Farewell of a Slavic Woman

9 hrs. 25 min.

Language Russian

Author Natalia Sukhinina

Narrator Nikolay Rauzhin

Description

“Farewell, Slavonic Girl” is a documentary book about the difficult fates of children of the Great Patriotic War. Not children who had time to enjoy enough tales, not children who had read their fill and had been able to satisfy that fussy, parental care—these are all about them, the children of war. The main character of the story, Viktor Gladyshev, is one of those children. A person with a complex, sometimes dramatic fate. Even before the war began, Viktor’s family—six children—lost their mother. The Great Patriotic War took away the children’s last support—the beloved father. All his life, Viktor Gladyshev kept his father’s image in his soul, and the march “Farewell, Slavonic Girl,” heard for the first time by little Viktor at the station during the farewell to his father leaving for the front, determined his further life and profession. The Gladyshevs—orphans—went through all the ordeals of wartime hardship: occupation, captivity, hunger, cold, and humiliations. They endured much, but they did not drop their human dignity.