Be healthy, schoolboy

The autobiographical story of Bulat Okudzhava Be healthy, Scholyar and the stories ("Morning paints with gentle light", "Music Lessons") continue the "military" series "scooter".
The name of the series - As it was, explains the publishing plan: to tell about the Great Patriotic War honestly and objectively - as far as possible. Honesty guarantee the names of the authors: these are Russian front-line writers, eyewitnesses described, people with impeccable personal and creative reputation. Objectivity, we hope will provide a "scientific apparatus": in each book of the series, the artistic work is complemented by Article Article, setting today"s look at the events described.
The story is healthy, Scholyar - about the young man who went to the front with a school bench. About the war - the one that she really was, and the young romance imagined.
Afterword prepared by Olga Rosenblum and Stanislav Dudovogne.

The book also included the article of the historian Stanislav Dudkin (the author of all documentary articles in the series "as it was") "Battle for the Caucasus", and the Biographical Essay of "War of Bulat Okudzhava", prepared by Olga Rosenblum, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russian Literature Literty Time RGGU, the author of the book "expectation of a big change. Biography, poems and prose Okudzhava Bulat "(RGGU, 2013).
The story of one of the most famous front-line writers Bulat Okudzhava be healthy, Scholyar was first published in the Almana Tarusk Pages in 1961. It was the first published prose of Okudzhava, which was immediately subjected to a sharp criticism. "Tarusk pages" were withdrawn from shops and libraries. As writes in his article O. Tonenblum, it was an autobiographical story, built in all the laws of skill, with a ring composition, a well-thought-out system of characters, the work, undoubtedly, going on the category of fiction, and not memoirs - but the autobiographical, and the dedicated to those Parties of life that were not taken to be described in 1940-1950: Hunger, drunkenness of soldiers, tornness, not only the high existence of a woman in the war, not only the friendly attitude of local residents to soldiers and not the heroic behavior of the soldiers: sometimes - fear Sometimes - theft, sometimes - the illusory world, from which the war is embarrassed, embroils, but still does not bounce.
Only in 1981, be healthy, Skolyar came out with a separate book