Today we will consider the work of the Soviet writer Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov, more precisely, we will analyze the summary. "Lord, it's us!" - a story written in 1943. Already by the date of writing it becomes clear that the speech in the work will focus on the Great Patriotic War. In addition, the military theme in general has become key to all the work of the author. This is largely due to the fact that Vorobyov took part in the war, was captured several times and fled, and also commanded a partisan detachment for some time.
Summary: “Lord, it's us!”
Autumn 1941, the beginning of World War II. The main character of the story, Lieutenant Sergey Kostrov, is captured. For several days prisoners are kept in the cellars of the Klinsky glass factory, destroyed by bombing. Then all the prisoners are built in a row of 5 people and driven along the Volokolamsk highway. Those prisoners who are behind the convoy due to injury or fatigue, the Germans shoot on the spot.
A summary of the trials that fell to the share of Russian soldiers who were captured. Vorobyov (“This is us, Lord!”) Reading for this reason is not easy. Sergei goes in a convoy next to an elderly man, whom everyone calls simply Nikiforitch. The hero met him on the night before the start of their journey. Nikiforych kindly refers to a friend in misfortune. He shares with him the last crackers, smears Sergey’s wounds with ointment, which heals the beatings.
When the column passes by the village, one of the local old women throws raw cabbage leaves captive. The prisoners eagerly eat this handout. But then an automatic burst is heard, which hurts the old woman and several prisoners. Among mortally wounded is Nikiforych. Dying, he gives Sergey his bag and tells him to run away.
Rzhev camp
About how Sergei, together with a column of prisoners of war, reaches the Nazi camp in Rzhev and only on the seventh day receives a small piece of bread, a summary is given. "Lord, it's us!" - a story based on the life experience of the author himself, therefore, what is described in it is valuable for its truthfulness.
The life of prisoners in the camp begins. On a day they are given 12 people one loaf of bread, which weighs only 800 grams. Sometimes prisoners are given a balance sheet, which consists of barely warm water and waste from oatmeal. And every night someone in the barracks dies, and in the morning his guards carry out his body.
Typhoid fever
At Kostrov typhus begins, the temperature rises below forty. Then other prisoners drop him from the convenient upper bunk so that he does not occupy a good place, because anyway, already, consider him a dead man. But two days later, Serey found the strength in himself to get out from under the lower bunks and, dragging his legs off, whispering, asked him to return to his rightful place above. At this time, Vladimir Ivanovich Lukin, a camp doctor, enters the hut. He takes Kostrov to a hut with other patients. Here, gradually, Sergei begins to recover.
The doctor secretly gathers people to arrange an escape closer to summer. Sergei is ready to join, but he, along with other commanders, is transferred to the Smolensk camp.
Kaunas
We continue the summary. Vorobyov (“This is us, Lord!”) Is studied in literature classes in the 11th grade.
Sergei falls into another camp, but here he does not lose hope of escape. However, the prisoners are again being transferred somewhere, and this time far, since they give each a loaf of bread from sawdust - this is a four-day norm. They are immersed in windowless cars, and four days later they find themselves in Kaunas. At the entrance to the camp, a column of prisoners is met by the Germans with shovels that attack the prisoners and begin to chop them. Sergey sees his comrades dying.
The escape
The bitter and terrible truth about life in the Nazi camps is told by the story "This is us, Lord!" It takes several days, and about a hundred prisoners of war are taken to work outside the camp. Bonfires with a boy, Vanyushka, are trying to escape, but they are caught up and severely beaten, and then sent to a punishment cell.
Now Vanyushka and Sergey will have to go to the Salaspils penal camp, which is also called the “Death Valley”. But even here the prisoners do not linger - they are sent to Germany. Then luck smiles at them - they manage to jump out of the train at full speed. They miraculously survive. From this moment, wanderings in Lithuanian forests begin. The fugitives go east, going into the village houses and asking for food.
Death of Vanya
Wartime is cruel, and even the need for simple human joys can turn into a tragedy, the author of the work, “This is us, Lord!” Shows us. A summary of the chapters describes the moment when Vanyushka turns 17 years old. Friends decide to have a holiday. Sergey sends for mushrooms, and Vanyushka - for potatoes to the nearest house. However, the boy does not return for a long time, and Kostrov decides to check whether everything is in order. Upon reaching the house, he sees that the boy was captured by the Germans. To save Vanya from torture, the main character sets fire to the house.
Captured again
Sergey continues his journey. But in the autumn, a wounded leg begins to hurt, and every day he manages to pass less and less. Once he does not have time to take cover, and he is caught by the policemen. Sergey ends up in Panevezys prison. Kostrov falls into the same cell with the Russians, who decided that the hero was at least 40 years old, although in reality he was not yet 23. Sergei is cruelly interrogated, but he is called by a fictitious name and claims that he was not in any camps, but fled immediately after being captured.
Denouement
The story “It is we, Lord!” Is coming to an end. (a summary of each chapter we have described). Sergei again tries to escape, but the attempt fails. He is caught and sent to Siauliai prisoner of war camp. In the yard - the spring of 1943. Once in a new place, Kostrov again begins to think about an escape. Nothing can make the hero surrender and forget about freedom, submit to the invaders and forget about his duty to his homeland.
So the summary ends. "Lord, it's us!" - a truly powerful work, really describing the torment that the Soviet prisoners of war suffered in numerous Nazi camps.