Veniamin Kaverin "Two captains" - a summary

Veniamin Kaverin is a Soviet writer, the author of many books, including the remarkable novel 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 one time completely than to read a compressed paraphrase a hundred times. But when you just need to refresh the memory of the main moments of the work "Two Captains", then the brief content of the story will help in this.

The main character of the work "Two Captains", whose brief content is outlined here, is Sanya Grigoriev. The boy hears well, but can not speak at all. They live with Sister Dasha and her parents in the city of Ensk on the river bank.

It was here that a dead male mailman was found, at which was a bag of letters. These letters were read aloud by the residents 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 the beloved wife by the polar captain. Little Sanya decides to find the missing expedition, reveal her secret, also become a captain, only air.

The book is so named - "Two Captains". The summary of the beginning of the narrative is a description of the heavy childhood of the protagonist. The father of Sani, accused of an unredeemed crime, died in prison. The stepfather tortures all members of the family, as a result, the mother dies.

Orphans want to send to the orphanage, but Sanya and his friend Petya Skovorodnikov flee to Turkestan. Many have to endure the boys, hiding from checks and raids, but still Sanya gets in the distributor for homeless children, and from there he is transferred to a commune 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 dedicates to the hero's growing up, the emergence of the first love, friendship and betrayal.

Sanya accidentally falls into the house of Nikolai Antonovich Tatarinov - the head of his school, where he meets Katya - his first love.

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

It turns out that Katya's father - Maria Vasilyevna's husband - 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 Sani. The expedition disappeared, communication with the polar explorers was lost.

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

Being again in his native town, the boy visits friends. He reread those old letters and realizes that the letter he remembered as a child was addressed to Maria Vasilyevna by her husband. The decisive role was played by the intimate signature of "Montigomo Hawk Claw" - as Katya's father, Ivan Lvovich, jokingly called himself, communicating with his wife. Now Sanya gives himself an oath: by all means he must find the answers to all questions.

After all, it follows from the letter that the Northern Land was discovered by IL Tatarinov that the captain's brother was supplying equipment for the expedition, which turned out to be unsuitable, and this caused the death of the expedition.

After publicly exposing Nikolai Antonovich Sanya is forbidden to come to the Tatarinovs. After some time Sanya finds out that Maria Vassilievna committed suicide - Nikolai Antonovich at the time of disclosing the mystery has already become her husband. Thus, Sanya appeared to be an involuntary killer.

Nikolai Antonovich convinces everyone that Sanya has stipulated that this insult has struck his wife, that the young man is a liar, a villain and a murderer. His first love Katya turns away from Grigoryev.

Sanya enters the flight school in Leningrad, works at the plant. Here, in the Academy of Arts, his sister and husband, Petya Skovorodnikov, are engaged. Sanya still achieves his appointment to the North.

Grigoriev is rumored that a former friend Romashov made a proposal to Katya. The young man is going to Moscow. But, performing one of the tasks, Sanya falls into a snowstorm and makes an emergency stop. There he finds a hook with an inscription confirming that this thing from the schooner "St. Maria".

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, hinder this.

But Sanya with the help of Korableva reconciles with Katya, learns that to marry Romashka she is forced. And Katya leaves home (she works as the head of the geological expedition).

As a result of a long and stubborn struggle, the article with excerpts from the navigation diary still published in the newspaper, Sanya marries Katya, they eventually settle for residence in Leningrad.

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

Sana managed to be saved, to be cured. He is looking for Katya for a long time. During the combat mission, the pilot finds the body of Katya's father, his reports and farewell letters. In 1944, along with Katya, the captain rested in Moscow.

Here in the court Sanya is testified in the Romashov case, makes a brilliant report on the missing expedition. Tatarinova NA expelled from the Geographical Society. Justice, which once again triumphs in the story "Two Captains", a summary of which is presented here.