Veniamin Kaverin "Two Captains" - summary

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Veniamin Kaverin - Soviet writer, author of many books, including the wonderful story "Two Captains". The summary of this work, of course, does not give a full impression of the adventure story. It is always better to read it in its entirety once than to read a condensed retelling a hundred times. But when you just need to refresh the memory of the main points of the work "Two Captains", then the summary of the story will help with this.

The main character of the work "Two Captains", a summary of which is presented here, is Sanya Grigoriev. The boy hears well, but absolutely cannot speak. They live with their sister Dasha and their parents in the city of Ensk on the banks of the river.

It was here that a dead male postman was found with a bag of letters. These letters were read aloud in the evenings. One of them was from a polar explorer from the expedition - it subsequently played an important role in the fate of the boy.

The letter was addressed to his beloved wife by the captain-polar explorer. Little Sanya decides to find the missing expedition, reveal its secret, also become a captain, only in the air.

The book is named that way - "Two Captains". The summary of the beginning of the story is a description of the difficult childhood of the protagonist. Sani's father dies in prison, accused of an imperfect crime. The stepfather tortures all members of the family, as a result, the mother dies.

They want to send the orphans to an orphanage, but Sanya and his friend Petya Skovorodnikov run away to Turkestan. The boys have to endure a lot, hiding from checks and raids, but still Sanya ends up in a distribution center for homeless children, and from there he is transferred to a communal school. The meeting with Dr. Ivan Ivanovich was a gift for Sanya - he learned to speak.

The following chapters in the story "Two Captains" Kaverin devotes to the growing up of the hero, the emergence of first love, friendship and betrayal.

Sanya accidentally ends up in the house of Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov, the head of his school, where he meets Katya, his first love.

The intricacies of the destinies of people who were brought into one house by the author - Veniamin Kaverin are amazing. "Two Captains" is not only an adventure story, but also a deeply psychological one. The story reveals the history of the Tatarinov family - strange and confusing.

It turns out that Katya's father - the husband of Maria Vasilievna - is the captain of the schooner "St. Maria", who went on an expedition to the North in 1912. At this time, the family lived in Ensk - in the homeland of Sanya. The expedition was lost, communication with the polar explorers was lost.

NikolaiAntonovich turns out to be the cousin of the captain - a polar explorer, he has long and unrequitedly been in love with his brother's wife. After the head of the family is declared missing, the widow and daughter move to the house of Nikolai Antonovich. But, despite the claims of the admirer, Maria Vasilyevna remains faithful to the memory of her husband.

Being back in his hometown, the young man visits acquaintances. He rereads those old letters and understands that the letter he remembered in childhood was addressed to Maria Vasilievna by her husband. The decisive role was played by the intimate signature "Montigomo the Hawk's Claw" - this is how Katya's father, Ivan Lvovich, jokingly called himself, talking with his wife. Now Sanya makes a vow to himself: by all means, he must find answers to all questions.

After all, it follows from the letter that Severnaya Zemlya was discovered by I. L. Tatarinov, that the captain's brother supplied equipment for the expedition, which turned out to be unusable, and this caused the death of the expedition.

After the public denunciation of Nikolai Antonovich, Sana is forbidden to come to the Tatarinovs. After some time, Sanya finds out that Maria Vasilyevna committed suicide - Nikolai Antonovich had already become her husband by the time the secret was revealed. Thus, Sanya seemed to be an unwitting killer.

Nikolai Antonovich convinces everyone that Sanya slandered him, that this slander killed his wife, that the young man is a liar, a villain and a murderer. His first love Katya turns away from Grigoriev.

Sanya enters a flight school in Leningrad, works at a factory. Here at the Academy of Artshis sister and her husband, Petya Skovorodnikov, are engaged. Sanya still seeks his assignment to the North.

Rumors reach Grigoriev that Romashov's former friend proposed to Katya. The young man is going to Moscow. But, while performing one of the tasks, Sanya gets into a snowstorm and makes a forced stop. There he finds a hook with an inscription confirming that this thing is from the schooner St. Maria.”

After systematizing the collected information, Sanya decides to make a report in Moscow, but the slanderous material about him on the pages of Pravda, fabricated by Tatarinov and Romashka, interferes with this.

But Sanya, with the help of Korablev, puts up with Katya, finds out that she is being forced to marry Chamomile. And Katya leaves home (she works as the head of a geological expedition).

As a result of a long and stubborn struggle, an article with excerpts from the navigational diary is still published in the newspaper, Sanya marries Katya, they eventually settle down to live in Leningrad.

Sanya takes part in hostilities with Spain. Fate again confronts him with his former friend Chamomile. He leaves a wounded comrade, taking his weapons and documents. Having met Katya, the scoundrel lies to her that he took Sanya out of the encirclement, but he disappeared.

Sana manages to escape, to recover. He has been looking for Katya for a long time. During a combat mission, the pilot finds the body of Katya's father, his reports and farewell letters. In 1944, together with Katya, the captain was resting in Moscow.

Here at the trial, Sanya testifies in the case of Romashov, makes a brilliant report on the missingexpeditions. Tatarinov N. A. is expelled from the Geographical Society. Justice which already triumphs once again in the story "Two Captains", a summary of which is presented here.