"The Son of the Regiment": a brief summary of the true story

In the autumn forest, three scouts were returning from the night in the middle of the night, spending more than a day behind the Germans. Hearing a suspicious rustling, Sergeant Yegorov crawled on to the sound and soon, along with his assistants, he found a sleepy, sleepy, very wild boy in an abandoned wet trench.

Further, the story " The Son of the Regiment," a brief summary of which is given here, Tells how the fate of Vanya Solntseva, found by our soldiers, was decided. The regiment, in which they served, was supposed to advance, guided by the intelligence reports. And where at such a time to put the boy, no one could come up with.

The fact that Captain Enakiev, the platoon commander, died at the beginning of the war during the bombing of his wife and son, for a long time did not give him the opportunity to let Vanya stay with the platoon. He could not allow a small twelve-year-old boy to participate in terrible military operations and ordered him to be sent to an orphanage.

Sitting in the tent at the "giants" feeding him, scouts Bidenko and Gorbunov, Vanya did not even believe that yesterday (as they say in the product "The Son of the Regiment," a summary Which you read) he, sick and bullied like a wolf, made his way all alone through the cold forest. After all, in three years that he was wandering, these were the first people who need not be afraid.

Therefore, hearing that he was sent to the rear, he was amazed and upset. "I'll still run away!" - Vanya promised. "Nothing, you can not escape from me," answered Bidenko, who was instructed to accompany the foundling. Although he did not particularly like it either. A very clever "cowherd boy" liked the corporal, as the scouts called him.

And, to the amazement of Corporal Bidenko, Vanya jumped out of the truck on the move and lost himself in the forest, and the soldier had to return with an uncompleted assignment to the unit. He, an experienced intelligence officer, could not find the boy and was very embarrassed.

As the story "The Son of the Regiment" continues, the summary Which you read, Vanya at all costs decided to return to the beloved Bidenko and Gorbunov. During his search, he met a "wonderful, beautiful boy" - the son of a cavalry regiment, who suggested that the shepherd just did not like the fighters. But Vanya did not believe this and firmly decided to become a "son" too.

He still found Captain Enakiev and convinced him that he could become an excellent assistant to scouts. The captain, struck by the ingenuity and perseverance of the boy, introduced him to the unit.

And soon Vanya already visited the combat mission. Under the guise of a village shepherdess he
Led scouts to the rear of the Germans, but, wishing to distinguish himself and help ours, he made a mistake, taking with him a shepherd's compass and a chemical pencil. For the way he puts signs in the old letter, and the Germans caught him. Savior Vanya, corporal Gorbunov. About how this happened, you can read in detail in the story "The Son of the Regiment," a brief summary of which we propose in the article.

In detail, the author describes with rapture how the shaggy and ragged "shepherd" turned into a real soldier, the son of the regiment, with what concern the fighters treated him.

Interested in the fate of the boy, he was taken to his dugout by Captain Enakiev, Deciding to adopt him and make him a real artilleryman. In detail, all the stages of Vanino training in martial arts can not convey a summary. "The son of the regiment" also describes in detail how the boy became a disciplined fighter and a sensible assistant commander.

But in one of the battles on the offensive against Germany, Enakiev was killed, and Vanya was again orphaned into the Suvorov school.

Kataev does not tell how the boy grew up and studied further on in his novella The Son of the Regiment. The summary can only assume that this person in the future has become a worthy officer.