Sergey Golitsyn. "Forty prospectors" is a story or a story?

Golitsyn Sergei Mikhailovich was born on March 1, 1909. A descendant of the famous princes Golitsyn. The first stories of the writer were published in 1930 in the magazines "Murzilka", "World Pathfinder", "Chizh". In 1941, Sergei Mikhailovich was drafted to the front, where he received the Order of the Red Star of the 2nd degree, the medal "For Military Merit" and the medal "For the Defense of Moscow", as part of the Red Army, reached Berlin. He was demobilized in 1946.

In the postwar years he worked at the State Design Institute as an engineer-geodesist. In 1959, Sergei Mikhailovich became a professional writer. He wrote such books as "The Tale of the Land of Moscow," "The Notes of the Survivor," "The Town of Sorcerers", "The Rooks Sail to the North," "The Forty Surveyors."

"Forty prospectors" is a story or a story?

Sergei Mikhailovich conceived the "Forty Surveyors" as a separate story, which tells about the pioneers, carried away by historical riddles. But later to this story were added the book "The Mystery of the Old Radul" and "Behind the Birch Books," a trilogy was produced. The main characters of these books - a Moscow doctor and young pioneers, schoolchildren.

It's hard to say which genre to include the book "Forty Surveyors", a story or a story. The Moscow doctor and his daughter Sonya go on vacation in Golden Boar, near the town of Lubets, where they find themselves in an amazing cycle of events. Thus begins the first exploration, the search for the lost picture of an unknown artist.

Acquaintance with the pioneers

Walking with his daughter at the river, the doctor gets acquainted with the pioneers, from them he learns that they are going to camping in the town of Lubets to visit the museum of local lore. Without hesitation, the doctor goes on a campaign with the pioneers. This moment the author describes very interesting and colorful. In it there is also the romance of camping life, and gatherings around the fire, and spending the night in the forest. Very entertaining is described and the city itself, the ancient Kremlin.

After visiting the museum of local lore, the pioneers and the doctor face another mystery. In the museum there is a still-life with a dead fire-bird, under it the same signature as on the missing picture "I can not even subscribe".

Research

Incredible adventures of the doctor and pioneers make you think: "Forty prospectors" - a story or a fairy tale? At night, pioneers secretly climb into the Kremlin tower, thinking that the picture is there, but the picture is not there. The next day they go on an excursion to the underground cave, where the doctor was able to fulfill the task of the eldest son and obtain minerals.

In the park they get acquainted with the girl, the author gave her an amazing nickname - Martian - because of the huge green glasses that hid half the face. The girl had a dagger, depicted in the picture, as it turned out, this dagger was previously in the estate of the landowner Zagvozdetsky. On the basis of the foregoing, the pioneers concluded that the artist who painted the portrait could be one of the serf landowners.

The further we go into the work, the more acute the question arises: "Forty prospectors" is a story or a story? Further the author tells about how they went on an excursion to Moscow, where the research institute deciphered the records found together with the dagger.

What ended the amazing adventure of a Moscow doctor

"Forty prospectors" - a story or story, or maybe a fairy tale, was so incredibly untied the book. The most surprising was that the picture was found in the house where the doctor was renting a room during the vacation. And an incredible combination of circumstances helped in this. The owner of the house tried all his life to bring out a variety of blue dahlias, at last, he did it. He really wanted so many people to know about his discovery, but there is not enough flowers for glory. And then the owner showed everyone the picture and the will of his grandfather, which said that the picture was not shown to anyone.

The reasons for such a strange will were also clarified, the artist who painted the painting was a serf of landowner Zagvozdetsky, in love with his daughter. It was he who pictured in the picture. The artist himself was exiled to the Caucasus, where he later perished.

As you can see, this work has a special, unique genre. "Forty prospectors" is a story or story, rather a story. The author tells us about the adventures of young children, and with them the Moscow doctor, who also was inspired by the spirit of exploration. The work clearly shows the plot. There is a protagonist and events that occur directly with his participation. Only one storyline is developed, there is no clear distinction between the heads.