams of the village, Polushkin ended up as a laborer, but he did not stay here for a long time either. Once, on a warm May day, Polushkkin was instructed to dig a trench for a sewer pipe. Yegor worked happily. The trench turned out straight, like an arrow, until an anthill met in its path. Polushkin felt sorry for the industrious goosebumps, let the trench bypass, only he realized that there were no crooked sewer pipes. This incident became known to the whole village, and finally strengthened Polushkin's reputation as a poor-bearer. Kolka began to come home from school covered in bruises.

Egor's next job was a boat station. She stood by a small lake, which appeared on the site of a dammed river. The station catered for tourists who came to this revived corner not only from the regional center, but also from Moscow itself. Egor's golden hands came in handy here. The head of the boat station, "elderly, very tired of life" man Yakov Prokopych Sazanov, was pleased with Egor's work and diligence, and Polushkin himself liked the work.

And Fyodor Ipatovich Buryanov, meanwhile, was summoned by a new forester and demanded from him all the acts for cutting down the forest. And what acts, when Buryanov has a new five-wall hut for the whole village.

Yegor tried his best at his new job. Only once did he annoy his boss - instead of the black numbers prescribed “according to the charter”, he painted a cheerful, bright little animal or flower on the bow of each boat. Seeing Yegorov's "art", Yakov Prokopych got angry and ordered to paint over this disgrace. The real trouble, however, was not long in coming. The first group of tourists this year arrived at the boat station - "three men, and with them two little women." Sazanov allocated a valuable motor boat to Polushkin and ordered the tourists to be transported across the river. Yegor took Kolka with him to help. The tourists were transported, a place for the camp was chosen, but the trouble is: there was a huge anthill nearby. Egor suggested moving the camp to another clearing, but one of the tourists said that the ants were not a hindrance to them, but “man is the king of nature”, doused the anthill with gasoline and set it on fire.

After the tourists spread a tablecloth, laid out food, they began to treat Yegor and Kolka. Although the Polushkins accepted the treat, they still had burning ants in front of their eyes. Polushkin never abused alcohol, but now he took it beyond measure, began to dance, fall. Tourists were amused, incited. Kolka felt ashamed of his father. He tried to stop Yegor, and Polushkin raised his hand to his son for the first time. Kolka ran away, and Yegor trudged to the shore. I started the engine in the boat, but did not start, only turned it over. So, turned upside down, and dragged by the rope along the shore.

Fyodor Ipatovich was in concern and confusion: the new forester Yuri Petrovich Chuvalov demanded to pay for the logs that were sent to the house. Buryanov had money, but he did not have the strength to part with it.

Egor dragged the boat to the station empty - no oars, no motor. He came to his senses only two days later and rushed to look, but in vain. Everything perished: the motor, the tank, the oarlocks, and the tourists. Kolka left the house, lived with the teacher Nonna Yurievna for several days. Polushkin had to pay three hundred rubles for the lost goods - money unprecedented for him. Buryanov did not lend money, so he had to slaughter the pig and take it to the city for sale. And from the tourists of those Buryanov "stole money." Vovka was sent in search of Kolka. He wandered to the tourists and found out not only about Yegor's "demonstration performances", but also about the fact that they do not go fishing. So Buryanov took them for 30 rubles to Black Lake, to a protected area.

In the city, Polushkin was deceived, and he got only 200 rubles for a piglet. And here an announcement was posted at the procurement office: regional producers buy wetted lime bast from the population and pay 50 kopecks per kilogram. While Polushkin was thinking and taking permission from Fyodor Ipatovich, Buryanov himself wasted no time. Arriving a few days later in the forest, Polushkin saw a completely stripped and ruined linden grove.

Kharitina Polushkina all this time went to the authorities and knocked out a nursery for her daughter and work for herself. I started working as a dishwasher in the canteen. Egor, after a failure with a bast, waved his hand at himself and took to drink. Friends appeared, Cherepok and Phil, taught Polushkin how to coven, how to deceive people and take money out of the house.

On one of these sabbats, Polushkin and Nonna Yuryevna met. Kolka's teacher was from Leningrad. She ended up in this remote village after graduating from the institute. Nonna Yuryevna lived here like a gray mouse, but rumors about a young and unmarried teacher still spread - they were spread by the mistress, with whom the teacher lived. Then Nonna Yuryevna showed perseverance and knocked out a separate housing for herself - a wrecked hut with a leaky roof. To repair this roof, Nonna hired three covens, Polushkin, a shard and Filya. Egor did not deceive the teacher. And the money, which was not enough for repairs, Kharitina gave.

The new forester Yuri Petrovich Chuvalov, like the teacher Nonna Yurievna, was from Leningrad. His parents died a year after the victory, and little Yura was raised by a neighbor. Chuvalov found out about this only at the age of 16, but the woman who raised him remained a mother for Yuri Petrovich. Of course, Fedor Ipatovich did not know all this when he went to the regional center to hand over to the forester a certificate of payment for the timber, who went to build the Buryanovskaya five-wall. But this reference was not enough. Yuri Petrovich needed permission to cut down a pine forest. In vain Fyodor Ipatovich fidgeted and got out - Chuvalov was adamant, and left his daddy with Buryanovsky references.

Chuvalov was not going to give this folder to anyone, he simply “could not deny himself the pleasure of leaving Fyodor Ipatovich alone with fear.” However, Yury Petrovich still got ready to visit this far corner of his household, since there was a good reason: to give the local teacher a package from his mother.

In the life of Polushkin, the "fast streak" began again. He helped Nonna Yuryevna from the bottom of his heart and did not bother her with “construction” problems. I decided everything. Kolka helped his father, although all his thoughts were about Olya Kuzina and the puppy. Kolka was in love with classmate Olya Kolka, but only Kuzina herself looked exclusively at his cousin Vovka. And he traded the puppy Kolka from Vovka for a new compass, saved it when Buryanov Jr. decided to drown the animal. Now the puppy lived with the Buryanovs, and Vovka fed him every other day, but he did not give it to Kolka, he demanded the “real price”.

In the midst of this tumultuous activity, a new forester came to Nonna Yuryevna's house. Upon learning that Chuvalov was going to the Black Lake, Nonna Yuryevna advised taking Yegor as a guide. Yuri Petrovich took to Black Lake not only Yegor and Kolka, but also Nonna Yurievna herself. The forester gave Kolka a special assignment: to write down in a notebook all the living creatures he met along the way. On the way, Nonna Yuryevna, a city resident, managed to get lost, but everyone reached the Black Lake safe and sound. Yuri Petrovich said that earlier this lake was called Lebyazhy.

An old tourist camp was discovered near the lake, and Chuvalov ordered to carve out a new pillar marking the protected area. Only Yegor did not work on the pillar when everyone dispersed. One morning he saw Nonna swimming in the lake, and he carved the figure of a naked woman from a crooked trunk. He cut it out - and was afraid: the forester would scold him for unauthorized art. However, Chuvalov did not swear - the figure turned out to be a real work of art.

Fyodor Ipatovich, meanwhile, found out that Yegor had taken the forester to Black Lake, and harbored a grudge - he decided that Polushkin was aiming for his place. For two days Buryanov frowned, "tossed his cast-iron thoughts," and then smiled maliciously. Well, Yegor was happy. No one had ever spoken to him so respectfully, Yegor Savelich did not magnify and did not take his art seriously. Kolka was also lucky: Chuvalov gave him a real spinning rod.

After this campaign, Chuvalov realized that no one would look after the protected area better than Polushkin. So Yegor became a forester instead of Buryanov. Polushkin set to work zealously. He cleaned the forest, and instead of "prohibiting" signs, he hung shields around the reserve with poems "about order" from Kolka's essay. Yegor drove out of the forest and Filya with the Skull, who illegally felled the forest.

And Nonna Yuryevna, meanwhile, gathered in the regional center - she contracted to buy a globe, maps and sports equipment for the school. Arriving in the city, she called Yuri Petrovich, who invited her to dinner. Nonna discovered "that until now two completely opposite creatures have peacefully coexisted in her" - an adult, self-confident woman, and a cowardly girl. It was the woman who spent the night with Chuvalov, and after that Yuri Petrovich admitted that he was married. Chuvalov's marriage was strange. When he worked in the Altai forestry, a young intern Marina came to him from Moscow. After spending the night with her, Yuri immediately married, and three days later the young wife drove off to Moscow. Two months later, Marina reported that she had “lost” her passport with a marriage stamp and received a new, clean one. Chuvalov did not lose his passport, but tried to forget about this story. A few years later, Yuri found out that Marina had given birth, but she didn’t say whether it was his child. He did not have time to explain anything to Nonna - having heard about the marriage, she dressed and left. Arriving in the village a few days later, Chuvalov learned that Nonna had left for Leningrad.

Chuvalov came to the village for a reason - he brought the boss, who really liked Kolka's works. Then Chuvalov told Polushkin "the story of his family life." A week later, a call came from Moscow - Yegor Polushkin was invited to the All-Union Conference of Forestry Workers. With Buryanov, things were not going at all important - the criminal investigation became interested in him.

Yegor went to Moscow through the regional center, but did not find Yuri Petrovich there - he left for Leningrad. In the capital, Polushkin "participated in the debate" and visited the zoo. He arrived in Moscow with the money of almost all the inhabitants of the village and a list of "orders", but, once in the zoo, he forgot about the list and bought two pairs of live swans. Polushkin wanted the lake to become Lebyazhy again. And Polushkin also found Marina, the wife of Yuri Petrovich, and found out that she had a different family for a long time.

Polushkin arranged swans in a house near the Black Lake, and on the sides of the house he placed two more birds made of light wood. Yuri Petrovich returned alone from Leningrad. Nonna refused to return, and Polushkin was already thinking: should he go to Leningrad?

That night, when Polushkin heard a strange noise in his forest, "was marvelously robbery." The day before, at the village store, Kolka met the same tourist who set fire to the anthill, with a full shopping bag of vodka. That's why Yegor drove his horse through the night, autumn and wet forest, even Kharitina could not hold it. Explosions came from the Black Lake - they jammed the fish there. Having run out into the light, to the fire, Yegor saw a pot over the fire, from which swan paws looked out. The rest of the swans, already plucked, were lying near the fire, and the fifth wooden swan was burning in the fire. These poachers were brought to the lake by Fil with the Skull, they beat him, and someone else incited the dog. We found Yegor by the evening of the next day. He crawled towards the house, and behind him from the very lake stretched a trail of blood.

In the hospital, Polushkin was interrogated by an investigator, but Yegor did not extradite those whom he recognized. And he recognized not only former friends, but also Fyodor Ipatovich. Buryanov came to the hospital to ask for forgiveness, brought a bottle of expensive cognac. Egor forgave him, but did not want cognac, and Fyodor Ipatovich found the expensive French drink bitter. Polushkin closed his eyes and “stepped over pain, sadness and melancholy”, and then rode on a horse “to where there is an endless battle and where the black creature, wriggling, still vomits evil.” And Kolka gave Vovka a spinning rod for a puppy.

From the author

Getting into the forest, the author every time remembers Yegor and those who knew him. “The shard fell under the decree,” but Filya still drinks and sabbaths. Every spring he paints the tin obelisk on Polushkin's grave. Fyodor Ipatovich's house was taken away, and he left with the whole family. There is another forester on Black Lake, so Kolka does not like to go there. Yuri Petrovis Chuvalov received an apartment and married a pregnant Nonna Yurievna. Almost the entire largest room of the Chuvalovs' apartment is occupied by the figure of a woman carved by Yegor. And the Black Lake did not become Swan Lake, "it must be now to Kolka."

The protagonist of the story is a resident of the village at the woodworking factory - Yegor Polushkin. A middle-aged man, with the golden hands of a carpenter, but very unlucky in life. Egor, together with his wife Khariton, son Kolka and daughter Olga, recently moved to the village, but he has already been given a nickname - Poor Bearer. Polushkin did not live well, in the old hut of his cousin Fyodor Ipatovich Buryanov.

In exchange for housing, the brother demanded that Yegor build him a new wooden hut. The poor-bearer for the first months worked regularly and with soul, but when he found out that Fyodor had cut down the forest for construction without permission in the reserve, he gave up. But the house still turned out as in the picture, and Yegor was called to work in the construction team, but Polushkin did not stay at the new place due to complaints from his superiors. And they complained about him for the fact that he worked very slowly and missed the deadlines for the delivery of objects. After that, Yegor tried to earn a trench swarm, but one day an incident occurred, after which he was not trusted with this business either. And the case was this: Yegor was digging a trench for a sewer tube, but an anthill came across on the way, and the man, taking pity on the insects, dug a ditch around it. The whole village began to laugh at the Poor-bearer, and the son often came home with bruises. At this time, a new forester, Yuri Petrovich Chuvalov, appears in the reserve and demands payment from Buryanov for the cut down forest.

After some time, Polushkin was able to get a job at a boat station. The station received tourists and arranged excursions around the reserve. Egor liked the work, and the boss, Yakov Prokopych Sazanov, was a good person. But one day, tourists arrived from Moscow, and Yakov Prokopych asked Yegor to show them a clearing on the opposite bank. Upon arrival at the place, one of the tourists set fire to the anthill that was interfering with them. Egor could not stand this sight and got very drunk in front of his son. How he got home, Polushkin did not remember, but on the way he lost the motor and oars from the boat. The Poor-bearer had to pay as much as three hundred rubles for the lost property. Kolka was very offended by his father, and for several days he lived with his teacher Nonna Yurievna.

Polushkin got drunk. To earn a living, he went to sabbaths. One of these part-time jobs was the repair of Nonna Yurievna's house. He did his work conscientiously, tried as for himself. Once a forester came to the teacher's house and invited her, Kolka and Yegor to the Black Lake. On the lake, Chuvalov told the story that swans once lived here.

After this campaign, Yuri Petrovich realized that no one would look after the reserve better than Polushkin. So Yegor became a forester instead of Buryanov. The man liked the work, and for special merits he was even invited to Moscow to the congress of foresters. On the way home, Yegor bought a pair of swans and decided to revive Black Lake.

One night, Polushkin heard the sound of gunshots from the direction of the lake. Arriving at the place, he saw a terrible picture: Moscow tourists were roasting his swans. For trying to intercede, the forester was severely beaten and soon died in the hospital. Roman Chuvalov and Nonna Yurievna ended with a wedding. Polushkin's son, Kolka, never returned to the lake again.

Good day. We need a comparative description of the heroes of the novel: P. P. Kirsanov and E. Bazarov

1.) Portrait characteristic (use of text)
2.) Social background (text use)
3.) Education (use of text)
4.) Linguistic features (use of text)
5.) Vital interests (use of text)
6.) Attitude towards the peasantry, land issues, life and political examples (use of the text + own conclusions)
7.) Attitude towards love, friendship (use of the text + own conclusions)
8.) The attitude of the author to the characters of the novel (use of the text + own conclusions)
9.) Your attitude towards the heroes of the novel (own conclusions)
I would be very grateful and appreciate the full answers! :)

Help whoever can

I Literature of the 19th century.
1. Name the literary trends of the 19th century.
2. What events in world and Russian history created the prerequisites
for the birth of romanticism in Russia?
3. Name the founders of Russian romanticism.
4. Who stood at the origins of Russian realism?
5. What is the main literary direction of the second half of the XIX
century.
6. What task did A.N. Ostrovsky set for himself in the play "Thunderstorm"?
7. Express the philosophy of the writer A.N. Ostrovsky by example
play "Thunderstorm".
8. What task did I.S. Turgenev in the novel "Fathers and
children"?
9. Why is the novel by I.S. Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" critics called
anti-noble?
10. Express the main ideas of the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and
punishment".
11. Formulate the basic principles of the philosophy of F.M. Dostoevsky and
the protagonist of the novel, Rodion Raskolnikov.
12. Why, in your opinion, the novel "War and Peace" critics
called the "encyclopedia of Russian life"?
13. What distinguishes the positive characters of L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “War and
world"?
14. Name the stages of the spiritual evolution of one of the heroes of the novel: Andrei
Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, Natasha Rostova.
15. What do the fates of Andrei Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov have in common?
II Literature of the XX century.
1. What phenomena of the social life of Russia influenced the development
literature of the 20th century?
2. What was the name of the literature of the turn of the 19th - early 20th centuries?
3. What are the main literary trends of this time?
4. What is the philosophy of I. Bunin's story "Cold Autumn"?
5. What unites the stories of I. Bunin "Cold Autumn" and A.
Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet"?
6. "What you believe in - that is." Which hero of the work of M. Gorky
do these words belong? Explain his philosophy.
7. What is the role of Satin in the play "At the Bottom"?
8. The image of the civil war in the stories of M. Sholokhov "The Mole"
and Food Commissar.
9. What are the features of the Russian character in the story of M. Sholokhov
"Destiny of Man"?
10. What kind of village did you see in the story of A.I. Solzhenitsyn "Matryonin"
yard"?
11. What philosophical and moral problems does the author raise in
story?
12. What plot episode is the climax in the story “Matryonin
yard"?
13. What unites the characters of Andrei Sokolov (“The Fate of a Man”) and
Matryona Vasilievna ("Matryonin Dvor")?
14. Which of the Russian writers was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to
world literature?

Boris Vasiliev became the spokesman for Orthodox morality in Soviet literature. He expressed his position not declaratively, but as the holy fathers did in their parables. Examples of a non-possessive attitude towards the life of the heroes of this Russian writer are not edifying and moralizing - even positive characters are by no means ideal. But they carry within themselves a righteous way of life. The simplest analysis leads to this thought. "Don't Shoot White Swans" is one of the works illustrating the Orthodox idea in Vasiliev's work.

about the author

The writer of the Russian land was born in Smolensk, in 1924. His parents were nobles, his father was an officer who served in the Tsarist and then in the Red Army. When the war began, Boris Vasilyev volunteered for the front, served in the fighter battalion, then in the landing troops. After the shell shock, he studied at the military academy, tested new models of armored vehicles. In 1954, he realized that his vocation was literature, retired from the army and began to write, at first only scripts. The play "Officer" - the first attempt at writing - turned out to be too bold for its time and was banned. However, morals were not as cruel as quite recently: the front-line author was given a chance. After the feature films "The Next Flight" and "Long Day" there was a long, almost ten-year pause, and then the picture "Officers" won the hearts of the audience. They love her even today.

The time of a long creative downtime was difficult, the writer earned extra money as he could (scripts for KVN, film magazines, etc.), but he never hacked and was faithful to his The most striking pages of his military prose was the play "The Dawns Here Are Quiet ...". The story “Do not shoot white swans” is dedicated to peaceful life. Analysis of the work speaks of a single ideological line that pierces all the work of this remarkable author.

The protagonist

Yegor Polushkin is a romantic by nature. In the village, with its practical way of life, this bright property of character is not appreciated. It seems that it was precisely about the contradiction between utilitarianism and the irrational desire for beauty that Vasiliev wrote his work (“Do not shoot white swans”). A more detailed analysis, however, suggests a deeper artistic purpose of the author. Egor is not just a romantic - he opposes money-grubbing. He is disgusted by earnings at any cost, and this is manifested in all his actions. Such people may often be considered stupid, but in fact this person cannot do a job without putting his whole soul into it. An analysis of the story “Do not shoot at white swans” directly indicates that we have before us a talented person who differs from those around him in his desire for creativity. The priority of self-expression over profit for Yegor is quite natural, which is why he looks like a person "not of this world." Whatever he undertakes, he tries to do everything in his own way, outside the box and beautifully. Instead of the approved numbers on the boats, there are little animals and flowers. Now each watercraft can be distinguished, but the authorities do not like this method of marking, and all pictures are ordered to be painted over. Egor's name is "Bad Bearer", he really has enough troubles.

Yegor's relatives

Polushkin's wife's name is unusual - Kharitina (she was given that name at baptism). Everything would be fine if it were not for the need for everyday communication to use the abbreviated form. Unkind neighbors call her Kharey, and her sister prefers to use the pseudo-foreign "Tina" to her. She is a good woman, but she does not understand her husband and even decides to part with him. However, later she realizes what kind of person she lives next to.

Sister, Maryitsa, was the initiator of the Polushkin family moving to the village, where her husband received an enviable position as a forester. Fedor Ipatovich Buryanov is an important person, the distribution of wood depends on him, and he does not forget about his interests. The image of a money-grubber was brought out in his face by Boris Vasiliev (“Do not shoot at white swans”). An analysis of his personality leads to the depressing conclusion that such a thing as conscience is unknown to him. He mercilessly exploits his brother-in-law: he builds a strong house for him, receiving in return a wrecked hut. The forest is stolen by the "big boss".

sons

Polushkin's son Kolya is growing up, to whom the definition of "clear-eyed" fits. The guy is similar to his father, but more vulnerable, he has a highly developed sense of empathy. The boy shows creative inclinations: he writes poems that his father uses for unobtrusive agitation for the Complete antipode to him - the “heir” of Buryanov Vovka, who never suffers from empathy, seeking to snatch his benefit and often crying from the insults inflicted on him, real and imaginary. The analysis of the novel "Don't Shoot the White Swans" is unambiguous from the point of view, "the conflict of fathers and children" is not expected. However, it occurs with Kolka and Yegor, but due to the fact that the main character once drank too much and behaved unworthily. The son is so honest that he is not afraid to express his opinion on the situation, for which he gets hit in the neck. Vovka is obviously incapable of such an act. He is very enterprising and even - not unsuccessfully - tries to trade a puppy, which he was going to drown.

Colleagues and bosses

Polushkin is surrounded by strangers who do not understand him and are insignificant - the simplest analysis suggests this. "Don't Shoot the White Swans" is a story about the struggle between cunning and wisdom, acquisitiveness versus selflessness, stupid practicality versus the desire for beauty. In addition to the aforementioned roguish Buryanov, there are Filya and Cherepok in the plot - "friends" - coven workers, they willingly drink with the main character, but they take up arms against him just as lively when Yegor, driven by compassion, prevents the predatory conditions imposed on the village teacher for the repair of her poor dwellings. Sazanov, who served as the head of the boat station, treats Polushkin tolerantly, but to a certain limit, until he crosses the boundaries formed in his mind by “life fatigue”. In other words, he is a narrow-minded person.

Conflict

There is no plot without conflict, and, of course, it has arisen, it remains only to analyze it. “Do not shoot at white swans” - this is the name of the story, and it is not for the sake of that beautiful white birds are mentioned in it. They became a symbol of the desecrated good that the protagonist wanted to bring to people. To bring back its beautiful inhabitants, he buys birds. Its opponents, even, rather, enemies, do not think of a better use for them, except for gastronomic. They jam the fish, kill the swans and do not stop before removing such an insignificant, in their opinion, obstacle as “some kind of” Polushkin. This "bulldozer" psychology also finds expression in the previous conflict that broke out over a burned anthill, during which Yegor behaved unworthily.

Hope

There are two more important characters that B. Vasilyev brought out in his story (“Do not shoot at white swans”). An analysis of the images of Yuri Petrovich Chuvalov and the village teacher Nonna Yuryevna speaks of the high decency of both heroes. Each of them honestly does his job, they meet, and a serious relationship is established between them. They do not develop without problems, but in the end everything ends well. It is characteristic that both Yuri and Nonna develop a friendship with Yegor. He serves as a touchstone, although the guy himself is not inclined to confrontation, but, on the contrary, shows truly Christian humility in his opposition to evil. The images of two young people living in harmony with their own souls and the world around them create a joyful background, without which the finale of the work would look too pessimistic.

The final

Yegor again acted irrationally, entering into a conflict and going alone against drunken and cruel poachers (he was not capable of any “Do not shoot at white swans” - a title-call with which the author addresses all people, warning them against cruelty "For his love for the beautiful, the protagonist paid with his life. Before his death, in a hospital bed, he forgives Fyodor Ipatovich, who came to him absurdly to "put up" with a bottle of expensive French brandy. Out of the kindness of his soul, he did not betray his killers. There is no vengeance in character Polushkin The image of Fili, who goes to his grave and takes care of it, is indicative.

Will the lake be Swan Lake again? The son of Kolka, who loves everything living and beautiful, remained on earth. All hope is on him.

It is quiet in the small village hospital in the evenings. Sister silently slips along the corridor, spreading thermometers. A wizened old woman grunts, and the door creaks behind the minder from the "Quick", who goes out to smoke in the cold hallway.

And today the silence was broken by the heavy steps of the doctor, the running of the sisters, the alarming creak of the stretcher.

The motorist jumped out into the corridor:

- Nikiforov was taken from Ivanov's boat to the operating room.

- Drown! .. - the grandmother gasped.

- No, grandma, fell overboard ...

During the conversations, they did not notice how two people walked along the corridor past the chambers; one was limping, leaning hard on a stick.

He was not young. From a lameness in his left leg, he stooped slightly and, when walking, habitually carried forward his right shoulder. Wrinkles furrowed his sunburned face to blackness, and there were especially many of them around the eyes, as if this man had been looking into the wind all his life.

He walked, trying to put the stick without knocking, and the girl-sister flew silently in front, from the overflowing energy, turning the socks of her cloth slippers like a ballet. At the operating room stopped:

- Sit down.

She slipped sideways through the door, and he carefully sat down on the edge of the chair, placing a stick between his legs.

Like all healthy people, he was a little frightened by the silence of the hospital: he was embarrassed to sit back, creak in a chair, straighten the tight dressing gown slipping off his shoulder. He was ashamed of his health, worn-out shoes made of rough leather and heavy hands, completely covered with abrasions and cuts.

- Ivan Trofimych? .. - The minder climbed out into the corridor again.

– Peter? Ivan was surprised in a whisper. - What are you doing here?

“The appendix was cut out,” the minder said, not without pride, sitting down next to him. - Phlegmonous.

- What a trouble with Fedor ... - Ivan sighed.

- And what happened?

- The trap at Semyonov Log broke in the morning. I don’t know where the water came from, but only the cable tore, and carried the forest to the Volga. And then - the wind, the wave. There is a crackle - no voice is heard. Well, everyone who goes where: you can’t joke with the forest.

- Ai-ai-ai! .. - the minder was saddened. - And how much did it take?

- No, a little. Accurately we led the cart towards, to the "Nemda" to cling. Sawlogs all the way, two hundred and forty meters. Well, I saw: the forest is heading ...

- Tug with an ax to the shore! the motorist said. - Zatret logs - "mother" will not have time to say.

Ivan smiled.

- But I thought differently. The raft is only cohesive, the cables are good, and the width in this place is small: it turned around, handed over the stern to the Old Mill - there are stones, they stung firmly. And he hid his boat behind the toe. Do you know where the raspberries are?

- Well, he kept the forest, did not let it into the Volga, into the open.

- Look, I figured it out! the minder sighed enviously. - Award, go, there will be gratitude ...

- Gratitude, maybe there will be, but there will be no assistant, - Ivan sighed. - As the first portion hit us - the cables sang, and Fyodor was thrown onto the logs. Caught, and the hand hangs on the veins.

“It’s getting better,” the minder said confidently. - The man is healthy. Yes, and the doctor did a good job: he was plaiting me - any-expensive.

It was getting dark when the doctor came out of the operating room. Seeing him, the minder cowardly darted into the ward. With a creak of a chair, Ivan stood up to meet him, but the doctor sank down beside him, and Ivan, after standing for a while, also sat down. He was embarrassed to start a conversation, but the doctor was silent, slowly kneading his cigarette in his fingers.

“Spinal fracture,” he said, lighting a cigarette and inhaling deeply. “Bad business, captain.

- Will it last long? Ivan asked quietly, having little idea what that meant.

- All life. The doctor smoked greedily, occasionally dispersing the bluish clouds of smoke with his hand. - All my life, captain, what is left ...

“Three children…” Ivan involuntarily burst out.

“Three children,” Ivan repeated, and stood up again. - The eldest is twelve, no more ...

The doctor was silent. Flashes of cigarettes illuminated his haggard face and beads of sweat on his forehead.

– Can he have fish?

- Fish? the doctor asked. - Fruit would be nice. Vitamins, you know?

And again he was silent. Ivan stood for a bit and, quietly saying goodbye, limped to the locker room.

In the dressing room, he turned in his bathrobe and in exchange received a shabby work jacket. The elderly cloakroom attendant inquired about Nikiforov, and he told her that Fyodor's case was bad and that he had three children. The cloakroom attendant, sighing and lamenting, unlocked the doors that had already been blocked in the night, and he went out into the dark suburban street of the village.

He habitually turned down to the piers, but after walking a little, he stopped. He glanced at his watch and, quickly tossing his stick, strode along the narrow, steep path from the corner and rapped loudly on the locked gate with his stick.

Through the hysterical barking of a dog, a voice hoarse from sleep was heard:

- Whom is not easy?

- It's me, Burlakov. Open, Stepanych, it's up to you.

- In place, parasite! .. - A portly figure appeared in the crack of a slightly ajar gate. - What's the deal?

- Do you have apples, Stepanych?

– Apples?.. – The owner suddenly laughed thinly. - What kind of apples do you like in July, old stump?

“You see, Nikiforov is in the hospital. Dr. fruit said...

- In the hospital? .. - The owner thought. “In the hospital, it's different. - He opened the gate. - Walk, Trofimych. Watch out, there's a bug here.

Following Stepanych, Ivan climbed the porch and went into the dark hallway. The owner flipped the switch; a bare bulb lit up a spacious room littered with wicker baskets, sacks, and crates.

Fruit is great. - Stepanych dragged a leaky bag out of the corner, opened it: broken green apples lay at the bottom. - First harvest. I would eat it myself, but for the sake of such a thing ...

- Kislyatina, come on.

– What are you? Papirovka, first grade. Look... - The owner took the apple and began to chew it with a crunch, smacking his lips with pleasure. - Eight kilograms, at least count on the steelyard.

- How much?

- Well, as for the patient - a ruble.

- You take it cool, Stepanych ...

- First of all, I tear myself away.

Ivan silently counted out the money, heaved the sack over his shoulder. The owner led him to the gate, out of inertia praising the goods already sold:

- Vitamins in these apples - a wagon! A kindergarten is buying from me, a prosecutor for a sick wife. The power of apples: a special variety ... Good luck, Trofimych! Come in, if so. You first of all...

Along a steep path, Ivan went down to the piers and immediately saw posters with a catchy inscription: "Heroes of our backwater." It would have been impossible to recognize the heroes if the artist had not signed each portrait: “Captain Ivan Burlakov”, “Aide to Captain Fyodor Nikiforov”, “Sailor Elena Lapushkina”. All three looked sternly into the distance ...

The boats stood behind a half-submerged barge. They were of the same size, shape, decoration, equally illuminated by signal lamps, and only at the farthest one did laundry dry on a rope in a completely homely way.

Ivan jumped onto the boat, rattling his spike across the iron deck. A slender young woman in a faded cotton dress peeked out at the noise from the cabin; her head was tied with a towel.

- You, Ivan Trofimych?

- Why are you in a towel?

- I washed my head. How is Fedor?

He sat down, stretching out his weary leg, lit a cigarette, and told what the doctor had said and how he had come to Stepanych for apples.

- It's bad, Elena.

“He fed six souls,” she sighed. - Six souls, the seventh itself ...

“The seventh himself,” repeated Ivan, stubbornly looking at the flame of a cigarette.

They fell silent again. Elenka stood, sullen like a woman, her thin shoulders slightly covered by a light dress, and he slowly smoked, out of habit holding a cigarette with fire in his palm.

“They will send someone instead of Fyodor,” she asked, half said.

Ivan threw the cigarette overboard, got up:

- Let's go to the cockpit. You will freeze.

They descended the iron ladder into a cramped low cockpit. Four sofas surrounded a small table attached to the floor; three of them were covered. In the corner near the ladder there was a stove built into an iron cabinet; cooling down, she occasionally crackled. In the opposite corner there was a wardrobe and another small hanging locker in which the ship's papers, statements, binoculars and other valuables were kept.

1. The protagonist of the novel "Don't Shoot White Swans" by Boris Vasiliev is an unlucky boy Egor Polushkin. The author created a unique image of a Soviet kid - a little eccentric, stupid, romantic at heart and a fighter at school. In the process of narration, the hero becomes a man, he grows up, gains life experience and acquires the qualities necessary for any person: honesty, decency and kindness.

As mentioned above, in essence, Yegor Polushkin is a great romantic, but in rural areas this character trait is not at all appreciated and not understood by the locals. If we analyze in detail the character of the protagonist of the work, then the great depth of the artistic description of Yegor Polushkin's character traits is noticeable. The main character is against money-grubbing, this is his main life principle.

He does not seek to earn large sums of money, this idea is disgusting to him. Such as he considers stupid, useless lazy people - but Yegor Polushkin is not like that. From childhood, the hero understood that work must come from the heart - any work must be done with the soul. This is a really talented person who seeks to isolate his work from the views of deceitful, flattering people, whose main goal is to sell talent at a higher price.

The work describes a large number of secondary characters directly or indirectly influencing the fate of Yegor Polushkin. Here are just a few of them:

1. enterprising forester Fedor Buryanov. At the beginning of the story, the hero comes to the village to earn money. This is a decent man, standing firmly on his feet and confident in the future. He has a good family and a house that he built with his own hands. The sister of Fyodor Buryanov's wife is married to the protagonist of the novel, Yegor Polushkin. The life of these two families is closely connected, each family lives to the best of its ability, trying to find joy in everyday little things.
2. forester Yuri Petrovich originally from Leningrad - a simple man, conscientiously doing his job. However, one day he considers to completely change his life. Yuri Petrovich arrives in a remote village to sort out the forest area of ​​this area, identify problems and find the culprit. It is he who appoints Yegor Polushkin as the chief forester of the village, after which the life of the protagonist changes dramatically.

"The Poor" Egor Polushin and his wife Kharitina

• lives in the remote village of Yegor Polushkin, his nickname "Bad Bearer" perfectly characterizes his whole life. So his wife, and friends, and all the other inhabitants of this small village call him. The Polushkin couple moved to this village on the instructions of Kharitina's sister, Maryitsa;
• a few years ago, the village was filled with a forest smell, endless forests could be seen around - now there is only one protected area near the Black Pond. This zone is looked after by the cousin of Yegor Polushkin - the forester Fedor Buryanov. Recently, this is the most respected person for a hundred miles around. Yegor has a real talent, he has golden hands - with his help, Fedor Buryanov built himself a beautiful hut, giving the old house to the unlucky "Bad Bearer";
• in a new place, Egor will get better at work, his relatives do not give him a place to live. He honestly works, he doesn’t know how to cheat - that’s why he doesn’t succeed. He started working in a carpentry team, thwarted the plan and was fired. He was a handyman - he did not put the pipe correctly and was fired. The whole village mocks him, but Yegor does not back down and tries to do everything with soul and accuracy.

Continuation of the plot

1. Forester Fyodor Buryanov faced big problems in arranging the forest zone. The authorities began to demand from him documents on cutting down forests, which he did not even have in sight. The forester had to pay for the logs with his own money. But Fedor did not want to lose his money and he began to look for ways to cash in on someone. Yegor Polushkin became one of his victims.
2. Problems at work, a constant lack of money completely drove Yegor crazy, he also had friends - scammers and drunkards Cherepok and Filya. Once Yegor went with the chief forester and teacher Nona to the protected area beyond the Black Lake.
3. The inspector has long understood that Fedor Buryanov is preparing to divorce his brother. Upon learning of the campaign, Fedor became very angry, realizing that Yegor could take his place. And so it happened. Chuvalov saw how well Yegor understands nature, how he takes care of it, with what difficulty and responsibility he approaches work and hired him to replace Fedor Ipatovich.

History of swans

• Once Egor Polushkin came to Moscow for a general meeting of foresters, and returned home with two beautiful swans. Fellow villagers collected money for purchases from the capital, and he brought swans to the village. Fellow villagers got angry at Yegor, they began to call him more and more often. In addition, at that time, a threat came to the Buryanovs' house. Swans began to live on the Black Lake, to protect the protected area;
• One night, Yegor heard shots from a gun, grabbed the reins and galloped to the lake - to save the swans from poachers. The next morning, fellow villagers found Yegor half dead, he was crawling in blood from the forest to the house. On the pond, he met his swindler friends and cousin Fyodor, who wanted to shoot at their beloved Swans;
• then for a long time the brother and false friends asked the forester for forgiveness, but he quickly forgave them - after all, he did not know how to get angry for a long time and did everything with his soul. His heart was kind, not vindictive - like that of swans.

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