“The Passage of Citizen Loshakova” is the story of the famous Soviet writer Yuri Koval , published in 1989 . A humorous detective telling about how the police of the city of Karmanov, with the help of Vasya Kurolesov and the dog Sailor, detained a dangerous bandit named Kharkov Pakhan. The story was also published under the title "Kurolesov and Sailor are connected."
| Missing citizen Loshakova | |
|---|---|
| Genre | story |
| Author | Yuri Koval |
| Date of writing | 1989 |
| Date of first publication | 1989 |
| Previous | Five abducted monks |
The third time in writing (however, according to the internal chronology of the action, perhaps the second) is the part of the detective trilogy about Vasya Kurolesov, the beginning of which is the story “ The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov ” ( 1971 ), and the continuation is “ Five Abducted Monks ” ( 1976 ). It is less known than the first two parts of the trilogy, written with more than a 10-year margin and reprinted much less.
Content
Creation History
The story was first published in 1989 in the journal Pioneer (No. 9-10), with illustrations by Leonid Tishkov and an afterword by Marina Moskvina . Subsequently, the story was also published under the title “Kurolesov and Sailor are connected” with drawings by Victor Chizhikov .
As in the story “ The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov, ” the plot of “Miss Citizen Loshakov” is partly connected with the work of the father of the writer, Joseph Yakovlevich Koval, who at one time was the head of the criminal investigation department of the city of Kursk . Kursk is repeatedly mentioned in the text of the story.
Story
The action takes place in the cities of Karmanov and Kartoshin, as well as in the surrounding villages.
Vasya Kurolesov with his dog Sailor again comes from the village of Sychi, where he works as a tractor driver to join the investigation. Together with captain Boldyrev and foreman Tarakanov, he manages to detain the bandits who robbed citizen Loshakov on the road. And lying in an ambush in the forest during the next task, Vasya notices a suspicious person and begins to spy on her. Kharkov Pakhan himself will turn out to be this person, and in pursuit of him, Vasya will unexpectedly find himself in the basement with rutabaga , where he will meet his love ...
Characters
- Vasya Kurolesov and dog Sailor
Karmanovskaya police:
- captain Boldyrev
- foreman Tarakanov
- Zagorulko on duty
- driver Basilov
Criminal elements:
- Kharkov Pakhan (Square Booth)
- Butchery
- Vaska and Fomich
- Nagan and Shotgun
And:
- Loshakov, Deputy Chairman of the Great Rays collective farm
- Zinka, friend Pahana
- Shurochka, her daughter
- Zyablikov, Karmanovsky billiard player
- Hrypun from the village of Glukhovo
- "Ravens" Raika and Simka
- disabled person (“thief”) Natoly Fyodorych
Interesting Facts
- The original version of the name of citizen Loshakova was “Konev”. [1] And in the text of the story, captain Boldyrev, having mixed up, calls Loshakova in the billiard room Korovin.
- Although Vasya seems to be the full name Vasily Konstantinovich in the story Five Abducted Monks , Captain Boldyrev addresses him in Vasily Konstantinovich’s Blunder of Citizen Loshakov: Vasil Feofilych! ".
- Captain Boldyrev in the story is mostly in an irritable mood, demands from Tarakanov that he shave off his mustache and does not want to take Kurolesov to work in the police.
- Feeling an unusual smell near the house of Kharkov Pakhan, the foreman Tarakanov asked: “ Is it dill? “In the first part of the trilogy, the same phrase is uttered twice by captain Boldyrev.
- There is another allusion to the first part of the trilogy in the story: in the Karman police department “ there was a half-erased inscription on the wall:“ Vasya and Baton pulled here ... “ ”.
- As in the other two parts of the trilogy, the famous watch-bulb Vasya Kurolesova at some point play the tune " I love you, life, And I hope that it is mutual ... "
- According to the story, it is difficult to determine the location of the city of Karmanov (and Kartoshin, located somewhere nearby). On the one hand, both cities should be in the Kursk region - it is in Karmanov that citizen Loshakov repeatedly comes, heading to Kursk . On the other hand, about the village of Glukhovo, located in the same locality, it is said that it is located three kilometers from the Moscow - Klyazma canal, which is consistent with the location of Karmanov in the first two parts of the trilogy - the north-east of the Moscow Region (presumably Pushkin district ).
- Both in the city of Karmanov and in the city of Kartoshin there is Sergeyev-Tsensky Street.
- In this story there are no direct references to the second part (“ Five Abducted Monks ”), which would allow establishing a relative chronology of events. It is possible that although Citizen Loshakova’s miss was written much later than Monks, the story chronologically unfolds before the events described in Monks. In particular, in "Miss" Vasya is still thinking about whether he should remain a tractor driver in the village or go to work in the police; in “Monks” he acts as a professional policeman and his work as a tractor driver in the village has never been mentioned.
Reviews
In the afterword to the magazine edition of the story, Marina Moskvina gives a review of the illustrator of the story Leonid Tishkov :
| The text is not brick. White paper predominates, not black letters. Reading Koval is tireless to the eye. He began the sentence, but now the end. Only sometimes, in order to emphasize a poetic metaphor, does he lengthen the phrase, stretch it like bellows of harmony, and in the end it gives a painful, piercing note. [2] |
As an example, Vasya Kurolesov’s phrase from chapter 15 “The Second Murder” is given:
| Why did you kill me, Pahan? After all, I'm good. I was from Fomich, and you killed me, and the bullet hit my heart. On, look what you've done. - Then Vasya pulled up his shirt and showed his blue belly and a whole heart. |
Editions
- Miss Citizen Loshakova: The Story // Pioneer . 1989. No. 9-10.
- The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov ; Miss citizen Loshakova; Five abducted monks : a story. Izhevsk: Wanderer, 1992 .-- 224 p.
- Kurolesov and Sailor are connected: a story. M .: Samovar 1990, 2000. - 109 with ISBN 5-85066-157-3 (and reprints)
At the end of 2016, the trilogy about Kurolesov was reprinted under one cover by the Publishing Project “A and B” with new illustrations by Maria Gracheva and an extensive commentary compiled by literary scholars Oleg Lekmanov , Roman Leibov and publisher Ilya Bernshtein [3] The book was presented on November 25 in the House Boris Pasternak Museum in Peredelkino and December 4 at the Central House of Artists during the Non / fiction book fair. The new edition was highly appreciated by critics: for example, Galina Yuzefovich noted that thanks to the efforts of commentators, “the trilogy is not at all the book that many of us have known since childhood and enjoy reading to our children, similar, but much longer, difficult arranged and diverse ” [4] .
Films
- In May 2007, the film company “Tundra Film” announced the preparation for the shooting of the adventure comedy “ The Incredible Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov ”, the script of which was written on the basis of two stories by Yuri Koval - “ The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov ” and “Kurolesov and Sailor Connect.” The film will be directed by Slava Ross , starring Richard Bondarev (Kurolesov), Alexey Buldakov (captain Boldyrev), Sergey Batalov (foreman Tarakanov). [5] The start of filming was planned for spring 2008 , but due to lack of funding from the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, preparation was suspended.
Notes
- ↑ Yuri Koval. I always dropped out of the general stream. (The conversation was conducted by Irina Skuridina) // "Questions of literature." 1998. No. 6. Archived copy of February 20, 2018 on Wayback Machine See also: Forged Book: Remembering Yuri Koval. M.: Time, 2008 .-- S. 326.
- ↑ Moskvina M. Who composed the story? // "Pioneer." 1989. No. 10. - P. 51.
- ↑ Yuri Koval. Three stories about Vasya Kurolesov. With comments by Oleg Lekmanov, Roman Leibov, Ilya Bernshtein. M .: Publishing project "A and B", 2016.287 p. ISBN 978-5-9906261-6-4
- ↑ Pocket Soviet Superman
- ↑ Project page: http://www.tundrafilm.com/projects/vasian/ Archived May 25, 2008 on Wayback Machine , see also http://www.proficinema.ru/picture-making/russian/detail.php ? ID = 13163 .