And the Dawn Is Quiet Here...

This publication is dedicated to the "Year of Lieutenant Prose," announced by the Association of Writers' and Publishers' Unions of Russia (ASPR). In 2024, several writers and poets who served on the front lines will celebrate their 100th anniversaries. Among... them are Yuri Bondarev, Boris Vasilyev, Vasily Bykov, Vladimir Bogomolov, Viktor Astafyev, Bulat Okudzhava, Yulia Drunina, and Nikolai Starshinov. Boris Lvovich Vasilyev (1924 - 2013) - a well-known Soviet writer and playwright, born in Smolensk, who went to the front as a volunteer during the Great Patriotic War. The book includes two of his novellas: "And the Dawn Is Quiet Here..." about the heroic feat of a small group of female anti-aircraft gunners and their commander, confronted by superior enemy forces, and "Tomorrow Was War" about the last pre-war year of ordinary Soviet high school students maturing in the context of the campaign against the "enemies of the people." Both works were successfully adapted into films. Boris Vasilyev's works have resonated with readers largely due to the poignancy and sincerity of the narrative, the authenticity of the described events, and the tragic stories about the war, which the writer knew not by hearsay, but from personal experience.