Exhibition in the Kaverin library. Scenario of the literary excursion “The Path of Childhood” (based on the works of V.A. Kaverin). years since birth

Sections: School library organization

Design: geographical map of the Russian North, portrait of V.A. Kaverin, model (image) of a schooner, exhibition of books on the history of the discovery of the North, the book “Two Captains”, other works by Kaverin, literature about him.

You will need tokens for the quiz.

Librarian: Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin was born in 1902 in Pskov, into the family of a musician. As a 16-year-old boy, Kaverin came to Moscow, where he graduated from high school in 1919. In those years he wrote poetry. His first story was called “The Eleventh Axiom,” and his first book, written in 1923, was “Masters and Apprentices.” It was a collection of fantasy stories. Then the stories were written: “The End of the Khaza”, “Nine Tenths”, novels: “The Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilievsky Island”, “Fulfillment of Desires”, “Open Book”, “Two Captains”. What are Kaverin’s books about? Let's listen.

First narrator: The story “The End of Khaza” depicts bandits and raiders of the NEP years, the “thieves’ world” of Leningrad. While collecting material, the author read criminal chronicles, went to court hearings, and sometimes spent evenings in brothels, of which there were quite a few at that time.

Second narrator: V.A. Kaverin is considered a plot writer. This manifested itself very clearly in “Wishes Fulfilled.” This novel took a very long time to write, more than 3 years. The novel takes place in the late 20s, and was written in the mid-30s.

Third narrator: Strange as it may seem, Veniamin Aleksandrovich loved to write fairy tales. Here is the story of one of them. It is called “Many good people and one envious person.” The idea for this tale was suggested to Kaverin by M. Gorky. One of her heroes wore an iron belt so as not to “burst” with envy, and another hit his neighbor “not in the eyebrow, but in the eye” so easily that he had to immediately call an ambulance.

Fourth narrator: Veniamin Aleksandrovich knew the Far North very well, he worked as a military correspondent in the Northern Fleet during the Great Patriotic War. His famous novel “Two Captains” tells about the discoverers of the North, their courage, and the dream of the little boy Sanya to find a forgotten expedition. Many years later, thanks to the persistence of Sanya Grigoriev, traces of the brave polar explorers were found.

Librarian: This is how the author himself talks about working on the novel (Audio recording of a male voice):

“When the first chapters were written, which tell about Sanya Grigoriev’s childhood in Ensk, it became clear to me that something extraordinary was about to happen in this small town - an accident, an event, a meeting. The novel was written in the late 30s, which brought the Soviet country huge, breathtaking victories in the Arctic, and I realized that the “extraordinary” that I was looking for was the light of the Arctic stars that accidentally fell into an abandoned city.”

Librarian: Now let's take a little break from the novel and remember what happened at the beginning of the 20th century in the history of Arctic exploration. (The quiz “The Untimely Departed” is held, for each correct answer there is a token. Such a token was given to those who donated money to equip G. Ya. Sedov’s expedition to the North Pole).

Let's return to the history of the creation of the novel. From the author’s memoirs (include audio recording):

“Returning to the first page, I told the story of the drowned postman and cited a letter from navigator Klimov, which opened the second line of the novel. It would seem that what is common between the tragic story of a nine-year-old boy who was left an orphan and the story of a captain who tried to navigate the Great Northern Sea Route in one navigation? But there was something in common. So for the first time the thought of two captains flashed.”

Librarian: I offer you a quiz based on the novel “Two Captains”.

Guys, while reading this novel, you came across nautical terms. Let's see how you understand them (a token for the correct answer).

We have another competition. Look at the map and name the islands that Ivan Tatarinov sailed (a token for the correct answer).

The results are summed up. The winner is awarded a prize.

Librarian: Our acquaintance with the work of Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin, who helped us learn about the vital feat of the Russian discoverers of the North, has come to an end. I hope you read his other wonderful books.

1. Name the outstanding Russian polar explorers of the early 20th century (Eduard Vasilyevich Tol, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Rusanov, Georgy Lvovich Brusilov, Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov)
2. In 1900, an expedition of the Academy of Sciences set out to sea on a small schooner. What was it called? (“Dawn”).
3. Where was G. Ya. Sedov buried? (Fr. Rudolf)
4. What was the name of the ship on which officer G. Ya. Sedov traveled? (“Saint Phocas”)
5. The expedition vessel of Lieutenant Brusilov “Saint Anna” became a victim of the Kara Sea. What year did this happen? (1914)
6. In 1912, the scientist Rusanov went to Spitsbergen on a motor-sailing boat to examine coal deposits there. What was the name of the bot? ("Hercules")
7. An airplane was sent to search for the missing expeditions. Name the pilot who made the first flights over Arctic ice. (Nagursky).

Quiz based on the novel by V. A. Kaverin “Two Captains”

1. Name the main character of the novel. (Sanya Grigoriev)
2. Why is the book called “Two Captains”?
3. (captains Tatarinov and Grigoriev)
4. What was the name of the schooner on which I. Tatarinov made his journey? (“Holy Mary”)
5. What was the purpose of I. Tatarinov’s travel?
6. (pass the Great Northern Sea Route in one navigation)
7. Who was the prototype of I. Tatarinov? (Lieutenant Georgy Sedov - his character, Lieutenant G. L. Brusilov - the history of the journey)
8. Who was responsible for the unsuccessful expedition of I. Tatarinov? (Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov)
9. Name the time - the beginning and end of the northern expedition of I. Tatarinov (May 1912 - June 1915)
10. What did his wife Maria call I. Tatarinov? (Mongotimo Hawkclaw)
11. Remember the books that I. Tatarinov wrote?
12. (“Causes of the death of the Greeley expedition”, “Woman at sea”)
13. What discovery did I. Tatarinov make? (Discovered Severnaya Zemlya, proved that Peterman Land does not exist)
14. Tatarinov was the captain of the schooner, and what was S. Grigoriev’s profession? (polar pilot)
15. What was the name of S. Grigoriev’s teacher (Ivan Pavlovich Korablev)
16. What is the name of the person who was S. Grigoriev’s classmate and his enemy?
17. (Romashov)

What was Sanya Grigoriev’s dream? (Find Captain Tatarinov's expedition)

What words does the novel end with? (Fight and search, find and not give up)
When was the novel written? (from 1936 to 1944)

Marine terms
Navigation:
1) the science of driving ships and aircraft,
2) the time during which shipping is possible.
Scurvy is a serious disease of the skin and gums caused by a lack of vitamin C.
Sleds are long narrow sleighs for riding dogs or reindeer.

Kayak - light boats made of seal skins.

1. A schooner is a fast two-masted vessel.
2. Boat is a small sailing, rowing or motor vessel.
3. Logbook - a journal with daily notes about all the details of the trip.
4. Fradkin N. G. Travels of I. I. Lepikhin, N. Ya. Ozeretskovsky, V. F. Zuev. – M.: OGIZ Geografgiz, 1948. – 93 p.

Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich

19.04.1902 – 02.05.1989

110th birthday

The famous Russian writer was born into the family of regimental musician Alexander Zilber, of whose six children Veniamin was the youngest. Mother is a famous pianist, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, a well-educated woman. After graduating from the Pskov gymnasium and high school in Moscow, Kaverin moved to Petrograd, where he continued his education at the Faculty of History and Philology of Petrograd University and at the same time entered the Institute of Living Oriental Languages ​​in the Arabic department. As a student, he tried to write poetry, made acquaintances with young poets, but soon switched to prose. In 1920, Kaverin submitted his first story, “The Eleventh Axiom,” to a competition announced by the House of Writers and was awarded one of six prizes. The story made an impression, and soon Kaverin joined the community of young writers “Serapion Brothers”. All “Serapions” had characteristic nicknames, Kaverin had a brother “Alchemist”. Because, probably, he tried to test literature with science. And also because he wanted to merge reality and fantasy in some new, unprecedented synthesis. In 1923, he published his first book, Masters and Apprentices. Adventurers and madmen, secret agents and card sharpers, medieval monks and alchemists - in a word, bright personalities inhabited the bizarre world of Kaverin’s early “desperately original” stories. In 1929, he brilliantly defended his dissertation, presented in the form of a scientific work “Baron Brambeus. The story of Osip Senkovsky."

Professional interest in the literature of Pushkin’s era, friendship with Yuri Tynyanov, but most importantly, the passion of a witty debater and polemicist, always ready to cross spears with his literary opponents, influenced the choice of a pseudonym; He took the surname Kaverin in honor of Pyotr Pavlovich Kaverin - a hussar, a bully duelist, although an educated man, in whose antics the young Pushkin took part.

There was a period when he tried to write plays, one after another he published his new works: “The End of Khaza”, “Nine-tenths of Fate”, “Bandaldist, or Evenings on Vasilyevsky Island”, “Draft of a Man”, etc. In 1930, The 28-year-old author published a three-volume collected works. Meanwhile, literary officials declared Kaverin a “fellow traveler” writer, angrily smashed his books, and accused the author of formalism and a thirst for bourgeois restoration.

It is unknown what Kaverin’s fate would have been like if he had not written the novel “Two Captains”; it is quite possible that the writer would have shared the fate of his older brother Lev Zilber, who was arrested three times and sent to camps.” The novel literally saved Kaverin - according to rumors, Stalin himself liked it; it was not without reason that after the war, which the writer spent in the Northern Fleet as a war correspondent for TASS and Izvestia, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

“Two Captains” is Kaverin’s most famous book. At one time, it was so popular that many schoolchildren in geography lessons seriously argued that the Northern Land was discovered not by Lieutenant Vilkitsky, but by Captain Tatarinov - they believed so much in the heroes of the novel, perceived them as real people and wrote touching letters to Veniamin Kaverin, who were asked about the further fate of Katya Tatarinova and Sanya Grigoriev. In Kaverin’s homeland in the city of Pskov, not far from the Regional Children’s Library, which now bears the name of the author of “Two Captains,” there is even a monument to Captain Tatarinov and Sanya Grigoriev, whose boyhood oath was: “Fight, seek, find and not give up.”

At the age of 70, he wrote his best book, “Before the Mirror,” a deep and subtle novel about love. “If you like, a women’s novel, in the best sense of the word”; a novel that Veniamin Aleksandrovich, not without reason, considered his most perfect work. It consists mostly of letters dated 1910-1932. “It’s hard to call this book action-packed, but for some reason it seems unlikely that anyone will be able to put it down without reading the last page.”

Program of the VI Kaverin readings dedicated to the 110th anniversary of V.A. Kaverin and the 10th anniversary of the museum of the novel “Two Captains”

• Welcoming speech by the Chairman of the State Committee of the Pskov Region for Culture, Alexander Ivanovich Golyshev;
• Welcoming speech from the granddaughter of V.A. Kaverin Berdikova Tatyana Vladimirovna.

• “Pushkin’s origin of the pseudonym “V. Kaverin”. Stepanova Tatyana Alekseevna, head of department, Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth named after. V.A. Kaverina

• “Honor and dishonor: on the problem of the concept of personality in the early novels of V. Kaverin.” Lavreneva Lyubov Trifonovna, doctoral student at Daugavpils University (Latvia)

• "Gardens of Pskov in the works of Kaverin and his contemporaries." Razumovskaya Aida Gennadievna, Doctor of Science, Associate Professor of the Department of Literature, Pskov State University

• “The image of a musician in the works of Kaverin.” Eyvazova Zhanna Ragifovna, graduate student of the Department of Literature, Pskov State University

• “V. Kaverin. 1963: new vision." Azere Dina, doctoral student at Daugavpils University (Latvia)

• “Complicated pages of Soviet history in the works of Veniamin Kaverin: “The Black Book.” Pasman Tatyana Borisovna, coordinator of educational programs of the Center for Civic Education POIPKRO, Pskov

• "Iceberg of literary text." Kruglova Tatyana Eduardovna, chief librarian, Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth.

V.A. Kaverina

13.00-14.00 Lunch break 14.00 - 18.00 Continuation of the plenary session

. Venue: Pskov, Oktyabrsky pr., building 7A, Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth named after. V.A. Kaverina, reading room, 2nd floor

• CHARMED BY PSKOV

• "Enchanted by Pskov." Mednikov Mikhail Mikhailovich, Chairman of the Local History Club, Pskov

• "Cultural life of the province in the late 19th - early 20th centuries: publication of cadet magazines." Starovoitova Olga Rafaelevna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Library Science and Theory of Reading, St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts

• “Archbishop Arseny (Stadnitsky): on the history of the creation of the church museum.” Mednikova Tatyana Viktorovna, scientific secretary of the Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve

• “Ascetic. In memory of Alla Alekseevna Mikheeva." Volkova Natalya Stepanovna, director of the Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth named after. V.A. Kaverina

• “Ten years of the museum of the novel “Two Captains”. History of success". Chernokozheva Galina Arturovna, chief librarian, head of the Museum of the novel “Two Captains”, Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth named after.

• V.A. Kaverina

• “Pupil of the Leningrad school Larisa Mikheenko - Pskov partisan: results of research and search work of the museum of school No. 106 of St. Petersburg in the Pustoshkinsky district of the Pskov region.” Korol Alisa Nikolaevna, Deputy Director for Educational Work of the Department of Internal Affairs of the State Budgetary Educational Institution of School No. 106 of the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg

• "Public life of Pskov at the beginning of the twentieth century." Torgasheva Elena, 5th year student of the Faculty of Philology, Pskov State University

• "Cultural life of Pskov at the beginning of the twentieth century." Magera Nikita, 5th year student of the Faculty of Philology, Pskov State University

“Literature of the early twentieth century. Pskov authors". Ekaterina Salomatova, 5th year student of the Faculty of Philology, Pskov State University 12.00 Meeting of the “Two Captains” club,

dedicated to the memory of Stanislav Zolottsev Venue: Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth named after. V.A.Kaverina, reading room, 2nd floor April 27

11.00 Summing up and awarding the winners of the regional literary and artistic competition “The Postman’s Bag”

12.00 - 15.00 Excursion to the State Historical-Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum - Reserve "Izborsk". 18th of Febuary V children's library branch No. 4 (Vidova St., 123) passed literary game “On the pages of V. Kaverin’s novel “Two Captains” . Chief Librarian Isaenko Margarita Vladimirovna at the previous event “In the Name of Truth”, held on January 21, I told readers of class 8 “B” of MAOU Secondary School No. 40 about the wonderful writer(real name Zilber) and his most famous book “Two Captains”, which became a real textbook of life for several generations of our compatriots. The novel was so popular that in those years many schoolchildren argued in geography lessons that the Northern Land was discovered not by Lieutenant Vilkitsky, but by Kaverin’s hero, Captain Tatarinov. Of course, today's schoolchildren do not react so emotionally to the events described in the novel and do not like to read thick books, nevertheless, they were also interested in the plot and characters. After a month of preparation, two teams of eighth-graders met within the walls of the library: “Saint Phocas” and “Saint Mary”. The captain of the first was Alexander Kaminsky, the second was Irina Morozova. Warming up with flash questions immediately gave Alexander’s team the opportunity to move forward. The second stage of the “Answer Questions” game showed that reading the text of a book and getting to know the content of a novel on the Internet are still different things. The eighth-graders did not remember the school nickname of Sanya Grigoriev, and were unable to apply logic and erudition in answering the question: “Where did Kaverin get his pseudonym?”
However, there were also participants in the game who pleased us not only with their knowledge of the content of the novel, but also with their attention to individual details and objects surrounding the main characters. They helped Alexander’s team once again distinguish themselves in the “Find out the subject” competition. They easily recognized Captain Tatarinov’s compass and Sani’s mechanic’s knife, because of the loss of which his father was arrested and died in prison. But difficulties arose with the photograph of Valery Chkalov; the participants in the game could not remember the book by I. Turgenev “Notes of a Hunter,” which Sanya nevertheless read, although he did not like it. The captains' competition made Alexander and Irina think. They could not fully answer the questions: “What rules did Sanya set for the development of his will?”, “The merits of Captain Tatarinov to the country” and took the help of the teams. Of course, it is impossible to cover such a voluminous and multifaceted novel as “Two Captains” in two events: there is a lot left unsaid. The desire to continue the game and the passion with which the teenagers searched for answers showed that Kaverin’s book interested eighth-graders, although the path to it lay not through their own desire to read it, but through the recommendations and emotions of the librarian and literature teacher Narizhnya Alexandra Lvovna.

short biography

Kaverin Veniamin Aleksandrovich (real name Zilber) (1902-1989), writer.

Born on April 19, 1902 in Pskov in the family of a military musician. He studied at the Pskov gymnasium and graduated from school in Moscow.
In 1920 he moved to Petrograd; He studied simultaneously at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Petrograd University and at the Institute of Oriental Languages ​​(graduated in 1923-1924).
From his youth, Kaverin was friends with the writer Yu. N. Tynyanov, whose sister he was married to; It was Tynyanov who advised him, after unsuccessful poetic experiments, to turn to prose.
Already his first story, “The Eleventh Axiom” (1920), attracted the attention of M. Gorky. In 1921, Kaverin joined the Serapion Brothers group, which united young writers. In their almanac appeared the story “Chronicle of the City of Leipzig for the Year 18...,” written by Kaverin in the spirit of E. T. A. Hoffmann.
Veniamin Aleksandrovich combined intense writing work with scientific studies; in 1929 he defended his PhD thesis in philology.
During the Great Patriotic War, Kaverin was a front-line correspondent in the Northern Fleet. Many episodes of military life later formed the basis of his stories. After the victory, the writer lived in Moscow.
In literature, he took an independent position; his statements in defense of creative freedom and the need for respect for the work of writers aroused dissatisfaction among the authorities. In his books, he raised eternal questions of the struggle between good and evil, love and hatred, scientific honesty and opportunism. His works are distinguished by exciting plots, bright characters, and intricately intertwined destinies and circumstances.
Kaverin's fame was brought to him by the novels "Fulfillment of Desires" (1934-1936), "Two Captains" (1938-1944), and "Open Book" (1949-1956).
For "Two Captains" he received the Stalin Prize (1942); The book went through dozens of editions and two film adaptations. The plot of the novel was adapted into the musical “Nord-Ost” (2002).
Kaverin also wrote the stories “Double Portrait” (1964), “School Play” (1968), “Verlioka” (1982), “Riddle” (1984); the novels “Before the Mirror” (1972) - about a Russian emigrant artist, “A Two-Hour Walk” (1978) - about the problem of morality in science, “Above the Secret Line” (1989) - about wartime.
Until the end of his life, he wrote his memoirs, “The Desk.”
Died on May 2, 1989 in Moscow.

Quotes

The truth is difficult to prove precisely because it does not require proof.

When trouble happens in life, you just need to explain to yourself the reason for it - and your soul will feel better.

Loneliness is based on disappointment, hatred, and anger.

Mathematics is the shortest path to independent thinking.

Each person is a mystery not only for others, but for himself. Few manage to see themselves from the outside, and those who succeed sometimes come to false ideas, justifying what does not deserve to be justified.

Interesting facts about the novel by V.A. Kaverina "Two Captains"

The motto of the novel is the words “Struggle and seek, find and not give up” - this is the final line from the textbook poem “Ulysses” by the English poet Alfred Tennyson (in the original: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield).

This line is also engraved on the cross in memory of Robert Scott's lost expedition to the South Pole, at the top of Observer Hill.

Veniamin Kaverin recalled that the creation of the novel “Two Captains” began with his meeting with the young geneticist Mikhail Lobashev, which took place in a sanatorium near Leningrad in the mid-thirties. “He was a man in whom ardor was combined with straightforwardness, and perseverance with an amazing definiteness of purpose,” the writer recalled. “He knew how to achieve success in any business.” Lobashev told Kaverin about his childhood, strange muteness in his early years, orphanhood, homelessness, a commune school in Tashkent, and how he later managed to enter the university and become a scientist.

And the story of Sanya Grigoriev reproduces in detail the biography of Mikhail Lobashev, later a famous geneticist, professor at Leningrad University. “Even such unusual details as the muteness of little Sanya were not invented by me,” the author admitted. “Almost all the circumstances of the life of this boy, then a young man and an adult, are preserved in “Two Captains.” But he spent his childhood in the Middle Volga, his school years in Tashkent - places that I know relatively poorly. Therefore, I moved the scene to my hometown, calling it Enskom. It’s not for nothing that my fellow countrymen can easily guess the true name of the city in which Sanya Grigoriev was born and raised! My school years (last grades) passed in Moscow, and in my book I could draw the Moscow school of the early twenties with greater fidelity than the Tashkent school, which I did not have the opportunity to write from life.”

Another prototype of the main character was the military fighter pilot Samuil Yakovlevich Klebanov, who died heroically in 1942. He initiated the writer into the secrets of flying skill. From Klebanov’s biography, the writer took the story of the flight to the village of Vanokan: a blizzard suddenly began on the way, and a disaster was inevitable if the pilot had not used the method of securing the plane that he immediately invented.

The image of Captain Ivan Lvovich Tatarinov recalls several historical analogies. In 1912, three Russian polar expeditions set sail: on the ship “St. Foka" under the command of Georgy Sedov, on the schooner "St. Anna" under the leadership of Georgy Brusilov and on the Hercules boat with the participation of Vladimir Rusanov.

“For my “senior captain” I used the story of two brave conquerors of the Far North. From one I took a courageous and clear character, purity of thought, clarity of purpose - everything that distinguishes a person of great soul. It was Sedov. The other has the actual story of his journey. It was Brusilov. The drift of my "St. Mary" absolutely accurately repeats the drift of Brusilov's "St. Anna." The diary of navigator Klimov, given in my novel, is completely based on the diary of the navigator “St. Anna”, Albakov – one of the two surviving participants of this tragic expedition,” wrote Kaverin.

Despite the fact that the book was published during the heyday of the cult of personality and is generally designed in the heroic style of socialist realism, the name of Stalin is mentioned in the novel only once (in Chapter 8 of Part 10).

In 1995, a monument was erected to the heroes of the novel “Two Captains” in the author’s hometown, Pskov (depicted in the book called Ensk).

On April 18, 2002, a museum of the novel “Two Captains” was opened in the Pskov Regional Children's Library.

In 2003, the main square of the city of Polyarny, Murmansk region, was named the “Two Captains” Square. It was from here that the expeditions of Vladimir Rusanov and Georgy Brusilov set sail. In addition, it was in Polyarny that the final meeting of the main characters of the novel, Katya Tatarinova and Sanya Grigoriev, took place