Description of the heroes Tomorrow there was a war. What did the heroes of the story Tomorrow There Was War fight for? I

Very briefly 1940. A ninth-grader from a small town becomes the daughter of an enemy of the people. They are going to expel her from the Komsomol, and the girl commits suicide. After some time, her father is released.

Prologue

The author recalls the 9th "B" class in which he once studied. In memory of his classmates, he only had an old photograph, blurry at the edges, which activist Iskra Polyakova encouraged everyone to take. Of the entire class, only nineteen people lived to old age. In addition to the author and Iskra, the company included the athlete Pasha Ostapchuk, the eternal inventor Valka Alexandrov, nicknamed Edison, the frivolous Zinochka Kovalenko and the timid Lenochka Bokova. Most often the company gathered at Zinochka's. Iskra was always telling something, reading aloud, and Valka was inventing devices that, as a rule, did not work.

The guys treated Zinochka’s quiet father with disdain, until one day in the bathhouse they saw his scarred back - “blue-purple autograph civil war" And the mother of Iskra, Polyakov’s comrade, who walked around in boots and a leather jacket, everyone was afraid and did not understand that she had the same scars on her soul as on the back of Zinochka’s father. In the story, the author returns to those naive dreamers.

Chapter first

This fall, Zinochka Kovalenko realized herself as a woman for the first time. Taking advantage of the absence of her parents, she sadly looked in the mirror at her mature breasts beyond her years, too thin hips and legs with disproportionately thin ankles, when Iskra Polyakova rang the doorbell. Zinochka was a little afraid of her strict friend, the “conscience of the class,” although she was a year older. Iskra’s idol was her mother, the unbending commissar Comrade Polyakova, with whom the girl always took an example. Only recently did she realize that her mother was deeply unhappy and lonely. One night, Iskra saw her mother crying, for which she was whipped with a wide soldier’s belt. Unusual name the girl was awarded by her father, whom she did not remember. As a commissioner, he found himself " weak person”, and his mother “with the usual mercilessness” burned his photographs in the stove.

Iskra came to Zinochka with a message that Sashka Stameskin would no longer study at school. Now school classes had to be paid for, but Sashka’s mother, who raised her son without a father, did not have the money for this. Stameskin was a personal achievement and a conquest for Iskra. Just a year ago, he led the free life of a hooligan and a loser. Having exhausted the patience of the teachers' council, he expected to gain complete freedom when Iskra appeared on his horizon. She had just joined the Komsomol and decided that her first Komsomol feat would be the re-education of Stameskin.

Arriving at his home for the first time, Iskra saw beautiful drawings airplanes. The girl said that such planes would not fly; Stameskin was offended by this, and he became interested in mathematics and physics. But Iskra was a sober-minded girl. She foresaw that Sashka would soon get tired of all this, so she took him to the aviation club of the Palace of Pioneers. Now Sashka had something to lose, he took up his studies and abandoned his former friends. And now Stameskin, who had become a good student, was forced to leave school.

Zinochka found a way out. She offered to place Stameskin at an aircraft factory, where there was night school. Vika Lyuberetskaya, the daughter of the chief engineer of the aircraft plant, who sat with Zinochka at the same desk, could help with this. Vika was very beautiful and a little arrogant. She had already turned into a woman and was aware of it. Iskra avoided her classmate. This is great for her dressed girl, who came to school in a company car, was a creature from another world for whom one should feel ironic regret. Zina undertook to settle this matter. On September 1, Vika approached Iskra and said that Stameskin would be hired at the plant.

Chapter two

Artyom Shefer read a lot and was involved in athletics. Only one oddity prevented him from becoming an excellent student - he “spoke poorly” and could not answer oral subjects. It started in the fifth grade, when Artyom accidentally broke a microscope, and Zinochka took the blame upon herself. From then on, under Zina’s gaze, the boy’s tongue stiffened - it was love. A terrible secret Artyom only knew best friend Zhorka Landys, unrequitedly in love with Vika Lyuberetskaya.

After working as a laborer all summer, Artyom decided to spend his first earnings on celebrating his sixteenth birthday. On the second Sunday of September, a noisy company headed by Iskra gathered at Artyom’s place. The guys danced, played forfeits, and then began to read poetry. And then Vika read several poems by the almost forgotten “decadent” poet Sergei Yesenin. Even Iskra liked the poems, and Vika gave her a tattered volume to read.

Chapter Three

The multi-storey school where the children studied was recently built. At first, the duties of the director were performed by class 7 “B” Valentina Andronovna, nicknamed Valendra. She distributed the classes in ascending order, and the school became like layered cake- “each floor lived the life of its age,” no one ran up the stairs or rode on the railings. Six months later, Valendra was replaced by Nikolai Grigorievich Romakhin, a former commander of the cavalry corps. The first thing he did was mix up the classrooms and hang mirrors in the girls' restrooms. The school rang with children's voices and laughter, and the girls got bows and fashionable bangs. The whole school adored the principal and could not stand Valendra. Her innovations angered Romakhin - they went against Valentina Andronovna’s ideas about raising children. She began to fight with the director, writing letters “to the right place” for any reason.

Zinochka let Valendra know that Yesenin was being read at her birthday party - the classmate caught her in front of the mirror and scared her. Having learned from Iskra that Vika had read poetry, Valentina Andronovna retreated: Lyuberetsky was highly respected in the city. Iskra decided to tell Vika about this, and after school the girlfriends headed to the Lyuberetskys.

Vika’s mother died long ago, and Leonid Sergeevich Lyuberetsky raised his daughter alone. He was always worried about Vika, and therefore he took great care of her and spoiled her. Vika was very proud of her father. Despite numerous gifts, imported clothes and a company car, Vika was a smart and decent girl. She lived a very secluded life - her father's position created a wall between her and her classmates. That day, girls from her class visited her for the first time, and Leonid Sergeevich was glad that his daughter still had friends.

Iskra and Zinochka found themselves in such a situation for the first time beautiful house. They were given tea and treated to delicious cakes. It turned out that Lyuberetsky knew Comrade Polyakova - they fought in the civilian water division. Iskra thought about the conversation with Leonid Sergeevich for several days. She was especially struck by the thought that “the truth should not turn into dogma, it must always be tested for strength and expediency,” because Iskra’s mother believed in the immutable truth embodied in Soviet idea, and was ready to defend her until her last breath.

Chapter Four

At the beginning of each school year Zinochka determined who she would fall in love with. She didn’t need to please her “object,” but rather suffer from jealousy and dream of reciprocity. I didn't manage to fall in love this year. For some time, Zinochka was confused, but soon realized that she herself had become an “object.” She quickly calmed down, but then two tenth graders appeared on the horizon, one of whom, Yura, was considered the most handsome boy At school. Zinochka did not know how to make decisions - Iskra always decided for her, but asking her friend who to fall in love with was unthinkable. They couldn’t help at home either: the sisters were much older than Zinochka, and the parents were always busy. And Zinochka found a way out herself. She wrote three identical letters with a vague promise of friendship, differing only in address, and began to think about which of the three admirers she should send the letter to.

After three days of thinking, Zinochka lost two letters, but one of them fell into the hands of Valentina Andronovna. Triumphantly, she took the letter to the director, hoping that he would inform Zinochka at the general meeting, but Nikolai Grigorievich laughed and burned the “evidence.” Furious, Valendra decided to openly defend what she sincerely believed to be Soviet methods of education.

Iskra let her friend out of control - she was busy with herself. While working at the aircraft factory, Sasha Stameskin matured noticeably, he developed his own judgments and special treatment to Iskra. One day, while walking in the park, they kissed, and this kiss became “a mighty impetus for the forces already in motion.” Iskra began to grow up, and she was drawn not to the frivolous Zinochka, but to the self-confident Vika, who had already crossed this difficult line. Soon she visited the Lyuberetskys again, talked with Vika about women’s happiness, and with Leonid Sergeevich about the presumption of innocence. Vika told the girl that she couldn’t love her because she was a maximalist. Iskra was very upset by these words. Arriving home, she wrote an article for school newspaper with arguments about guilt and innocence, but the mother who came home from work burned the article, declaring that a Soviet person should not reason, but believe.

Chapter Five

On October 1, the handsome Yura invited Zinochka to the cinema for the last showing. Kovalenki raised youngest daughter in strictness, but that day the mother - a surgical nurse - was on duty, the father - a foreman at the factory and an activist - was also busy, and Zinochka agreed. After the session, Yura offered to sit somewhere, and Zinochka led him to the Lyuberetskys’ house, where a secluded bench was hidden in the bushes. While sitting on it, the guys saw a black car drive up to the entrance, and three men entered the house. After some time, Lyuberetsky came out of the entrance, accompanied by these people, Vika jumped out after them, loudly screaming and crying. Already from the back, Leonid Sergeevich shouted that he was not guilty of anything, and the car drove away.

Zinochka rushed to Iskra to report that Lyuberetsky had been arrested. Comrade Polyakova left Zina to spend the night at her place, and she went to her parents. Kovalenko doubted that Lyuberetsky, “a hero of the civil war, an order bearer,” could turn out to be an enemy of the people. He decided to invite Vika to live with him. Arriving home, Polyakova wrote a letter to the central committee of the CPSU (b), in which she stood up for Lyuberetsky.

Chapter Six

In the morning, Kovalenko and Polyakova’s parents met in the director’s office. Romakhin was also sure that Lyuberetsky was arrested by mistake. He suggested that everyone write a letter together to the relevant authorities, but Iskra’s mother asked to wait. She had known Leonid Sergeevich for a long time and believed that at this stage of the case her guarantee was enough.

The friends decided not to tell anyone about the arrest, but when they arrived at school, Iskra discovered that everyone already knew about it. Zinochka had to admit that she was not alone at the Lyuberetskys’ house. Yurka, who spilled the news, should have been punished. Artem Shefer, Zhorka Landys and Pasha Ostapchuk took on this task. While the girls distracted the school stoker, the boys called Yurka into the boiler room. Artyom fought, who also had personal motives.

After the “duel” the guys went to support Vika. After the search, the Lyuberetskys’ apartment was turned upside down. Friends helped Vika clean up, and Zinochka fed her “special scrambled eggs.”

At her house, Iskra met with Sashka. He said that Lyuberetsky was in fact an “enemy of the people.” Rumors circulated around the plant that Chief Engineer sold airplane drawings to the Nazis. Iskra believed, but was convinced that Vika had nothing to do with it.

The next day, Iskra strictly ordered the guys to behave with Vika as usual. In the afternoon, Polyakova and Schaefer were called to the director - Valendra became aware of the fight in the boiler room. Valentina Andronovna interrogated the guys. The director was silent, looking at the table. The classroom decided to turn the fight into a political affair, making Artyom the main ringleader. Romakhin could not intercede - Valendra’s numerous statements bore fruit, and the director was reprimanded. Finally, the class decided that Iskra would hold an emergency Komsomol meeting, at which Vika, as the daughter of an enemy of the people, would be expelled from the Komsomol. Iskra flatly refused to hold the meeting, after which she fainted.

When Iskra came to her senses, Romakhin said that the meeting would take place in a week, and he could not change anything. Schaefer will also have to leave the school because of the “political” fight. And then Zinochka declared that Artyom fought because of her. The director was very happy about the opportunity to save at least Schaefer, and ordered Zinochka to write a report.

Chapter Seven

Zinochka’s report helped - having received a beating from the director, Artyom remained at school. The week passed as usual, only Valendra never called Vika to the board, although in other lessons she answered “five”. On Saturday after school, Vika suggested that the whole class go to suburban village Sosnovka, say goodbye to autumn.

The guys spent the whole Sunday in Sosnovka. Vika showed her dacha - a neat little house, painted cheerful blue. The house was sealed, and the girl was not even allowed to take away her personal belongings. Then Vika took Zhorka Landys to the river, to her favorite place under a spreading rosehip bush, and allowed herself to be kissed. Then the guys lit a fire, had fun, but everyone remembered that tomorrow was a Komsomol meeting, at which Vika would be expelled from the Komsomol if she did not publicly condemn her father.

The next day Vika did not come to school. The chairman of the district committee, however, appeared, and the meeting had to begin. The guys learned from Valendra that Romakhin was practically fired. At that moment, Zina, sent for Vika, returned and reported that Lyuberetskaya was dead.

Chapter Eight

The investigation into Vicky's death lasted for 24 hours. From the note left by the girl it was clear that she had poisoned herself with sleeping pills. Now Iskra realized that on Sunday Vika was saying goodbye to her friends. In the days remaining before the funeral, the children did not appear at school.

Artyom’s mother helped arrange the funeral. It was not possible to get the car. On the day of the funeral, Romakhin closed the school, and a crowd of schoolchildren, led by the director, carried the coffin through the entire city. The boys replaced each other, only Zhora Landys traveled the entire way without ever changing. Iskra’s mother forbade Iskra to “arrange a memorial service,” but at the cemetery the girl could not stand it and began to read Yesenin’s poems loudly. Then Artyom and Zhorka planted a rosehip bush at the head of the grave. Only Sashka Stameskin was not at the funeral.

At home, Iskra was waiting for a notice on a registered parcel, written in a vaguely familiar handwriting. Soon the enraged comrade Polyakova returned home. She found out about the poems that her daughter read in the cemetery and wanted to flog Iskra. She threatened that she would leave the house, and the woman was frightened - despite the severity, she loved her daughter very much.

Chapter Nine

The parcel was from Vicki. The neat package contained two books and a letter. One book turned out to be a collection of Yesenin’s poems, the author of the second was the writer Green, unknown to Iskra, about whom Vika had once told her. In the letter, the girl explained why she decided to take such a step. It was easier for her to die than to renounce her father, whom the girl endlessly respected and loved. For her, there was “no worse betrayal than the betrayal of her father.” Vika admitted that she always wanted to be friends with Iskra, but did not dare to get close to her. Now she said goodbye to her only friend and left her her favorite books as souvenirs.

Nikolai Grigoryevich Romakhin was indeed fired. He walked around the school and said goodbye to each class. Valendra was triumphant - she expected to occupy the director's office again. On last lesson she tried to force Zinochka to sit in Vika’s place, but then the whole class unanimously rebuffed her. She became a stranger “so much so that they no longer even loved her,” and lost her former confidence. Even Valentina Andronovna’s solid teaching experience did not help. She was scared and for some time she was officially cold and very polite with 9 “B”.

Iskra, who was not at school that day, was taken for a walk by Stameskin. This time the girl was finally convinced that Sashka was a coward and did not want to have anything to do with the daughter of an enemy of the people, or with those who stood up for her. Iskra cried all the way home from disappointment.

Valentina Andronovna did not triumph for long - Romakhin soon returned to his post, but became unusually quiet and gloomy. No one guessed that Kovalenko had returned the director, knocking on the doorsteps of offices for a whole week and threatening to go all the way to the Moscow Central Committee. No one was sitting at Vicky’s desk. Sashka Stameskin silently brought the fence for the grave, welded at the factory, and Zhorka painted it “in the most cheerful blue paint.”

The director was not present at the demonstration in honor of November 7th. The guys went to his house and found out that Romakhin had been expelled from the party. The neighbor explained that the primary organization had done this, and Comrade Polyakova from the city committee promised to look into it, but the director was depressed, and then Iskra sang a song about the Red cavalrymen. For the rest of the day they sang revolutionary songs, and then Romakhin treated the guys to tea.

Gradually everything fell into its own rut. Romakhin was not expelled from the party, but he stopped smiling. At first Valentina Andronovna ingratiated herself with the class, but gradually it became a formality. At the end of November, handsome Yurka burst into the classroom and announced that Lyuberetsky had been released. Having somehow calmed down Landys, the guys went to Vika’s house. Lyuberetsky did not understand why these children came to him until he saw the entire class, 45 people, under the windows. They told him about last days Vicki. Zinochka said that this year is a leap year, and the next one will probably be better. The next was 1941.

Epilogue

After 40 years, the author went to hometown at the alumni meeting and remembered. Of their company, Valka “Edisson”, Zina and Pashka Ostapchuk survived. Artyom Shefer died blowing up a bridge. Zhora Landys was a fighter pilot. Iskra was a liaison for the underground, led by Romakhin. The Polyakovs were hanged by the Germans - first the mother, then the daughter. Zinochka Kovalenko gave birth to two sons - Artyom and Zhora. Sashka Stameskin became big man, director of a large aircraft plant. And Edison became not a great inventor, but a watchmaker and “the most accurate time in the city was with former students of the once sadly famous 9 “B”.

A tight embrace, Time is skin, not a dress. His mark is deep. Like fingerprints, His features and folds are from us, Looking closely, you can remove them. And Kushner Boris Lvovich Vasiliev’s story “Tomorrow There Was War” was written in 1972. And along with another story by this writer, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...” became one of the best and most famous works in our country about the period of the Great Patriotic War.
This story, stunning in its simplicity and truthfulness, opens the eyes of readers to the most difficult and beautiful time in our life - youth. The writer's talent was expressed mainly in the fact that he was able to surprisingly accurately describe this period human life, although he himself was far from a young man.
The story begins with a prologue and ends with an epilogue. Through the prologue, Vasiliev introduces the reader to the world of his memories of his youth, introduces him to his former classmates and teachers, with school and parents and the like. At the same time, the writer seems to be reflecting, pondering and reevaluating everything that happened to him forty years ago.
The main part is a story about the author's life, written as if he were pulling out memories one by one from his memory box. Starting to describe classmates or some incident, he switches to earlier events, then returns to it again, and so on. Together with the writer, we move first to the third, then to the fifth, then to the ninth grade, recalling in fits and starts past events. Despite such an unusual and complex structure, these memories do not confuse us, do not allow us to get lost in a rather complex chain of reasoning, or lose the thread of the narrative, but, on the contrary, they develop surprisingly deftly and accurately, making up the complete nature of the story, which undoubtedly testifies to the skill of the writer .
The epilogue sums up the story, sharply, but nevertheless harmoniously flowing into the content. We find ourselves again almost forty years ahead, in 1972, reflecting with the author on the past.
Several classmates are at the center of the story. Iskra Polyakova is a lively and purposeful girl who dreams of becoming a commissar, an excellent student, an activist, and a wall newspaper editor. Her friends always go to her for advice, and Iskra has an accurate and precise answer for everyone, a solution to the most insoluble problems and questions. True, at the end of the story, Iskra changes greatly; she begins to doubt the “truths” that her mother so diligently instilled in her. That is, Iskra is gradually growing up.
Zina Kovalenko is flighty and fickle. Spark said that she was a real girl. Zina solves all her questions either with the help of Iskra, or by trusting her unmistakable intuition. But she also begins to grow up, feels that the boys like her, and at the end of the story even acquires the independence and prudence of Iskra.
Vika Lyuberetskaya is the most mysterious and incomprehensible girl for her classmates. She seemed to be morally older than them and therefore had no friends until the ninth grade. Vika admires her father, considers him an ideal, and loves him to the point of oblivion. The worst thing for her is to doubt her father. And when he is arrested, Vika commits suicide not out of whim, but as an adult.
Girls grow up first physically and then mentally. Boys grow up somewhat differently; they seem to follow their older classmates. So, Iskra takes the hooligan Sasha Stameskin under his wing, makes him an excellent student, enrolls him in the aviation club, and then helps him get a job at an aircraft factory.
Zhora Landys, true friend and assistant to all the boys in the class, falls in love with Vika and strives to grow up. The same process happens with some other guys.
In principle, we can say that the initiator of all these age-related changes involuntarily became new director school - Nikolai Grigorievich Romakhin. His unusual upbringing system does not constrain his growing up and spiritual search children, but, on the contrary, provokes growing up.
The antipode of Romakhin in the story is the class teacher and literature teacher Valentina Andropovna (Valendra, as the guys call her). She is not satisfied with the new principal's routine at school. In an almost open struggle with him, she used all means, for example, writing denunciations to higher authorities, arguing and the like. However, Valentina Andropovna cannot be considered negative character. The author writes that she absolutely sincerely believed in the correctness of her beliefs, that the new director was ruining the school. And this sincerity ultimately allowed her to find mutual language with the matured class and change.
The importance of minor characters in the story is great. The literature teacher and the director cannot be classified as one of them, since the main conflict of the story unfolds around their relationship. Minor characters- these are the parents of the students and two teachers who are not involved in the conflict. Parents, raising their children, created their own exact copy, with their own character traits, but they all accepted with understanding the growing up of their children, their new understanding of reality. And even Polyakov’s comrade, Iskra’s mother, an “iron” woman, accustomed to commanding her daughter as a subordinate, having met the rebuff of the matured Iskra, resigns herself, realizing that this had to happen. The same can be said about Vika Lyuberetskaya’s father, who unwittingly changed the lives of many children, becoming their ideal.
The theme of the work is expressed precisely by this growing up (which I spoke about above, describing the characters separately). The main idea that permeates the work is that in no case should adults influence the growing up of children; it is, of course, necessary to educate them, but growing up follows its own special path.
However, this idea can be traced only in the main part of the story, and in the prologue and epilogue it appears new idea. The theme of the prologue and epilogue is the author's memories of his youth. And the idea is expressed in the fact that only the most beautiful things in life are remembered - youth. The story is called “Tomorrow there was a war,” but it says practically nothing about the war, and this is not accidental. The war does not appear in the action of the story, but seems to follow from its content, logically completing school years. Boris Vasiliev writes that the difference between the generation of his youth and the current one is that they knew that there would be a war, but we know that it will not happen, and we sincerely believe in it.
And now, forty years later, on the train that symbolizes life, these eternal ninth-graders remember not the war, not how they burned in a tank and went into battle, but what happened before that.
This story touched me to the core. She opened my eyes to a lot, explained a lot in life and helped me understand. Boris Vasiliev is undoubtedly talented, since the story is read in one breath and leaves an indelible mark on the soul. It was very useful for me, as a child, although growing up, to take an outside look at own life, reconsider something in your worldview.

“It’s you, our youth...” Youth, its fate and feat in the story by B.L. Vasiliev "Tomorrow there was a war."

How it was! How did it coincide -

War, trouble, dream and youth!

And it all sunk into me

And only then did it awaken within me!..

Forties, fatal,

Lead, gunpowder...

The war is sweeping across Russia,

And we are so young!

D. Samoilov

The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 brought our country not only a brilliant victory over fascism, but also unprecedented sacrifices. It is officially recognized that our country lost twenty-seven million human lives in this war (according to the unofficial version, much more). Twenty seven million! A whole country of dead. The death of many of them went down in history to become an example for future generations. Books have been written about many, others remain to be remembered. The theme of connections between generations and eternal memory B. Vasiliev dedicated his story “Tomorrow There Was War” to those who died.

The heroes of this story came to war because of a school desk. IN war time they were the same as they grew up in the difficult 30s. Who and how instilled in them courage and loyalty, fearlessness and selflessness? The writer B. Vasiliev reflects on this.

“Tomorrow there was war” is a story that can only be conditionally attributed to military prose. And yet it is about war, although the main action of the story takes place in peacetime. B.L. Vasiliev develops a topic that has always worried him: what are the origins of the courage of the generation whose youth was cut short by the war, how could they survive the war? terrible war a generation in which only three out of every hundred survived (and Vasiliev himself was among these three). But they survived, they died, and they won!

“Tomorrow there was war” is a dramatic story about first love and friendship, loyalty and honor. Written in 1972, it has become one of the most best works about the Great Patriotic War. The 1984 issues of Yunost magazine, in which this story was published, were in great demand.

The story is called “Tomorrow there was a war,” but it says practically nothing about the war, and this is not accidental. The war does not appear in the action of the story, but seems to follow from its content, logically completing the school years. The novel is chronologically correct, ending on the eve of 1941.

The young heroes of the story are a generation that finds itself on the threshold adult life on the eve of the Patriotic War. Early forties. The guys study in a Soviet school, trying to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. In the novel, the whole class is constantly present, with teachers, class teacher, school director, parents. The class is the most ordinary, the most typical. And yet, let’s not miss Vasiliev’s words - “woefully famous.” Not only here artistic feature narrative, but also the key to explaining the perseverance in the war of the students of the 9th "B". Iskra, Vika, Zinochka, Lena, Artem, Zhorka and other guys, unlike each other, live fully, love, are friends, fight for justice. The collective hero of the novel is the whole class. Anything could have happened in this class, whose students were just entering life. There could only be one thing: betrayal, betrayal in friendship, baseness and cowardice. No one backed down from the disgraced director Nikolai Grigorievich when he was almost fired from his job, no one backed down from either Vika Lyuberetskaya or her arrested father in the story “Tomorrow there was a war.” It seems that the original plan for deciding Lyuberetsky’s fate was more terrible. IN pre-war years Mass repressions of workers at precisely this level continued. Vasiliev, apparently, did not want to (or was unable to) write directly about this, because even without that the story was not published for 12 years (1972 - 1984). Vika's classmates respected this intelligent man, smart person, who managed to make the children feel what other adults could not do: the charm and power of culture and knowledge. They were the first to not believe that he was an enemy of the people.

Vika, an excellent student, beautiful, reservedly cold, but with a deep, extraordinary nature, commits suicide. “Consciously and voluntarily,” as she wrote in her suicide note.

The class trembled and shook at her death. This was my first real adult grief.

Everything that happened next was both natural and unusual. In these terrible years, when the relatives of the repressed happened to refuse such a relationship, none of her comrades refused from Vika, from her belief in her father’s innocence. Vika was also supported by the school director Nikolai Grigorievich, who himself barely survived the repressions, and the parents of many children - working people, honest workers, real mothers and fathers. You can’t betray, you can’t retreat!

This was what young people were taught throughout their pre-war lives, those wonderful honest people who they met in their youth: Zhenya’s father, Iskra’s mother, director Nikolai Grigorievich, Vika’s father, parents of classmates. The boys grew up worthy of their parents.

Future Hero Soviet Union Zhora Landys looks less like a hero than others at school. Zhora is an avid philatelist, book reader, skater, and dreamer. Him personal accounts to fascism, because fascism was against a rebellious conscience and warmth, light and love for humanity, and the hero could not imagine his existence without them. Likewise, other ninth-graders developed an irreconcilable hostility to everything that fascism brought with its “new order.” Hence their honest behavior at the front. Yes, most of them died in the fire of the Great Patriotic War, because in any matter, at any moment of their lives, they did not know how to hide behind other people’s backs.

They confidently went into battle because they fought not for illusory things, but for permanent, higher, truly human values. Artyom was kicked out of school for his honesty and integrity, for not wanting to bend his heart. And, of course, they restored it, because there was someone to protect him - the same beloved school principal. So could such an uncompromising person look for easy ways at the front? He blew himself up along with the bridge, because he could not do otherwise...

Front-line writer B.L. Vasiliev wrote about how the generation of victors of fascism was formed. About why our victory was inevitable. About what lessons, what experience were passed on to all subsequent generations by the boys and girls who stepped out of school into the war in 1941.

This story, stunning in its simplicity and truthfulness, tells about the most difficult and wonderful time in life - about youth. The writer's talent was expressed mainly in the fact that he was able to surprisingly accurately describe this period of human life, although he himself was far from a young man.

This story moved me to the depths of my soul, opened my eyes to a lot, clarified a lot in life and helped me understand. It is read in one breath and leaves an indelible mark on the soul. It was very useful for me and my peers to take a look at our own lives from the outside, to reconsider something in our worldview.

Boris Lvovich Vasiliev’s story “Tomorrow There Was War” was written in 1972. And along with another story by this writer, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...” has become one of the best and most famous works in our country about the period of the Great Patriotic War.

This story, stunning in its simplicity and truthfulness, opens the eyes of readers to the most difficult and wonderful time in our lives - youth. The writer's talent was expressed mainly in the fact that he was able to surprisingly accurately describe this period of human life, although he himself was far from a young man.

The story begins with a prologue and ends with an epilogue. Through the prologue, Vasiliev introduces the reader to the world of his memories of his youth, introduces him to his former classmates and teachers, to school and parents, and the like. At the same time, the writer seems to be reflecting, pondering and reevaluating everything that happened to him forty years ago.

The main part is a story about the author's life, written as if he were pulling out memories one by one from his memory box. Starting to describe classmates or some incident, he switches to earlier events, then returns to it again, and so on. Together with the writer, we move first to the third, then to the fifth, then to the ninth grade, recalling in fits and starts past events. Despite such an unusual and complex structure, these memories do not confuse us, do not allow us to get lost in a rather complex chain of reasoning, or lose the thread of the narrative, but, on the contrary, they develop surprisingly deftly and accurately, making up the complete nature of the story, which undoubtedly testifies to the skill of the writer .

The epilogue sums up the story, sharply, but nevertheless harmoniously flowing into the content. We find ourselves again almost forty years ahead, in 1972, reflecting with the author on the past.

Several classmates are at the center of the story. Iskra Polyakova is a lively and purposeful girl who dreams of becoming a commissar, an excellent student, an activist, and a wall newspaper editor. Her friends always go to her for advice, and Iskra has an accurate and precise answer for everyone, a solution to the most insoluble problems and questions. True, at the end of the story, Iskra changes greatly; she begins to doubt the “truths” that her mother so diligently instilled in her. That is, Iskra is gradually growing up.

Zina Kovalenko is flighty and fickle. Spark said that she was a real girl. Zina solves all her questions either with the help of Iskra, or by trusting her unmistakable intuition. But she also begins to grow up, feels that the boys like her, and at the end of the story even acquires the independence and prudence of Iskra.

Vika Lyuberetskaya is the most mysterious and incomprehensible girl for her classmates. She seemed to be morally older than them and therefore had no friends until the ninth grade. Vika admires her father, considers him an ideal, and loves him to the point of oblivion. The worst thing for her is to doubt her father. And when he is arrested, Vika commits suicide not out of whim, but as an adult.

Girls grow up first physically and then mentally. Boys grow up somewhat differently; they seem to follow their older classmates. So, Iskra takes the hooligan Sasha Stameskin under his wing, makes him an excellent student, enrolls him in the aviation club, and then helps him get a job at an aircraft factory.

Zhora Landys, a loyal friend and assistant to all the boys in the class, falls in love with Vika and strives to grow up. The same process happens with some other guys.

In principle, we can say that the initiator of all these age-related changes was involuntarily the new school director, Nikolai Grigorievich Romakhin. His unusual upbringing system does not hinder the growing up and spiritual search of children, but, on the contrary, provokes growing up.

The antipode of Romakhin in the story is the class teacher and literature teacher Valentina Andropovna (Valendra, as the guys call her). She is not satisfied with the new principal's routine at school. In an almost open struggle with him, she used all means, for example, writing denunciations to higher authorities, arguing and the like. However, Valentina Andropovna cannot be considered a negative character. The author writes that she absolutely sincerely believed in the correctness of her beliefs, that the new director was ruining the school. And this sincerity ultimately allowed her to find a common language with the matured class and change.

The importance of minor characters in the story is great. The literature teacher and the director cannot be classified as one of them, since the main conflict of the story unfolds around their relationship. The secondary characters are the parents of the students and two teachers who are not involved in the conflict. Parents, raising their children, created an exact copy of themselves, with their own character traits, but they all accepted with understanding the growing up of their children, their new understanding of reality. And even Polyakov’s comrade, Iskra’s mother, an “iron” woman, accustomed to commanding her daughter as a subordinate, having met the rebuff of the matured Iskra, resigns herself, realizing that this had to happen. The same can be said about Vika Lyuberetskaya’s father, who unwittingly changed the lives of many children, becoming their ideal.

The theme of the work is expressed precisely by this growing up (which I spoke about above, describing the characters separately). The main idea that permeates the work is that under no circumstances should adults influence the growing up of children; it is, of course, necessary to educate them, but growing up follows its own special path.

However, this idea can be traced only in the main part of the story, and a new idea appears in the prologue and epilogue. The theme of the prologue and epilogue is the author's memories of his youth. And the idea is expressed in the fact that only the most beautiful things in life are remembered - youth. The story is called “Tomorrow there was a war,” but it says practically nothing about the war, and this is no coincidence. The war does not appear in the action of the story, but seems to follow from its content, logically completing the school years. Boris Vasiliev writes that the difference between the generation of his youth and the current one is that they knew that there would be a war, but we know that it will not happen, and we sincerely believe in it.

And now, forty years later, on the train that symbolizes life, these eternal ninth-graders remember not the war, not how they burned in a tank and went into battle, but what happened before that.

This story touched me to the core. She opened my eyes to a lot, explained a lot in life and helped me understand. Boris Vasiliev is undoubtedly talented, since the story is read in one breath and leaves an indelible mark on the soul. For me, as a child, although growing up, it was very useful to take a look at my own life from the outside, to reconsider something in my worldview.

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Analysis of the story

B. L. Vasilyeva “Tomorrow there was war”

In his story B. Vasiliev uses this artistic method like realism.

The theme of the work is the relationship between generations of fathers and children.

The epilogue sums up the story, sharply, but, nevertheless, harmoniously flowing into the content. We find ourselves again almost forty years in the future, in 1972, and learn about the further fate of the book’s characters not only from the memories of the narrator, but also from the words of the school principal.

Zhora Landys, a loyal friend and assistant to all the boys in the class, falls in love with Vika and strives to grow up. The same process happens with some other guys.

The theme of the work is expressed precisely by this growing up. The main idea that permeates the work is that in no case should adults influence the growing up of children; it is, of course, necessary to educate them, but growing up follows its own special path.

The war does not appear in the action of the story, but seems to follow from its content, logically completing the school years. Boris Vasiliev writes that the difference between the generation of his youth and the current one is that they knew that there would be a war, but we know that it will not happen, and we sincerely believe in it.

And now, forty years later, on the train that symbolizes life, these eternal ninth-graders remember not the war, not how they burned in a tank and went into battle, but what happened before that.

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The story “Tomorrow There Was War” by Boris Lvovich Vasiliev was written in 1972. And along with another story by this writer, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...” became one of the best and most famous works in our country about the period of the Great Patriotic War.
In his story, B. Vasiliev uses such an artistic method as realism.
The theme of the work is the relationship between generations of fathers and children.