Names of works about the war by Belarusian writers. All books about: “books about Belarusian partisans

I remember that at school, teachers at literature lessons were forced to read the works of Belarusian writers. Not everyone obeyed the school curriculum and read the given material, missing out on so many useful and new things for themselves. Probably the reason was age, or maybe other interests prevailed.

Time has passed, but the works of the classics of literature have not disappeared anywhere. the site offers to remember and read the best Belarusian books.

Yakub Kolas "New Earth"

Date of writing: 1911 - 1923

The poem “New Land”, written by the national poet Yakub Kolasam, is the first major Belarusian epic work. This book should be in the library of everyone who considers himself a Belarusian. This is the first national poem, which is rightly called an encyclopedia of the life of the Belarusian peasantry, a classic work of our literature, and simply beautiful poetry. The author himself considered "New Earth" the main poem in the entire history of his work.

Yakub Kolas began writing the book in 1911, while in prison for three years for participating in the revolutionary movement of 1905-1906. Many critics consider "Symon Muzyka" to be a continuation of the book.

Vladimir Korotkevich "Spikes under your sickle"

Date of writing: 1965

One of the most significant and telling novels of Belarusian literature. The work, written in two parts, is dedicated to the events on the eve of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus. The first book tells about the origin of discontent, which resulted in a river of anger and struggle for the independence of Belarus. Reading the novel, you are completely immersed in the events of that time and you see the boy Oles Zagorsky and his friends in front of you. The main revolutionary Kastus Kalinovsky is also mentioned on the pages of the novel. The book tells how the worldview of Belarusians has changed and with what sacrifices they built the future for the country.

The film studio "Belarusfilm" planned to film the book by Vladimir Korotkevich, they approved the script, but at the last moment they abandoned the idea. The reason for the cancellation of filming was voiced by a poor-quality script.

Vasily Bykov "Alpine ballad"

Date of writing: 1963

It is not for nothing that Alpine Ballad occupies a central place on the bookshelf for many. The name of Vasily Bykov is known all over the world.

In his book, Vasily Bykov tells about the fate of two prisoners of war who managed to escape from the Austrian camp. The whole truth about the war, which the Belarusian author told in his books, not only amazed, it burned. His profound works about people faced with the horrors of war are unparalleled in Russian literature.

Based on the story "Alpine Ballad", a film of the same name was made. The book was filmed in 1965 by the director of the film studio "Belarusfilm" Boris Stepanov.

Ivan Melezh "People in the Swamp"

Date of writing: 1961

The novel “People in the Swamp” by Ivan Melez is one of the pinnacles of Belarusian literature, an example of post-war works. In many ways, the lyrical novel tells about the inhabitants of the remote village of Kuren, which is cut off from the outside world by impenetrable Polesye swamps. Ivan Melezh showed the life of the Belarusian population with almost ethnographic accuracy using the example of the daily life of the inhabitants of the village. The novel shows national traditions, legends, games with songs, Christmas divination of the Poleshuks. The author, using the example of the main characters of the book, described the fate and drama of the life of the Belarusian people.

People in the Swamp” is one of the few Belarusian works that appeared on TV screens as a serial film.

Yanka Mavr "Polesye Robinsons"

Date of writing: 1932

Belarusian Jules Verne - Yank Mavr, who primarily wrote for young readers, can be considered the founder of the adventure genre in Belarusian literature.

The work, which today is called a bestseller, is one of the most beloved books among many generations of schoolchildren - "Polesye Robinsons". Janka Mavr showed that not only foreign countries can be interesting for travel, but there are many fascinating and unusual things in their native places. The author writes so convincingly about travels and adventures that the reader has no room for doubt: Janka Maurus was there and saw everything with his own eyes.

The adventures of Polissya Robinsons in 1934 were shown on the big screen by the Belgoskino film studio. In 2014, "Belarusfilm" based on the story released the film "Wonder Island, or Polissya Robinsons".

Yanka Kupala "Scattered Nest"

Date of writing: 1913

The work The Scattered Nest was written as a play in five acts. The drama of the Zyablikov family, whose fate is revealed by Yanka Kupala in her book, was the drama of the Belarusian people. Events unfold during the revolution of 1905.

The play is based on facts from the life of a family from which Prince Radziwill took away land and a house. Understanding the family tragedy as a national tragedy, Yanka Kupala showed in the work the difficult path of the Belarusian peasantry in search of the lost homeland, land and freedom.

Today the play "The Scattered Nest" is played in Minsk theaters.

Kondrat Krapiva - "Who laughs last"

Date of writing: 1913

Folk humour, self-irony and sarcasm give a national character to Belarusian literature. Among the authors of this genre, it is worth remembering Kondrat Krapiva, whose works are still read with pleasure. In the center of the plot is the image of the pseudo-scientist Gorlokhvatsky and his accomplices.

Nettle reveals in his work not only specific political problems, but also universal ones, such as sycophancy, bribery, betrayal. The author wrote about all this.
In the treasury of films of the film studio "Belarusfilm" in 1954, there was an increase. A film adaptation of Kondrat Krapiva's play "Who Laughs Last" was released.

Zmitrok Byadulya - Yazep Krushinsky

Date of writing: 1929 - 1932

A novel written in two parts about the life of Belarusian residents during collectivization. The protagonist of the book is the prosperous farmer Yazep Krushinsky, behind whose actions Byadulya hides the essence of the class struggle and the desire to show how the worst enemy can be hidden behind external integrity.

We recommend reading books about the Great Patriotic War. Reading is very difficult, but necessary. We have been left authentic evidence of the tragedy of mankind by such authors as Ales Adamovich, Vasil Bykov, Vyacheslav Kondratiev, Daniil Granin, Boris Vasiliev, and others...

"Khatyn story"

Famous Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich - participant of the Great Patriotic War, partisan; his "Khatyn story", presented in this edition, created on the basis of documentary material and dedicated to the partisan struggle in occupied Belarus.

"This is a talentedly embodied memory of the war, a reminder story and a warning story. The experience of those who survived the war cannot be wasted. It teaches humanity, perhaps the most elementary of truths: only by not sparing your life, you can defend freedom and defeat the enemy Especially as sophisticated as German fascism was" (Vasil Bykov).

And the dawns here are quiet ... (story)
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Attention readers offers two perhaps the most poignant writings about the war famous Russian writer Boris Lvovich Vasiliev - the story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet ..." (1969), dedicated to the history of five anti-aircraft gunners, led by their commander - foreman Vaskov - who entered into an unequal and mortal battle with German saboteurs, and the novel " Was not on the lists" (1974), telling about the last defender of the Brest Fortress, Lieutenant Pluzhnikov.

Both works are distinguished by psychological authenticity and expressive conciseness of the author's style, which turn the front-line episode told in them into a high tragedy about those who did not live, did not dream, did not love.

"The Punishers"

The famous Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich is a participant of the Great Patriotic War, a partisan.

The author of the book, who himself went through the battlefields, knew only too well that it is precisely in these most severe conditions of the need for choice that the essence of man is clearly determined. Bykov reveals the spiritual and civic fullness of his heroes, shows that a moral feat is devoid of the halo of an outwardly bright, spectacular heroic action.

The book includes the stories "Sotnikov", "Obelisk", "Survive Until Dawn", "Crane Cry", "Sign of Trouble", as well as journalistic articles "The Bells of Khatyn" and "How the story "Sotnikov" is written.

"War has no woman's face"

This is the most famous book by Svetlana Aleksievich and one of the most famous books about the Great Patriotic War. where the war is first shown through the eyes of a woman. This is the first complete edition of the novel. Having eliminated the "amendments" of the censor and erasing the "traces" of the editors, Svetlana Aleksievich included not only new episodes in the text, but also restored all the cuts, providing them with pages from the diary, which she kept for all seven years while the book was being written.

An absolutely innovative approach to the topic is organically combined with the great confessional tradition of Russian classical literature. Here is how Svetlana Alexandrovna herself sees it:

More than 20 years of working with documentary material, having written five books, I say: art does not suspect a lot in a person, does not guess. But I am not writing a dry, bare history of facts, events, I am writing a history of feelings. What did the person think, understand and remember during this event? What he believed or did not believe in, what illusions, hopes, fears he had ... This is something that is impossible to imagine, to invent, at least in such a number of reliable details and details. We quickly forget what we were ten, twenty or fifty years ago. And sometimes we are ashamed, or we ourselves no longer believe that it was so with us. Art can lie, a document deceives... Although a document is also someone's will, someone's passion. But I put together the world of my books from thousands of voices, destinies, pieces of our life and existence. I write each book for three or four years, meet and talk, record 500-700 people. My chronicle spans dozens of generations. It begins with the memory of people who met the revolution, went through wars, Stalin's camps, and goes to our days. This is the story of one soul - the Russian soul..."

This is the first complete version of the book "War has no woman's face", without censorship and editorial discretion.

"Last Witnesses"

Last Witnesses: 100 Unchildren's Lullabies

The second book (the first was "The War Doesn't Have a Woman's Face") of Svetlana Aleksievich's famous documentary series "Voices of Utopia".

This book is a memoir of the Great Patriotic War of those who were 6-12 years old during the war- the most impartial and most unfortunate of its witnesses. A war seen by children's eyes is even more terrible than a war captured by a woman's eyes. Aleksievich's books have nothing to do with the kind of literature where "the writer pees and the reader reads." But it is in relation to her books that the question most often arises: do we need such a terrible truth? The writer herself answers this question: "A forgetful person is capable of generating only evil and nothing else but evil."

"Last Witnesses"is a feat of childhood memory.

A forgetful person is capable of generating only evil and nothing else but evil,” writes Svetlana Aleksievich. This book is the testimonies of people who survived the war in childhood. 100 childhood memories of the war. 100 non-children's lullabies that keep our memory awake. Nobody will ever talk about it! Behind the heroes of this book - no one. They are not politicians, they are not soldiers, they are not philosophers, they are children. The most impartial witnesses.

The Last Witnesses of Svetlana Aleksievich come out after the book War Has Not a Woman's Face. Together they make up an integral study about the Great Patriotic War, about an unknown war - a war without army offensives and panoramic tank attacks - these are books about war through the eyes of women and children .

For a wide range of readers.

This book was first published in the 1980s, and even earlier - in the journal Druzhba Narodiv, then it made a very strong impression. The Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich collected the memories of many people, residents of Belarusian villages and cities, who at the beginning of the war were from three to 12 years old. 100 of them are included in the book. This book is very scary to read...

One can understand why Svetlana Aleksievich wrote down and processed these stories, but how she had the strength to do this ... A terrible memory was left to us ...

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich

Svetlana Alexandrovna Aleksievich was born on May 31, 1948 in Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian SSR) in the family of a military man.

After his father was demobilized from the army, the family moved to his homeland, to Belarus, where his parents worked as rural teachers. After leaving school, she worked as a correspondent for the local newspaper. In 1967 she entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University, during her studies she became a laureate of republican and all-Union competitions of student scientific works. After graduating from the university, she worked in a regional newspaper, taught in a rural school, then in the editorial office of the republican Selskaya Gazeta, later became a correspondent, head of the essay and journalism department of the Neman literary and art magazine.

The set of Aleksievich's first book, "I left the village," was scattered at the direction of the propaganda department of the republican Central Committee of the Party, and the book "War has no woman's face," written in 1983, was published only after the start of "perestroika," in 1985. Immediately after it, the book "Last Witnesses" (1985) saw the light, then the books "Zinc Boys" (1989), "Charmed by Death" (1993), "Chernobyl Prayer" (1997) were published. The writer's books have been published in more than 20 countries around the world, with a total of about 100 editions. Based on the works of Svetlana Aleksievich, 20 documentaries were shot, a number of stage productions were created. A cultural event was the performance "War has no woman's face", staged in 1985 at the Moscow Taganka Theater directed by Anatoly Efros. Currently, the author is completing work on a new book about love, "The Wonderful Deer of the Eternal Hunt."

Svetlana Aleksievich is a laureate of 17 international awards, among which is the Literary Prize. N. Ostrovsky (1985), Lenin Komsomol Prize (1986), Prize. Kurt Tucholsky (1996), "Triumph" (1997), "The Most Sincere Person of the Year" by the Glasnost Foundation (1998), "For the Best Political Book of the Year" (Germany, 1998), "For European Understanding" (Germany, 1998) , "Witness of the World" (RFI, 1999), Peace Prize. EM. Remarque (2001).

The world of modern Belarusian literature remains a mystery for many of our fellow citizens - it seems to exist, but at the same time you can’t say that it’s in plain sight. Meanwhile, the literary process is seething, our authors, who work in various genres, are willingly published abroad, and we simply do not associate some of the Belarusian writers popular there with the local context.

The mobile film festival velcom Smartfilm, dedicated this year to book trailers (videos about books), on the eve of the country's first Night of Libraries, which will be held on January 22 in the Pushkin Library and the Scientific Library of the Belarusian National Technical University, is trying to figure out who is who among successful Belarusian writers.

Svetlana Aleksievich

Needs no introduction. The first Belarusian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In many bookstores, Aleksievich's books were sold out within a couple of hours after the announcement of the name of the new laureate.

“War has no female face”, “Zinc Boys”, “Second Hand Time” are living documents of the Soviet and post-Soviet era. The wording with which the Nobel Committee presented the prize to Svetlana Alexandrovna was: "for many-voiced creativity - a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

Aleksievich's books have been translated into 20 languages ​​of the world, and the circulation of "Chernobyl Prayer" has overcome the bar of 4 million copies. In 2014, Second Hand Time was also published in Belarusian. The name Aleksievich has always evoked an ambiguous reaction from the Belarusian media: they say that he refers himself to Russian culture and writes in Russian. However, after the banquet speech at the Nobel ceremony, which Aleksievich finished in Belarusian, the claims subsided.

What does he write about? Chernobyl, the Afghan war, the phenomenon of the Soviet and post-Soviet "red man".

Natalya Batrakova

Ask any librarian whose books from Belarusian authors are put in the queue? Natalya Batrakova, the author of women's prose, they say, did not even expect that she, a girl with a diploma from the Institute of Railway Engineers, would suddenly become almost the most sought-after Belarusian writer, and her "Infinity Moment" - the best-selling book in Belarus in 2012.

Batrakova's novels do not come out very often, but then they endure several reprints. Fans of high prose have a lot of questions for the author, but that's why they are aesthetes. For the most part, the reader votes for Batrakova with a ruble, and her books continue to be reprinted.

What does he write about? About love: both prose and poetry. Loyal fans are still waiting for the continuation of the love story of a doctor and a journalist from the book "Moment of Infinity".

Algerd Bakharevich

One of the most popular writers in the country, last year he was included in the anthology of the best European short fiction Best European Fiction. But we love him not only for this. The author of 9 books of fiction, collections of essays (including the scandalous analysis of Belarusian classical literature "Hamburg Rahunak"), translator, he exists simultaneously in Belarusian realities and in the European literary tradition. Moreover, adjectives can be easily interchanged here. One of the best Belarusian stylists.

The novel "Shabany" has already received a theatrical incarnation twice (in the Theater of Belarusian Drama and in "Kupalovsky"), and an essay about the late work of Yanka Kupala caused such a sharp reaction from readers and fellow writers that it's hard to remember when classical Belarusian literature was so vigorously discussed in last time.

The new novel "White Fly, Killer of Men" is one of the main book premieres of early 2016. By the way, Bakharevich played in the first professional domestic booktrailer - the work of Dmitry Vainovsky "Smalenne Vepruk" based on the work of Mikhas Streltsov.

What does he write about? About girls "without a king in their heads", the life of sleeping areas and "damned" guests of the capital.

Adam Globus

A master of short prose, a living classic of Belarusian literature. He works non-stop on new books of short stories, sketches, provocative notes and very specific urban tales. Take the cycle "Suchasnіki" and you will learn a lot of interesting things about our contemporaries, however, not always personal.

It is from the Globe that Belarusian erotic prose begins. The collection “Only not Gavars to My Mom” still surprises unprepared readers who represent domestic literature exclusively according to the school curriculum.

We add that Globus is an artist, illustrator and an outstanding poet. You have definitely heard songs based on his poems: “New Heaven”, “Bond”, “Syabry” are classics of Belarusian music of the late 20th century.

What does he write about? About the legends of Minsk and Vilnius (invented by the author), colleagues in literature and art, about sex.

Andrey Zhvalevsky

Who has not seen the sale of books from the series "Porry Gutter and ..."? It was this series, which at first was conceived as a parody of the books of JK Rowling, but then acquired its own storyline and its own face, that made the Belarusian writer Andrei Zhvalevsky popular. He has since firmly established himself as a popular science fiction writer and author of teen books. Sometimes Zhvalevsky is joined by fellow writers Igor Mytko and Yevgenia Pasternak (by the way, in the literary field, the figure is also very noticeable).

The list of awards received by Zhvalevsky would take a separate page. With recognition in neighboring countries, Andrey is also doing well: from third place at the all-Russian Kniguru award and the Alice award (for the book Time is Always Good) to the title of Brand Person of the Year in the Culture nomination at the competition Brand of the Year 2012. And given that in his past Zhvalevsky is also a KVNschik (in the good sense of the word), with a sense of humor in his fictional stories, everything is 9 plus.

What does he write about? Fantastic stories from the life of characters creepy, but very funny.

Artur Klinov

Conceptual artist, editor-in-chief of the pARTizan magazine, screenwriter, photographer Artur Klinov "shot" with his first book - "A small book about Goradze Sun", which was published first in Germany, and then in Belarus. The history of Minsk, which is also the history of a specific person, made a strong impression on German and Belarusian readers.

Klinov's next book, Shalom, was published first in Belarusian, and then in a Russian version (edited and abridged) by the cult Moscow publishing house Ad Marginem. Klinov's next novel "Shklatara" made a splash even before its release - the reader, who is familiar with Belarusian literature and the artistic environment, will immediately recognize most of the characters, including philosopher Valentin Akudovich, director Andrei Kudinenko and many other characters in the world of Belarusian politics and art.

What does he write about? About Minsk as a utopia, about how a person can become an art object and what happens when a glass container collection point becomes a cultural platform.

Tamara Lissitzka

TV presenter, director, screenwriter - you can list all the incarnations for a very long time. At the same time, Lisitskaya's books, which have been published for almost ten years now, are popular among a wide variety of readers. Based on the book "Quiet Center" in 2010, a television series was shot.

Disputes about the literary component of Tamara's books have also been going on for many years, but this does not make readers less - in the end, many people recognize themselves in Lisitskaya's characters: here's the life of three friends born in the 70s (the novel "Idiots" ), here is the story of the residents of a small apartment building in the center, and here is a novel-aid for pregnant women.

What does he write about? About how you can not be bored in Minsk, about the coexistence under one roof of people with different views and occupations.

Victor Martinovich

Journalist, teacher, writer. It occupies a niche in Belarusian literature that is somewhat similar to the one that Viktor Pelevin occupied in Russian. Each new novel by Martinovich becomes an event. It is noteworthy that almost at each of the presentations, Victor swears to slow down and finally take a break. But you can’t drink hard work - Martinovich, to the delight of his admirers, gives out one book a year, which is a rarity among Belarusian writers.

There are still disputes about Martinovich's first novel "Paranoia", was it banned in Belarus or not? The novel Sphagnum, which was published in two languages ​​at once (the Russian-language original and the Belarusian translation), even before it appeared in print, was on the long list of the Russian National Bestseller Award, it was compared with the classic film "Lock, Stock, Two Smoking Barrels". The next novel, Mova, recently went through its third reprint. In the spring, a Russian publishing house publishes a new book by Martinovich, The Lake of Joy, but for now, his play The Best Place in the World is being staged in Vienna. Victor's books have been translated into English (published in the USA) and other languages.

What does he write about? Gopniks are looking for treasures, the Belarusian language is sold as a drug, and the lyrical hero, no, no, and even commit suicide. Sometimes even triple.

Ludmila Rublevskaya

A large form - and we are talking about an entire adventure saga - is now rarely seen. And this applies not only to Belarusian literature. Rublevskaya, however, only in recent years has published several books for every taste: here you have mystical prose, gothic, and Belarusian history. The saga about the adventures of Prancis Vyrvich in three parts and the diverse collection Nights on the Plyabanska Mlyny - these and other books by Rublevskaya are literally asking for screens - the talented director has enough material for several box-office films.

What does he write about? Urban legends and secrets of old houses, iron turtles and runaway schoolboys-adventurers.

Andrey Khadanovich

It would seem that "poetry" and "popularity" are little compatible things since the 70s, but in reality this is not so. Against the background of how the general interest in poetry is growing (look at what venues visiting poets perform - Prime Hall, etc.), the name of Khadanovich, poet, translator, head of the Belarusian PEN Center, is mentioned in the media more and more often.

His children's book "Natatki tatki" in terms of sales in independent bookstores can only be compared with the books of Svetlana Aleksievich. A new collection of poems and translations (including songs by people like Leonard Cohen and Sting) Chyagnik Chykaga-Tokiyo, the first in five years, came out at the end of 2015.

Andrei Khadanovich, of course, is not the only one from the cohort of modern classics of Belarusian poetry, but obviously the most successful.

What does he write about? Poetic game with the reader at the intersection of genres. Dig deeper and you will understand everything yourself.

On January 22, the Night of Libraries event ends the educational program of the festival velcom Smartfilm Studio: at two venues (Pushkin Library and Scientific Library of BNTU), famous Belarusians will read excerpts from their favorite books of Belarusian authors and foreign literature translated into Belarusian.

We remind you that the velcom Smartfilm mobile film festival is being held for the fifth time. The theme of the work of novice filmmakers is book trailers. Under the terms of the competition, you need to shoot videos about books on a smartphone camera. This year, the Grand Prix winner of the velcom Smartfilm contest will receive 30 million rubles. The deadline for accepting works is January 31 inclusive.

Boris Vasiliev "I was not on the lists" - a story by Boris Vasilyev in 1974.
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Alexander Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin" (another name is "The Book of a Fighter") - a poem by Alexander Tvardovsky, one of the main works in the poet's work, which received national recognition. The poem is dedicated to a fictional character - Vasily Terkin, a soldier of the Great Patriotic War
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Yuri Bondarev "Hot snow » is a 1970 novel by Yuri Bondarev set near Stalingrad in December 1942. The work is based on real historical events - an attempt by the German Army Group "Don" of Field Marshal Manstein to release the Paulus 6th Army encircled near Stalingrad. It was that battle described in the novel that decided the outcome of the entire Battle of Stalingrad. Director Gavriil Egiazarov made a film of the same name based on the novel.
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Konstantin Simonov "The Living and the Dead" - a novel in three books ("The Living and the Dead", "No Soldiers Are Born", "Last Summer"), written by Soviet writer Konstantin Simonov. The first two parts of the novel were published in 1959 and 1962, the third part in 1971. The work is written in the genre of an epic novel, the storyline covers the time interval from June 1941 to July 1944. According to literary critics of the Soviet era, the novel was one of the brightest domestic works about the events of the Great Patriotic War. In 1963, the first part of the novel The Living and the Dead was filmed. In 1967, the second part was filmed under the title "Retribution".
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Konstantin Vorobyov "Scream" - the story of the Russian writer Konstantin Vorobyov, written in 1961. One of the most famous works of the writer about the war, which tells about the participation of the protagonist in the defense of Moscow in the autumn of 1941 and his falling into German captivity.
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Alexander Alexandrovich "Young Guard" - a novel by the Soviet writer Alexander Fadeev, dedicated to the underground youth organization operating in Krasnodon during the Great Patriotic War called the Young Guard (1942-1943), many of whose members died in Nazi dungeons.
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Vasil Bykov "Obelisk" (Belarusian Abelisk) is a heroic story by the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykov, created in 1971. In 1974, for "Obelisk" and the story "Survive Until Dawn" Bykov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In 1976, the story was filmed.
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Mikhail Sholokhov "They fought for the Motherland" - a novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, written in three stages in 1942-1944, 1949, 1969. The writer burned the manuscript of the novel shortly before his death. Only a few chapters of the work were published.
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Anthony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin. 1945" (Eng. Berlin. The Downfall 1945) is a book by the English historian Anthony Beevor about the assault and capture of Berlin. Released in 2002; published in Russia by the AST publishing house in 2004. It was a No. 1 bestseller in seven countries outside of the UK, and was in the top five in nine other countries.
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Boris Polevoy "The Tale of a Real Man" - the story of B.N. Polevoy of 1946 about the Soviet pilot-ace Meresyev, who was shot down in the battle of the Great Patriotic War, seriously wounded, lost both legs, but by force of will returned to the ranks of active pilots. The work is imbued with humanism and Soviet patriotism. More than eighty times it was published in Russian, forty-nine - in the languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR, thirty-nine - abroad. The prototype of the hero of the book was a real historical character, pilot Alexei Maresyev.
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Mikhail Sholokhov "The Fate of Man" is a short story by the Soviet Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. Written in 1956-1957. The first publication is the Pravda newspaper, No. December 31, 1956 and January 2, 1957.
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Vladimir Dmitrievich "Privy Advisor to the Leader" - a novel-confession by Vladimir Uspensky in 15 parts about the personality of I.V. Stalin, about his entourage, about the country. Time of writing the novel: March 1953 - January 2000. For the first time the first part of the novel was published in 1988 in the Alma-Ata magazine "Prostor".
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Anatoly Ananiev "Tanks move in a rhombus" - a novel by the Russian writer Anatoly Ananyev, written in 1963 and telling about the fate of Soviet soldiers and officers in the early days of the Battle of Kursk in 1943.
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Yulian Semyonov "The Third Map" - a novel from a cycle about the work of the Soviet intelligence officer Isaev-Stirlitz. Written in 1977 by Yulian Semyonov. The book is also interesting in that it involves a large number of real-life personalities - OUN leaders Melnik and Bandera, SS Reichsführer Himmler, Admiral Canaris.
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Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov "Killed near Moscow" - the story of the Russian writer Konstantin Vorobyov, written in 1963. One of the most famous works of the writer about the war, which tells about the defense of Moscow in the autumn of 1941.
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Alexander Mikhailovich "Khatyn story" (1971) - A story by Ales Adamovich, dedicated to the struggle of partisans against the Nazis in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War. The culmination of the story is the destruction of the inhabitants of one of the Belarusian villages by the punitive Nazis, which allows the author to draw parallels both with the tragedy of Khatyn and with the war crimes of subsequent decades. The story was written from 1966 to 1971.
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Alexander Tvardovskoy "I was killed near Rzhev" - a poem by Alexander Tvardovsky about the events of the Battle of Rzhev (the First Rzhev-Sychev operation) in August 1942, at one of the most intense moments of the Great Patriotic War. Written in 1946.
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Vasiliev Boris Lvovich "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" - one of the most poignant in its lyricism and tragedy of works about the war. Five female anti-aircraft gunners, led by foreman Vaskov, in May 1942, at a distant junction, confronted a detachment of selected German paratroopers - fragile girls enter into a deadly battle with strong, trained to kill men. The bright images of girls, their dreams and memories of loved ones, create a striking contrast with the inhuman face of the war, which did not spare them - young, loving, tender. But even through death they continue to affirm life and mercy.
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Vasiliev Boris Lvovich "Tomorrow there was a war" - Yesterday these boys and girls were sitting at school desks. Crowd. They quarreled and reconciled. Experienced first love and misunderstanding of parents. And dreamed of a future - clean and bright. And tomorrow...Tomorrow was a war . The boys took their rifles and went to the front. And the girls had to take a sip of military dashing. To see what a girl's eyes should not see - blood and death. To do what is contrary to woman's nature - to kill. And die themselves - in the battles for the Motherland ...

XX - early XXI centuries deeply and comprehensively, in all its manifestations: the army and the rear, the partisan movement and the underground, the tragic beginning of the war, individual battles, heroism and betrayal, the greatness and drama of the Victory. The authors of military prose, as a rule, front-line soldiers, in their works rely on real events, on their own front-line experience. In books about the war written by front-line soldiers, the main line is soldier friendship, front-line camaraderie, the severity of camp life, desertion and heroism. Dramatic human destinies unfold in war, sometimes life or death depends on a person’s act. Front-line writers are a whole generation of courageous, conscientious, experienced, gifted individuals who have endured military and post-war hardships. Front-line writers are those authors who in their works express the point of view that the outcome of the war is decided by the hero, who recognizes himself as a particle of the warring people, who carries his cross and common burden.

The most reliable works about the war were created by front-line writers:, G. Baklanov, B. Vasiliev,.

One of the first books about the war was Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov's (1911-1987) story "In the trenches of Stalingrad", which Vyacheslav Kondratyev, another front-line writer, spoke with great respect. He called it his desk book, where there was the whole war with its inhumanity and cruelty, there was "our war that we went through." This book was published immediately after the war in the Znamya magazine (1946, Nos. 8–9) under the title Stalingrad, and only later was it given the title In the Trenches of Stalingrad.

And in 1947, the story "Star" was written by Emmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich (1913-1962), a front-line writer, truthful and poetic. But at that time it was deprived of a true ending, and only now it has been filmed and restored in its original ending, namely, the death of all six scouts under the command of Lieutenant Travkin.

Let us also recall other outstanding works about the war of the Soviet period. This is the "lieutenant's prose" of such writers as G. Baklanova, K. Vorobyov.

Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (1924), a former artillery officer who fought in 1942-1944 near Stalingrad, on the Dnieper, in the Carpathians, the author of the best books about the war - "Battalions ask for fire" (1957), "Silence" (1962), " Hot Snow (1969). One of the reliable works written by Bondarev about the war is the novel “Hot Snow” about the Battle of Stalingrad, about the defenders of Stalingrad, for whom he personified the defense of the Motherland. Stalingrad as a symbol of soldier's courage and stamina runs through all the works of the front-line writer. His military writings are laced with romantic scenes. The heroes of his stories and novels - the boys, along with the heroism committed, still have time to think about the beauty of nature. For example, lieutenant Davlatyan cries bitterly like a boy, considering himself a failure not because he was wounded and hurt, but because he dreamed of getting to the front line, he wanted to knock out a tank. About the difficult life after the war of former participants in the war, his new novel "Non-resistance", what former boys have become. They do not give up under the weight of post-war and especially modern life. “We have learned to hate falsehood, cowardice, lies, the elusive look of a scoundrel talking to you with a pleasant smile, indifference, from which one step to betrayal,” says Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev many years later about his generation in the book Moments.

Let us recall Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov (1919-1975), the author of harsh and tragic works, who was the first to tell about the bitter truth of the one who was captured and went through the earthly hell. The stories of Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov “This is us, Lord”, “Killed near Moscow” were written from his own experience. Fighting in a company of Kremlin cadets near Moscow, he was taken prisoner, went through camps in Lithuania. He escaped from captivity, organized a partisan group that joined the Lithuanian partisan detachment, and after the war he lived in Vilnius. The story "This is Us, Lord", written in 1943, was published only ten years after his death, in 1986. This story about the torments of a young lieutenant in captivity is autobiographical and is now highly valued in terms of the resistance of the spirit as a phenomenon. Torture, executions, hard labor in captivity, escapes... The author documents a nightmarish reality, exposes evil. The story "Killed near Moscow", written by him in 1961, remains one of the most reliable works about the initial period of the war in 1941 near Moscow, where a company of young cadets ends up, almost without weapons. Fighters die, the world collapses under bombs, the wounded are captured. But their life is given to the Motherland, which they faithfully served.

Among the most notable front-line writers of the second half of the 20th century, one can name the writer Vyacheslav Leonidovich Kondratiev (1920-1993). His simple and beautiful story "Sashka", published back in 1979 in the magazine "Friendship of Peoples" and dedicated to "To All Who Fought near Rzhev - Living and Dead" - shocked readers. The story "Sashka" put forward Vyacheslav Kondratiev among the leading writers of the front-line generation, for each of them the war was different. In it, the front-line writer tells about the life of an ordinary person in the war, several days of front-line life. The battles themselves were not the main part of a person's life in the war, but the main thing was life, incredibly difficult, with enormous physical exertion, hard life. For example, morning mine shelling, getting shag, sipping liquid porridge, warming up by the fire - and the hero of the story Sashka understood - you have to live, you have to knock out tanks, shoot down planes. Having captured the German in a short battle, he does not experience much triumph, he seems to be unheroic at all, an ordinary fighter. The story about Sashka became a story about all the front-line soldiers, tormented by the war, but who retained their human face even in an impossible situation. And then the novels and stories follow, united by a cross-cutting theme and heroes: “The Road to Borodukhino”, “Life-Being”, “Vacation for Wounds”, “Meetings on Sretenka”, “A Significant Date”. The works of Kondratiev are not just true prose about the war, they are true testimonies of time, duty, honor and fidelity, these are the painful thoughts of the heroes after. His works are characterized by the accuracy of dating events, their geographic and topographic reference. The author was where and when his characters were. His prose is eyewitness accounts, it can be regarded as an important, albeit peculiar, historical source, at the same time it is written according to all the canons of a work of art. The demolition of the era that occurred in the 90s, which haunts the participants in the war and they experience moral suffering, had a catastrophic effect on front-line writers, led them to the tragic feelings of a devalued feat. Is it not because of moral suffering that the front-line writers tragically died in 1993, Vyacheslav Kondratyev, and in 1991, Yulia Drunina.

Here is another of the front-line writers, Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov (1926-2003), who wrote in 1973 the action-packed work “The Moment of Truth” (“In August forty-fourth”) about military counterintelligence - SMERSH, whose heroes neutralize the enemy in the rear of our troops. In 1993, he published the bright story "In the Krieger" (krieger - a wagon for transporting the seriously wounded), which is a continuation of the story "The Moment of Truth" and "Zosya". In this wagon-krieger, the surviving heroes gathered. Undertreated them, a terrible commission distributed them for further service in remote areas of the Far North, Kamchatka, and the Far East. They, who gave their lives for their Motherland, were crippled, were not spared, they were sent to the most remote places. The last novel about the Great Patriotic War by Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov “My life, or did you dream about me ...” (Our contemporary. - 2005. - No. 11,12; 2006. - No. 1, 10, 11, 12; 2008. - No. 10) remained unfinished and was published after the death of the writer. He wrote this novel not only as a participant in the war, but also based on archival documents. The events in the novel begin in February 1944 with the crossing of the Oder and last until the early 1990s. The story is told on behalf of a 19-year-old lieutenant. The novel is documented by the orders of Stalin and Zhukov, political reports, excerpts from the front press, which give an impartial picture of the hostilities. The novel, without any embellishment, conveys the mood in the army that has entered enemy territory. The underside of the war is depicted, which has not been written about before.

Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov wrote about his main, as he considered, book: “It will not be a memoir, not memoirs, but, in the language of literary critics, “an autobiography of a fictitious person.” And not entirely fictional: by the will of fate, I almost always found myself not only in the same places with the main character, but also in the same positions: I spent a whole decade in the shoes of most heroes, the root prototypes of the main characters were closely familiar to me during the war and after her officers. This novel is not only about the history of a person of my generation, it is a requiem for Russia, for its nature and morality, a requiem for the difficult, deformed destinies of several generations - tens of millions of my compatriots.

Front-line writer Boris Lvovich Vasiliev (b. 1924), laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, the Prize of the President of Russia, the Independent Prize named after "April". He is the author of the books loved by all “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, “Tomorrow there was a war”, “I was not on the lists”, “Aty-bats were soldiers”, which were filmed in Soviet times. In an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta dated January 1, 2001, the front-line writer noted the demand for military prose. Unfortunately, his works were not republished for ten years, and only in 2004, on the eve of the writer's 80th birthday, were they republished again by the Veche publishing house. A whole generation of young people was brought up on the military stories of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev. Everyone remembered the bright images of girls who combined love of truth and steadfastness (Zhenya from the story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...”, Spark from the story “Tomorrow there was a war”, etc.) and sacrificial devotion to a high cause and loved ones (the heroine of the story “In was not listed, etc.)

Yevgeny Ivanovich Nosov (1925-2002), who was awarded the Sakharov Literary Prize together with Konstantin Vorobyov (posthumously) for his work in general (devotion to the theme), is distinguished by his belonging to the village theme. But he also created unforgettable images of peasants who are preparing to go to war (the story "Usvyatsky helmet-bearers") as if to the end of the world, say goodbye to a measured peasant life and prepare for an uncompromising battle with the enemy. The first work about the war was the story "Red Wine of Victory", written by him in 1969, in which the hero met Victory Day on a government bed in the hospital and received, along with all the suffering wounded, a glass of red wine in honor of this long-awaited holiday. Reading the story, adults who survived the war will cry. “A genuine comfrey, an ordinary fighter, he does not like to talk about the war ... The wounds of a fighter will tell more and more strongly about the war. Holy words should not be frittered away in vain. As well, you can not lie about the war. And it is a shame to write badly about the sufferings of the people. A master and worker of prose, he knows that the memory of dead friends can be offended by an awkward word, clumsy thoughts ... ”- this is how his friend writer-front-line soldier Viktor Astafyev wrote about Nosov. In the story “Khutor Beloglin”, Alexei, the hero of the story, lost everything in the war - he had neither family, nor home, nor health, but, nevertheless, he remained kind and generous. Yevgeny Nosov wrote a number of works at the turn of the century, about which Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn said, presenting him with an award in his own name: “And, 40 years later, conveying the same military theme, Nosov stirs up with bitter bitterness what hurts today ... This unrequited sorrow Nosov closes the half-century wound of the Great War and everything that has not been told about it even today. Works: "Apple Savior", "Commemorative Medal", "Fanfares and Bells" - from this series.

Among the front-line writers, Andrei Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) was undeservedly deprived in Soviet times, whom literary criticism made such only because his works were different, too reliable. For example, the critic V. Ermilov in the article "The slanderous story of A. Platonov" (about the story "Return") accused the author of "the most vile slander on the Soviet family" and the story was declared alien and even hostile. In fact, Andrei Platonov went through the entire war as an officer, from 1942 to 1946. He was a war correspondent for Krasnaya Zvezda on the fronts from Voronezh, Kursk to Berlin and the Elbe, and his man among the soldiers in the trenches, he was called the "trench captain." One of the first Andrei Platonov wrote the dramatic story of the return of a front-line soldier home in the story "Return", which was published in the "New World" already in 1946. The hero of the story, Alexei Ivanov, is in no hurry to go home, he has found a second family among his fellow soldiers, he has lost the habit of being at home, of his family. The heroes of Platonov's works “... were now going to live for the first time, in illness and the happiness of victory. Now they were going to live for the first time, vaguely remembering themselves as they were three or four years ago, because they turned into completely different people ... ". And in the family, near his wife and children, another man appeared, who was orphaned by the war. It is difficult for a front-line soldier to return to another life, to children.

(b. 1921) - participant in the Great Patriotic War, colonel, historian, author of a series of books: "In the ranks", "Fiery miles", "Fighting continues", "Colonel Gorin", "Chronicle of the pre-war years", " In the snow-covered fields of the Moscow region. What caused the tragedy of June 22: the criminal carelessness of the command or the treachery of the enemy? How to overcome the confusion and confusion of the first hours of the war? The resilience and courage of the Soviet soldier in the early days of the Great Patriotic War is described in the historical novel "Summer of Hopes and Crashes" (Roman-gazeta. - 2008. - Nos. 9-10). There are also images of military leaders: commander-in-chief Stalin, marshals - Zhukov, Timoshenko, Konev and many others. Another historical novel “Stalingrad. Battles and Fates ”(Roman-newspaper. - 2009. - Nos. 15-16.) The battle on the Volga is called the battle of the century. The final parts of the novel are devoted to the harsh winter of the years, when more than two million soldiers came together in a deadly battle.

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(real name - Fridman) was born on September 11, 1923 in Voronezh. He volunteered to fight. From the front he was sent to the artillery school. After completing his studies, he ended up on the South-Western Front, then on the 3rd Ukrainian. Participated in the Iasi-Chisinau operation, in the battles in Hungary, in the capture of Budapest, Vienna. He ended the war in Austria with the rank of lieutenant. In the years studied at the Literary Institute. The book "Forever - nineteen" (1979) was awarded the State Prize. In 1986-96 was the editor-in-chief of the Znamya magazine. Died 2009

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(real name - Kirill) was born on November 28, 1915 in Petrograd. He studied at MIFLI, then at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky. In 1939 he was sent as a war correspondent to Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Simonov was in the army: he was his own correspondent for the newspapers Krasnaya Zvezda, Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, etc. In 1942 he was awarded the rank of senior battalion commissar, in 1943 - the rank of lieutenant colonel, and after the war - colonel. As a war correspondent, he visited all fronts, was in Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, witnessed the last battles for Berlin. After the war, he worked as an editor of the Novy Mir and Literaturnaya Gazeta magazines. Died August 28, 1979 in Moscow.

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Front-line writers, contrary to the tendencies that developed in the Soviet era to gloss over the truth about the war, portrayed the harsh and tragic military and post-war reality. Their works are true evidence of the time when Russia fought and won.