Olga Lisikova Biography

In the story of a wonderful prose writer and screenwriter Mikhail Kuraeva, Olga Mikhailovna Lisikova is called Arzantseva and is called not a pilot, but in an old pilot. During the war, Olga Mikhailovna Lisikova was the commander of a transport aircraft.

And it does not begin with the exploits of Lisikova-Arzhantseva, but with how her heroine, having written off her granddaughter, living in the irony of fate in Germany, her apartment, go to settled in the house of war veterans near St. Petersburg. Without accepting the conditions of the house for veterans, Olga Mikhailovna decides to return to her apartment. But the German son-in-law had already managed to put a new armored door there is a true story, and it immediately deprives the story of a bravura and widow character.

I recall the words of the front -line soldier David Samoilov, recorded on May 9, the year: “I first thought: will I live? Now - how will I live?! There are so many living details, so many psychology! This is not only a story about the fate of Lisikova, but also deep thoughts about the female character, the seemingly insignificant detail. Olga Arzantseva, the commander of an airplane transporting children from blocked Leningrad, He enters the cab.

There were sixty people, maybe a little more. Pale, thin, wrapped in scarves, in winter caps with tied ears, they carefully and seriously followed her with their huge eyes. Olga became scary for a second, she could not understand the reason for this fear, and only when she looked around from the door to the pilot cabin, I realized that the children were silent. The children were silent and in a nutshell the whole life of the besieged Leningrad was conveyed.

There are many such episodes in the book. Living, penetrating, showing not only the anti -human, but also the human nature of the war. And yet - that the war still has a female face with regard to the exploits of Olga Lisikova, they are known. She is the only female commander of transport aircraft during the war. She took part in the Finnish company, in the Great Patriotic War, flew from the Arctic to Yugoslavia.

Throughout the war, she did not lose a single aircraft and not a single crew member. Is it difficult for a woman to be a pilot-commander? This question is difficult to answer. But for the first sorties, all tasks are completed, not a single bat, not a single wound in the crew, she received a single order. Others were given for less merits. And they wanted to imagine her, but changed their minds.

In order not to be arrogant. I warmly recommend this book. Three more things entered it. Two of them are dedicated to the blockade of Leningrad, which Mikhail Kuraev experienced a child.