Before you touch the famous worksViktor Petrovich Astafieva “Last bow”, I would like to dwell on the author. He lived from 1924 to 2001. He was a great writer and prose writer of the Soviet time, who directed and dedicated all his work to the theme of the Russian people and their national heritage.
What does the reader tell the short content?“The last bow” actually included a huge number of pictorial sketches showing the beauty of rural nature, leading to a subtle moral perception and serving as a support and purification of the human soul.
If we talk about the language in which he wrote this bookAstafyev, he was distinguished by a special color and originality. Immediately felt a great human love for his long-suffering country and for ordinary people.
Summary. "Last bow"
All this is great book conveys.Astafyev “The Last Bow” was presented as an autobiographical work. He spent as much as twenty years working on it (from 1958 to 1978). The plot covers many epochal events.
The book "The last bow" serves as a certain confession of a generation, because the writer's childhood fell precisely on the difficult and crucial 30s and 40s. But he had to grow up sharply in the war years.
Country life
In the book “The Last Bow”, the chapters of the story are separate stories, starting from the most hungry rural childhood, but, according to the writer himself, a happy and carefree time.
The protagonist - half-orphan boy VityaPotylitsyn, whose mother sank in the Yenisei, and his father drank and walked. For a long time the boy was brought up in the village by his grandmother Katerina Petrovna. And here it should immediately be noted that it was she who invested in her grandson the basic life concepts of honesty, decency, hard work, right attitude to bread and money. Then it all came in handy and helped him survive in the most difficult life circumstances.
Childhood
Vitya was no different from other villagechildren, he tried to help seniors, and in the rest of his free time he was amused with his peers. His grandmother wanted to be helpful and caring for everyone, her character was strong and domineering, and at the same time affectionate and kind. She loved children, and they were always a joy to her.
Но недолго длилось Витькино счастье, подошло time to go to school, and he had to go to the city to his father and stepmother. Here he went to the school of survival. The time was post-revolutionary, the dispossession ranked around. Many families remained homeless, starved, and some were sent to the settlements or, even worse, to penal servitude.
Survival School
Further very sad colors filledsummary. “The last bow” tells us that Vitka, having moved to his father, realized that no one needed him. Nobody understood him from his relatives, conflicts began at school. When he lived with his grandmother, they also lacked a lot of things, but here he was always warm and comfortable, the boy felt protected by his grandmother, and in the city he was terribly lonely, he became hardened and became cruel. But then, grandmother’s upbringing and her prayers took over and gave an impetus to live. The work describes all the life of Victor. After studying at the factory course, he was sent to war.
House
When the war ended, Victor went immediately.to his native village to see his grandmother. He made his way to the house through the gardens and turnips, his heart was beating violently with excitement. He entered his grandmother's room literally on tiptoe. Grandmother, as in former times, sat by the window and tied up threads. Victor thought that a whole black storm of war flew over the world, millions of people died in the fight against the fascists, new states formed, in general, so many changes happened, and here, my grandmother, so calmly, quietly and peacefully, the same calico curtain hanging window, cabinet, stove, cast iron. The grandmother was extremely pleased with her grandson, immediately hugged him and made the sign of the cross. Her voice sounded calm and gentle, as if he had not returned from the war, but from fishing, where they often lingered with their grandfather. She immediately admitted that she prayed for him day and night for the sake of this moment and lived. And now, waiting for her grandson from the war, she can die in peace.
Astafev: “Last bow”
At that time, my grandmother was 86 years old, and her lastthe request was that her grandson come to bury her. But this did not end the summary. “The last bow” was continued by the fact that the grandson could not keep his word. When he received a telegram, and at that time he was working in the Urals, the authorities did not let him go, because they only released the funeral of his closest relatives — his father or mother. Therefore, Viktor Petrovich could not get out, which he later regretted very much all his life and thought that if this had happened today, he would have run away, and if necessary, would have crawled from the Urals to Siberia. Until the end of his days, this wine lived in it, quiet and oppressive. But for all that, he knew that his grandmother had forgiven him, because he had always loved her granddaughter very much.
