Feat as heroic fulfillment of duty (Based on the story “Sashka” by Vyacheslav Kondratyev). Lesson-discussion Test of love in the story by Sasha

In Russian literature there are many worthy works dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. These include the story “Sashka” by Vyacheslav Leonidovich Kondratyev. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the analysis of the work according to a plan that will be useful for 11th grade students in preparation for a literature lesson.

Brief Analysis

Year of writing– 1979.

History of creation– The story “Sashka” is largely autobiographical, since the author himself took part in heavy battles near Rzhev. These memories haunted him for many years, and in adulthood they resulted in a story that revealed the problems of war.

Subject– The central theme of the work is the problem of moral choice in war conditions.

Composition– The composition of the story has a mosaic structure and consists of microplots, with the help of which the essence of the main character is fully revealed. The work is characterized by a leisurely pace of narration, which allows us to better understand Sashka’s inner world and the motives of his actions.

Genre- A story.

Direction– Realism.

History of creation

Vyacheslav Leonidovich went to the front when he was barely 21 years old. As part of a rifle brigade, he fought desperately for the city of Rzhev, was wounded, and was awarded the medal “For Courage.”

Memories of the hard times of war did not leave Kondratiev throughout his life: they tormented him and did not allow him to enjoy the present. According to the writer, he re-read a lot of fiction about the Great Patriotic War, but not a single work could really hook him, in none of them did he find a description of “his” war.

Vyacheslav Leonidovich’s story “Sashka” was published in 1979 in the magazine “Friendship of Peoples”.

Subject

In a story that describes all the realities of the Great Patriotic War, Kondratiev masterfully reveals the central theme of the work- the problem of moral choice in extreme conditions. The main character faces many trials in life that can most accurately reflect the true essence of a person.

One of the most poignant and emotionally powerful episodes is Sashka’s capture of the German. In the heat of battle, the soldier is driven only by the desire to defeat the enemy, but then in the captured German he sees an ordinary person. He passes the test of power with dignity, without causing harm to an unarmed man and promising him the preservation of his life. Unable to carry out the battalion commander’s order and shoot the defenseless young man, Sashka exposes himself to attack.

Very revealing is the scene in which Sashka stands up for his new acquaintance and takes his blame upon himself. His noble deed involuntarily evokes a feeling of admiration, since the hero puts the interests of his comrade above his own.

Sashka passes the test of front-line love with dignity. Having learned that his chosen one, Zina, has stopped loving him, the hero accepts her betrayal with dignity. Despite deep disappointment, he finds the strength to understand her and let her go without words of reproach.

In fact, Sashka became the collective image in which hundreds of thousands of ordinary children who found themselves face to face with the horrors of war were reflected. In his work, the author highlighted a simple and old, like the world, idea- you need to remain human under any circumstances, not to kill in yourself that good and bright beginning inherent in every person at birth. The world can only be saved by kindness, mercy, compassion.

Composition

Carrying out an analysis of the work in the story “Sashka”, it should be noted that it is characterized by mosaic composition in the absence of a single plot. The story consists of tiny plots designed to reveal the character of the main character as accurately and succinctly as possible.

The composition of the story is structured in such a way that the revelation of Sashka’s spiritual qualities and his life priorities occurs gradually, which is facilitated by the slow pace of the narrative. As the hero moves from the front line deep into the country, the reader is immersed in his inner world.

Genre

The work is written in the genre of a story. The work reproduces in detail the life of the war years, the events of that time, the main battles, therefore it is classified as a literary movement of realism.

Work test

Rating Analysis

Average rating: 4.4. Total ratings received: 41.

We recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Victory over fascism. But speaking about the world-historical greatness of our Victory, let’s try to touch with our hearts its living sources, first of all moral, and “try on” both the heroism and tragedy of those days. The work of V. Kondratiev provides rich material for this. V. Kondratyev entered literature later than other writers of the front generation: Baklanov, Bykov, Astafiev, K. Vorobyov; they began to be published during the “thaw” period, in the late 50s, and he wrote his first work in the late 70s. His stories “Sashka”, “Selinarovsky Tract”, “Leave for Wounds”, “Meetings on Sretenka” are a kind of monologue about the paths of the front generation. Not accepting lies, the slightest inaccuracy in the historical science’s depiction of the past war, its participant, writer V. Astafiev, harshly evaluates what was done: “... As a soldier, I have nothing to do with what is written about the war. I was in a completely different war.. "Half-truths have tormented us." V. Kondratyev also revealed his truth about the war, smelling of sweat and blood, to us, although he himself believed that “Sashka” was “only a small fraction of what needs to be told about the Victorious Soldier.” The story "Sashka" was published in 1979. The story is set in the terrible year 1942, grueling battles near Rzhev. There are dead villages all around, land torn apart by shells and mines. The order established at the forefront speaks volumes: “If you’re wounded, give the machine gun to the one who’s left behind, and take your dear three-ruler.” There is nothing to brag about about life: “it’s tight with food, and with ammunition, ... I don’t have the strength to bury the guys.” Out of one hundred and fifty people in the company, sixteen remained, and the company had been fighting for only two months. Kondratiev takes his hero through the trials of power, love and friendship. How did Sashka survive these tests?

Showing desperate courage, he saved the German from being captured. He takes it with almost bare hands, he has no cartridges, he gave his disk to the company commander. But the “language” is silent, and the company commander orders the prisoner to be taken to headquarters. On the way, Sashka promises the German life, saying that we don’t shoot prisoners. But the battalion commander, having not obtained any information from the “tongue,” orders him to be shot. Sashka did not obey the order. He realized that unlimited power over the life and death of another person is terrible. Sashka is endowed with a heightened sense of responsibility for everything that happens around him;

he is ashamed of the Germans for the poor defense, for the unburied soldiers. He firmly believes in the veracity of our leaflet, which promises a prisoner of war a good life.” And Sashka cannot accept the position of the connected battalion commander Tolik, that, they say, “our business is a calf’s.” Sashka’s decision, his doubts influenced the battalion commander:

he canceled the order to shoot the prisoner. True, in the real-life case on which this episode is based, everything ended much more tragically: the commander did not cancel the order, the prisoner of war who believed the leaflet was shot, and the soldier who carried out the order and later told this story to the writer was tormented all his life: was he right? entered? Could he have acted differently without violating his military duty?

The test of love is no less important for understanding the essence of Sashka’s character. He saved Zina’s life, fell in love with her, and waited to meet her. But the joy of the date is overshadowed by thoughts about his native company: “someone will certainly be spanked today.” He cannot understand how one can have fun “when all the fields are ours.” And then the news hits Sashka that Zina is dancing with the lieutenant at the party. Sashka spends a difficult night, and yet comes to the conclusion that “Zina is unconvicted... It’s just war... And he has no grudge against her!” Justice and kindness prevail here too. Sashka understands that Zina and the lieutenant are in love, and he leaves without hurting the girl with unnecessary conversations.

A brief friendship at the front connects Sashka with Lieutenant Volodya; they meet on the way to the hospital, and when the well-fed major comes to calm the disgruntled wounded, who are given two spoons of millet for dinner, a plate thrown at him by the hand of the enraged Volodya flies at him, and Sashka takes all the blame on him. myself. He reasoned this way: the lieutenant would not get away with this trick, the tribunal in wartime was harsh, and he, a private, “wouldn’t be sent further than the limber,” and he was no stranger to that.

Kondratyev strives to talk about the actions of Sashka and his fellow soldiers in a language devoid of pathos, prosaically, with restraint. Here the wounded are waiting to be loaded onto a boat heading towards them under enemy fire. They will have to swim back under the same fire. What are they thinking about at this - perhaps for some of them the last moment? “And thoughts turned to something else. They were late for breakfast, they’ll have to wait for lunch, but what will it be like - with bread or crackers, will it be millet again or will they give you something else in the rear?”

The story of what happened to Sashka over the course of several days of his military life is constructed as a chain of sequentially unfolding episodes, seen through the eyes of the hero himself. Hence the “fairytale” style of narration, which gives the reader the opportunity, following the writer, to enter “inside” the hero, to transform into Sasha. According to the critic I. Dedkov, “The Tale of Sashka becomes a story about life, tormented by war, but preserving, through a truly heroic effort, living diversity, dignity and a human face. Starting from the Ovsyannikovsky ravine, from an inch of front-line land, the story all the time seems to expand, capturing an ever-increasing space of faces, of life, ever deeper, more popular, finally reaching, as if rising from a secret to a mountain, Moscow!”

And one more motive is inherent in Kondratiev’s work: the price of victory, the duty of the living to the fallen. It is not for nothing that the setting of the story is Rzhev, the same Rzhev where Tvardovsky’s nameless soldier was killed. How many people died in these “local battles”, but they could have lived, loved, raised children...

I know it's not my fault
The fact that others did not come from the war,
The fact that they - some older, some younger -
We stayed there, and it’s not about the same thing,
That I could, but failed to save them, -
This is not about that, but still, still, still... -

these words of Tvardovsky are consonant with the thoughts and feelings of Kondratiev and his heroes. There, during the war, Kondratiev understood the intrinsic value of each individual life, which is why he experienced our irrevocable losses so bitterly.

On September 23, 1993, Kondratiev passed away. It is difficult to find the reason for his suicide, but one cannot help but think about the tragedy of the generation of front-line soldiers, whose hopes for changing their lives for the better were largely dashed. Having survived the hard times of war, they found themselves defenseless against human callousness, against harsh words of indifference, before oblivion and trampling on those truths for which their peers lived and died. The cruel memory of the war should not leave the consciousness and hearts of those living today:

War - there is no crueler word,
War - there is no sadder word,
War - there is no holier word...
(A.T. Tvardovsky)

Composition

Among the books that can excite young people, cause deep emotions and reflections not only about the hero, about the author, but also about themselves, is V. Kondratiev’s story “Sashka”. When Kondratiev was asked how it happened that, in his middle age, he suddenly took up the story of the war, he replied: “Apparently, the summer came, maturity came, and with it a clear understanding that war was the most important thing that ever happened.” in my life." He was tormented by memories, even the smells of war. At night, guys from his native platoon came into his dreams, smoked hand-rolled cigarettes, looked at the sky, waiting for the bomber. Kondratiev read military prose, but “looked in vain and did not find his war in it,” although there was only one war. He realized: “Only I myself can tell about my war. And I have to tell. I won’t tell you - some page of the war will remain unrevealed.”

The writer revealed to us the truth about the war, which smelled of sweat and blood, although he himself believes that “Sashka” is “only a small part of what needs to be told about the Soldier, the Victorious Soldier.” Our acquaintance with Sashka begins with the episode when at night he decided to get felt boots for the company commander. “Rockets splashed into the sky, scattered there with a bluish light, and then with a spike, already extinguished, they went down to the ground torn apart by shells and mines... Sometimes the sky was cut through by tracers, sometimes machine-gun fire or artillery cannonade exploded the silence... As usual...” A terrible picture is painted, but it turns out that this is common. War is war, and it brings only death. We see such a war from the first pages: “The villages they took stood as if dead... Only flocks of disgustingly howling mines, rustling shells and tracer threads were flying from there. The only living things they saw were tanks, which, counterattacking, came at them, rumbling engines, and poured machine-gun fire on them, and they rushed about on the snow-covered field at that time... Well, our forty-fives started yapping and drove away the Fritzes.” You read and see giant tanks that are heading towards little people, and they have nowhere to hide on a field white with snow. And I am happy with the “yelping” of the forty-fives, because they drove away death. The order established at the forefront speaks volumes: “If you’re wounded, give the machine gun to the one who’s left behind, and take your dear three-ruler, model one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, fraction of the thirtieth.”

Sashka regretted that he did not know German. He wanted to ask the prisoner how they were “with food, and how many cigarettes they get a day, and why there are no interruptions with mines... Sashka, of course, would not talk about his life. Nothing to brag about. It’s tight with food and with ammunition... I don’t have the strength to bury the guys, I don’t have it... After all, I can’t dig a trench for myself, alive.”

Kondratiev takes his hero through the trials of power, love and friendship. How did Sashka survive these tests? Sashka’s company, of which 16 people remained, stumbles upon German intelligence. Sashka shows desperate courage by capturing the “tongue” without a weapon. The company commander orders Sashka to lead the German to headquarters. On the way, he tells the German that they don’t shoot prisoners and promises him life, but the battalion commander, having not obtained any information from the German during interrogation, orders him to be shot. Sashka does not obey orders. He was uneasy about almost unlimited power over another person, he realized how terrible this power over life and death could become.

Sashka developed a huge sense of responsibility for everything, even for things for which he could not be responsible. He was ashamed in front of the prisoner for the useless defense, for the guys who were not buried: he tried to lead the prisoner so that he would not see our killed and not yet buried soldiers. This enormous responsibility for everything that happens around explains an unthinkable event in the army - disobedience to the order of a senior in rank. “...It’s necessary, Sashok. You see, it’s necessary,” the company commander told Sashka before ordering something, clapped him on the shoulder, and Sashka understood that it was necessary, and did everything that was ordered, as it should. A categorical “must” in some sense can make a person’s life easier. It is necessary - and nothing more: neither do, nor think, nor understand. V. Kondratiev’s heroes, especially Sashka, are attractive because, obeying this “must,” they think and act “beyond” what is necessary: ​​something ineradicable in themselves forces them to do this. Sashka gets felt boots for the company commander. The wounded Sashka, under fire, returns to the company to say goodbye to the guys and hand over the machine gun. Sashka leads the orderlies to the wounded man, not relying on them finding him themselves.

Sashka takes a German prisoner and refuses to shoot him... All this “extra necessary” seems to be heard by Sashka in himself: don’t shoot, come back, see the orderlies out! Or is it conscience speaking? “...If I hadn’t read Sashka, I would have been missing something, not in literature, but simply in life. Together with him, I made another friend, a person I loved,” this is how K. Simonov assessed the significance of Kondratiev’s story in his life. How do you rate it?

1. “Trench Truth” by V. Kondratiev.
2. A captured German and Sashka.
3. A real feat of philanthropy.

Do not carry out the order! Who? The unit commander himself...
V. L. Kondratyev “Sashka”

War! What did she do to people? It destroyed families, left women mournful widows, and children orphans, in whose adult-like serious eyes the glare of machine gun fire from which their fathers died is reflected... This is one of the tragedies of the war: a man killed a man, and it didn’t matter what his nationality was . The invader and the defender, the winner and the vanquished - they are all human. It is probably strange, knowing what the Nazis did on our land, to talk about the equality of Soviet soldiers and German ones. The first went to their death for their Motherland, and the second ended up in Russia for various reasons, but the majority because they took the oath or “were fooled and deceived.”

Previously, only works were published where the German aggressors all looked the same. But such writers as Vyacheslav Kondratyev appeared with their “trench truth.” They themselves went through the war, and it is these former soldiers who understand that you cannot paint people only with black paint. And the German invaders are not the same: some are fascists, Nazis, animals for whom simple human feelings such as pity and sympathy do not exist, while others are the same as our soldiers, yearning for their homeland, family, and beloved girl. They didn't need this war. Kondratiev developed this idea in his story “Sashka”; it was published only in 1979.

The story tells how in one of the battles the Russian soldier Sashka captured a young German: “He seemed to be Sashka’s age, twenty years old, snub-nosed, freckled, and looked straight Russian.” This German even reminded Sashka of his village friend Dimka. When the Russian soldier took “this Fritz” prisoner, “he seemed to Sashka to be an ordinary person, the same soldier as him, only dressed in a different uniform, only fooled and deceived.” Kondratiev is one of the first to show here that both the German and the Russian do not hate each other. The “Fritz” himself (his name is not mentioned in the story) hands a lighter to the Russian soldier who captured him, and Sashka accepts it. There is an interesting episode in the work. On the way to headquarters, Sashka, angry with the Fritz, calls him a fascist, to which the German, unexpectedly for the hero, replies: “Ikh bin niht fascist, ikh bin deutsche soldat...”. Not a fascist? This is strange for Sashka: a German means a fascist. On the way, the Russian soldier learns that “his German” was a “student” in civilian life. “It turns out that he’s a literate German, but he doesn’t understand Hitler. Eh... you’re a student, but you went with the Nazis,” Sashka thought without malice. Having brought the German to the captain’s headquarters, Sashka receives a direct order: “The German is a waste!” And the day before, the soldier showed the German a leaflet that said that the prisoners were guaranteed life and return to their homeland. Kondratiev masterfully shows the psychological state of the characters. The captain gave the order to be executed because his beloved girl was killed yesterday, and, succumbing to grief, he blames the German who accidentally came to him only because of his nationality. And Sashka, instead of obeying, begins to barely audibly challenge the decision of his commander: “Comrade captain... I promised him... I showed him our leaflet, where everything is said...”. This is a real feat of conscience. But the order still had to be carried out. The road to the old barn, where they decided to shoot the German, is the most difficult and long one in the life of both Sashka and the sentenced German. The hero does not raise his hand to an unarmed soldier who is so similar to himself, even if he speaks a different language, smokes a different tobacco, because “he promised life to the German.” “I promised. I’ve never deceived anyone, but now I deceived,” Sashka suffers. The German looked up - “dimmed eyes and torment in them: why are you holding out, why are you exhausting?...” Here, standing opposite each other are two soldiers who fought on opposite sides of the barricades, two people... One of them is waiting for death, “continuously swallowing saliva,” and the other does not dare to pull the trigger...

Unexpectedly, both Sasha and the German are saved by the battalion commander himself. Approaching Sashka, he said, looking away: “Take the German to the brigade headquarters. I cancel my order." The captain nevertheless overcame his anger and grief and refused the unfair order. Kondratiev knows how to show the real human feat of mercy and justice without pathos or lengthy reasoning. Both Sashka and the battalion commander are not even proud of themselves, but take what they have done for granted, the most common thing. Sashka just thought: “...if he remains alive, then of all the things he has experienced, this incident will be the most memorable, the most unforgettable for him...”

Lydia GOLOVINA

Lidia Anatolyevna GOLOVINA is a teacher of Russian language and literature at the secondary school in the village of Serdezh, Yaransky district, Kirov region.

Reading the story “Sashka” by Vyacheslav Kondratyev

During the classes

Teacher's opening speech

In the literature about the war, there are many works dedicated to the feat of an ordinary soldier who bore the brunt of the war on his shoulders. In the preface to the story “Sashka,” K. Simonov wrote: “This is the story of a man who found himself in the most difficult time in the most difficult place and in the most difficult position - a soldier.”

Writers began to turn to the common man in the war because they wanted to pay tribute to the thousands of soldiers who were not included in the honorary lists of heroes, who died unknown or miraculously survived. The peculiarity of V. Kondratiev’s story is that it does not show a series of battles, victories, defeats, but military life with its everyday worries. Kondratiev explores the “mental substance” of a person who is forced to get used to a free life.

• The history of the story: Rzhev space.

In 1981, a one-volume volume of the writer’s novels and short stories was published, which included, in addition to “Sashka,” the stories “Leave for Wounds,” “Borkin’s Paths and Roads,” “On the One Hundred and Fifth Kilometer” and short stories. Almost all stories and short stories are about the same time (the difficult war of 1942) and space (it can be called “Rzhev”). Rzhev is one of the cities in the Kalinin region, for which many months of stubborn fighting took place. A huge number of soldiers died in the Rzhev direction. The writer himself recalls: “I began to live some kind of strange, double life: one - in the real, the other - in the past, in the war... Then I began to look for my fellow soldiers from Rzhev - I desperately needed one of them, but no one I found it, and the thought fell that maybe I was the only one who had survived, and if so, then all the more should I tell about everything. And the moment came when I simply could not help but start writing.” This is the story behind the story.

• What is the situation on the front line where Sashka is fighting?

The time of the story is early spring 1942. Fierce fighting is taking place. The hero of the story, who is not even called by his last name (he’s just Sashka and Sashka, he’s so young), has been on the “front end” for two months now. On such a front end, where “just to dry out and warm up is already a considerable success,” and since there is muddy roads, then “it’s bad with bread, there’s no gain. Half a pot... millet for two - and be healthy, and if the bread is bad, then it’s no better with shells, and the Germans beat and beat. The neutral zone between our and German trenches is shot through and is only a thousand paces.” The narration seems to be told on behalf of the author, but at the same time it seems that the hero himself is telling the story. This is facilitated by the style of the story - simple, colloquial, and inversions characteristic of colloquial speech and vernacular.

• How is war portrayed?

Reading the passage “And the night floated over the front line, as usual...” “As usual” is repeated twice, although we are talking about terrible things. “Sashka had already gotten used to it, had endured it and realized that the war was different from what they imagined in the Far East...” War leaves traces of destruction and death. (Read the lines about this.) The author shows military life (find in the text what conditions the soldiers live in). The words “hut”, “trench”, “dugout” emphasize the precariousness and unreliability of the situation.

• Find as many episodes in the story as possible, in which it is revealed with greatest force Sashka's character . What testifies to his ability to think broadly, to compare, to understand the complexity of the situation?

There are many such episodes. This is the scene when Sashka crawls at night to the ruined neutral ground to get his company felt boots from a dead German, because the lieutenant’s pima are such that they cannot be dried over the summer. This is not about ammunition, not about a combat mission - about felt boots, this is vitally important. Sashka will capture the “tongue”, will be wounded, refuse to shoot the German, console the seriously wounded soldier and bring the orderlies to him. The wounded Sashka will return to the company, save the hot-tempered lieutenant Volodka from the tribunal, understand Zina, take pity on the romantic young girls joyfully going to the front...

These episodes reveal Sashka’s personality from different sides; he seems to be undergoing tests of endurance, humanity, loyalty in friendship, love, tests of power over another person.

• Expressive reading the episode of the capture of a German (or a retelling of the episode). What qualities of the hero are manifested here? Why did he refuse to shoot the prisoner?

Sashka shows desperate courage - he takes the German with his bare hands (he had no cartridges, he gave his disk to the company commander). At the same time, he does not consider himself a hero at all. When Sashka leads the German to headquarters, he suddenly realizes what power he has over the enemy.
“And Sashka began to feel uneasy from the almost unlimited power over another person that had fallen on him.”

And he also realized that the German was just another person, the same soldier, only fooled and deceived. Sashka talks to him like a human being and tries to understand him. Before us is a kind, humane Russian soldier. The war did not cripple his soul, did not depersonalize him. Sashka is ashamed of the Germans that their defense is worthless, that the dead are not buried, as if this were his personal fault.

Sashka feels sorry for the German, but it is impossible not to carry out the battalion commander’s order, and Sashka is playing for time, and the author is stretching out their path, making the reader worry: how will this end? The battalion commander is approaching, and Sashka does not lower his gaze in front of him, feeling that he is right. “And the captain turned away his eyes,” and canceled his order.

• Sashka and Tolik are the same age. Compare the two heroes . For what purpose did the author introduce the connected Tolik into the story?

Sashka and Tolik are contrasted: responsibility and irresponsibility, sympathy and indifference, honesty and selfishness.

Tolik’s motto is “our business is a calf”, he is already trying on the watch of a German who has not yet been shot, and is ready to bargain with Sashka so as not to miss the “trophy”. There is no “barrier, an obstacle” in his soul, like Sashka.

• Analyze the hospital scene. Why does Sashka take the blame for Lieutenant Volodka?

Sashka’s friendship with the lieutenant did not last long. But here, too, Sashka shows himself on the positive side: he shields a friend who could have been brought before the tribunal, but he, a private, would not be sent further than the front line. Sashka, who does not look like a heroic or dashing soldier, turns out to be stronger and braver than the desperate lieutenant.

• What aspects of Sashka’s character are revealed in his relationship with Zina?

Zina is Sashka's first love. He saved her life. He often thinks about her and looks forward to meeting her. But when he finds out that they are having a party in the hospital, that people can dance and have fun, he is very surprised and indignant. And when she realizes that she and the lieutenant are in love, she leaves without hurting Zina with unnecessary conversations. Sashka can’t help it, justice and kindness take over again.

• Why did the author turn to the theme of war?

How true is the image of the hero?

The author of the story was wounded near Rzhev and received the medal “For Courage”; then again the front, injury, hospital, disability. He was already over fifty when he took up the story of the war. Kondratyev began to look for his former fellow soldiers, but found no one and suddenly thought that maybe he was the only one who survived. This means that he must, is obliged to tell about everything that he saw, that he experienced in the war. In the spring of 1962, he drove through the places of his former front line and saw “the entire Rzhev land dotted with craters, on which rusty, pierced helmets and soldiers’ bowlers were also lying... the unburied remains of those who fought here, perhaps those whom he knew, with whom I drank some liquid milk from the same pot, and it struck me: you can only write the strict truth about this, otherwise it will be simply immoral.”

Conclusions from the lesson

If we keep in mind everything that Vyacheslav Kondratiev wrote, then we can say that he managed to say a new word about his generation. Sashka belongs to the generation that suffered the most in the war. Among front-line soldiers born in 1922, 1923, 1924, three percent remained alive - such is the sad statistics. Of the hundred who went to the front, only three people survived. Judging by Sashka, what wonderful guys they were!

And one more feature of Vyacheslav Kondratiev’s work should be noted - a pronounced interest in the folk origins of character. Sashka embodied the best features of the people's worldview - courage, intelligence, good spirits, endurance, humanism and the greatest faith in victory.

You can complete the work with a written answer to the question: “What character traits make Sasha similar to the best heroes of works of literature of the 20th (19th) century?”