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Chapter 1.6 Operational and tactical preparation of German troops for the start of Operation Citadel

There is good Russian word- "essay". The current student does not always understand this word correctly: he thinks that an essay is something school, given. And he, unfortunately, not without the help of teachers, is somewhat right, because all schoolchildren have to write essays in class, that is, to do not always pleasant, but obligatory work, and even get marks for this work.

I would like to remind you that the word “composition” has been and still is used to refer to the works of Pushkin and Byron, Lermontov and Jack London, Nekrasov and Mark Twain, Turgenev and Jules Verne, Tolstoy and Conan Doyle, Chekhov and Kipling, Gorky, Rolland, Mayakovsky, Yesenin, Hemingway and many other domestic and foreign writers. And it is no coincidence that when the most complete edition of the books of this or that writer comes out, the words “Complete Works” are written on them.

To compose or compose, our compatriot, an expert on the Russian language Vladimir Ivanovich Dal once said, is to invent, invent, invent, create mentally, produce with the spirit, with the power of imagination.

These are very precise words, and they can be attributed to the work of every real writer, artist, composer, scientist, when he invents, creates, creates, and we believe in this created, because it happens, it could or can be in life.

Such a writer, such an artist has always been and remains for me Valentin Petrovich Kataev. I knew and accepted him like that when, as a boy, I read “The lonely sail turns white” and “I, the son of the working people ...”, and a little later (it just so happened!) - His previously written novel “Time, forward!”. And then, when in years Patriotic War appeared the story "The Son of the Regiment" - one of best books in Soviet literature for children - it was natural for me that Valentin Kataev wrote it.

The continuation of the reader's friendship with the writer in post-war years there was an acquaintance with the books “A Farm in the Steppe”, “Winter Wind”, “For the Power of the Soviets”, which, together with the story “The lonely sail turns white”, then entered the epic “Waves of the Black Sea”, and, finally, with the book by V. Kataev “ A small iron door in the wall”, an unusual book, but very interesting for the reader and the work of the writer himself.

The works of Valentin Kataev have become good companions of people of all ages - big and small. They excite the reader, they reveal to him a great and complex world life. They sometimes, for example, like the “adult” story by V. Kataev “The Holy Well”, cause heated debate. But people argue about what they care about ...

Before talking about the story "The Son of the Regiment", which you will read in this book, I would like to tell a little about its author. I know that children, and not only children, are interested in the life of every beloved writer, his biography: when and where he was born, how he behaved in childhood and how he studied, and, of course, how he became a writer.

To begin with, I will quote the words of V. Kataev himself:

“I was born in Ukraine. My childhood, adolescence and youth passed there. My father was a native Russian. Mother is a native Ukrainian. In my soul from the very early years"Ukrainian" and "Russian" are intertwined. Or rather, not even intertwined, but completely merged.

Valentin Petrovich Kataev was born in Odessa on January 28, 1897. He learned to read early. Shevchenko, Pushkin, Gogol, Nikitin, Koltsov, Tolstoy became his first favorite writers and teachers. It happened naturally and simply, perhaps even imperceptibly for the future writer: he grew up in a family where they truly knew and loved classic literature. At the age of thirteen, Valya Kataev published his poem "Autumn" in a newspaper. His brother Zhenya was just as passionately drawn to literature (later the remarkable Soviet writer Yevgeny Petrov, one of the creators of the novels The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf).

Valentin Kataev grew up and matured as a person, a citizen and a writer in a stormy historical era. Revolution of 1905, the beginning and collapse of the First World War, the Great October Revolution, the years of socialist construction and the first five-year plans - these are the events that he witnessed or participated in and which later formed the basis of many of his books.

big role in creative biography Valentina Kataeva played such outstanding masters of our culture, like Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Bunin, Demyan Bedny, Maxim Gorky, Alexei Tolstoy, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Eduard Bagritsky, Yuri Olesha, with whom life has confronted the writer in different years. They were true friends V. Kataev, his good advisers and teachers.

The story "The Son of the Regiment" Valentin Kataev wrote in 1944, during the Patriotic War of our people with the Nazi invaders. Remembering this time, Valentin Petrovich said: “Always and everywhere, in the most critical moments Soviet writers were with the people. They shared with millions Soviet people the hardships and hardships of the difficult war years.

The war correspondent of the newspapers Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda, the writer Valentin Kataev himself walked and drove thousands of kilometers of front-line roads.

The war brought our country a lot of grief, troubles and misfortunes. She ruined tens of thousands of cities and villages. She made terrible sacrifices: twenty million Soviet people, more than the population of other states, died in that war. The war deprived thousands of children of fathers and mothers, grandfathers and older brothers. But our people won this war, they won because they showed the greatest endurance, courage and courage. He won because he could not help but win. "Victory or death!" - said our people in those years. And they went to their deaths so that others who survived would win. It was a fair fight for happiness and peace on earth.

The story "The Son of the Regiment" returns the reader to the difficult, heroic events of the war years, which today's children know only from textbooks and the stories of their elders. But textbooks do not always talk about it in an interesting way, and the elders do not always like to remember the war: these memories are too sad ...

After reading this story, you will learn about the fate of a simple village boy Vanya Solntsev, from whom the war took everything: relatives and friends, home and childhood itself. You will learn how, having become a brave scout, Vanya took revenge on the Nazis for his own and the people's grief. Together with Vanya Solntsev, you will go through many trials and experience the joy of heroism in the name of victory over the enemy. You will meet wonderful people, soldiers of our army - Sergeant Egorov and Captain Enakiev, gunner Kovalev and Corporal Bidenko, who not only helped Vanya become a brave scout, but also raised him best qualities real person. And, after reading the story "The Son of the Regiment", you, of course, will understand that a feat is not just courage and heroism, but great, great work, iron discipline, inflexibility of will and, most importantly, great love for one's Motherland ...

The stories of Valentin Kataev have been living in the world for many decades. Over the years, they have been read and loved by millions of readers not only in our country, but also abroad. They fell in love, like many other books by Valentin Kataev - a great writer, artist, master of the word. And if you have not yet read all of Kataev's works, then you can only be envied: you have a lot of good and joyful ahead.