Depiction of war through fate common man will also be characteristic of A. Tvardovsky's poem "House by the Road" (1946). But the emphasis in this work will be on something else. "Vasily Terkin" is an epic poem, it shows a man fighting, a man at the front. In The House by the Road, an event epic in nature is revealed by lyrical techniques. House and road, family and war, man and history - A. Tvardovsky's work is built at the intersection of these motives. It sounded the same bitter, tragic melody as in the poem of the senior fellow countryman poet Mikhail Isakovsky "The enemies burned their own hut." The time when these works were created turned out to be not at all favorable for thinking about the price of our victory, about the grief of the soldiers-liberators who returned home and found only "a hillock overgrown with grass." It was the second half of the 40s, the period of party resolutions on the magazines "Star" and "Leningrad", the time of the next "tightening" of ideological "nuts", tightening censorship. Like Isakovsky's poem, Tvardovsky's poem "House by the Road", and then his notes "Motherland and Foreign Land" provoked criticism in the press for pessimism and "decadent moods", which, according to official propaganda, should not have been characteristic of the winners.

In the poem "House by the Road" there really is no heroic pathos, if we mean posterity and a romantically sublime tone of the image of the war. But here there is true heroism, not loud. The heroism of the peasants, who were forced to interrupt their peaceful labor and, as naturally as they plowed and mowed down the whole world, the whole world left to fight the enemy (the opening scenes of the poem). The heroism of women who remained in the rear with the elderly and children and did not interrupt their labor zakhty. The heroism of those long years they considered traitors who were driven into captivity by the Nazis, but did not give up, did not lose heart, as Anna Sivtsova was able to withstand. The heroism of the soldier Andrey Sivtsov, who returned from the war as a winner and found the strength to start his life anew.

Andrey Sivtsov began his life the way a Russian person always began it - with the construction of a hut burned down by the war ... The real truth lies in the open ending of the work, which the author did not end with a happy denouement. Only the melody of hope sounds here, as in the line that became the leitmotif of the poem: “Mow, scythe, while the dew” ... not destroyed by the war.

War - there is no crueler word.

War - there is no sadder word.

War - there is no holier word In the anguish and glory of these years.

And on our lips there can be no other.

These lines were written by A. Tvardovsky in 1944, when in the fire of battles there was still "no time to remember." But “on the day when the war ended” “and covered with haze, he goes into the distance, the coast filled with comrades”, the time has come for memory, summing up, reflection on the fallen and the living. The intonations of the requiem sounded in the poetry of A. Tvardovsky. From now on, the theme of the war, combined with a sense of guilt and moral duty to the dead (“I am yours, friends, and I am in your debt”), has become a “cruel memory”. One of the first poems that open this topic in the work of A. Tvardovsky and in post-war literature in general is written on behalf of a fallen warrior:

I was killed near Rzhev,

In the nameless swamp

In the fifth company, on the left,

On a hard hit.

The abrupt, almost protocol lines that open the poem emphasize the hopelessness of death.

The author's thought moves from a particular, concrete plan to a generalized philosophical one. The soldier is emphatically nameless, he is one of the millions that lay down in the earth without graves, became part of it, passed into the lives of those who survived, who were born later (“I am where the roots are blind”, “I am where the cock crow”, “I Where are your cars? This poem is an appeal to "faithful comrades", "brothers" with the only testament - to live with dignity.

The motive of the unity of the living and the dead, "mutual connection", kinship, responsibility "for everything in the world" will become the leitmotif post-war creativity A. Tvardovsky.

Stayed there, and it's not about the same thing,

That I could, but could not save, -

It's not about that, but still, still, still ...

CHAPTER 1

I started a song in a difficult year
When it's cold in winter
War was at the gates
Besieged capitals.

But I was with you, soldier,
With you always
Until that and since that winter in a row
In the same war.

I only lived by your fate
And sang it to this day
And this song was postponed,
Interrupted in half.

And how could you not return
From the war to the wife-soldier,
So I couldn't
All this period
Return to that notebook.

But how did you remember in the war
About what is sweet to the heart,
So the song started in me
Lived, boiled, whined.

And I kept it in myself,
Read about the future
And the pain and joy of these lines
Hiding others between the lines.

I carried it and carried it with me
From the walls of the native capital -
Following you
Following you -
All the way to the border.

From frontier to frontier -
In every new place
The soul waited with hope
Some kind of meeting, leading ...

And wherever you cross
What kind of houses thresholds
I never forgot
About the house by the road

About the woeful house, you
Abandoned sometime.
And on the way, in a foreign country
I met a soldier's house.

That house without a roof, without a corner,
Warmed up in a residential way,
Your mistress took care
For thousands of miles from home.

She pulled somehow
Along the highway track -
With the smaller, asleep in his arms,
And the whole crowd of the family.

The rivers boiled under the ice,
Streams whipped foam
It was spring and your house was walking
Back home from captivity.

He went back to the Smolensk region,
What was so far ...
And each of our soldier's eyes
Warm at this meeting.

And how was it not to wave
Hand: "Be alive!",
Don't turn around, don't breathe
About many things, service friend.

At least that not all
Of those who lost their home
On your frontline highway
They met him.

You yourself, walking in that country
With hope and anxiety,
He was not met in the war, -
Walked the other way.

But your house is complete, there is.
Build walls for it
Attach a canopy and a porch -
And the house will be excellent.

With willingness to lay hands -
And the garden, as before, at home
Look into the windows.
Live to live
Ah, live and live alive!

And I would sing about that life
About how it smells again
At the construction site with golden shavings,
Living pine resin.

How, announcing the end of the war
And longevity to the world
A starling refugee appeared
To a new apartment.

How greedily the grass grows
Thick on the graves.
Grass is right
And life is alive
But first I want to
Something you can't forget about.

So the memory of grief is great,
Silent memory of pain.
She doesn't hesitate until
Will not speak freely.

And at the very noon of the celebration,
For the holiday of resurrection
She comes like a widow
A fighter who fell in battle.

Like a mother that son day by day
I waited from the war in vain,
And forget about him
And do not grieve all the time
Not powerful.

Let me be forgiven
That again I'm up to date
I'll be back, comrades, back,
To that cruel memory.

And everything that is expressed here
Let it penetrate into the soul again
Like crying for the motherland, like a song
Her fate is harsh.

CHAPTER 2

At that very hour on a Sunday afternoon,
For a festive occasion
In the garden you mowed under the window
Grass with white dew.

The grass was kinder than the grass -
Peas, wild clover,
A dense panicle of wheatgrass
And strawberry leaves.

And you mowed it, sniffing,
Groaning, sighing sweetly.
And I overheard myself
When he rang with a shovel:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

Such is the covenant and the sound is such
And along the spit along the sting,
Washing away the trifle of the petals,
The dew ran in a stream.

Mowing high as a bed
He lay down, fluffed up magnificently,
And a wet sleepy bumblebee
In the mowing, he sang almost audibly.

And with a soft swing it's hard
The scythe creaked in his hands.
And the sun burned
And it went on
And everything seemed to sing:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

And the front garden under the window,
And the garden, and the bow on the ridges -
All this together was a house,
Housing, comfort, order.

Not the order and comfort
That I don't trust anyone
Water is served to drink,
Holding on to the door latch.

And that order and comfort,
What to everyone with love
Like serving a cup
To good health.

The washed floor shines in the house
Such neatness
What a joy for him
Walk with bare feet.

And it's good to sit at your table
In the circle of the native and close,
And, resting, eat your bread,
And a wonderful day to praise.

That really is one of the best days
When we suddenly with something -
The food tastes better
wife mile
And more fun work.

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

Your wife was waiting for you at home
When with merciless force
war in an old voice
Howled all over the country.

And, leaning on the scythe,
Barefoot, simple-haired,
You stood and understood everything
And the swath did not come.

The owner of the meadow is not dokosip,
Belted on a hike
And in that garden all the same sound
As if it was being distributed:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

And you were maybe already
Forgotten by the war itself
And on the unknown frontier
Buried in other soil.

Without stopping, the same sound
The clattering sound of a spatula,
In work, in a dream disturbed hearing
Your soldier wife.

He burned through her heart
Longing inexorable,
When I mowed that meadow
Itself oblique unbeaten.

Tears blinded her eyes,
Pity burned my soul.
Not that braid
Not the dew
Not the grass, it seemed ...

Let women's grief pass
Your wife will forget you
And maybe get married
And will live like people.

But about you and myself
About the old day of parting
She is in any of her fate
Sigh at this sound:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

CHAPTER 3

Not here yet, still far away
From these fields and streets
The herds were half-eaten
And the refugees were drawn.

But she walked, buzzed like an alarm,
Trouble all over the area.
Shovels were taken for the cuttings,
For wheelbarrows woman's hands.

Ready day and night
Dig with feminine tenacity,
To help the troops
At the turn of Smolensk.

So that at least in the native side,
At your doorstep
At least for a short time war
Dig up the road.

And how many hands - do not count! -
Along that long ditch
Rye was rolled alive
Raw heavy clay.

We live bread, we live grass
They rolled themselves.

BUT he bombs on Moscow
Carried over their heads.

They dug a ditch, felled a rampart,
Hurry, as if on time.

BUT he already stepped on the ground,
Thunder nearby.

Broke and confused front and rear
From sea to sea
Shining with a bloody glow,
In the night closing dawns.

And the terrible force of the storm,
In the honeymoon period,
In the smoke, in the dust in front of you
From the front drove the wheels.

And suddenly so much fell out
Gurtov, wagons, three-ton,
Horses, carts, children, old women,
Knots, rags, knapsack...

My great country
At that bloody date
How were you still poor
And how rich already!

Green street of the village
Where the dust lay like powders,
A huge edge of the war drove
With a hastily taken burden.

Confusion, hubbub, heavy groan
Human suffering is hot.
And children's crying, and a gramophone,
Singing, as in the country, -
Everything was mixed up, one misfortune -
War was a sign...

Already before noon water
There wasn't enough in the wells.

And buckets deafly scraped the soil,
Thundering against the walls of the log house,
Half empty went up,
And to the drop that jumped in the dust,
Lips twitched eagerly.

And how many were there alone -
From the heat of quite salty -
Curly, sheared, linen,
Dark-haired, fair-haired and others
Childish heads.

No, don't go out to watch
Guys at the watering hole.
Hold yours to your chest,
As long as they are with you.

While with you
In the native family
They, albeit not in the hall,
In every need
In your nest
Another envy share.

And take the bitter path
Change your backyard -
Dress the children themselves, put on shoes -
Still, believe me, half grief.

And, having endured, somehow
Wander in the road crowd
With the smaller, asleep in his arms,
With two with a skirt - you can!

Walk, wander
Sit down on the way
Family on vacation small.
Yes who now
Happy you!

Look, there is, perhaps.

Where the light shines even at the edge of the day,
Where the cloud completely stagnates.
And happiness is no match for happiness,
And grief - I burn the difference.

Crawling, creaking wagon-house,
And the heads of children
Cunningly covered with a flap
Iron red roof.

And serves as the roof of the track
A family driven by war
The roof above your head
She was born in the region.

In another land
Kibitka-house,
Her comfort is gypsy
Not somehow
Set on the road -
The male hand of the peasant.

Overnight on the road, the guys are sleeping,
Burrowing into the depths of the kibitka.
And look at the starry sky
Shafted like anti-aircraft guns.

The owner does not sleep by the fire.
In this difficult light
He is for the children, and for the horse,
And for the wife in the answer.

And to her, even summer, even winter,
Still, the path is not nice.
And you decide everything yourself
With your mind and strength.

In the midday heat
And in the rain at night
Cover the kids on the road.
My distant
my darling,
Alive, dead - where are you? ..

No, not a wife, not even a mother,
What did you think of your son?
Couldn't guess
All that will be now.

Where was it in the old days, -
Everything is different now:
The owner went to war
War is coming home.

And, smelling death, this house
And the garden is silent anxiously.
And the front - so here it is - over the hill
He sighs hopelessly.

And dusty troops retreat, rollback
Not the one that was in the beginning.
And where are the columns somehow,
Where the crowds marched.

All to the east, back, back,
The guns are getting closer.
And the women howl and hang
On the hedge chest.

The last hour has come,
And there is no longer a delay.
- And who are you just us
Throw, sons? ..

And that, perhaps, is not a reproach,
And pain for them and pity.
And a lump in my throat
For everything that happened to life.

And a woman's heart is doubly
Longing, anxiety gnaws,
What is only there, in the fire,
The wife can imagine.

In fire, in battle, in fumes
Bloody melee.
And how it should be there for him,
Living, fearful of death.

That trouble would not tell
That howled a woman's howl,
I wouldn't know, maybe never
That she loved to death.

Loved - do not drop your eyes
Nobody, one loved.
I loved so much that from relatives,
Taken away from mother.

Let it not be girlish time
But from love surprisingly -
Sharp in speeches
Fast in business
How the whole snake walked.

In the house - no matter what life -
Kids, oven, trough -
He hasn't seen her yet.
Uncombed, unwashed.

And she kept the whole house
In neatness anxious,
Considering, perhaps, that
Love is forever stronger.

And that love was strong
With such a powerful force
What to separate one war
Could.
And separated.

CHAPTER 4

Only you would languish a fighter,
War, longingly familiar,
Yes, I wouldn’t dust on the porch
His native home.

I would crush with a heavy wheel
Those that are yours on the list
Yes, I would not ruin the children's sleep
Artillery gun.

Thundering, would be furious drunk
At its limit -
And that would be you, the war,
Another holy thing.

But you kicked the guys out
In cellars, in cellars,
You are from heaven to earth at random
You throw your pigs.

And the people of the bitter side
At the front they huddled closely,
Fearing both death and guilt
Some unknown.

And you're getting closer to the yard
And children, feeling grief.
Fearful whisper game
They lead in the corner without arguing ...

On that first day of bitter days
How did you get on the road
The father ordered to take care of the children,
Keep a close eye on the house.

He ordered the children and the house to be protected, -
The wife is responsible for everything.
But he did not say whether to heat the stove
Today at dawn.

But he did not say whether to sit here,
Whether to run into the light somewhere.
Drop everything all of a sudden.
Where are they waiting for us?
Where are they asking?
Light is not a house.

There's a ceiling overhead
Here is a house, in a barn there is a cow ...
And the German, maybe he is different
And not so harsh, -
Pass, blowjob.

How about not?
Not that glorious glory.
Well, then you are in the village council
Are you going to seek justice?

What kind of judgment will you threaten him with?
How to stand on the threshold
How will he enter the house?
No, if only the house
Away from the road...

…The last four soldiers
The gate to the garden was opened
Forged iron shovels
Tired gryukuli out of tune.
Sit down and smoke.

And smiled, turn
To the hostess, the eldest like:
- We want a cannon here
Put in the garden.

Said like a man
Traveler, stranger,
With a horse he asked for an overnight stay,
With a cart near the house.

Him and caress and hello.
- Just don't leave.
Don't leave us...
- Well no, -
They looked at each other bitterly.

- No, from this cannabis
We won't leave, mother.
Then, so that everyone can leave, -
This is our service.

The earth around is on a wave,
And the day was deafened by thunder.
- This is life: the master is at war,
And you, it turns out, at home.

And she is ready for everyone
One sad question:
- Sivtsov is a surname. Sivtsov.
Have you heard by chance?

- Sivtsov? Wait, let me think.
Well, yes, I heard Sivtsov.
Sivtsov - well, how about it, Nikolai,
So he is alive and well.
Not yours? Yeah, and your Andrew?
Andrew, please...

But somehow dear to her
And that cousin.

- Well, friends, stop smoking.
Marked out the plan with a shovel
And began to dig the ground diligently
A soldier in a soldier's garden.

Not to grow up there
Any thing
And not on purpose, not from evil,
And as science says.
He dug a trench, in the form so that
And the depth and parapet ...

Oh, how much in that digging one
Submissive to the cause of sadness.

He did the job - he dug the earth,
But maybe I thought for a moment
And maybe even said
Sighed:
- Land, land...

Already they are chest-deep in the ground,
A soldier is calling to the table,
As if helping in the family,
Lunch and rest are sweet.

- Tired, eat.
- Well,
Hot for now...

- Still, to admit, the soil is good,
And then it happens - a stone ...

And the elder was the first to carry a spoon,
Soldiers follow him.
- And what, was the collective farm rich?
- No, not to say rich,
Not so, but still. Of bread
Stronger for the Ugry...
“Look, the firing has subsided.
- Three kids?
- Three...

And a general sigh:
- Children are a problem. -
And conversation with a hitch.
Fat at the wrong time food,
Sad as a wake.

- Thank you for lunch.
Hostess, thank you.
And as for ... so - no,
Don't wait, run anyway.

"Wait," said another soldier.
Looking out the window anxiously: -
Look people just back
Drip.
- What would it be for?

The road is full of dust
They go, they wander dejectedly.
War from east to west
Oglobli turned.

- Looks like he's ahead.
“Now what, where?”
- Be quiet, mistress, and sit,
What's next - the day will show.
And we guard your garden,
Mistress, it's bad
Looks like it's our turn now.
Look for moves from here.

And according to his dashing need
Now they are soldiers
It seemed that women were weaker,
And not guilty before her,
And yet they are guilty.

- Farewell, hostess, wait, we will come,
Our time will come.
And we will find your conspicuous home
At the main road.
We will come, we will find, or maybe not;
War - you can not vouch.
Thanks again for lunch.

And thank you, brothers.
Farewell.-
Brought people out.
And with a hopeless request:
- Sivtsov, - reminded, - Andrey,
Hear maybe...

She stepped forward holding on to the door
In tears, and the heart sank,
As if with her husband only now
Goodbye forever.
Like it's out of hand
And disappeared without looking back ...

And suddenly that sound came to life in my ears,
The pinching sound of the scapula:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home...

CHAPTER 5

When in your own home
Entered, rattling his gun,
Soldier of the earth is different?

He didn’t beat, didn’t torture and didn’t burn, -
Far from disaster.
He entered only on the threshold
And he asked for water.

And, leaning over the bucket,
From the road covered in dust
Drank, wiped off and left
Soldier of a foreign land.

He didn’t beat, didn’t torture and didn’t burn, -
Everything has its time and order.
But he was entering, already he could
Enter, alien soldier.

A foreign soldier has entered your house,
Where his could not enter.
Didn't you happen to be there?
And God forbid!

You didn't happen to be at the same time
When, intoxicated, bad,
At your table amuses
Soldier of the earth is different?

Sits, taking that edge of the bench,
That corner is expensive
Where is the husband, father, head of the family
Sitting - no one else.

Do not bring you an evil fate
Not to be old at the same time
And not humpbacked, not crooked
For grief and shame.

And to the well in the village,
Where there is a foreign soldier
Like crushed glass
Walk back and forth.

But if it was meant to be
All this, everything counts
Do not bring at least one
What else is the turn.

Do not bring you to war
Wife, sister or mother,
Their
Alive
soldier in captivity
See firsthand.

... Sons of the native land,
Their shameful, prefabricated formation
They led through that land
To the west under guard.

They walk along it
In shameful prefabricated companies,
Others without belts
Others without pilots.

Others with bitter, evil
And hopeless agony
Carry in front of you
Bandaging your hand...

At least he is healthy to walk,
Therefore, the task is to step, -
Losing blood in the dust
Drag while walking.

He, the warrior, is taken by force
And angry that he was alive.
He is alive and happy
That suddenly won back.

The one for nothing
Doesn't know yet in the world.
And everyone goes, are equal
Four in a column.

Boot for the war
Some have not been worn out
And now they're in captivity
And this captivity is in Russia.

drooping from the heat,
Rearrange legs.
familiar courtyards
On the sides of the road.

Well, house and garden
And all around signs.
A day or a year ago
Wandered this way?

A year or just an hour
Passed without delay?

"And who are you to us
Throw, sons! .. "

Now say back
And meet your eyes with your eyes
Like, we don’t throw, no,
Look, here we are.

Please mothers
And wives in their woman's grief.
Don't rush quickly
Pass the. Don't bend, don't bend...

Rows of soldiers march
A sullen string.
And women all in a row
They look into faces.

Not husband, not son, not brother
Pass in front of them
But only your soldier -
And there are no more relatives.

And how many of those rows
You silently passed
And shorn heads
Decayed sadly.

And suddenly - neither reality nor a dream -
It sounded like -
Between many voices
One:
Farewell, Anyuta...

Rushed to that end
Crowding in the hot crowd.
No, it is. Fighter
Someone at random

Called in the crowd. Joker.
To jokes here to someone.

But if you are among them,
Call you Anyuta.

Don't be ashamed of me
That the windings slipped down,
What, maybe without a belt
And maybe without a pilot.

And I will not reproach
You, who are under escort
You go. And for the war
Alive, did not become a hero.

Call out - I'll answer.
I - pos, your Anyuta.
I will break through to you
At least I'll say goodbye again
With you. My minute!

But how to ask now
Say a word:
Don't you have here
In captivity, him, Sivtsov
Andrew?

Bitter shame.
Ask, and he, perhaps,
And the dead won't forgive
What was looking for here.

But if he is here, suddenly
Walks in a sultry column,
Closing your eyes...
- Tsuriuk!
Tsuryuk! - shouts the escort.

He has nothing to
And there is no business, right,
And his voice
Like a crow, burry:

- Tsuriuk! -
He is not young
Tired, damn hot
Pissed off as hell
Himself - and that's not a pity ...

Rows of soldiers march
A sullen string.
And women all in a row
They look into faces.

Eyes across
And along the column they catch.
And with something a knot
Whatever piece
Many are ready.

Not a husband, not a son, not a brother,
Take what you have, soldier
Nod, say something
Like, that hotel is holy
And expensive, they say. Thank you.

Gave from good hands
For everything that has suddenly become
I didn't ask the soldier.
Thank you bitter friend
Thank you mother Russia.

And yourself, soldier, walk
And do not complain about trouble;
She has an edge somewhere
It can't be that there isn't.

Let the dust smell of ash,
Fields - burnt bread
And over native land
Hanging someone else's sky.

And the pitiful cry of the guys,
Doesn't stop, lasts
And women all in a row
Looking into faces...

No, mother, sister, wife
And all those who have experienced pain
That pain is not avenged
And didn't win.

For this day alone
In the village of one Smolensk -
Berlin did not repay
With his universal shame.

Fossilized memory,
Strong on its own.

Let stone be stone
Let there be pain.

CHAPTER 6

It wasn't the time yet
What goes right into winter.
More potato skins
Cleaned up on the basket.

But it got cold
Land heating summertime.
And at night a wet mop
She let in unfriendly.

And the fire had a dream - not a dream.
Under the timid crack of deadwood
Crowded autumn from the forests
Those bitter days of a bed-and-breakfast.

Beckoned by the memory of housing,
Heat, food and more.
Whom in the son-in-law
Whom in husbands, -
Where to read.

... In a cold pune, against the wall,
From prying eyes furtively,
Sat behind the war
A soldier with his soldier wife.

In a cold pune, not at home,
Soldier, to match someone else's
He sipped what he brought to him
Wife secretly from home.

He sipped with zeal of grief,
Taking the pot in my knees.
His wife was sitting in front of him.
On that cold hay
That in the old hour on a Sunday afternoon,
For holiday business
In the garden he mowed under the window,
When the war has arrived.

The hostess looks: he is not him
For a guest in this pune.
No wonder, apparently, a heavy dream
She dreamed the night before.

Thin, overgrown, as if all
Sprinkled with gold.
He ate to eat
Your shame and evil grief.

- Gather a pair of lingerie
Yes, fresh footcloths
So that I'm fine until dawn
Take off from the parking lot.

- I've already collected everything, my friend,
Everything is. And you are on the road
At least save your health
And first of all, the legs.

- What else? You are wonderful
With such care, women.
Let's start with the head, -
At least save her.

And on the face of a soldier - a shadow
Unfamiliar smiles.
- Oh, as I remember: only a day
You are this home.

- Houses!
I would also be glad not to stay for a day, -
I sighed. - Take the dishes.
Thank you. Give me a drink now.
When I return from the war, I will stay.

And drinks sweetly, dear, big,
Shoulders against the wall
By his beard a stranger
Drops roll into the hay.

- Yes, at home, they tell the truth,
What is raw water
Much tastier, - said the soldier,
In thought, wiping
Mustache fringed sleeves,
And he was silent for a minute. -
And the rumor is that Moscow
Next up, like...

The wife moved towards him.
With sympathetic concern.
Like, it's not worth believing everything,
They talk a lot these days.
A German, maybe he is now
Will cool down by winter...

And he again:
- Well, well, believe
For what suits us.
One good captain
Wandered with me at first.
Another enemy on the heels
Followed us. Didn't sleep
We didn't eat on the way.
Well, death. So he used to
He repeated: go, crawl crawl -
At least to the Urals.
So the man was an evil spirit
And I remember that idea.

- And what?
- Went and did not reach.
- Left behind?
- He died of a wound.
They walked like a swamp. And the rain, and the night,
And also bitter cold.
"And they couldn't help?"
“And they couldn’t, Anyuta…

Leaning against his shoulder,
To the hand - a small girl,
She grabbed her sleeve
He kept everything
As if she thought
Save it by force
With whom to separate one war
Could, and separated.

And took from each other
Sunday in June.
And again briefly reduced
Under the roof of this pune.

And here he sits next to her
Before another parting.
Isn't he angry with her?
For this shame and torment?

Is he waiting for herself
His wife said to him:
- Go crazy - go. Winter.
And how far to the Urals!

And I would repeat:
- Understand
Who can blame the soldier
That his wife and children are here,
What is here - a native hut.
Look, the neighbor came home
And does not get off the stove ...

And then he would say:
- Not,
Wife, bad words ...

Perhaps your bitter lot,
Like bread with a pinch of salt
Spice up, brighten up he wanted
So heroic, right?

Or maybe he's just tired
Yes, so that through force
I also came to my native places,
And then - it wasn't enough.

And only conscience is out of tune
With the bait - this thought:
I'm home. I won't go further
Look for war around the world.

And it is not known what will return,
And to grief - in the heart of confusion.
“Say something, Andrew.
- What can I say, Anyuta?
'Cause don't talk, don't talk
Will it be easier
Shoot tomorrow until dawn

"Road House" analysis of the work - theme, idea, genre, plot, composition, characters, problems and other issues are disclosed in this article.

The deep democratism of Tvardovsky, so clearly manifested in Vasily Terkin, also distinguishes the idea of ​​his poem The House by the Road (1942-1946). It is dedicated to the fate of a simple peasant family who experienced all the hardships of war. The subtitle of the poem - "lyrical chronicle" - exactly corresponds to its content and character. The genre of the chronicle in its traditional sense is a presentation historical events in their time sequence. For the poet, the fate of the Sivtsov family, with its tragedy and typicality for those years, not only meets these genre requirements, but also causes complicity, deep empathy, reaching a huge emotional intensity and prompting the author to constantly intervene in the narrative.

A fate similar to that of Andrei Sivtsov was already outlined in Vasily Terkin, in the chapters Before the Battle and About the Orphan Soldier. Now it is depicted in more detail and even more dramatized.

The picture of the last peaceful Sunday that opens the poem is filled with that “traditional beauty” of rural labor (mowing “on a festive occasion”), which Tvardovsky has been poeticizing since the time of the “Country of the Ant”. It's expensive and bitter memory about the usual and beloved peasant life, about “housing, comfort, order”, interrupted (and for many - forever cut off) by the war, will subsequently constantly resurrect in the poem along with the age-old proverb:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

In a difficult time of retreat, Sivtsov secretly comes home for a short time - “thin, overgrown, as if all sprinkled with ashes” (the “fringe of the sleeve” of a frayed overcoat is also briefly mentioned), but stubbornly paving the “unwritten route” behind the front.

His wife's story is even more dramatic. Always bowing before the image of a woman-mother, capturing it in many poems of different years (“Song”, “Mothers”, “Mother and Son”, etc.), this time Tvardovsky created a particularly multifaceted character. Anna Sivtsova is not just charming (“Sharp in speeches, quick in deeds, Walked like a snake”), but full of the greatest selflessness, spiritual strength that allows her to endure the most terrible trials, for example, being sent to a foreign land, to Germany:

And even though she is barefoot in the snow,
Have time to dress three.

Catch with a trembling hand
Hooks, ties, mother.

Strive with a simple lie
Childish fear to appease.

And put all your luggage on the road,
Like fire, grab it.

The mother's tragedy and, at the same time, Anna's heroism reach their peak when her son is born in a hard labor barracks, seemingly doomed to death. Wonderfully using the poetics of folk lamentations, crying (“Why did a twig turn green at such an unkind time? Why did you happen, son, my dear child?”), Tvardovsky conveys an imaginary, fantastic conversation between a mother and a child, the transition from despair to hope:

I am small, I am weak, I am the freshness of the day

I can feel it on your skin.
Let the wind blow on me
And I will untie my hands

Ho you won't let him blow
Do not give, my dear,
While your chest sighs
As long as she's alive.

The heroes of "House by the Road" also find themselves face to face with death, hopelessness, despair, as was the case with Terkin in the chapter "Death and the Warrior", and also emerge victorious from this confrontation. In the essay “In native places”, talking about his fellow villager, who, like Andrey Sivtsov, built a house on the ashes, Tvardovsky expressed his attitude to this with journalistic frankness: “It seemed to me more and more natural to define the construction of this unpretentious log house as a kind of feat . The feat of a simple worker, a grain grower and a family man who shed blood in the war for native land and now on it, ruined and discouraged during the years of his absence, starting to start life over again ... ”In the poem, the author provided the opportunity to draw a similar conclusion for the readers themselves, confining himself to the most concise description of this quiet feat of Andrei Sivtsov:

...pulled with a sore leg
To the old seliba.

Smoked, overcoat down,
Marked out the plan with a shovel.

Kohl to wait for a wife with children home,
This is how you build a house.

She pulled somehow
Along the highway track -
With the smaller, asleep in his arms,
And the whole crowd of the family.

The reader wants to see Anna in her, but the artist's tact warned Tvardovsky against a happy ending. In one of his articles, the poet remarked that many the best works Russian prose, “having arisen from living life ... in their endings they tend to merge with the same reality from which they came out and to dissolve in it, leaving the reader a wide scope for mental continuation of them, for thinking out, “additional research” touched upon in them human destinies, ideas and questions. And in his own poem, Tvardovsky allowed readers to vividly imagine the tragic end that similar stories in the lives of many people.

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Alexander Tvardovsky
ROAD HOUSE

Lyrical chronicle

CHAPTER 1

I started a song in a difficult year
When it's cold in winter
War was at the gates
Besieged capitals.

But I was with you, soldier,
With you always
Until that and since that winter in a row
In the same war.

I only lived by your fate
And sang it to this day
And this song was postponed,
Interrupted in half.

And how could you not return
From the war to the wife-soldier,
So I couldn't
All this period
Return to that notebook.

But how did you remember in the war
About what is sweet to the heart,
So the song started in me
Lived, boiled, whined.

And I kept it in myself,
Read about the future
And the pain and joy of these lines
Hiding others between the lines.

I carried it and carried it with me
From the walls of the native capital -
Following you
Following you -
All the way to the border.

From frontier to frontier -
In every new place
The soul waited with hope
Some kind of meeting, leading ...

And wherever you cross
What kind of houses thresholds
I never forgot
About the house by the road

About the woeful house, you
Abandoned sometime.
And on the way, in a foreign country
I met a soldier's house.

That house without a roof, without a corner,
Warmed up in a residential way,
Your mistress took care
For thousands of miles from home.

She pulled somehow
Along the highway track -
With the smaller, asleep in his arms,
And the whole crowd of the family.

The rivers boiled under the ice,
Streams whipped foam
It was spring and your house was walking
Back home from captivity.

He went back to the Smolensk region,
What was so far ...
And each of our soldier's eyes
Warm at this meeting.

And how was it not to wave
Hand: "Be alive!",
Don't turn around, don't breathe
About many things, service friend.

At least that not all
Of those who lost their home
On your frontline highway
They met him.

You yourself, walking in that country
With hope and anxiety,
He was not met in the war, -
Walked the other way.

But your house is complete, there is.
Build walls for it
Attach a canopy and a porch -
And the house will be excellent.

With willingness to lay hands -
And the garden, as before, at home
Look into the windows.
Live to live
Ah, live and live alive!

And I would sing about that life
About how it smells again
At the construction site with golden shavings,
Living pine resin.

How, announcing the end of the war
And longevity to the world
A starling refugee appeared
To a new apartment.

How greedily the grass grows
Thick on the graves.
Grass is right
And life is alive
But first I want to
Something you can't forget about.

So the memory of grief is great,
Silent memory of pain.
She doesn't hesitate until
Will not speak freely.

And at the very noon of the celebration,
For the holiday of resurrection
She comes like a widow
A fighter who fell in battle.

Like a mother that son day by day
I waited from the war in vain,
And forget about him
And do not grieve all the time
Not powerful.

Let me be forgiven
That again I'm up to date
I'll be back, comrades, back,
To that cruel memory.

And everything that is expressed here
Let it penetrate into the soul again
Like crying for the motherland, like a song
Her fate is harsh.

CHAPTER 2

At that very hour on a Sunday afternoon,
For a festive occasion
In the garden you mowed under the window
Grass with white dew.

The grass was kinder than the grass -
Peas, wild clover,
A dense panicle of wheatgrass
And strawberry leaves.

And you mowed it, sniffing,
Groaning, sighing sweetly.
And I overheard myself
When he rang with a shovel:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

Such is the covenant and the sound is such
And along the spit along the sting,
Washing away the trifle of the petals,
The dew ran in a stream.

Mowing high as a bed
He lay down, fluffed up magnificently,
And a wet sleepy bumblebee
In the mowing, he sang almost audibly.

And with a soft swing it's hard
The scythe creaked in his hands.
And the sun burned
And it went on
And everything seemed to sing:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

And the front garden under the window,
And the garden, and the bow on the ridges -
All this together was a house,
Housing, comfort, order.

Not the order and comfort
That I don't trust anyone
Water is served to drink,
Holding on to the door latch.

And that order and comfort,
What to everyone with love
Like serving a cup
To good health.

The washed floor shines in the house
Such neatness
What a joy for him
Walk with bare feet.

And it's good to sit at your table
In the circle of the native and close,
And, resting, eat your bread,
And a wonderful day to praise.

That really is one of the best days
When we suddenly with something -
The food tastes better
wife mile
And more fun work.

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

Your wife was waiting for you at home
When with merciless force
war in an old voice
Howled all over the country.

And, leaning on the scythe,
Barefoot, simple-haired,
You stood and understood everything
And the swath did not come.

The owner of the meadow is not dokosip,
Belted on a hike
And in that garden all the same sound
As if it was being distributed:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

And you were maybe already
Forgotten by the war itself
And on the unknown frontier
Buried in other soil.

Without stopping, the same sound
The clattering sound of a spatula,
In work, in a dream disturbed hearing
Your soldier wife.

He burned through her heart
Longing inexorable,
When I mowed that meadow
Itself oblique unbeaten.

Tears blinded her eyes,
Pity burned my soul.
Not that braid
Not the dew
Not the grass, it seemed ...

Let women's grief pass
Your wife will forget you
And maybe get married
And will live like people.

But about you and myself
About the old day of parting
She is in any of her fate
Sigh at this sound:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

CHAPTER 3

Not here yet, still far away
From these fields and streets
The herds were half-eaten
And the refugees were drawn.

But she walked, buzzed like an alarm,
Trouble all over the area.
Shovels were taken for the cuttings,
For wheelbarrows woman's hands.

Ready day and night
Dig with feminine tenacity,
To help the troops
At the turn of Smolensk.

So that at least in the native side,
At your doorstep
At least for a short time war
Dig up the road.

And how many hands - do not count! -
Along that long ditch
Rye was rolled alive
Raw heavy clay.

We live bread, we live grass
They rolled themselves.

BUT he bombs on Moscow
Carried over their heads.

They dug a ditch, felled a rampart,
Hurry, as if on time.

BUT he already stepped on the ground,
Thunder nearby.

Broke and confused front and rear
From sea to sea
Shining with a bloody glow,
In the night closing dawns.

And the terrible force of the storm,
In the honeymoon period,
In the smoke, in the dust in front of you
From the front drove the wheels.

And suddenly so much fell out
Gurtov, wagons, three-ton,
Horses, carts, children, old women,
Knots, rags, knapsack...

My great country
At that bloody date
How were you still poor
And how rich already!

Green street of the village
Where the dust lay like powders,
A huge edge of the war drove
With a hastily taken burden.

Confusion, hubbub, heavy groan
Human suffering is hot.
And children's crying, and a gramophone,
Singing, as in the country, -
Everything was mixed up, one misfortune -
War was a sign...

Already before noon water
There wasn't enough in the wells.

And buckets deafly scraped the soil,
Thundering against the walls of the log house,
Half empty went up,
And to the drop that jumped in the dust,
Lips twitched eagerly.

And how many were there alone -
From the heat of quite salty -
Curly, sheared, linen,
Dark-haired, fair-haired and others
Childish heads.

No, don't go out to watch
Guys at the watering hole.
Hold yours to your chest,
As long as they are with you.

While with you
In the native family
They, albeit not in the hall,
In every need
In your nest
Another envy share.

And take the bitter path
Change your backyard -
Dress the children themselves, put on shoes -
Still, believe me, half grief.

And, having endured, somehow
Wander in the road crowd
With the smaller, asleep in his arms,
With two with a skirt - you can!

Walk, wander
Sit down on the way
Family on vacation small.
Yes who now
Happy you!

Look, there is, perhaps.

Where the light shines even at the edge of the day,
Where the cloud completely stagnates.
And happiness is no match for happiness,
And grief - I burn the difference.

Crawling, creaking wagon-house,
And the heads of children
Cunningly covered with a flap
Iron red roof.

And serves as the roof of the track
A family driven by war
The roof above your head
She was born in the region.

In another land
Kibitka-house,
Her comfort is gypsy
Not somehow
Set on the road -
The male hand of the peasant.

Overnight on the road, the guys are sleeping,
Burrowing into the depths of the kibitka.
And look at the starry sky
Shafted like anti-aircraft guns.

The owner does not sleep by the fire.
In this difficult light
He is for the children, and for the horse,
And for the wife in the answer.

And to her, even summer, even winter,
Still, the path is not nice.
And you decide everything yourself
With your mind and strength.

In the midday heat
And in the rain at night
Cover the kids on the road.
My distant
my darling,
Alive, dead - where are you? ..

No, not a wife, not even a mother,
What did you think of your son?
Couldn't guess
All that will be now.

Where was it in the old days, -
Everything is different now:
The owner went to war
War is coming home.

And, smelling death, this house
And the garden is silent anxiously.
And the front - so here it is - over the hill
He sighs hopelessly.

And dusty troops retreat, rollback
Not the one that was in the beginning.
And where are the columns somehow,
Where the crowds marched.

All to the east, back, back,
The guns are getting closer.
And the women howl and hang
On the hedge chest.

The last hour has come,
And there is no longer a delay.
- And who are you just us
Throw, sons? ..

And that, perhaps, is not a reproach,
And pain for them and pity.
And a lump in my throat
For everything that happened to life.

And a woman's heart is doubly
Longing, anxiety gnaws,
What is only there, in the fire,
The wife can imagine.

In fire, in battle, in fumes
Bloody melee.
And how it should be there for him,
Living, fearful of death.

That trouble would not tell
That howled a woman's howl,
I wouldn't know, maybe never
That she loved to death.

Loved - do not drop your eyes
Nobody, one loved.
I loved so much that from relatives,
Taken away from mother.

Let it not be girlish time
But from love surprisingly -
Sharp in speeches
Fast in business
How the whole snake walked.

In the house - no matter what life -
Kids, oven, trough -
He hasn't seen her yet.
Uncombed, unwashed.

And she kept the whole house
In neatness anxious,
Considering, perhaps, that
Love is forever stronger.

And that love was strong
With such a powerful force
What to separate one war
Could.
And separated.

CHAPTER 4

Only you would languish a fighter,
War, longingly familiar,
Yes, I wouldn’t dust on the porch
His native home.

I would crush with a heavy wheel
Those that are yours on the list
Yes, I would not ruin the children's sleep
Artillery gun.

Thundering, would be furious drunk
At its limit -
And that would be you, the war,
Another holy thing.

But you kicked the guys out
In cellars, in cellars,
You are from heaven to earth at random
You throw your pigs.

And the people of the bitter side
At the front they huddled closely,
Fearing both death and guilt
Some unknown.

And you're getting closer to the yard
And children, feeling grief.
Fearful whisper game
They lead in the corner without arguing ...

On that first day of bitter days
How did you get on the road
The father ordered to take care of the children,
Keep a close eye on the house.

He ordered the children and the house to be protected, -
The wife is responsible for everything.
But he did not say whether to heat the stove
Today at dawn.

But he did not say whether to sit here,
Whether to run into the light somewhere.
Drop everything all of a sudden.
Where are they waiting for us?
Where are they asking?
Light is not a house.

There's a ceiling overhead
Here is a house, in a barn there is a cow ...
And the German, maybe he is different
And not so harsh, -
Pass, blowjob.

How about not?
Not that glorious glory.
Well, then you are in the village council
Are you going to seek justice?

What kind of judgment will you threaten him with?
How to stand on the threshold
How will he enter the house?
No, if only the house
Away from the road...

…The last four soldiers
The gate to the garden was opened
Forged iron shovels
Tired gryukuli out of tune.
Sit down and smoke.

And smiled, turn
To the hostess, the eldest like:
- We want a cannon here
Put in the garden.

Said like a man
Traveler, stranger,
With a horse he asked for an overnight stay,
With a cart near the house.

Him and caress and hello.
- Just don't leave.
Don't leave us...
- Well no, -
They looked at each other bitterly.

- No, from this cannabis
We won't leave, mother.
Then, so that everyone can leave, -
This is our service.

The earth around is on a wave,
And the day was deafened by thunder.
- This is life: the master is at war,
And you, it turns out, at home.

And she is ready for everyone
One sad question:
- Sivtsov is a surname. Sivtsov.
Have you heard by chance?

- Sivtsov? Wait, let me think.
Well, yes, I heard Sivtsov.
Sivtsov - well, how about it, Nikolai,
So he is alive and well.
Not yours? Yeah, and your Andrew?
Andrew, please...

But somehow dear to her
And that cousin.

- Well, friends, stop smoking.
Marked out the plan with a shovel
And began to dig the ground diligently
A soldier in a soldier's garden.

Not to grow up there
Any thing
And not on purpose, not from evil,
And as science says.
He dug a trench, in the form so that
And the depth and parapet ...

Oh, how much in that digging one
Submissive to the cause of sadness.

He did the job - he dug the earth,
But maybe I thought for a moment
And maybe even said
Sighed:
- Land, land...

Already they are chest-deep in the ground,
A soldier is calling to the table,
As if helping in the family,
Lunch and rest are sweet.

- Tired, eat.
- Well,
Hot for now...

- Still, to admit, the soil is good,
And then it happens - a stone ...

And the elder was the first to carry a spoon,
Soldiers follow him.
- And what, was the collective farm rich?
- No, not to say rich,
Not so, but still. Of bread
Stronger for the Ugry...
“Look, the firing has subsided.
- Three kids?
- Three...

And a general sigh:
- Children are a problem. -
And conversation with a hitch.
Fat at the wrong time food,
Sad as a wake.

- Thank you for lunch.
Hostess, thank you.
And as for ... so - no,
Don't wait, run anyway.

"Wait," said another soldier.
Looking out the window anxiously: -
Look people just back
Drip.
- What would it be for?

The road is full of dust
They go, they wander dejectedly.
War from east to west
Oglobli turned.

- Looks like he's ahead.
“Now what, where?”
- Be quiet, mistress, and sit,
What's next - the day will show.
And we guard your garden,
Mistress, it's bad
Looks like it's our turn now.
Look for moves from here.

And according to his dashing need
Now they are soldiers
It seemed that women were weaker,
And not guilty before her,
And yet they are guilty.

- Farewell, hostess, wait, we will come,
Our time will come.
And we will find your conspicuous home
At the main road.
We will come, we will find, or maybe not;
War - you can not vouch.
Thanks again for lunch.

And thank you, brothers.
Farewell.-
Brought people out.
And with a hopeless request:
- Sivtsov, - reminded, - Andrey,
Hear maybe...

She stepped forward holding on to the door
In tears, and the heart sank,
As if with her husband only now
Goodbye forever.
Like it's out of hand
And disappeared without looking back ...

And suddenly that sound came to life in my ears,
The pinching sound of the scapula:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home...

CHAPTER 5

When in your own home
Entered, rattling his gun,
Soldier of the earth is different?

He didn’t beat, didn’t torture and didn’t burn, -
Far from disaster.
He entered only on the threshold
And he asked for water.

And, leaning over the bucket,
From the road covered in dust
Drank, wiped off and left
Soldier of a foreign land.

He didn’t beat, didn’t torture and didn’t burn, -
Everything has its time and order.
But he was entering, already he could
Enter, alien soldier.

A foreign soldier has entered your house,
Where his could not enter.
Didn't you happen to be there?
And God forbid!

You didn't happen to be at the same time
When, intoxicated, bad,
At your table amuses
Soldier of the earth is different?

Sits, taking that edge of the bench,
That corner is expensive
Where is the husband, father, head of the family
Sitting - no one else.

Do not bring you an evil fate
Not to be old at the same time
And not humpbacked, not crooked
For grief and shame.

And to the well in the village,
Where there is a foreign soldier
Like crushed glass
Walk back and forth.

But if it was meant to be
All this, everything counts
Do not bring at least one
What else is the turn.

Do not bring you to war
Wife, sister or mother,
Their
Alive
soldier in captivity
See firsthand.

... Sons of the native land,
Their shameful, prefabricated formation
They led through that land
To the west under guard.

They walk along it
In shameful prefabricated companies,
Others without belts
Others without pilots.

Others with bitter, evil
And hopeless agony
Carry in front of you
Bandaging your hand...

At least he is healthy to walk,
Therefore, the task is to step, -
Losing blood in the dust
Drag while walking.

He, the warrior, is taken by force
And angry that he was alive.
He is alive and happy
That suddenly won back.

The one for nothing
Doesn't know yet in the world.
And everyone goes, are equal
Four in a column.

Boot for the war
Some have not been worn out
And now they're in captivity
And this captivity is in Russia.

drooping from the heat,
Rearrange legs.
familiar courtyards
On the sides of the road.

Well, house and garden
And all around signs.
A day or a year ago
Wandered this way?

A year or just an hour
Passed without delay?

"And who are you to us
Throw, sons! .. "

Now say back
And meet your eyes with your eyes
Like, we don’t throw, no,
Look, here we are.

Please mothers
And wives in their woman's grief.
Don't rush quickly
Pass the. Don't bend, don't bend...

Rows of soldiers march
A sullen string.
And women all in a row
They look into faces.

Not husband, not son, not brother
Pass in front of them
But only your soldier -
And there are no more relatives.

And how many of those rows
You silently passed
And shorn heads
Decayed sadly.

And suddenly - neither reality nor a dream -
It sounded like -
Between many voices
One:
Farewell, Anyuta...

Rushed to that end
Crowding in the hot crowd.
No, it is. Fighter
Someone at random

Called in the crowd. Joker.
To jokes here to someone.

But if you are among them,
Call you Anyuta.

Don't be ashamed of me
That the windings slipped down,
What, maybe without a belt
And maybe without a pilot.

And I will not reproach
You, who are under escort
You go. And for the war
Alive, did not become a hero.

Call out - I'll answer.
I - pos, your Anyuta.
I will break through to you
At least I'll say goodbye again
With you. My minute!

But how to ask now
Say a word:
Don't you have here
In captivity, him, Sivtsov
Andrew?

Bitter shame.
Ask, and he, perhaps,
And the dead won't forgive
What was looking for here.

But if he is here, suddenly
Walks in a sultry column,
Closing your eyes...
- Tsuriuk!
Tsuryuk! - shouts the escort.

He has nothing to
And there is no business, right,
And his voice
Like a crow, burry:

- Tsuriuk! -
He is not young
Tired, damn hot
Pissed off as hell
Himself - and that's not a pity ...

Rows of soldiers march
A sullen string.
And women all in a row
They look into faces.

Eyes across
And along the column they catch.
And with something a knot
Whatever piece
Many are ready.

Not a husband, not a son, not a brother,
Take what you have, soldier
Nod, say something
Like, that hotel is holy
And expensive, they say. Thank you.

Gave from good hands
For everything that has suddenly become
I didn't ask the soldier.
Thank you bitter friend
Thank you mother Russia.

And yourself, soldier, walk
And do not complain about trouble;
She has an edge somewhere
It can't be that there isn't.

Let the dust smell of ash,
Fields - burnt bread
And over native land
Hanging someone else's sky.

And the pitiful cry of the guys,
Doesn't stop, lasts
And women all in a row
Looking into faces...

No, mother, sister, wife
And all those who have experienced pain
That pain is not avenged
And didn't win.

For this day alone
In the village of one Smolensk -
Berlin did not repay
With his universal shame.

Fossilized memory,
Strong on its own.

Let stone be stone
Let there be pain.

CHAPTER 6

It wasn't the time yet
What goes right into winter.
More potato skins
Cleaned up on the basket.

But it got cold
Land heating summertime.
And at night a wet mop
She let in unfriendly.

And the fire had a dream - not a dream.
Under the timid crack of deadwood
Crowded autumn from the forests
Those bitter days of a bed-and-breakfast.

Beckoned by the memory of housing,
Heat, food and more.
Whom in the son-in-law
Whom in husbands, -
Where to read.

... In a cold pune, against the wall,
From prying eyes furtively,
Sat behind the war
A soldier with his soldier wife.

In a cold pune, not at home,
Soldier, to match someone else's
He sipped what he brought to him
Wife secretly from home.

He sipped with zeal of grief,
Taking the pot in my knees.
His wife was sitting in front of him.
On that cold hay
That in the old hour on a Sunday afternoon,
For holiday business
In the garden he mowed under the window,
When the war has arrived.

The hostess looks: he is not him
For a guest in this pune.
No wonder, apparently, a heavy dream
She dreamed the night before.

Thin, overgrown, as if all
Sprinkled with gold.
He ate to eat
Your shame and evil grief.

- Gather a pair of lingerie
Yes, fresh footcloths
So that I'm fine until dawn
Take off from the parking lot.

- I've already collected everything, my friend,
Everything is. And you are on the road
At least save your health
And first of all, the legs.

- What else? You are wonderful
With such care, women.
Let's start with the head, -
At least save her.

And on the face of a soldier - a shadow
Unfamiliar smiles.
- Oh, as I remember: only a day
You are this home.

- Houses!
I would also be glad not to stay for a day, -
I sighed. - Take the dishes.
Thank you. Give me a drink now.
When I return from the war, I will stay.

And drinks sweetly, dear, big,
Shoulders against the wall
By his beard a stranger
Drops roll into the hay.

- Yes, at home, they tell the truth,
What is raw water
Much tastier, - said the soldier,
In thought, wiping
Mustache fringed sleeves,
And he was silent for a minute. -
And the rumor is that Moscow
Next up, like...

The wife moved towards him.
With sympathetic concern.
Like, it's not worth believing everything,
They talk a lot these days.
A German, maybe he is now
Will cool down by winter...

And he again:
- Well, well, believe
For what suits us.
One good captain
Wandered with me at first.
Another enemy on the heels
Followed us. Didn't sleep
We didn't eat on the way.
Well, death. So he used to
He repeated: go, crawl crawl -
At least to the Urals.
So the man was an evil spirit
And I remember that idea.

- And what?
- Went and did not reach.
- Left behind?
- He died of a wound.
They walked like a swamp. And the rain, and the night,
And also bitter cold.
"And they couldn't help?"
“And they couldn’t, Anyuta…

Leaning against his shoulder,
To the hand - a small girl,
She grabbed her sleeve
He kept everything
As if she thought
Save it by force
With whom to separate one war
Could, and separated.

And took from each other
Sunday in June.
And again briefly reduced
Under the roof of this pune.

And here he sits next to her
Before another parting.
Isn't he angry with her?
For this shame and torment?

Is he waiting for herself
His wife said to him:
- Go crazy - go. Winter.
And how far to the Urals!

And I would repeat:
- Understand
Who can blame the soldier
That his wife and children are here,
What is here - a native hut.
Look, the neighbor came home
And does not get off the stove ...

And then he would say:
- Not,
Wife, bad words ...

Perhaps your bitter lot,
Like bread with a pinch of salt
Spice up, brighten up he wanted
So heroic, right?

Or maybe he's just tired
Yes, so that through force
I also came to my native places,
And then - it wasn't enough.

And only conscience is out of tune
With the bait - this thought:
I'm home. I won't go further
Look for war around the world.

And it is not known what will return,
And to grief - in the heart of confusion.
“Say something, Andrew.
- What can I say, Anyuta?
'Cause don't talk, don't talk
Will it be easier
Shoot tomorrow until dawn
And make your way to Vyazma?
An unwritten route
Recognize in the stars.
Getting to the front is hard work,
You will reach, and there is no rest.
There one day, like a year, is hard,
What a day, sometimes a minute ...
And that one - he walked and did not reach,
But everything seems to go on.
Weakened, wounded goes,
That they put in a coffin more beautifully.
Goes.
“Comrades, go ahead.
Let's get there. Ours will come!
Let's get there, there's no other way
We will reach our lines.
And fight is inevitable.
What about rest?
In Berlin!"
At every falling step
And rising again
Goes. How can I
Stay behind, alive, healthy?
We went through dozens of villages with him,
Where, how, where with a mortal manhole.
And since he walked, but did not reach,
So I have to get there.
Reach. Even though I'm an ordinary
Not willing to leave.
It would be nice if he was alive
And he is a fallen warrior.
It is forbidden! Such are the things ... -
And stroked her hand.

And she has long understood
That pain was not pain yet,
Separation is not separation.

What does it matter - at least lie down on the ground,
If you lose your breath...
I said goodbye before, but not like that,
And that's when the goodbye!

Slowly took her hand away
And men's knees
With a humble cry embraced
On that charred hay...

And the night passed with them.
And suddenly
Through the edge of sleep at dawn,
Through the smell of hay into the soul sound
An old, bitter one entered her:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home...

The deep democratism of Tvardovsky, so clearly manifested in Vasily Terkin, also distinguishes the idea of ​​his poem The House by the Road (1942-1946). It is dedicated to the fate of a simple peasant family that experienced all the hardships of the war. The subtitle of the poem - "lyrical chronicle" - exactly corresponds to its content and character. The genre of the chronicle in its traditional sense is a presentation of historical events in their temporal sequence. For the poet, the fate of the Sivtsov family, with its tragedy and typicality for those years, not only meets these genre requirements, but also causes complicity, deep empathy, reaching a huge emotional intensity and prompting the author to constantly intervene in the narrative.

A fate similar to that of Andrei Sivtsov was already outlined in Vasily Terkin, in the chapters Before the Battle and About the Orphan Soldier. Now it is depicted in more detail and even more dramatized.

The picture of the last peaceful Sunday that opens the poem is filled with that “traditional beauty” of rural labor (mowing “on a festive occasion”), which Tvardovsky has been poeticizing since the time of the “Country of the Ant”. This dear and bitter memory of the familiar and beloved peasant life, of "housing, comfort, order", interrupted (and for many - forever interrupted) by the war, will subsequently constantly resurrect in the poem along with the age-old proverb:

Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.

In a difficult time of retreat, Sivtsov secretly comes home for a short time - “thin, overgrown, as if all sprinkled with ashes” (the “fringe of the sleeve” of a frayed overcoat is briefly mentioned), but stubbornly paving the “unwritten route” behind the front.

His wife's story is even more dramatic. Always bowing before the image of a woman-mother, capturing it in many poems of different years (“Song”, “Mothers”, “Mother and Son”, etc.), this time Tvardovsky created a particularly multifaceted character. Anna Sivtsova is not just charming (“Sharp in speeches, quick in deeds, Walked like a snake”), but full of the greatest selflessness, spiritual strength that allows her to endure the most terrible trials, for example, being sent to a foreign land, to Germany:

And even though she is barefoot in the snow,
Have time to dress three.

Catch with a trembling hand
Hooks, ties, mother.

Strive with a simple lie
Childish fear to appease.

And put all your luggage on the road,
Like fire, grab it.

The mother's tragedy and, at the same time, Anna's heroism reach their peak when her son is born in a hard labor barracks, seemingly doomed to death. Wonderfully using the poetics of folk lamentations, crying (“Why did a twig turn green at such an unkind time? Why did you happen, son, my dear child?”), Tvardovsky conveys an imaginary, fantastic conversation between a mother and a child, the transition from despair to hope:

I am small, I am weak, I am the freshness of the day
I can feel it on your skin.
Let the wind blow on me
And I will untie my hands

Ho you won't let him blow
Do not give, my dear,
While your chest sighs
As long as she's alive.

The heroes of "House by the Road" also find themselves face to face with death, hopelessness, despair, as was the case with Terkin in the chapter "Death and the Warrior", and also emerge victorious from this confrontation. In the essay “In native places”, talking about his fellow villager, who, like Andrey Sivtsov, built a house on the ashes, Tvardovsky expressed his attitude to this with journalistic frankness: “It seemed to me more and more natural to define the construction of this unpretentious log house as a kind of feat . The feat of a simple worker, a grain grower and a family man who shed blood in the war for his native land and now on it, devastated and depressed over the years of his absence, starting to start life again ... ”In the poem, the author provided the opportunity to draw a similar conclusion to the readers themselves, limiting themselves to the most a laconic description of this quiet feat by Andrey Sivtsov:

...pulled with a sore leg
To the old seliba.

Smoked, overcoat down,
Marked out the plan with a shovel.

Kohl to wait for a wife with children home,
This is how you build a house.

She pulled somehow
Along the highway track -
With the smaller, asleep in his arms,
And the whole crowd of the family.

The reader wants to see Anna in her, but the artist's tact warned Tvardovsky against a happy ending. In one of the articles, the poet noted that many of the best works of Russian prose, “having arisen from living life ... in their endings, tend to merge with the same reality from which they came out, and dissolve in it, leaving the reader a wide scope for the mental continuation of their , for thinking out, “additional research” of the human destinies, ideas and issues touched upon in them. And in his own poem, Tvardovsky allowed readers to vividly imagine the tragic end that such stories had in the lives of many people.