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To the 110th anniversary of the birth of V.A. Kaverina

As a ten-year-old boy, I read a wonderful book by Veniamin Kaverin "Two Captains". And all my subsequent life I follow the principle of its protagonist Sanya Grigoriev: “Fight and seek, find and not give up!”. It is very important to understand what you are fighting for.

Fazil Iskander called "Two Captains" Kaverin "Three Musketeers" of our days.

Kaverin, V. Two captains: a novel / V. Kaverin. - M.: AST, 2005. - 624 p. - (World classics).

Romance for all time

The novel by Veniamin Kaverin "Two Captains" is one of the most striking works of Russian adventure literature of the 20th century. This story of love and fidelity, courage and determination has not left indifferent either an adult or a young reader for many years.

The book was called "a novel of education", "an adventure novel", "an idyllic-sentimental novel", but was not accused of self-deception. And the writer himself said that "this is a novel about justice and that it is more interesting (he said so!) To be honest and courageous than a coward and a liar." And he also said that it was "a novel about the inevitability of truth."

On the motto of the heroes of "Two Captains" "Fight and seek, find and not give up!" more than one generation has grown up who adequately responded to all sorts of challenges of the time.

Fight and seek, find and never give up. From English: That strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
The primary source is the poem "Ulysses" by the English poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), whose 70 years of literary activity are devoted to valiant and happy heroes.
These lines were carved on the grave of polar explorer Robert Scott (1868-1912). In an effort to reach the South Pole first, he nevertheless came to him second, three days after the Norwegian pioneer Roald Amundsen had been there. Robert Scott and his companions died on the way back.

In Russian, these words became popular after the publication of the novel "Two Captains" by Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989). The protagonist of the novel, Sanya Grigoriev, who dreams of polar campaigns, makes these words the motto of his whole life.

Quoted as a phrase-symbol of fidelity to one's purpose and one's principles.

“Fighting” (including one’s own weaknesses) is the first task of a person. “To seek” means to have a humane goal in front of you. "Find" is to make the dream a reality. And if there are new difficulties, then "do not give up." For half a century, knightly morality contributed to the replenishment of the ranks of pilots, sailors, and polar explorers in the USSR. The charge of high morality and optimism that Kaverin's heroes gave people was obvious.

The first volume of V. Kaverin's novel "Two Captains" was first published in 1938, the second volume was published in 1944. the book has been published several hundred times; has been translated into more than 10 foreign languages; children and adults read it. In 1946, for the book "Two Captains" Kaverin was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Before the announcement of the award in the Soviet press, there was a massive critical attack on the author and his work, because the book does not contain a single word about the party, the Komsomol, and the name of Stalin is never mentioned. What critics considered a disadvantage later turned out to be an indisputable advantage - readers loved the book so much that Kaverin himself began to fear that he would remain in history as a writer of one book.

The plot of the book is based on real events. The story of Sanya Grigoriev reproduces in detail the biography of Mikhail Lobashev, a famous geneticist, professor at Leningrad University. V. Kaverin met him in the mid-30s, and this meeting prompted the writer to create a book.

“He was a man,” he later recalled, “in whom ardor was combined with straightforwardness, and perseverance with amazing definiteness of purpose. He knew how to achieve success in any business, even if it was a game of carom, which we then were fond of. A clear mind and a capacity for deep feeling were visible in his every judgment.

Over the course of six evenings, he told me the story of his life - extraordinary, because it was full of extraordinary events, and at the same time similar to the lives of hundreds of other Soviet people. I listened, then I began to write down, and those forty or fifty pages that I then wrote down formed the basis of the novel "Two Captains" (Kaverin V. "Hello, brother. It's very difficult to write ..." (M., 1965), with 238).

“Even such extraordinary details as the dumbness of little Sleigh were not invented by me,” the author admitted.

“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 thirties, which brought huge, breathtaking victories in the Arctic to the Soviet country, and I realized that the “extraordinary” that I was looking for was the light of the Arctic stars, which accidentally fell into a small, abandoned city ”(Kaverin V.“ Hello, brother, writing is very difficult…” (M., 1965), p. 240).

The image of Captain Tatarinov makes us recall several historical analogies at once. In 1912, three Russian polar expeditions set sail: one, on the St. Fock, was headed by Georgy Sedov; the second - Georgy Brusilov on the schooner "St. Anna", and the third, on the boat "Hercules", was led by Vladimir Rusanov. All three ended tragically: their leaders died, and only St. Fok returned from the voyage. The expedition on the schooner "St. Maria" in the novel actually repeats the timing of the journey and the route of "St. Anna", but the appearance, character and views of Captain Tatarinov make him related to Georgy Sedov.

“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. Another has a fantastic story of his journey. It was Brusilov. The drift of my "St. Mary" exactly repeats the drift of Brusilov's "St. Anna." The diary of the navigator Klimov, given in my novel, is completely based on the diary of the navigator “St. Anna "Albanov - one of the two surviving members of this tragic expedition" (Kaverin V. "Hello, brother. It is very difficult to write ..." (M., 1965), pp. 241, 242).

Georgy Yakovlevich
Sedov

Georgy Lvovich
Brusilov

Valerian Ivanovich
Albanov

Another prototype of the protagonist was the military fighter pilot Samuil Klebanov, who died heroically in 1943. A talented pilot and a wonderful, clean person. It was he who initiated the writer into the secrets of flying skills. “I was proud of his friendship,” recalled V. A. Kaverin.

“Ask anyone, Kaverin is the author of what? And they will say: "Two captains." This is a book of rare fate. And no matter how long, to our joy, its author lived, we can safely say that she will outlive him by several lives. The Two Captains are known by title, like Tom Sawyer, like The Three Musketeers, before they even remember the name of the author.

... The action unfolds like a spring. Short enticing chapters, each of which promises a new turn of life, some event, some riddles. The finest building! In the first paragraph, there is a tie: a mail bag with soaked letters and a drowned postman. These letters, which caught your secret curiosity, will reappear somewhere closer to the middle of the book and lead the plot. Meanwhile, the action is rapidly unwinding, capturing new faces along the way, so it's impossible to put the book aside...

Kaverin is a romantic by nature. But his youthful romance, I think, has nothing to do with pompous romanticism. Kaverin himself lives like a young man in his books, lives in expectation, hope, enticing mystery and a sense of honor.

The hero of "Two Captains" Sanya Grigoriev devoted his whole life to restoring the name of Captain Tatarinov. remarkable traveler, whose name did not remain on any geographical map because of meanness, because of hostility, because of the non-recognition of his discovery. The plot of the novel is based on the passionate desire of Sanya Grigoriev to reach this truth, to restore this name. The return of trampled justice, the good name of a person - this is the highest feat, which Kaverin's romance recognizes. And if romance can in some cases be a way of escaping from the truth, then it can also be a means of coming to it.”

Kaverin recalled: “During the Leningrad blockade, the radio committee asked me to say a few words on behalf of Sanya Grigoriev, the hero of my novel “Two Captains”. I said, "But, excuse me, it's a semi-fictional character." They replied: "Nothing, the guys think that he is alive and well, say a few words on his behalf." At the front, the situation was very difficult, and on behalf of Sanya Grigoriev, a literary hero, I delivered a speech addressed to the Komsomol members of the Baltic. I would say that this is the bridge that literature throws into life.

(Kaverin V. Teach literature (Vozhaty, 1973, No. 1, p. 20).

In 1986, Kaverin admitted in an interview: “I am still amazed at the success of The Two Captains, not considering this novel to be my best novel.”

Two captains (novel) [Electronic resource]: material from Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia. - Access mode:

Educational student portal: [website]. - Access mode: http://area7.ru/metodic-material.php?4948 . - 17.04.2012.

"Keep your honor from a young age"[Electronic resource]: an extracurricular reading lesson based on the novel by V. A. Kaverin "Two Captains". - Access mode: http://ptpschool.narod.ru/doc/ber_che_s_m.doc . - 17.04.2012.

"Be your captain": reader's conference on the book by V. Kaverin "Two Captains" [Electronic resource]: for students in grades 7-8. – Access mode: http://bibsosh 2.ru/kopilka/szenarii/79-chitatelskaya-konferenciya-po-knige-v-kaverina-dva-kapitana. html. - 17.04.2012.

Egupova, A. G. "Fight and seek, find and not give up"[Electronic resource]: Opening a book. V. Kaverin. "Two Captains" / Albina Gennadievna Yegupova // Festival of Pedagogical Ideas "Open Lesson". – Access mode: http://festival.1september.ru/articles/565039/ . - 17.04.2012.

Nemchinova, S. V. Take care of honor from a young age[Electronic resource]: (the problem of honor in the works of A.S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter" and V. Kaverin "Two Captains"): an extracurricular reading lesson in the 8th grade / Svetlana Vasilievna Nemchinova // Educational student portal: [website] - Access mode:

Expedition "In the footsteps of two captains" (2010)

About the unique Russian polar expedition. Her goal is to uncover the mystery of the death of the schooner "Saint Anna", captained by Georgy Brusilov. In August 1912, the ship set off along the Northern Sea Route. Of the entire team, only two survived. One of them is the navigator Albanov, whose diaries became the basis for the famous "Two Captains" by Kaverin. As time shows, the motto of the hero of the novel, Sani Grigoriev, is “Fight and seek, find and not give up!” - follow the captains of the XXI century.

Sanya Grigoriev, the protagonist of the famous novel by Veniamin Kaverin, eventually found the remains of Captain Tatarinov's polar expedition. So it was in "Two Captains" - the book and the film. But in fact, the secret of the schooner "Saint Anna" and its crew, led by Lieutenant Georgy Brusilov, was only slightly revealed in the summer of 2010, when a search expedition led by the honorary polar explorer Oleg Prodan visited Franz Josef Land.

Preparations for the search for traces of the Brusilov team took five years: they studied the archives, prepared for historical, archaeological and other scientific research. All expenses - for equipment, arrangement and operation of the camp, as well as for the work itself, with the exception of transport support - the researchers had to bear.

The expedition was a success. The remains and personal belongings of Brusilov polar explorers who died on the Franz Josef Land archipelago back in 1914 were found.

Achildiev, S. In the footsteps of two captains: ros. polar explorers lifted the veil of secrecy over the fate of the expedition of fleet lieutenant Georgy Brusilov, who died almost 100 years ago: a search expedition led by the honorary polar explorer Oleg Prodan / Sergey Achildiev // Nevskoe Vremya visited Franz Josef Land. - 2010. - 25 Aug. – P. 7: color. ph. – Access mode: http://www.nvspb.ru/stories/po-sledam-dvuh-kapitanov-43157 . - 17.04.2012.

Here it is, the same glacier, next to which the remains and belongings of Georgy Brusilov's expedition members were discovered. From now on, a memorial cross will stand at this place.

Maybe this was the last letter from one of the dead polar explorers? It is difficult to convey the feelings that you experience when reading lines written almost 100 years ago ...

Chistyakova, A. Secrets in the ice: members of the expedition "In the footsteps of two captains" intend to reveal the cause of the mysterious disappearance of the crew of the schooner "Saint Anna" / A. Chistyakova // Rossiyskaya Gazeta. - 2011. - 6 Aug. - S. 19. - (North-West. Expedition).

Kotz, A. Found traces of a polar expedition from the novel "Two Captains" [Electronic resource]: traces of an expedition that disappeared 96 years ago, whose tragedy formed the basis of the famous novel, were found in the Arctic / Alexander Kots. – Access mode: http://kp.ua/online/news/239211/ . – 04/17/2012.

Author's photo

All these finds were mentioned in the diaries of the navigator of the "St. Anna" Albanov

Mystery of the "Two Captains"[Electronic resource]: traces of the polar expedition from the famous novel were found in the Arctic. - Access mode:

Yes, there are not many chic exhibits, there is not a wide variety of topics, but there is a special spirit. Burning theme! And it becomes a little pity that Kaverin's novel practically fell out of school study, despite the fact that the modern child has a clear shortage of positive characters. No, this is not longing for a bygone era, for one's childhood, through which "Two Captains" passed like a red thread. It continues to be relevant and modern to this day, because the idea of ​​goodness, the victory of justice have been and remain enduring values.

Museum. The history of the creation of the museum: [museum of the novel "Two Captains" by V. A. Kaverin] // Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth. V.A. Kaverina: [website]. - Access mode:

Nekrasov, S. The return of the "captains": 68 years they were next to the deceased pilot / Sergei Nekrasov // AiF - Pskov. - 2011. - 12 - 18 Jan. (No. 1-2). - P. 11. - Access mode: http://www.sz.aif.ru/society/article/17794 . - 17.04.2012.

The museum of the novel "Two Captains" was replenished with a truly unique exhibit, which lain for 68 years in the cockpit of the Soviet Il-2 aircraft shot down near Demyansk (Novgorod Region) - the first volume of the pre-war edition (1940) of the novel "Two Captains", which before its last flight read Deputy Commander of the 2nd Squadron of the 568th Attack Aviation Regiment, Lieutenant Mikhail Gavrilov (the pilot died on April 30, 1942).

In general, the fact that it survived, if not a miracle, then an amazing combination of circumstances. Even after drying, the volume clearly gives off aviation diesel fuel. At the same time, the book lay in the hip pocket of the pilot's flight suit along with another - "The Combat Experience of Soviet Aviation."

When examining the book, its new owners found that the 38th page was wrapped, as is done when a person is in a hurry. Perhaps it was at this place that Lieutenant Mikhail Gavrilov received the command to take off and in a hurry turned down the page before taking his plane into the sky for the last time. It can also be assumed that this book was his talisman, but the very fact that the "Two Captains" helped him beat the enemy can be considered indisputable.

Ageenko, A. Museum of the city of Ensk: this is how Veniamin Kaverin called Pskov in his novel "Two Captains" / Alexandra Ageenko, Mikhail Glushchenko // Pskov News. - 2010. - 3 Nov. (No. 27). - S. 20. - (Family archive). – Access mode: http://www.kaverin.ru/2capitans/Kaverin/573 . - 17.04.2012. Phot.

In the library for children and youth. V. A. Kaverina operates a museum of one literary work - the novel "Two Captains" // Pskov province. - 2009. - June 17-24 (No. 23). - p. 3.

Briefly about the exhibitions: "A beautifully lived life" (about the writer's brother L. A. Zilber) and an exhibition dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the publication of the book "Two Captains".

Chernokozheva, G. Light of the Arctic Stars. Museum of the novel "Two Captains" in the cultural space of the region/ Galina Chernokozheva // Moscow Library Bulletin. - 2009. - No. 3. - S. 30-31.

In the Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth. VA Kaverina has a unique museum of one book - the museum of the novel "Two Captains".

Volkova, N. A novel with a continuation/ Natalia Volkova // Library at school. - 2008. - 16-30 Nov. (No. 22). - Access mode: http://lib.1september.ru/view_article.php?ID=200802203 . - 17.04.2012.

The main thing this library is famous for is the Museum of "Two Captains", the most famous novel by Veniamin Kaverin. About this side of the life of the library and why the library needs this work at all, its director tells.

Moiseenko, Yu. Ships and captains: adults intend to return to schoolchildren the love of the book/ Yuri Moiseenko // Russian newspaper. - 2008. - 7 Oct. - S. 11. - (North-West). – Access mode: http://old.pskov.ru/about_region/smi/publications/16779 . - 17.04.2012.

To the signing of an agreement between the Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth. V. A. Kaverin and secondary school No. 2 in St. Petersburg.

The spool is small, but expensive: "hybrids" or "new species"?/ prepare T. Filippova, S. Matlina // Library business. - 2007. - No. 18. - S. 7-13.

About museum-libraries, incl. the museum of the novel "Two Captains" is mentioned in the library named after V. A. Kaverin.

Tokareva, L. Recent history of the city of Ensk: [Children's and Youth Library named after. V. A. Kaverina. Museum of the Novel "Two Captains"] / Lydia Tokareva // New pragmatics: inform. - analytical journal. - 2006. - No. 2 (April - May). - S. 120-123: photo. – Access mode: http://culture.pskov.ru/ru/persons/object/70/publications/48 . - 17.04.2012.

Romanovskaya, L. Sanya Grigoriev will be the last to leave the building: "Two captains" are registered in Pskov / L. Romanovskaya // Culture. - 2006. - February 23-March 1 (No. 8). - P. 4. - Access mode:

"Two Captains" is not just a novel by the Russian Soviet classic Veniamin Kaverin, for several generations of our country it has been a symbol of courage, honor, loyalty, chivalrous self-sacrifice in the name of a cherished goal, in the name of friendship and love. Needless to say, such concepts have not become very popular in our "commercial" days. And as if a challenge to businessmanship and huckstering, the testament of the "junior captain" Sanya Grigoriev, "Fight and seek, find and not give up", embodied in bronze, grew in ancient Pskov a monument to Two Captains (authors - young St. Petersburg sculptors M. Belov and A. Ananiev). The eldest, Captain Tatarinov, is very similar in sculpture to O. Yu. Schmidt, and the youngest, Sanya, is a slightly grown-up boy from Pskov, named Ensk in Kaverin's novel. (St. Zolottsev). This composition was approved by Kaverin himself.

Kaverin saw the sketch when he came to Pskov in 1986: they celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Pskov male gymnasium (now School No. 1), where the future writer studied. Veniamin Alexandrovich liked the sketch and later, in a letter to the rector of the Repin Leningrad Institute, Pyotr Fomin, he wrote about the work of his students, young sculptors Mikhail Belov and Andrei Ananiev: “I can’t convey to you the deep feeling of gratitude that I feel when I think about that my sixty years of stubborn and, I dare say, honest work will be immortalized with such an invaluable gift as a monument to the heroes of my novel ... ".

The writer was not destined to live to see the erection of the monument. Its opening took place in July 1995 - Sanya Grigoriev, who is rapidly advancing towards a goal that is completely clear to him, and the romantic, sublime, raised on a pedestal captain Tatarinov, very similar to the famous explorer of the North O. Schmidt, now daily greet residents of the city, museum visitors and readers libraries.

The bronze hand of Sanya Grigoriev sparkles from the touch of idle amateurs taking pictures with monuments, but also from the rare secret shaking of those who share with the hero the ardent oath “Fight and seek, find and not give up!”.

Zolottsev, S. Heroes for all times: [about the monument to "Two Captains"] / S. Zolottsev // Library. - 1997. - No. 3. - P. 34. - Access mode:

In 1976, Yevgeny Karelov made a six-part film "Two Captains" (Mosfilm) - http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/1629/annot/

Musical "Nord-Ost"

In 2001, based on the book "Two Captains", the musical "Nord-Ost" was staged in Moscow (producers of the musical "Nord-Ost", authors of music, libretto and staging A. Ivashchenko, G. Vasiliev) - http://www. nordost.ru/

“It was an amazing job, the only one, there is no other job like it, and I don’t know if there will be. "Nord-Ost" was played more than 400 times, and every time it was a holiday,” admits the author of the music for the musical Alexei Ivashchenko.

Smirnov, K. Meet at the Two Captains[Electronic resource]: the story of Kaverin's Katya and Sanya of our days with a prologue and epilogue, told by themselves in a dialogue with a Novaya Gazeta correspondent: [a conversation with the performers of the roles of Katya Tatarinova and Sanya Grigoriev in the musical "Nord-Ost": Ekaterina Guseva and Andrei Bogdanov two months after the terrorists seized the Theater Center on Dubrovka] / Kim Smirnov // Novaya Gazeta. - 2002. - 26 Dec. – Access mode: http://2002.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2002/95n/n95n-s00.shtml . - 17.04.2012.

Shimadina, M. Veniamin Kaverin set a record[Electronic resource] / Marina Shimadina // Kommersant. - 2002. - April 20. - P. 8. - Access mode: http://kommersant.ru/doc/319374 . - 17.04.2012.

The anniversary of Veniamin Kaverin (100th birthday) was celebrated by the team of the musical "Nord-Ost" at the North Pole. In the spirit of once popular excursions to literary places, theater captains set off in the footsteps of Kaverin heroes, polar pilots and explorers. At the point of intersection of all meridians on a drifting ice floe in 40-degree frost, a fragment of the musical was performed, which was recorded as an official record by a representative of the Russian Book of Records.

Two captains capable of melting both hearts and polar ice[Electronic resource] // Today. - 2002. - April 19. - Access mode:

The audiobook format provides a new opportunity to enjoy the unsurpassed skill and talent of the people who created this radio play.
Performers: A. Mikhailov, M. Kupriyanova, I. Viktorovna, E. Perov, I. Voronov, G. Pechnikov and others.
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes.

Municipal educational institution

Podgorenskaya secondary school №1

Voronezh region

Literary Lounge

Roman V. Kaverina

"Two Captains" - book

for all time.

Summary of extracurricular activities

VIII class

Teacher of Russian language and literature

Lakhina Yulia Petrovna

MOU Podgorenskaya secondary school №1

Podgorensky municipal district

Voronezh region

P.g.t. Podgorensky

2008

Goals:

To expand students' ideas about the artistic world of V. Kaverin on the material of the novel "Two Captains".

To form in schoolchildren ideas about the meaning of human life, its values.

Education of honor and duty.

Education of aesthetic taste by means of artistic word and music.

Epigraph:

Reading good books opens us

hidden in our own soul

thoughts.

Sh. Piermont

Course progress.

Organizational moment.

Introduction by the teacher.

Application. Presentation. Slide 2.

Dear Guys! There are a great many books in the world: scientific and artistic, Russian and foreign, ancient and modern, interesting, informative, bright, memorable…
In our age of high technology and universal computerization, no matter what, none of us can do without reading. The great thinker D. Diderot once said: "People stop thinking when they stop reading." It's amazing, but a chance meeting with a good book can forever change a person's fate. After all, the book contains the best part of a person: his soul, and therefore the book is the same necessary thing for people as bread, sleep, air and sun. One cannot but agree with Charles Piermont, who said that reading good books reveals to us the thoughts hidden in our own soul. These words, guys, will become the epigraph to our today's conversation about one wonderful book and an amazing Russian writer who created this unique work. Of course, you guessed that we are talking about the novel by Veniamin Kaverin "Two Captains". Guys, in preparation for our today's meeting, I re-read this novel and again I was worried and rejoiced at the meeting with the book. I really want this good book to become a discovery for you too, make you stop and look around, look at yourself from the outside: how do I grow and live on earth? What is happening to me? The time has come, dear friends, to raise such questions and answer them. In today's lesson, we will learn this, and we will also form our reading taste and ability to understand the writer. III. A word about Veniamin Kaverin.

Application. Slide 3.

Guys, let's take a closer look at the writer Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin. Here is his portrait. Pay attention to how affectionately and wisely the eyes shine on this serious, concentrated face, how good and attention emanates from the whole appearance of this amazing person. The motto of the life of Veniamin Kaverin was the words: "Be honest, do not pretend, try to tell the truth and remain yourself in the most difficult circumstances." It was these life principles that the writer cherished and was guided by them all his life. Student's message about the biography of V. Kaverin.

Kaverin Veniamin Aleksandrovich (1902 - 1989), prose writer.

Born April 6, 1902 in Pskov in the family of a musician. In 1912 he entered the Pskov gymnasium. "My older brother's friend Yu. Tynyanov, later a well-known writer, was my first literary teacher, who inspired me with an ardent love for Russian literature," Kaverin writes. At the age of sixteen, he came to Moscow and in 1919 graduated from high school here. Wrote poetry. In 1920 he transferred from Moscow University to Petrograd University, simultaneously enrolling in the Institute of Oriental Languages, graduating from both. He was left at the university in graduate school, where he was engaged in scientific work for six years and defended his dissertation in 1929. In 1921, together with M. Zoshchenko, N. Tikhonov, Vs. Ivanov was the organizer of the literary group "Serapion Brothers". It was first published in the almanac of this group in 1922 (the story "Chronicle of the city of Leipzig for 18 ... year"). In the same decade, he wrote stories and novels ("Masters and Apprentices" (1923), "The Suit of Diamonds" (1927), "The End of Khaza" (1926), a story about the life of scientists "Brawler, or Evenings on Vasilyevsky Island" (1929 ) Decided to become a professional writer, finally devoting himself to literary creativity In 1934 - 36 he wrote his first novel "Fulfillment of Desires", in which he set the task not only to convey his knowledge of life, but also to develop his own literary style. It succeeded, the novel was a success. The most popular work of Kaverin was the novel for youth - "Two Captains", the first volume of which was completed in 1938. The outbreak of World War II stopped work on the second volume. During the war, Kaverin wrote front-line correspondence, military essays, stories. At his request, he was sent to the Northern Fleet. It was there, communicating daily with pilots and submariners, that I understood in what direction the work on the second volume of "Two Captains" would go. In 1944 the second volume of the novel was published. In 1949 - 56 he worked on the trilogy "Open Book", about the formation and development of microbiology in the country, about the goals of science, about the nature of the scientist. The book has gained popularity with the reader. In 1962, Kaverin published the story "Seven Unclean Pairs", which tells about the first days of the war. In the same year, the story "Slanting Rain" was written. In the 1970s he created the book of memoirs "In the Old House", as well as the trilogy "Illuminated Windows", in the 1980s - "Drawing", "Evening Day". V. Kaverin died on May 2, 1989.

Application. slide 4.

Teacher: No matter who and what Kaverin writes about, he tells about what fascinates him, and about what he knows well. Friendship is the main theme, throughout the life of the writer, she meant too much to him. “Time wasted is not a failed job or an unfulfilled wish, but years when you don’t see friends.” Books by V. Kaverin (according to slide 4).
IV. "Two Captains" - a book for all time. Book exhibition.

Application. Slide 5.

You have read one of the best works of V. Kaverin. The novel "Two Captains" is a sublime and romantic story about the love of young people, in which, like a drop of water, the great history of a great country is reflected. It intertwined love and hate, heroism and betrayal, romance and faith in justice. "Fight and seek, find and never give up!" - under this motto, the orphan boy Sanya Grigoriev, having overcome all difficulties, finds his place in life.
Student's message about the book "Two Captains".
The first volume of V. Kaverin's novel "Two Captains" was first published in 1938, the second volume was published in 1944. The book has been published several hundred times; has been translated into more than 10 foreign languages; children and adults read it. In 1946, Kaverin was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for the book "Two Captains". The plot of the book is based on real events. The story of Sanya Grigoriev reproduces in detail the biography of Mikhail Lobashev, later a famous geneticist, professor at Leningrad University. V. Kaverin met him in the middle30s, and this meeting prompted the writer to create a book. “Even such extraordinary details as the dumbness of little Sleigh were not invented by me,” the author admitted. Another prototype of the protagonist was the military fighter pilot Samuil Klebanov, who died heroically in 1943. it was he who initiated the writer into the secrets of flying skills. The image of Captain Tatarinov makes us recall several historical analogies at once. In 1912, three Russian polar expeditions set sail: one, on the ship "St. Fok", headed by Georgy Sedov; the second - Georgy Brusilov on the schooner "St. Anna", and the third, on the boat "Hercules", was led by Vladimir Rusanov. All three ended tragically: their leaders died, and only St. Fok returned from the voyage. The expedition on the schooner "St. Maria" in the novel actually repeats the timing of the journey and the route of "St. Anna", but the appearance, character and views of Captain Tatarinov make him related to Georgy Sedov.The words "Fight and seek, find and not give up" are a quotation from a poem by the English poet Alfred Tennyson. They are carved on the grave of polar explorer Robert Scott, who died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole. V. Leafing through the pages of a great book…

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Guys, I hope you enjoyed reading The Two Captains.You know, the undoubted sign of any good book is that one likes it the more one turns to it more often. Today, my dears, let's leaf through the pages of this amazing book again, remember the episodes we liked, and experience the joy of communicating with our favorite characters. I suggest that you break our memories into several parts, the names of which you see on the screen.1. So, "Old Letters"... Student message. Once in the city of Ensk, on the banks of the river, a dead postman and a bag of letters were found. Aunt Dasha read one letter aloud to her neighbors every day. Sanya Grigoriev especially remembered the lines about distant polar expeditions... Sanya lives in Ensk with her parents and sister Sasha. By an absurd accident of Sanya father is accused of murder and arrested. Only little Sanya knows about the real killer, but because of the dumbness, from which the wonderful doctor Ivan Ivanovich will save him only later, he cannot do anything. The father dies in prison, after some time the mother marries. The stepfather turns out to be a cruel and mean man who torments both his children and his wife. After the death of her mother, Aunt Dasha and neighbor Skovorodnikov decide to send Sanya and her sister to an orphanage. Then Sanya and his friend Petya Skovorodnikov flee to Moscow, and from there to Turkestan. "Fight and seek, find and not give up" - this oath supports them on the way. The boys get to Moscow on foot, but Petkin's uncle, on whom they counted, has gone to the front. After three months of almost free work for speculators, they have to hide from inspection. Petka manages to escape, and Sanya first ends up in a distribution center for homeless children, from there - to a communal school. Sanya likes school: he reads and sculpts from clay, he makes new friends - Valka Zhukov and Romashka.2. Tatarinovs. Student message. One day, Sanya helps to bring a bag to an unfamiliar old woman who lives in the apartment of the head of the school, Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov. Here Sanya meets Katya, a pretty, but somewhat prone to "wonder" girl with pigtails and dark lively eyes. After some time, Sanya again finds herself in the familiar house of the Tatarinovs .. The Tatarinovs' apartment becomes for Sanya "something like Ali Baba's cave with its treasures, mysteries and dangers." Nina Kapitonovna, whom Sanya helps with all her housework and who feeds him with meals, is a “treasure”; Marya Vasilievna, "neither a widow nor a husband's wife," who always wears a black dress and often plunges into melancholy, is a "mystery"; and "danger" - Nikolai Antonovich, as it turned out, Katya's cousin. The favorite topic of Nikolai Antonovich's stories is his cousin, that is, the husband of Marya Vasilievna, whom he "took care of all his life" and who "turned out to be ungrateful." Nikolai Antonovich has long been in love with Marya Vasilyevna, but while she is "ruthless" to him, rather her sympathy is sometimes evoked by the geography teacher Korablev who comes to visit. Although, when Korablev makes an offer to Marya Vasilievna, he is refused. On the same day, Nikolai Antonovich convenes a school council at home, where Korablev is sharply condemned. It was decided to limit the activities of the geography teacher - then he would be offended and leave, Sanya informs Korablev about everything he heard, but as a result, Nikolai Antonovich kicks Sanya out of the house. Offended Sanya, suspecting Korablev of betrayal, leaves the commune. After wandering around Moscow all day, he falls completely ill and ends up in the hospital, where he is again saved by Dr. Ivan Ivanovich.3. Katya's father. Student message. Four years have passed - Sanya is seventeen years old. There is a theatrical performance at the school, it is here that Sanya meets Katya again and reveals his secret to her: he has long been preparing to become a pilot. Sanya finally learns from Katya the story of Captain Tatarinov. In June of the twelfth year, having stopped at Ensk to say goodbye to his family, he went on the schooner "Holy Mary" from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. The expedition did not return. Maria Vasilievna unsuccessfully sent a petition for help to the tsar: it was believed that if Tatarinov died, it was through his own fault: he "carelessly handled state property." The captain's family moved in with Nikolai Antonovich. Sanya often meets with Katya: they go to the skating rink, to the zoo together. At the school ball Sanya and Katya is left alone, but Romashka interferes with their conversation, who then reports everything to Nikolai Antonovich. Sanya is no longer accepted by the Tatarinovs, and Katya is sent to her aunt in Ensk. Sanya beats Romashka, it turns out, and in the story with Korablev it was he who played a fatal role. And yet Sanya repents of his act - with a heavy feeling, he leaves for Ensk. In his hometown, Sanya finds Aunt Dasha, and the old man Skovorodnikov, and his sister. Once again, Sanya rereads the old letters - and suddenly realizes that they directly relate to the expedition of Captain Tatarinov! With excitement, Sanya learns that none other than Ivan Lvovich Tatarinov discovered Severnaya Zemlya and named it after his wife Marya Vasilievna, that it was precisely through the fault of Nikolai Antonovich, this "terrible person", that most of the equipment turned out to be unusable. The lines in which the name of Nikolai is directly mentioned are washed out by water and are preserved only in Sanya's memory, but Katya believes him. Sanya firmly and resolutely denounces Nikolai Antonovich in front of Marya Vasilievna and even demands that it be she who "files the charge." Only then Sanya realizes that this conversation finally struck Marya Vasilyevna, convinced her of the decision to commit suicide, because Nikolai Antonovich was already her husband by that time ... Doctors fail to save Marya Vasilievna: she is dying. At the funeral, Sanya approaches Katya, but she turns away from him. Nikolai Antonovich managed to convince everyone that the letter was not about him at all, but about some kind of “von Vyshimirsky” and that Sanya was guilty of the death of Marya Vasilievna. Sanya can only intensively prepare for admission to flight school in order to someday find the expedition of Captain Tatarinov and prove his case.4. Navigator's diary. Fight and seek! Student message. Having seen Katya for the last time, Sanya Grigoriev leaves to study in Leningrad. He attends a flight school and works at a factory at the same time. Finally, Sanya achieves an appointment to the North. In the city of the Arctic, he meets with Dr. Ivan Ivanovich, who shows him the diaries of the navigator of the "St. Mary" Ivan Klimov, who died in 1914 in Arkhangelsk. Patiently deciphering the notes, Sanya learns that Captain Tatarinov, having sent people in search of land, himself remained on the ship. The navigator describes the hardships of the campaign, speaks of his captain with admiration and respect. Sanya understands that the traces of the expedition must be looked for precisely on the Land of Mary. From Valya Zhukov, Sanya learns about some Moscow news: Romashka has become "the closest person" in the Tatarinovs' house and, it seems, "is going to marry Katya." Sanya constantly thinks about Katya - he decides to go to Moscow. In the meantime, he and the doctor are given the task to fly to the remote Wanokan camp, but they fall into a blizzard. Thanks to a forced landing, Sanya finds a hook from the schooner "Saint Mary". Gradually, a coherent picture is formed from the "fragments" of the captain's history.5. Find and don't give up! Student message. In Moscow, Sanya plans to make a report on the expedition. But Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov interferes with him. Katya leaves the Tatarinovs' house. Now she is a geologist, head of the expedition. Sanya returns to the North. Five years pass. Sanya and Katya, now Tatarinova-Grigorieva, live either in the Far East, or in the Crimea, or in Moscow. Eventually they settle in Leningrad. Sanya takes part in the war in Spain, and then, when the Great Patriotic War begins, he goes to the front. One day, Katya meets Romashka again, and he tells her about how he, saving the wounded Sanya, tried to get out of encirclement of the Germans and how Sanya disappeared. Katya does not want to believe Chamomile, she does not lose hope at this difficult time. And indeed Chamomile is lying: in fact, he did not save, but abandoned the seriously wounded Sanya, taking away his weapons and documents. Sanya manages to get out: he is treated in a hospital, and from there he goes to Leningrad in search of Katya. Katya is not in Leningrad, but Sanya is invited to fly to the North, where battles are also underway. Sanya, having never found Katya either in Moscow, where he just missed her, or in Yaroslavl, thinks that she is in Novosibirsk. During the successful completion of one of the combat missions, Grigoriev's crew makes an emergency landing not far from the place where, according to Sanya, traces of Captain Tatarinov's expedition should be looked for. Sanya finds the captain's body, as well as his farewell letters and reports. And having returned to Polyarny, Sanya also finds Katya at Dr. Pavlov's. In the summer of 1944, Sanya and Katya spend their holidays in Moscow, where they see all their friends. Sanya needs to do two things: he testifies in the case of the convicted Romashov, and in the Geographical Society his report on the expedition, on the discoveries of Captain Tatarinov, on who caused this expedition to die, passes with great success. Nikolai Antonovich is expelled from the hall in disgrace. In Ensk, the family gathers again at the table. The old man Skovorodnikov in his speech unites Tatarinov and Sanya and says that "such captains move humanity and science forward." VI. Captain Tatarinov.

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Friends, the life story of Kaverin's heroes and the history of the whole country flew before our eyes. In my opinion, it is impossible not to dwell in more detail on the image of a man who did not spare his own life for the sake of the Motherland. This is a real hero, Captain Tatarinov. Student message. Kaverin did not just come up with the hero of his work, the captain
Tatarinov. He took advantage of the history of two brave conquerors of the ExtremeNorth. One of them was Sedov. From another he took the actual history of histrips. It was Brusilov. Drift "Saint Mary" exactlyrepeats the drift of Brusilovskaya "Saint Anna". So, how did Ivan Lvovich Tatarinov grow up? It was a boy born into a poor fishing family on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov. In his youth, he went as a sailor on oil tankers between Batumi and Novorossiysk. Then he passed the exam for the "naval ensign" and served in the Hydrographic Department, with proud indifference enduring the arrogant non-recognition of the officers. Tatarinov read a lot, took notes in the margins of books. He argued with the great traveler Nansen. Now the captain was "completely agree", then "completely disagree" with him. He reproached him for not having reached the pole of anyfour hundred kilometers, Nansen turned to the ground. Brilliant thought: “Ice itselfwill solve its problem” was recorded there. On a sheet of yellowed paperdropped out of Nansen's book, was written by the hand of Ivan Lvovich Tatarinov:“Amundsen wants to leave Norway the honor of discoveringNorth Pole, and we will go this year and prove to the whole world thatRussians are capable of this feat." He wanted, like Nansen, to passfurther north with drifting ice, and then get to the pole on dogs. In mid-June 1912, the schooner "St. Mary" left St. Petersburgto Vladivostok. At first, the ship followed the intended course, but in the Kara Sea"St. Mary" froze and slowly began to move north along with the polarice. Thus, willy-nilly, the captain had to refusethe original intention was to pass to Vladivostok along the coast of Siberia. "Butno bad without good! A completely different thought now occupies me, ”he wrote ina letter to his wife. There was even ice in the cabins and had to be cut down every morningaxe. It was a very hard journey, but all the people held on welland probably would have done the job had it not been for the delay in getting the gear, and if that gear hadn't been so bad. The team owed all its failures to the betrayal of Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov. Of the sixty dogs he sold to the team in Arkhangelsk, most of them had to be shot back in Novaya Zemlya. “We took risks, we knew that we were taking risks, but we did not expect such a blow,” Tatarinov wrote, “The main failure is a mistake that you have to pay for every day, every minute, the one that I entrusted the equipment of the expedition to Nikolai ... » Among the captain's farewell letters were a map of the filmed area andbusiness papers. One of them was a copy of the undertaking, according to whichthe captain waives all remuneration in advance, all fishingmining upon return to the "Great Land" belongs to Nikolai AntonovichTatarinov, the captain is responsible with all his property to Tatarinov inin the event of the loss of the vessel. But despite the difficulties, he managed to draw conclusions from his observations.and the formulas proposed by him allow you to subtract the speed and directionice movements in any area of ​​the Arctic Ocean. It seemsalmost unbelievable if we remember that the relatively short drift"St. Mary" passed through places that, it would seem, do not provide data forsuch broad results. The captain was left alone, all his comrades died, he could no longerto go, froze on the go, on halts, could not even warm up while eating, frozelegs. "I'm afraid we're done, and I have no hope even that you ever read these lines. We can no longer walk, we freeze on the go,on halts, even for food, you can’t get warm in any way, ”we read his lines. Tatarinov understood that soon it was his turn, but he was not at all afraid of death, because he did more than he could to stay alive. His story ended not in defeat and unknown death, but in victory.At the end of the war, making a report at the Geographical Society, Sanya Grigorievreported that the facts that had been established by the expedition of CaptainTatarinov, have not lost their significance. So, based on the study of driftscientists suggested the existence of an unknown island between the 78th and 80th parallels, and this island was discovered in 1935. Permanent drift, setNansen, was confirmed by the journey of Captain Tatarinov, and the formulascomparative movement of ice and wind represent a huge contribution toRussian science. The photographic films of the expedition, lying in the ground nearthirty years. On them he appears to us - a tall man in a fur hat, in furboots tied under the knees with straps. He stands stubbornly bowedhead, leaning on a gun, and a dead bear, paws folded like a kitten,lies at his feet. This was a strong, fearless soul! Everyone stood up when he appeared on the screen, and such silence, suchsolemn silence reigned in the hall, that no one dared even breathe,not to say even a word. “... It is bitter for me to think about all the things that I could do,if it were not for me that they helped, but at least they didn’t interfere. One consolation is thatby my labors, new vast lands were discovered and annexed to Russia ... "-we read the lines written by the brave captain. He named the earthhis wife, Marya Vasilievna. Teacher: A courageous and clear character, purity of thought, clarity of purpose - all this exposes a person of great soul. And Captain Tatarinov is buried like a hero. Ships entering the Yenisei Bay from afar see his grave. They pass by herhalf-mast flags, and the mourning salute thunders from cannons. The grave was built of white stone, and it sparkles dazzlingly under the rays of the never-setting polar sun. The following words are carved at the height of human growth: “Here lies the body of Captain I.L. Tatarinov, who made one of the most courageous journeys and died on his way back from Severnaya Zemlya discovered by him in June 1915. Fight and seek, find and never give up!” That is why all the heroes of the story consider I.L. Tatarinov a hero. Becausethat he was a fearless man, fought death and, no matter what.achieved his goal.
VII. Sanya Grigoriev. Guys, after all that has been said about the life and exploits of the second captain from Kaverin's book, Sani Grigoriev, the best addition to the characterization of this image will be the song "Captains of their own destiny."

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Take care of honor from a young age.

- Guys, what work of Russian literature does the epigraph refer to: “Take care of honor from a young age”? - Yes, of course, this is Pushkin's story "The Captain's Daughter". What do these two works have in common? What unites the main characters of A.S. Pushkin and V.A. Kaverin? - Let's try to draw parallels between the heroes of the works and find a correspondence between the images in Pushkin's story and in V. Kaverin's "Two Captains".

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- Thinking about the actions that the heroes of the works perform, we constantly return to the word "honor". V.I.Dal in the "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language" defines the word "honor" as "the inner moral dignity of a person, valor, honesty, nobility of soul and a clear conscience." - Is honor a purely noble quality, or is it a universal concept? Prove your point based on the novel "Two Captains". IX. Great Book Museum.

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This rarely happens. But if it happens, then this is evidence of popular love and gratitude. I'm talking about the monument to the heroes of V. Kaverin's novel "Two Captains". The monument was erected in 1995 in Pskov, the writer's hometown. And a museum of this book has been created in the Pskov Regional Library ...

X. "Nord-ost"

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On October 19, 2001, the premiere of the musical Nord-Ost, based on the Two Captains by Kaverin, took place in Moscow. This musical proved by its own example that not only on Broadway, but also in Moscow, you can play a performance for years, gathering full houses every day. It was customary to come to Nord-Ost with the whole family: people of different generations find in this performance something important and interesting for themselves. Until now, no one in our country has repeated such a success: in Moscow, within 15 months, the musical was shown 411 times. In 2003, Nord-Ost received the Golden Mask theater award.

XI. Afterword…

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Guys, I hope you enjoyed our meeting with the novel "Two Captains". And most importantly, I really want to hope that the book did not leave any of you indifferent ...

A book exhibition-acquaintance has been open in the Antipinsky rural library since April 5 April Anniversaries: Writers and Artists. April is a month full of anniversaries of famous writers, poets, artists and composers. We decided to organize one exhibition and dedicate it to all anniversaries of the month. Each section of the exhibition is dedicated to a separate hero of the day and introduces our users to their books and books about them.

On the first shelf called "Novels of a Thinker and a Revolutionary" placed the books of the Russian writer A.I. Herzen, which celebrated its 200th anniversary on April 6. His three-volume book Past and Thoughts, the novels The Magpie-Thief and Who is to Blame? make more than one generation think.

And to the 110th anniversary of the birth of the writer Veniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin the inside display shelf is called "Seek and don't give up" Kaverin wrote the novel "Two Captains" in 1944, and two years later he received the Stalin Prize for it. The book was so popular that, they say, many schoolchildren proved to geography teachers that Captain Tatarinov really discovered the Northern Land. And in Pskov - in the homeland of Kaverin - a monument was erected to Captain Tatarinov and Sanya Grigoriev. “I have an interesting life behind me. But the most interesting thing in it, after all, is my childhood and youth. I am sure: if there was no such childhood and such youth, I would not have written all my books ... " wrote Kaverin V.A.

April 22 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer and scientist Ivan Antonovich Efremov. Today, few people know that Efremov was not only a wonderful writer, but a man of encyclopedic knowledge and a brilliant scientist - paleontologist, doctor of science, who defined and laid the foundations of taphonomy, a branch of paleontology. The section with his books is called " Man of the Age of the Ring - Ivan Efremov.

Good and touching stories Valentina Oseeva"The Magic Word", "Before the first rain", "Blue Leaves", "Good" and many others have become classics of children's literature. Her short stories give children examples of human relations, teach honesty, respect and love for people, sensitivity to those around us. In a fascinating way, using examples close to children, Oseeva helps her young readers understand what true friendship is, how you can hurt a person with a simple word, or vice versa, heal a person. In her stories-parables, the writer tells the children how to build relationships with their peers, how to solve emerging "children's" problems.
The works of V. Oseeva help to see that such diseases of the soul as selfishness, greed, anger and betrayal poison life more than external troubles. Written in an easy, interesting style, they enrich the inner world with kind, bright impressions. The section of the exhibition dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Valentina Oseeva is entitled "Education with a word".

And the last section of the exhibition is dedicated to the anniversary (560 years) of Leonardo daVinci (1452–1519), the greatest figure, the multifaceted genius of the Renaissance, the founder of the High Renaissance. He is known as an artist, scientist, engineer, inventor. Biographical books and reproductions of his paintings are exhibited under the title "Gioconda", or confession in colors.

We are waiting for everyone who is interested in this exhibition and the books on display in the library until the end of April.

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You go, do not turn and do not fall,
Fall down - get up.
And you will be rewarded
The goals of the cherished height!
Evgeny Karelov.

This year marks 115 years since the birth of the Soviet writer, playwright and screenwriter, laureate Stalin second class award Veniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin(real name - Zilber). Veniamin Kaverin- the author of about two dozen novels and short stories, he wrote stories, fairy tales, dramatic works, essays and literary articles.

The book was written over the course of six years. 1938 By 1944 of the year. Kaverin recalled that the creation of the novel " Two captains began with his meeting with a young geneticist Mikhail Lobashev in a sanatorium near Leningrad in the mid-thirties. “He was a man in whom ardor was combined with straightforwardness, and perseverance - with amazing definiteness of purpose,” the writer recalled. “He knew how to achieve success in any business.”

Lobashev told Kaverina about his childhood, a strange muteness in his early years, orphanhood, homelessness, a commune school in Tashkent and about how he subsequently managed to enter the university and become a scientist.

“This was the story of a boy who had a difficult childhood and who was brought up by Soviet society - people who became his family and supported the dream that from an early age caught fire in his ardent and just heart”(IN. Kaverin).

Another prototype of the protagonist was a military fighter pilot Samuil Klebano who died heroically 1942 year. He initiated the writer into the secrets of flying.

The image of the captain Ivan Lvovich Tatarinov recalls several historical analogies. IN 1912 year, three Russian polar expeditions set sail: on the ship " St. Fock"under the command of Georgy Sedov, on the schooner" St. Anna" under the direction of George Brusilov and on the bot Hercules" with Vladimir Rusanov.

Expedition on a schooner St. Mary" in the novel actually repeats the timing of the journey and the route " Saint Anna". Appearance, character and views of the captain Tatarinov relate him to Georgy Sedov. The Search for the Captain's Expedition Tatarinov reminiscent of the search for the expedition Rusanova. The fate of the character of the navigator novel "St. Mary" by Ivan Klimov resonates with the true fate of the navigator Saint Anna by Valerian Albanov.

By the way, the motto of the novel is the words " Fight and seek, find and don't give up” is the final line from the textbook poem of Lord Tennyson "Ulysses". This line is also engraved on the cross in memory of the lost expedition. R. Scott to the South Pole, on a hill Observation.

It's for the novel "Two Captains" Veniamin Kaverin He was awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree in 1946.

The novel went through more than a hundred reprints, was translated into many foreign languages, filmed twice (1955 - director Vladimir Vengerov,1976 - director Evgeny Karelov). In 2001, based on the novel, the musical " Nord-Ost».

The heroes of the novel Two captains» in 1995, a monument was erected in the author’s hometown, Pskov(displayed in a book called Ensk).

April 18, 2002 in the Pskov regional children's library The museum of the novel was opened Two captains».

In 2003 the main square of the city Polar Murmansk region is called the area of ​​Two Captains. It was from here that the expedition set sail Vladimir Rusanov and Georgy Brusilov.

"My Captains"

Veniamin Kaverin finished writing the book in 1944, and it reached me fifty years later. I was eleven, the book was on the shelf, absolutely nondescript, without bright pictures, quite voluminous ... I still don’t understand what prompted me to pick it up.

Most likely, after all, it was not without incitement from my mother, who has always been my main "helmsman" in the sea of ​​\u200b\u200bbooks. Be that as it may, at first I took the book with some doubt, I thought, I'll look through a little and close it. I started reading ... and drowned, failed, disappeared. I don’t know how else to explain the state in which this novel plunged me.

No other book has evoked such emotions and feelings in me before: anger, resentment, compassion, joy, inspiration. The book was read quickly. I was literally stunned by the impressions and at the same time I felt some kind of melancholy, emptiness, as if I had been deprived of something dear. And without thinking twice, I again took up the novel, this time reading more thoughtfully, peering into the characters, analyzing the actions.

I don't know how many times I've read it two captains”, but some phrases still clearly pop up in memory: "Sticks must be popindicular"(writing lessons from Gaera Kuliya), “I can’t bring the third lemon home”(dearest Nina Kapitonovna I always dreamed of seeing my grandmother) "Sick G., dumbness without deafness", "Mongotimo Hawkclaw", “I beg you one thing: do not trust this man!”(phrase from the captain's letter Tatarinov, which played a fatal role in the life of his family).

And of course I like Sanya Grigoriev, tried to memorize the navigator's letters. Now almost everything has been forgotten, but I still remember the first lines: “Dear Maria Vasilievna! I hasten to inform you that Ivan Lvovich alive and well. Four months ago, in accordance with his instructions, I left the schooner, and with me thirteen crew members ... ".

The heroes of the book taught me patience and endurance, friendship and fidelity. But I also realized that in life there is cruelty and betrayal, hatred and envy. I was so struck by the confrontation Sani Grigorieva And Mikhail Romashev ("Daisies") that when we were first given the task at school to write an essay on any topic, I dedicated it to what worried me the most at that time, naming my work The story of friendship and betrayal in the novel by Veniamin Kaverin "Two Captains".

I was frightened and repelled by this very Chamomile, it was frightening that meanness and bitterness could be hidden behind outward decency and politeness. How I wanted to scream "Do not trust him!" when he told Katya about how he tried to save Sanya! And how I rejoiced, reading the exposure scene Romashova! Forgive me actor Yuri Bogatyrev, but I couldn't get rid of a somewhat prejudiced attitude towards him because of his undoubtedly brilliant performance of the role Daisies.

By the way, about the movie. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the premiere of the director's six-episode film Evgeniya Karelova « Two captains". For me personally, the film was the second gift after the book itself. In general, many readers have a rather complicated relationship with film adaptations: very rarely the screen embodiment coincides with what they imagined and saw while reading this or that work.

But the movie Evgeniya Karelova became a rare exception for me, thus hitting the very point. It was what I wanted to see. Due to the fact that the film was filmed in several series, it reproduced the plot of the book quite fully. There were, of course, some differences, but for me they didn’t really matter, and at one point I would even be glad to leave the film version: unlike the book, in the film, Sani’s sister does not die after childbirth, but safely gives birth and leaves with young son to evacuate.

And, of course, the music of the most talented composer plays a huge role in the film. Evgenia Ptichkina. Overture and ending song written to the words of the director Evgeniya Karelova, in and of themselves evoke a whole gamut of emotions.

Not having the opportunity to download music from the Internet at that time, I put a small tape recorder close to the TV. Legend” and, having waited for the right moment, turned on the recording. The quality, of course, left much to be desired, but I was already happy that, by pressing the button, I could listen to the music again and again, which captivated me so much, called me somewhere; listen to the final song, in which the sonorous voice of the boy, as if from the face Sani Grigorieva sings such important words. Very often, at the same time, tears came to my eyes - they were tears of pride, admiration for people who are capable of Actions, who know how to make friends and know how to love, for whom duty and honor are not empty words.

Many years have passed since my first meeting with the two captains, but the book still occupies a worthy place on the bookshelf. Now it already has a somewhat worn and shabby look, but this is not my fault, I handled the book very carefully. Just once a classmate asked me to let her read it (assigned for the summer). I did not want to give away the book at all, but it was also undesirable to pass for a greedy person.

As a result, at the end of the summer, the book returned in a terrible state, with a torn cover ... and, what is most offensive, it was never read. The best use they have found for it is as a pan holder. To say I was upset is an understatement. I sobbed over the spoiled book from resentment and some incomprehensible feeling of guilt before it, as if I had not saved it.

I was offered to replace, buy a new, beautiful one. But I refused. Although this book is already old, shabby, with yellowed pages, but it is mine, dear, beloved. When I want to reread an episode, I know exactly what page it is on. And then, it seemed to me that having bought a new book, I would betray the old one, offend it - then something would collapse, some thin ties between me and the book would break. That's what I thought as a child, and now my thoughts have not changed.

To this day they live next to me Sanya And Petka, Kate And Sasha, Ivan Ivanovich And Ivan Pavlovich, Nina Kapitonovna and aunt Dasha. They live and help in difficult times, because they are faithful, because they are real!

“Where did my captains go?
Look at the tracks of their sleigh in the dazzling white snow!
This is the railroad track of science that looks ahead.
Remember that there is nothing more beautiful
than this hard way.
Remember that the most powerful powers of the soul are patience,
courage and love for one's country, for one's cause"

Veniamin Kaverin

"If to be - so be the best" - under this motto in the city children's library. A.P. Gaidar, the Day of the writer Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin was held. Library readers could watch a media presentation of book trailers based on the novel "Two Captains", get acquainted with the books of V. Kaverin, presented at the book exhibition "If to be - so be the best", as well as the photo exhibition "Pskov of Kaverinsky childhood"; Fragments of the film adaptation of the novel were shown. Each participant of this day received emblems with the motto "Fight and seek, find and not give up."

On April 19, in the libraries of the Loknyansky district, the Unified Day of the Writer was held, which was dedicated to the life and work of V. Kaverin. So, in the children's library, a conversation was held about the work of the writer "Veniamin Kaverin - a writer of three eras." A literary hour “Fight, seek, find and not give up” was held in the Krestilovsky rural model library, an information hour “The City of Sani Grigoryev” was held in the Miritinitskaya rural model library, and a quiz “In the footsteps of two captains” was held in the Podberezinskaya rural library.

On the occasion of the 115th anniversary of the birth of V.A. Kaverin, a literary hour "V.A. Kaverin and his books" was held in the Dubrovskaya rural library of the Novorzhevsky district. Children and the librarian b Together they reflected on the life motto of the protagonist of the novel Sashka Grigoriev "Fight and seek, find and not give up." In the Barut village library on the work of V. Kaverin, a review of the literature "Fight and seek, find and not give up!" and a quiz based on the novel "Two Captains".

The thematic program "Fight and seek, find and not give up" was held by the Kunya Regional Library for students of the 8th grade of the Kunying secondary school on the writer's birthday - April 19. The children learned about the monument to the literary heroes of the novel - two captains - Tatarinov and Grigoriev in the city of Pskov, about the Two Captains Square in the city of Polyarny, about the museum in the Pskov Regional Library for Children and Youth. Teenagers were also interested in information about the book "Two Captains" of 1940 edition - this is one of the first editions of the novel. The fate of this book is interesting - it was found in an IL-2 aircraft shot down at the end of April 1942, along with the remains of the pilot, and lay for 68 years in a swamp in the Novgorod region. In 2010, she was donated to the library. Kaverina is a member of the Demyansk search detachment and replenished the exposition of the Museum of the novel "Two Captains". At the end, Kaverin's call to the young was made: “I want you to read more. A person should have favorite works, which he refers to repeatedly, which he knows and knows how to use in life.

Recall action "Fight and seek, find - and not give up!" is held from April 1, 2017 and ends on April 19, 2017 on the birthday of V.A. Kaverin as part of the VII Kaverin Readings. Information about the results of the Action will be posted in the media, on the library website (www.kaverin.ru), in the VKontakte group "