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Two captains: the main characters of the novel by Veniamin Kaverin
Veniamin Kaverin owns, perhaps, one of the key adventure novels, which were read to the children of the Soviet era. The novel was written in the 1940s, but the popularity and relevance of the novel continues today. It's about about a cult thing - about the novel "Two Captains", the main characters of which are complex and lively images.
“Fight and seek, find and never give up”
These words, as if cut out of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Ullis" (Odysseus), are the motto of Kaverin's novel. The work begins surprisingly: not with one's own memory, but with someone else's memory. In the city of Ensk, located on the periphery of Russia, they found the body of a deceased postman. He had a bag with him, and in the bag were letters. The protagonist lives on the first pages of the novel with these letters, and especially the young man remembers the lines associated with polar expeditions, with journeys to the north ... And the novel “Two Captains”, the main characters of which fight, search, find and do not give up, is imbued with the spirit of adventure. Therefore, the work, like the marine novels of Fenimore Cooper and Rafael Sabatini, occupies one of the main places on the shelf of young readers.
Since you are with us, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with Veniamin Kaverin.
It is curious that the lines that the writer made the motto of the novel are simultaneously taken as an epitaph. The words are engraved on a cross commemorating Robert Falcon Scott's polar expedition that never returned home.
Thus, the work of Veniamin Kaverin is dedicated to the theme of searches. If the French writer Marcel Proust's characters are looking for lost time, here the characters are busy searching for a lost polar expedition... and love.
Heroes of the novel "Two Captains"
The classification of the characters in the work is traditional: there are figures of the foreground and figures of the second plan, the main characters and, accordingly, the secondary characters. First, let's talk about who plays the main role in this literary scene.
main characters
Alexander Grigoriev
The name Alexander in the novel most often appears in an affectionate form - Sanya. Of course, Sanya is a positive character. The young man, like other heroes of the foreground, falls hard fate and many tests. The first test of the young man is physiological in nature - it is dumbness. One day, Sanya's father is accused of murder and taken into custody. Little Sanya is the only one who knows the name of the real criminal, but the boy cannot tell the name, because he cannot speak. In the future, Sanya will be cured of a strange sound illness, but by that time his father will already die in custody.
Sanya's mother will marry again, and her stepfather, as befits the plot in works of this kind, will turn out to be a bad person - tough, callous, vile and selfish. Later, Sanya also experiences the death of her mother. He still has Aunt Dasha - the one who read letters to the boy from the bag of the deceased postman. But the aunt decides that Sanya and her sister should live in an orphanage. Then Sanya and the boy's close friend (Peter) flee - first to Moscow, and then to Turkestan. Adventures begin in the capital... Moscow presents friends not with gifts, but with yet another cruelty of "adult" life.
Fleeing to Moscow, Sanya plans to stay with his friend's uncle for the first time, but Petya's relative, as it turned out, was called to the front. Young guys will face thankless work and play hide and seek with checks in the capital. During one of these checks, Sanya fails to escape, and the boy is sent to a school for homeless children...
The novel spans many years, and in all the situations described in the novel, Sanya appears as a noble, purposeful, strong person in spirit and body. When, visiting a friend, through the fault of Sanya, the lactometer accidentally breaks down - a device for checking the composition of milk - Katya, the young man's girlfriend, wants to protect her friend, but Sanya does not let the girl take the blame. In this case, the hero shows nobility. Alexander is close to the struggle for justice, the young man is also courageous and proud. However, pride is not characteristic of the character. Sanya sincerely believes in her ideals and follows her principles. He is loyal and capable of desperate love. Meanwhile, rationality is not alien to the young man: in many situations, Sanya shows real analytical thinking.
After a quarrel with Katya - already in time youthful years– Sanya is studying at summer school and is preparing to fulfill his childhood dream – to find out what happened to the polar expedition, which he read about as a child, in strange, half-corrupted sea water letters.
Ekaterina Tatarinova
Katya is Sanya's friend, whom we have already talked about above. Her parents' house becomes a whole "brave new world" for Sani, like Ali Baba's cave. The apartment seems like a hero strange world full of mysteries and dangers.
Katya is the daughter of Captain Tatarinov. However, Sanya will hear the story of this captain from a friend not now, but after 4 years. Then the heroes will meet again, get to know each other. Sanya will tell Katya that she is going to become a pilot, and Katya will tell him the story of her family.
In 1912, in June, Captain Tatarinov left on an expedition (from St. Petersburg the captain went to Vladivostok) on the ship "Saint Mary", but before that he came briefly to Ensk, already familiar to us, to say goodbye to his relatives. After that, the captain and the expedition disappeared. The captain's wife repeatedly turned to the emperor with a request for help in finding her husband, but it was believed that the captain could die: if so, and Tatarinov died, then only because of his own negligence and negligence in relation to state property.
Once, Sanya again got the opportunity to reread the letters that he had heard from his aunt in childhood. Suddenly the young man realized: these letters are about Captain Tatarinov and the expedition.
Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov
In his apartment (and he was the head of the school where Sanya was sent to in Moscow) the Tatarinov family lived, including Katya, Sanya's friend. Nikolai was Katya's cousin uncle. The man did not feel affection and sympathy for the girl's father, that is, for his cousin, because, firstly, he was in love with his brother's wife, Marya Vasilievna, and secondly, he considered him ungrateful.
Sanya considered Nikolai Antonovich as the main "danger" of the Tatarinovs' apartment. One day, Nikolai acts meanly: Marya Vasilievna did not feel reciprocity for him, but the woman, meanwhile, was sympathetic to the geography teacher - a certain Korablev. Sometimes he came to visit, and one day he made a marriage proposal. Marya refused. But, despite this, in the mind of Nikolai Antonovich, an insidious plan still arose - to make sure that Korablev would no longer come, and for this - to interfere with his work, so that he would be limited in teaching geography. Sanya told the teacher about everything, and therefore Nikolai kicked the young man out of the house. Katya, not believing Sanya and his story about the meanness of her uncle, takes offense at her friend for a long time.
However, this was not the meanest act of Nikolai Antonovich. The most terrible thing was that the expedition was lost precisely through his fault - for the most part. Nikolai was responsible for the equipment of the polar explorers who went on an expedition, and through his fault this equipment was completely unusable. Sanya cannot prove it, because the facts were carried away by salt water, blurring the words in the letters. But the young man remembers what was written there.
Subsequently, Katya becomes Sanya's lover. Realizing the truth, the girl will leave the Tatarinovs' house: at that time, Katya will already be a respected person, a geologist, and the head of the expedition. Nikolai Antonovich will get his own: the scoundrel will be exposed, and he will be forced to leave, disgraced and humiliated.
And although Nikolai Antonovich is rather a minor character, we introduced him into this description in order to give the characterization integrity. Now, however, let's move on to the next figures of the novel.
Heroes of the second plan
Marya Vasilievna Tatarinova
We have already begun the story about Marya Vasilievna. The woman is very unhappy: firstly, Marya loses her husband, secondly, the heroine loses the company of Korablev, who she likes, and thirdly, she is forced to marry a man she does not love.
As you might guess, Marya Vasilievna becomes the wife of Nikolai Antonovich. All because the woman felt guilty and that she was allegedly indebted to Nikolai for the care rendered to her, mother and daughter. But one day Marya Vasilievna learns from Sanya about what a "terrible person" Nikolai Antonovich was. The young man did not know that the latter had already become the husband of a poor woman.
Marya Vasilievna felt guilty before her husband (captain), felt like a traitor. In the end, the heroine cannot stand it and commits suicide: the woman was poisoned, and the doctors could not help her in time and save her.
Here the reader is again faced with the drama in the relationship between Sanya and Katya: at her mother's funeral, Katya does not want to talk to Sanya, because Nikolai managed to convince the girl that it was Sanya who was to blame for the death of Marya Vasilievna, and the letters were about a completely different person.
In the end, Nikolai Antonovich will be exposed anyway. Sanya will do this, but only after the end of the war.
Romashov / Camomile
We encounter this hero when, while reading a book, we come to the story of Korablev. After all, Grigoriev told the young man about what he heard from Nikolai Tatarinov, and then considered Korablev a traitor who reported everything to Tatarinov.
But the traitor in this situation was not Korablev at all, but Romashov - nicknamed Chamomile.
Chamomile is an exclusively and completely negative hero. Vile, cowardly, capable only of low and vile deeds. From childhood, Chamomile is interested in his own benefit, and for her sake the hero can even go to blackmail friends and relatives.
The worst thing is that one day Sanya finds out: Romashka entered the Tatarinovs' house, got into trust and, it seems, a little more and marries Katya. The girl did not immediately understand that Chamomile was only familiar with betrayal, while he himself was two-faced and morally dirty man. It is Chamomile who will be Nikolai's accomplice in denigrating the name of Sanya Grigoriev, when Sanya wants to present materials about the fate of the captain of the missing expedition ...
However, falling in love with Katya will play a cruel joke with Romashka: he will offer Sana services in exposing Nikolai's guilt. The fee is Sanya's refusal to want to be with Katya. However, Grigoriev turned out to be more noble: Sanya talks about Romashka's proposal to Nikolai Antonovich. However, he could no longer play against a former accomplice.
When Sanya and Katya's trip to the north to search for the missing expedition fails, and Sanya goes to the front - to the war with Spain, Katya will meet her old "friend" again. Chamomile will convince the girl that he was saving Sanya, who was injured, but Grigoriev died tragically. However, now the girl does not believe. Romashka, indeed, lied: Romashov did not save Alexander at all, but betrayed him, taking away his things. As a result, justice will prevail, and Chamomile will be condemned.
Ivan Pavlovich Korablev
We go back again to study in more detail the already familiar personality of the geography teacher. Often Ivan takes precisely the position of the victim, because Korablev is unfairly tortured at school - out of love for Marya Vasilievna, Sanya accuses him of betraying his trust ...
In fact, Korablev embodies such traits as kindness, sincerity, naivety and simplicity, honesty, openness and justice. The teacher loves his job, work, worries about the children he teaches.
Ivan Pavlovich will play an important role in the relationship between Sanya and Katya: Korablev will help lovers many times.
Valentin (Valya) Zhukov
As we know, the theme of friendship occupies a particularly important place in the novel "Two Captains", the main characters of the work constantly find themselves in situations where friendship and betrayal collide with each other in an unequal struggle. According to the laws of the genre, at first it will seem to the reader that evil is winning, but then good will surely prevail.
So, Valya Zhukov is Comrade Sani. At first, Sanya was also friends with Petya (Peter Skovorodnikov). Together, the boys fled to the capital, but then their paths diverged. Petya managed to escape during the check, and subsequently Grigoriev found out that Petya was still in Moscow and was engaged in art. Also, Alexandra (Sasha) Grigorieva, Sanya's sister, who eventually became Petya's wife, studied at the Academy of Arts.
Valya Zhukov and Romashka are comrades who appeared with Sanya while studying at a school for homeless children. Valya is the antipode of Chamomile. Valya is smart, honest, fair, responsible and reliable, a wonderful and loyal friend. Zhukov becomes the husband of Katya's best friend, Kira, and the young man is also waiting for a career as a major scientist.
Sasha Grigorieva
Sister Sani is an artist and the wife of his friend Petya. Events are developing, and later Sana will be able to publish an article about the polar expedition and about Captain Tatarinov ... By that time Sasha will live in Moscow, raise his son. But then the girl will exude the disease. It is not possible to recover: Sasha will die.
Nina Kapitonovna
For Grigoriev, the old woman was a treasure in Ali Baba's cave, because she always treated him with goodies. Nina Kapitonovna introduces Sanya into the circle of the Tatarinov family: once, Sanya helped a woman carry heavy bags ... Nina is Marya Vasilievna's mother.
Ivan Ivanovich
This is a doctor who was able to cure Sanya of dumbness. But this was not the only meeting of our characters. Further, fate pushes them together at a time when Sanya managed to achieve that he was given an assignment to the North. Here, in the Arctic Territory, Ivan Ivanovich gives Sanya notes from the navigator of the St. Mary ship. The navigator, as it turned out, died in 1914, but from those letters Sanya learned about the fate that befell the missing captain.
Deciphering letters, love
A young man, carried away by the ideas of finding polar explorers, studies at the Leningrad summer school, reading and sorting out difficult notes of letters. The diligent young man learns that the captain, Katya's father, let his comrades go so that they would look for a new land and master it. The captain himself, Katya's father, did not leave the ship. Mary's Land is the location that Sanya's investigation points to, and there may be traces of a lost expedition.
Grigoriev will achieve great success in this endeavor. Later, the desire to find traces of the expedition again brings the young man to Katya. However, the expedition will not take place this time….
The reader will encounter the characters again when 5 years have passed for them: Sanya returns, having managed to escape after the war with Spain, but Katya is no longer in Moscow...
We see how much fate throws the heroes. Now Sanya is forced to go on a personal "expedition" - in search of his missing love. Grigoriev is looking for a wife in Moscow, then he goes to Yaroslavl, and then to Novosibirsk ... During his travels, Sana manages - by pure chance (due to the need to make an emergency landing) - to find the remains of the ship "Saint Mary", the body of the deceased captain and his notes . In Polyarny, a town not far from this place, Sanya also meets Katya.
Director: Evgeny Karelov
Writers: Evgeny Karelov, Veniamin Kaverin
THE USSR. Production: Mosfilm, 1976
A six-part adventure film directed by Yevgeny Karelov is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Veniamin Kaverin. A fascinating picture tells about the fate of Sanya Grigoriev, who devoted his life to searching for the missing expedition of Captain Tatarinov. This is a film about heroism and courage, love and fidelity, honor and devotion to ideals.
Main characters:
Alexander Grigoriev (Boris Tokarev)
Sanya Grigoriev in childhood (Seryozha Kudryavtsev)
Ekaterina Tatarinova (Elena Prudnikova)
Katya Tatarinova in childhood (Lena Lobkina)
Mikhail Romashov (Yuri Bogatyrev)
Romashov in childhood (Alyosha Senchev)
Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov (Nikolai Gritsenko)
Maria Vasilievna Tatarinova (Irina Pechernikova), Katya's mother
Ivan Pavlovich Korablev (Georgy Kulikov), Sleigh's teacher
Nina Kapitonovna (Vera Kuznetsova)
Ivan Ivanych (Vladimir Zamansky), doctor
Fight and seek, find and don't give up
The writer Veniamin Kaverin completed work on his famous novel "Two Captains" in 1944. The book immediately became incredibly popular among young people. It is not surprising, because the plot, taken from modern life, was filled with the spirit of adventure and courage, heroism and selflessness, high, pure love and devotion. And all this was presented without a gram of excessive pathos and falsehood.
The first attempt to film The Two Captains was made in 1955 by director Vladimir Vengerov. The film turned out to be good, but it could not fully reflect the spirit of the book. Insufficient timekeeping, and clichés typical of the 50s in the image of heroes, also affected.
In 1976, director Yevgeny Karelov undertook a new adaptation of the novel. For the main role of Sasha Grigoriev, he approved the young, but already popular, and most importantly, actor Boris Tokarev with positive charisma. By that time, Tokarev already had two dozen roles, including Lieutenant Osyanin, beloved by the audience, in the military drama “The Dawns Here Are Quiet…” and Lieutenant Nikolai Kuznetsov in the military film “Hot Snow”.
Boris Tokarev himself admitted that he was glad of this role, because Kaverin's book was among his favorites from childhood, and he looked at Vengerov's picture with the participation of Alexander Mikhailov and Evgeny Lebedev at least two dozen times and remembered it frame by frame. And here is such an opportunity to play in the new film adaptation, and even the main role!
Sanya Grigoriev, performed by Boris Tokarev, turned out to be courageous and uncompromising, perhaps sometimes too straightforward. But this straightforwardness came from an inflexible character, alien to the slightest manifestations of resourcefulness and opportunism. At the same time, the actor, when creating his character, managed not to go into the "monument to heroism", remaining a living person.
The role of Sanya Grigoriev in childhood was remarkably played by the young actor Seryozha Kudryavtsev, who very organically existed in the frame. It is worth noting that, together with Boris Tokarev, they managed to create a single convincing line of their character. The image of Sanya Grigoriev does not fall into temporary pieces, he is consistent in his inner world, and outwardly there is some similarity between the actors.
The choice of other characters was also excellent. Charming, life-loving, faithful in her love, Katya Tatarinova, performed by Elena Prudnikova, is exactly what many of his readers imagined the heroine of the novel. Just like Katya's mother - a beautiful, sad woman of a tragic fate, as she was played by Irina Pechernikova. And what a homely, kind, warm Nina Kapitonovna performed by Vera Kuznetsova turned out to be.
And of course, the negative characters, simply brilliantly played by the masters of domestic and world cinema, Nikolai Gritsenko and Yuri Bogatyrev, gave a special shine to the picture. The first created the image of Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov, a man who sent his brother to his death, and then speculated on his memory, creating his career on his behalf. The second played the role of deceitful, cunning and very cautious Mikhail Romashov, nicknamed Chamomile, who, overwhelmed by passion for Katya Tatarinova, was ready to go to any meanness. Play in such a way that the whole country literally hates your character! This is exactly what Nikolai Gritsenko and Yuri Bogatyrev succeeded with brilliance. The audience clenched their fists in rage at the sight of the self-satisfied and self-confident Nikolai Antonovich, and the scoundrel Romashka just wanted to strangle!
The characters of the second plan turned out to be very bright. This is the wise teacher Ivan Pavlovich Korablev (Georgy Kulikov), and Sanya's mother Aksinya Fedorovna (Zinaida Kirienko), who tried to find her happiness, and Sanya's faithful friend Pyotr Skovorodnikov (Yuri Kuzmenkov), and Sanya's cruel stepfather Gaer Kuliy (Mikhail Pugovkin), and the doctor Ivan Ivanych (Vladimir Zamansky), who played the most important role in the fate of Sanya. Each of the characters is written out carefully, and therefore the images turned out to be full-blooded.
A significant contribution to the overall success of the film was made by the musical accompaniment. A separate bow to the composer Evgeny Ptichkin for the phenomenal overture that precedes each series, reflecting the general mood of the picture, the spiritual impulse of the characters. The songs to his music that sound in the film are also remarkable: “Letter Home”, “North - North” and “Final Song”.
Barely released on the screens, the picture immediately became a cult, became a hymn of courage, devotion, selflessness, and its motto "Fight and seek, find and never give up" for a long time excited the hearts of millions of boys all over the world Soviet Union. Boris Tokarev formulated the film's recipe for success in this way:
“There are films that guess the time and state of the viewer. And they go to eternity. In The Two Captains, the need for romantic love, amazing perseverance and human character is guessed.
First episode
The hero's childhood takes place in the city of Ensk - in a small wretched house by the river.
Once a postman drowned in a river. Aunt Dasha took the letters from her bag and read them aloud to the whole yard.
The hero especially remembered the letter addressed to a certain Maria Vasilievna. It spoke about the schooner "Saint Mary", which froze in the Kara Sea. The address was washed out by water.
The boy, on behalf of whom the story is being told, lives with his father, mother and little sister. Gradually it turns out that the boy is mute - he cannot speak.
However, he lives an ordinary boyish life: he goes out at night to catch blue crayfish. On the river, he witnesses a terrible event: a man killed a watchman!
Running away in fear, the boy (Sanya) lost his father's knife, on which his last name, Grigoriev, was carved.
Policemen (police) arrested Sanya's father for killing the watchman. The irrefutable proof for them was the very knife that the boy had lost. And he, the witness, could not tell anything!
Left without a breadwinner, the family began to starve.
The mother took the children to the village, where they lived alone in a small hut (father's inheritance). Grandmother Petrovna looked after them. The boy became very attached to his sister - a white-headed, funny and talkative girl, who was also called Sasha. How deftly she managed at the age of seven!
One night, in a terrible frost, the children let a bearded man into the hut, who could hardly move from fatigue. His name was Ivan Ivanovich. He was hiding from the police and asked no one to tell about him.
He was an extraordinary person: he showed tricks, often spoke in verse, made funny little animals from improvised material, and besides, he turned out to be a doctor.
It was a magical doctor! He began to teach Sanya to speak. And then mysteriously disappeared. The boy continued to learn to speak himself. And learned!
But there was no need to tell how he lost the knife: his father died in prison.
Having learned to speak, Sanya became more sociable. He became friends with his neighbor Petka Skovorodnikov, who encouraged him to read.
The boys read books (it turns out that Sanya has a very good memory), sell cigarettes, catch crayfish...
But a terrible person appears in Sanya's life. He calls himself: "I am poor Gaer Kuliy."
The boy's mother fell in love with this unpleasant, self-satisfied type, stupid and cruel. He teaches Sasha to live and write, and only with sticks: “until they are “popindicular”, you can’t move on in any case.”
The mother is getting married, the stepfather is so disgusting to the boy that he wants to kill him. Once "that scoundrel Gaer beat her (sister Sasha) half to death because she spilled a glass of vegetable oil."
Sanya is saved from her hated stepfather by Aunt Dasha, who continues to read letters from the drowned postman's bag. One letter seems to the boy to be something connected with a letter about the schooner "Saint Mary" frozen in the ice.
There are such lines: “... I beg you for one thing: do not trust this man! We can safely say that we owe all our failures only to him. It is enough that of the sixty dogs he sold to us in Arkhangelsk, most of them had to be shot in Novaya Zemlya. That's how much this service cost us. Not only I alone - the whole expedition sends him curses.
The letter, which mentions the girl Katyushka, apparently the daughter of the writer, presented a detailed account of the ship moving north.
The boy's mother fell ill and died - the stepfather was to blame. Widowed Aunt Dasha marries the widower "Old Man Skovorodnikov".
All actions take place during the revolution. Shots, fires... The Military Revolutionary Committee declared Soviet power in the city.
It was decided to give brother and sister - Sanya and Sasha - to an orphanage. “We knew the orphanages. They were pale guys in gray jackets and crumpled gray trousers. They beat the birds well with slingshots, and then roasted them in their garden and ate them. This is how they were fed in the shelter! In general, they were "prisoners", and we fought with them ... "
Petka Skovorodnikov and Sanya decide to run away, first to Moscow and then to Tashkent. The boys give each other an oath: “Whoever changes this word of honor will not receive mercy until he counts how much sand is in the sea, how many leaves are in the forest, how many raindrops fall from the sky. If he wants to go forward - send back, if he wants to go to the left - send to the right. As I hit the ground with my cap, so will the thunder strike whoever breaks it honestly. Fight and seek, find and not give up.
Homeless, the fugitives reached Moscow, but it was too difficult to get to Tashkent.
In Moscow, the boys have suffered a lot. By chance, they broke up and could not find each other.
Sanya ended up in a commune school. Its director was Nikolai Antonovich. He was to play an important role in the life of Sanya Grigoriev.
Sanya began to study at the orphanage. He made comrades: Romashov, nicknamed Romashka, and Valka Zhukov, who was very fond of animals, especially dogs.
Sleigh's sympathy is evoked by a geography teacher named Korablev.
Once the boy helped an unfamiliar old woman to carry bags to the house. It turned out that Nikolai Antonovich lives in the apartment where the old woman lives. There the boy met his age-mate Katen-koy - a very pretty, but terrible nerd.
It turns out that the old woman is from Ensk. From the same place as Sanya! The old woman's daughter, the girl's mother, had long since lost her husband. He was the captain of the ship, went on an expedition and went missing. Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov is the cousin of this captain.
Sanya begins to visit the Tatarinovs often. He is delighted with the atmosphere of the house, where there are many books and paintings.
The boy helps Katya's grandmother with the housework: bring water, chop firewood. The teacher Korablev often comes to the Tatarinovs. It is noticeable that there is a strong sympathy between the geographer and Katya's mother.
Korablev arranged a theater in the orphanage. Oddly enough, he invited hooligans to the main roles. And after that they began to behave much better.
The geographer at school is beginning to be respected and loved. And the director, Nikolai Antonovich, does not like this, because he is, as it were, relegated to the background.
And then Korablev made Katya's mother, Marya Vasilievna, an offer. But she did not agree to become the teacher's wife. And after that, Nikolai Antonovich launched an offensive against Ivan Pavlovich (Korablev) - he gathered a council demanding that the geographer be expelled from school.
Sanya overheard the meeting of the council and told Korablev and some of his friends about it.
Nikolai Antonovich summoned the boy to his place, called him an informer and forbade him to visit the house. Sanya was terribly upset: it turns out that Korablev reported the conversation to the director of the school?
This means that there is no point in continuing to stay at school, since even beloved Ivan Pavlovich is a traitor!
Sanya ran away from school, tried to sell a jacket at the market ... Then he fell down with a cruel illness - the flu, then meningitis. He woke up in the hospital, where a familiar face bent over him - the same Ivan Ivanovich who had once taught him to speak!
Korablev also visits Sasha in the hospital - it becomes clear that the teacher is not at all a traitor, as the boy thought. After discharge, the hero returns to school, he is immediately instructed to draw a poster for the Komsomol cell (the boy has good artistic abilities). He enthusiastically sets to work. The poster invites everyone to join the Society of Friends of the Air Fleet.
Sanya has a dream of becoming a pilot.
He begins to temper the will. He does gymnastics with an open window in winter, douses himself with ice-cold water, tries to be bold and resolute, reads books about the conquest of the North - the schooner "Saint Mary" is firmly stuck in his head.
Sanya is already seventeen years old. He had not seen Katya for a long time (Nikolai Antonovich forbade him to visit his house). And suddenly, at a strange public event - "The Trial of Eugene Onegin" (such were popular in the twenties) - Sanya sees Katya. She has changed, matured - but her nose is still the same "decisive" and above her forehead - all the same rings.
Katya and Sanya renew their relationship, the girl tells the future pilot about her father - it turns out that he was the captain of the ship "Saint Mary", which died, wiped with ice. What an incredible coincidence!
The expedition was outfitted by Nikolai Antonovich - according to him, everything was organized flawlessly: both supplies and dogs. And if his brother died, it was solely through his own fault: he was too frivolous.
Sanya dreams of conquering the Pole.
During the school ball, Katya and Sanya retire to an empty classroom. Sanya does what he has long wanted to do: he kisses Katya.
At first, the girl is indignant: they say, her old friend did it under the influence of the moment, and not at all because he loves her. But then he believes: Grigoriev's feelings are sincere. It suddenly turns out that the class is not empty at all: Chamomile, a disgusting, vile type, was peeping on the lovers.
The next day, Sanya is waiting for Katya outside in the bitter cold. But she doesn't come! Sanya is not angry with Katya: he is truly in love. Previously, he could say: "Katka is a fool," but now he can only think of her with tenderness.
Sanya calls Katya, but unsuccessfully hits Nikolai Antonovich. He refuses to call the girl to the phone.
From Katya's grandmother, whom Sanya met in the market, he learns that he is forbidden to appear at their house. Yes, what's the matter? School friend Valka says that Romashov was the scammer. He wrote down everything “unlawful” in a little book and reported to Nikolai Antonovich.
Katya was sent to Ensk, supposedly to visit her aunt who had fallen ill.
Sanya is also going to go to the city of her childhood to talk to Katya. However, before leaving, he commits an irreparable act: having caught Romashka behind the fact that this “snitch” digs into his, Sanya, box, Grigoriev kicks him in the face.
Now there is no going back to school. The hero, in terrible excitement, rides on a train - and now hometown! So many changes have taken place over the years. "Old Man Skovorodnikov" became a judge. He lives in a beautiful house with his wife, Aunt Dasha, and Sanya's sister (as you remember, also Sasha).
The white, talkative sister turned into a swarthy, pretty girl with black hair parted in the middle. Brother and sister meet happily, talk about many things. Petka Skovorodnikov, it turns out, lives in Moscow.
Sanya Grigoriev, through his sister, sends Katya a note asking for a meeting.
In Aunt Dasha's chest, Sanya finds old letters from Katya's father from the expedition - some of them have been lost, but he remembers the key words: "greetings from Montigomo Hawkclaw ... I'm incredibly sorry that I entrusted the expedition's equipment to Nikolai ..." So after all it was Nikolai Antonovich who thwarted the expedition! And certainly on purpose!
These letters, read by Katya during the meeting, upset her very much - and they would have upset Maria Vasilievna even more. For Sanya, it comes as a surprise that Nikolai Antonovich has long been in love with Maria Vasilievna, and she recently became his wife.
On the same train with Katya, Sanya returns to Moscow. Korablev stuns the young man with the news that he is threatened with expulsion from school: for beating Romashka and for running away for nine days. Ivan Pavlovich stood up for Sanya, got his “case” heard at the Pedagogical Council. It will be necessary to apologize to Chamomile!
Apologize? Never! Romashov is a scammer! He informed not only about Sanya, but also about all the other guys! As soon as someone says something against Nikolai Antonovich, he will immediately write it down in a little book and report it.
At the pedagogical council, Sanya makes a diatribe against Romashov and Nikolai Antonovich. The principal of the school had a heart attack.
Sanya is not expelled from school, they get by with a strict reprimand along the Komsomol line.
Grigoriev becomes the hero of the school. Petka Skovorodnikov is looking for him - cheerful, with lush red hair. He managed to visit Tashkent, but he decided to return to Moscow. Unlike Sanya, Petka Enska did not forget. He draws beautifully and is going to enter the Academy of Arts.
Katya informs Sana that she gave her father's letters to her mother. Maria Vasilievna came to Korablev and talked for a long time with the geographer and Sanya. She didn't want to believe that she had married the actual killer of her husband.
This visit of Maria Vasilievna to Ivan Pavlovich, who loved her so much, was a farewell: the unfortunate woman poisoned herself and died in the hospital. Katya does not want to talk to Sanya - it was he who pushed her mother to commit suicide!
Only the dream of a flight school supports the young man - he passes the final exams perfectly.
Korablev calls Sanya to him and says that Nikolai Antonovich showed the geographer evidence of his innocence: the expedition was let down by a completely different Nikolai. Katya and her grandmother refuse to communicate with Sanya, they turn away from him at school - he remains almost alone. All the more important for him is the goal: to become a polar pilot and find the schooner "Saint Mary", the expedition of Captain Tatarinov, to figure out who is really to blame.
Before leaving for flight school, Sanya says goodbye to Katya - she considers him guilty. However, Sanya and Katya still love each other, although they say goodbye, as it seems to them, forever.
Years pass. Sanya graduates from flight school and makes her dream come true. He not only becomes a polar pilot, but also searches for the missing expedition. He managed to decipher the navigator's diaries and find a hook from the schooner "Saint Mary".
Sanya comes to Moscow to submit a report to the Glavsevmorput and, of course, to see Katya. Katya's eyes became sad. She does not allow to talk badly about Nikolai Antonovich and often communicates with Romashov. The meeting with Katya at the Bolshoi Theater upsets Sanya very much. He thinks that Katya stopped loving him. Here is perhaps some good news - Petka Skovorodnikov became a theater artist, his name is on the poster.
Sanya came from the Far North to Moscow just in time for the anniversary of his beloved teacher, Ivan Pavlovich Korablev. Many students came, everyone carried bouquets of flowers, and how many beautiful words sounded!
However, for Sanya the evening was ruined by a meeting with Nikolai Antonovich and Romashov. They also came to greet the hero of the day. How handsome, how successful Romashov became! He writes a dissertation under the guidance of Nikolai Antonovich and blackmails him with papers that he obtained by deception - papers that testify to the vile role of Nikolai Antonovich in the fate of Captain Tatarinov. Nikolai Antonovich not only married the widow of Tatarinov (which he had long dreamed of), but also warmed his hands on the supply of low-quality products and unusable sled dogs.
Sanya learns from Korablev that Katya still loves him, he knows about his love from correspondence with Grigoriev's sister.
After a serious conversation with Korablev, Katya, not wanting to communicate with Nikolai Antonovich anymore, moves in with her friend Kira (Kiren), who lives in Sivtsevo Vrazhek (Moscow street) with her mother. Katya has become an excellent geologist (she travels on expeditions), her photographs take first place at exhibitions. How little Sanya knew about Katya in recent years!
Romashov builds intrigues - he knows a lot of bad things about his teacher. But he hides this, demanding one thing: let Nikolai Antonovich persuade Katya to marry his faithful student.
With the help of Romashov, Nikolai Antonovich blackens the name of the pilot Grigoriev in the press, undermining confidence in Sana. However, the pilot Grigoriev finds honest and courageous people who are ready to understand and protect him. The Pravda newspaper publishes an article by Alexander Grigoriev about the search for Tatarinov's expedition.
Sanya again flies to the Arctic - and Katya promises to come to him.
Katya and Sanya became husband and wife. Their life was not easy. The pilot has to move from one airfield to another, change his place of residence, and his wife has to wait and worry. Katya's grandmother, after long emotional hesitation, leaves Nikolai Antonovich and moves in with her granddaughter and her young husband.
One of the parts of the work is written on behalf of Katya (all the rest - on behalf of Sanya Grigoriev). The captain's young wife tells about the death of his sister Sasha - she married Petka Skovorodnikova, gave birth to a son. And suddenly she became seriously ill with pneumonia. Doctors fought for her life for a long time, but Sani's sister dies. Katya undertakes to take care of the boy Petenka, she takes the baby to the dacha near Leningrad - and then the war begins ... A very small child is taken out of Leningrad.
During the years of the Great Patriotic War Sanya and Katya lost each other. Occasionally, only rumors reached: “Katya is alive!”; "Sanya is alive!"
Captain Grigoriev serves in the North and sinks Nazi ships. There he again meets with Dr. Ivan Ivanovich, who still serves medicine and people.
The life work of Captain Grigoriev - the search for the expedition of Captain Tatarinov - was crowned with success. She has been found! The body of Tatarinov himself, frozen in the ice, was also found - letters were preserved in the mail bag. Some of them are addressed to daughter Katya - with the belief that she will ever read them.
Alexander proved the guilt of Nikolai Antonovich and exposed many of the vile deeds of Romashov.
Romashov was arrested and sentenced to ten years.
And Sanya and Katya finally manage to meet. The war is over. The survivors can unite: Katya, Petka Skovorodnikov, his son and the steadfast Nina Kapitonovna (Katya's grandmother) will now live in the same apartment.
And wait for the return of Captain Grigoriev from long-distance flights ...
1st series. old letters
The small town of Ensk shortly before the revolution... Two friends, Petka Skovorodnikov and Sanka Grigoriev, while fishing, pulled the bag of the murdered postman out of the river. Since then, every evening, a neighbor, Aunt Dasha, read dried scraps of letters to two families, and Sanya Grigoriev learned many of them by heart. In one of them the navigator long-distance navigation Klimov, a member of the polar expedition to the land of Franz Josef, informed a certain Maria Vasilievna that Ivan Ilyich was alive and continued to move with the schooner St. At that time, Sanya, who had lost the power of speech from an illness in childhood, did not yet know how to speak. Sanya's father was erroneously accused of murder and arrested. Sasha's mother Aksinya went to St. Petersburg to work for her husband, leaving Sanya and his sister Sasha alone. A certain Ivan Ivanovich lived with them for several days, introducing himself as a doctor. He began to teach Sanya to speak, and then suddenly disappeared. And Sanya gradually began to speak. Sanya's father died in prison. A revolution has taken place. Aksinya was courted by an officer of the "death battalion", Timoshkin, who called himself Gaer Kuliy. But Aksinya soon died. Petka offered Sana to run to Turkestan - where it is always warm. The guys gave each other an oath, which ended with the words from those old letters: "Fight and seek, find and not give up!" On passing trains, they reached Moscow, hoping to stay with Petka's uncle. But my uncle was at the front...
2nd series. Tatarinovs
At the station, Sanya and Petya meet the thief Golub, who forces them to sell stolen goods in the market. During the raid, Sanya falls into the hands of law enforcement agencies and finds herself in a reception center, from where she is sent to a special boarding school, where she can develop her abilities in art. Sanya's neighbors in the hostel were Zhukov and Romashov, nicknamed "Daisy". By chance, having volunteered to help an old woman carry a heavy bag, Sanya meets Nina Kapitonovna, the mother of Maria Vasilyevna, the wife of the polar explorer Captain Tatarinov, and ends up in their apartment, where the captain's daughter Katya and his cousin Nikolai Antonovich also live - the head of Sanya's boarding school. Sanya learned that Katya's father had gone missing on a polar expedition. In the boarding school, under the leadership of Nikolai Antonovich, a conspiracy is brewing against the tutor Ivan Pavlovich Korablev, the initiator of the children's staging of this performance. Accidentally learning about the conspiracy, Sanya tells Korablev about it, and at a meeting of teachers, Korablev rebuffs all his opponents. Enraged, Nikolai Antonovich kicks Sanya out of his house, forbidding him to appear there. Thinking that Korablev betrayed him, Sanya leaves the boarding school and goes to the market to sell a jacket and get money for the trip to Turkestan. But suddenly he falls ill and goes to the hospital to the same doctor who once taught him to speak. In the hospital, Sanya is visited by Korablev, who did not think to extradite him, as well as ... Katya Tatarinova.
3rd series. Katin's father
Sanya was away from the Tatarinovs for a long time; Nikolai Antonovich still hated him. Came Last year learning at school. And then Sanya unexpectedly met Katya, and she invited him to the theater, and then home. Katya told Sanya about her father and his expedition. At the school carnival, "Chamomile" saw Katya and Sanya, and Katya did not come to the next date. Sanya found out that she was sent to Ensk. This was the work of "Romashka", who reported to Nikolai Antonovich about Katya's dangerous hobby. Sanya was about to follow Katya to Ensk. He found "Chamomile" rummaging in his suitcase and "hit" him well in the face. In Ensk, Sanya found Skovorodnikov the father. His sister Sasha and aunt Dasha were also there. And Petka, it turns out, lived in Moscow. In Aunt Dasha's house, Sanya found those old letters that they had read in childhood, and finally realized that these letters belonged to Katya's father. He found Katya and gave her the letters. And the content of those letters that were not found, Sanya remembered by heart. In his letters, Tatarinov asked Maria Vasilievna not to trust "this" person. This meant Nikolai Antonovich, to whom Captain Tatarinov entrusted the preparation of the expedition, and who, by his sabotage, caused irreparable damage to this expedition ... Arriving, Sanya found out that they wanted to expel him for unauthorized absence and for a fight. At the teachers' council, Sanya told everything about Romashov, Nikolai Antonovich's spy. Tatarinov became ill, and the meeting was interrupted. After Katya introduced her father's letters to her mother, Maria Vasilyevna arrived at the school, and Sanya told her about the contents of the missing letters...
4th series. Diary of navigator Klimov
Soon Maria Vasilievna Tatarinova passed away, and everyone blamed Sanya for her death, and Nikolai Antonovich called him a slanderer who killed Maria. Even Korablev was opposed to Sanya, but Katya no longer wanted to see him. Sana had no choice but to either die or prove her case. And he vowed to find Tatarinov's expedition. He went to Leningrad and entered flight school. In parallel, he studied all the materials about the northern expeditions and listened to the lectures of Professor Vanin. After graduating from the flight school, Sanya asked to work in the North. There he found Dr. Ivan Ivanovich, who told him about the navigator of the "St. Mary" Klimov, whom he treated, and who died, leaving his diaries to the doctor. After reading Klimov's diaries, Sanya realized that Tatarinov had discovered Severnaya Zemlya and it was there that he should have gone if for some reason he left the schooner. Flying with the doctor to one of the northern villages, Sanya found a fragment of a hook from the "St. Mary" there, and the old Evenk said that ten years ago he had found a boat, sleds, things and a dead person on the coast. Sanya told everything to Professor Vanin, and he put forward a project for a search expedition, in which he recommended Grigoriev. Arriving in Moscow, Sanya came to the Tatarinovs and told Katya everything he could find out. But the Tatarinovs, as it turned out, began to visit Romashov. "Romashka" was an assistant to Nikolai Antonovich and actively looked after Katya. And Nikolai Antonovich published an article in which he blamed all the misfortunes of Tatarinov's expedition on a certain Vyshemirsky. Korablev found this Vyshemirsky, and he agreed to meet with Sanya...
5th series. fight and seek
Vyshemirsky confirmed Sanya's assumptions that it was Nikolai Antonovich who had robbed Tatarinov's expedition. At the same time, he framed Vyshemirsky, and he had to pay a lot of money. Vyshemirsky even had documentary evidence of this: waybills, checks, etc. But all this had already been taken by Romashov, who promised Vyshemirsky to take care of housing. Romashov came to Sana's hotel room and showed all the documents incriminating Nikolai Antonovich. He was ready to give these papers to Sanya in exchange for Sanya leaving Katya alone... Sanya summoned Nikolai Antonovich here and arranged a confrontation between him and Romashov. But Nikolai Antonovich said that only Captain Tatarinov himself could be his judge. Leaving, Romashov said that now Sana's whole life would not be enough to wash off the accusations of slander and the death of Maria Vasilievna. Katya became Sanya's wife. Professor Vanin achieved the organization of an expedition to search for traces of Captain Tatarinov. Sanya and Katya were included in the expedition. But the war began, and Sanya was sent to the detachment special purpose. He was wounded and the newspaper erroneously reported his death. Romashov was the last to see Sanya and left him to die in the forest. Having found Katya in Leningrad, who works as a nurse, he handed her the same newspaper and said that Sanya was missing ...
6th series. Find and don't give up
Hiding from the war as a quartermaster, Romashov continues to woo Katya, pretending to be busy looking for Sanya. Katya finds Sanina's documents from Romashov and accuses "Romashka" of killing her husband... Sanya, having undergone a course of treatment, comes to Leningrad and learns that Katya is alive, but evacuated somewhere. Sanya goes to Moscow. He comes to Romashov and demands his gun and documents from him, reminding "Romashka" how he left him wounded to die in the forest without weapons and documents. A stormy explanation ends with the fact that Romashov prepared to kill Sanya with his own pistol, but the Chekists arrived in time to arrest both. After that, Sanya visited Korablev, but did not find him at home and left a note that he was leaving to serve in the North. In the North, Dr. Ivan Ivanovich's wife advises Sanya to meet with a district party leader who has learned something from the Evenks about Tatarinov's expedition. After talking with this man, Sanya drew up the exact route along which Tatarinov was moving. It was the 73rd parallel. It was on this parallel that Sani's plane was shot down during a sortie. Catapulted, Grigoriev and his partner began to move towards the Yenisei along the same road that Captain Tatarinov had once taken. And on this way, Sanya discovered the tent of the "St. Mary" team, in which among the things were all the documents of the expedition, completely exposing the wrecking activities of Nikolai Antonovich. Katya, having learned from Korablev where her husband was, flew to the North and found her Sanya. Grigoriev, returning to Moscow, visited Nikolai Antonovich in order to lay accusations from Captain Tatarinov himself in his face ... Before a huge audience of the Hydrographic Society, Sanya Grigoriev spoke with a story about an unbending fighter, an amazing person, a remarkable discoverer of the North, Captain Ivan Lvovich Tatarinov ... .
Year: 1938-1944 Genre: adventure novel
Main characters: Sanya Grigoriev and Katya Tatarinova
Still young Sanya Grigoriev loses his father - he was accused of murder and sent to prison, where he died. Sanya is the only one who knows that his father is innocent. During the war, his "friend" Romashov throws him on the battlefield, hoping that he will die. Sanya survives and through all the problems and all the pain is looking for his beloved. The main character manages to prove the innocence of his father.
the main idea- "Fight and seek, find and not give up." This means never betraying your goals and striving to achieve them at any cost!
In the town of Ensk, where Sanya Grigoriev lived, they found a dead courier with a bag full of letters. Aunt Dasha read only one letter a day to her neighbors, who burst into tears listening to them. Sanya liked letters about polar expeditions the most.
By mistake, his father was accused of the death of a man and put in jail. Only young Sanya knows the real killer, but he cannot tell anyone about it because of his dumbness. Later he will be cured by a wonderful doctor Ivan Ivanov.
The father could not stand it and died in prison, and the mother remarried some time later. The stepfather is an insidious and vile person who does not resist mocking children and even his wife. The mother of poor Sanya also dies. After the death of their mother, the aunt and a neighbor by the name of Skovorodnikov think about what to do, and come to the conclusion that Sanya and his sister should be sent to an orphanage. From there, little Sanya, together with his friend Petya Skovorodnikov, run away to Moscow, and then to Turkestan.
After a long time, they return to Moscow on foot to find Petya's uncle. It turned out that my uncle had gone to the front. The guys work for speculators almost for free and at one point they have to hide from the check. Petya was able to escape, while Sanya, after a cell for homeless children, ends up in a commune school.
Sanya really liked the commune, where he does what he loves and meets new friends - Valka Zhukov and Romashova or Romashka. One day, Sanya helped the old woman take her bag home. It turned out that she lived with the head of the commune, Nikolai Anatolyevich Tatarinov. Here Sanya meets a charming girl Katya. Some time later, Sanya comes to this house for the appliance. The lactometer, which Nikolai Antonovich was instructed to take, explodes. Katya wanted to shield Sanya and take the blame on herself, but he could not allow this.
The apartment of new acquaintances became for Sanya "the abode of beauty." Here they will feed him lunch, and tell interesting stories. Nikolai Antonovich (danger) liked to constantly talk about his sad cousin, the husband of Marya Vasilievna. How he blew dust particles off him and how he turned out to be an ungrateful bastard. Maria Vasilievna constantly evokes sympathy for Korablev, but when he decides to make an offer, he is refused. A meeting is gathered in the house and Korablev is condemned and decides to restrict his activities. Everyone hoped that Korablev would be offended and leave. Sanya literally immediately tells him about everything she heard. On the same day, the guy is kicked out of the apartment. He is offended and leaves the commune. When he wandered around Moscow, he felt unwell and ended up in the hospital. There Sanya is saved by the same doctor - Ivan Ivanovich.
Four years have passed since then. Sanya is in his eighteenth year. At school, at a performance, or rather at a staging of "the trial of Eugene Onegin, Sanya met Katya again and decides to tell her that she has been preparing to become a pilot for a long time. Katya, in turn, decided to tell Sana a story about Captain Tatarinov - “He said goodbye to his family, flew away on the schooner St. Mary from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, but the expedition did not return. They asked the king for help, but he refused. Sanya often met with Katya, and even at school at the ball, when they were alone, they decide to talk, but even here Chamomile prevents them from discussing important matters. Romashka tells Nikolai Antonovich about this. Since that time, they refused to accept Sanya as a visitor to the Tatarinovs. Sanya breaks down on Romashka and returns to Ensk.
Sanya, after reading the old letters, finally realized that they were directly related to the expedition. Sanya got information that the expedition could not return because of low-quality equipment, because of the fault of Nikolai Antonovich. He says this to his wife Marya Vasilievna in front of everyone. But she, after hearing, decided to end her life. Sanya is accused of the death of Marya Vasilievna, but he does not pay attention to this, but prepares to enter the flight school in order to show everyone that he is right. After some time, Sanya made an appointment with Ivan Ivanovich and deciphered the diaries of the schooner pilot. The expedition must be sought in the Land of Mary.
The sad news for Sanya was that Chamomile is now almost a native son in the Tatarinovs' house. There were rumors that Romashka was even trying to marry Katya.
Sanya is trying to deliver his report in Moscow, but the vile manager is ahead of him here too. He published an article about the location of Captain Tatarinov, and slandered Sanya in the newspaper. Thus, he was able to achieve the cancellation of the report. Sanya finds out that they want to force Katya to marry Romashov. She runs away from home and becomes a geologist, the head of the expedition.
Chamomile does not let up. He can easily prove the guilt of Nikolai Antonovich and is ready to give this information to Sana for one condition - he must abandon Katya. Sanya informs Nikolai Antonovich about this.
Everything interferes with the expedition - either problems with Romashka, or bans on departure. The last link was the death of Sasha, Sanya's sister.
Katya and Sanya got married. They are happy together. Sanya went to fight at the front in Spain. Once Katya met Romashov, who tried to deceive her - he said that he was trying to save the seriously wounded Sanya, he was trying to get out of the trench and that Sanya had disappeared. It turned out that Chamomile left the wounded Sanya to the mercy of fate, taking everything from him. Sanya escapes and searches for Katya. They missed each other, and the main character is offered to fly to the North, where heavy battles are again taking place. In one of the flights, it was necessary to make an emergency landing in the very area where, according to his guesses, it was necessary to look for traces of the expedition of Captain Tatarinov. Sanya still discovers the body of the captain and all his reports and letters.
Upon returning to Moscow, Sanya testified against Romashov and was able to prove that Nikolai Antonovich was guilty. He is driven out of the hall in disgrace, and Sanya and his beloved return to Ensk. There they gathered at the family table, where Sanya is united with the late Captain Tatarinov.
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