Do not shoot white swans. Vasiliev B.

The novel “Do not shoot the white swans” occupies a special place in the work of Boris Vasiliev, the writer-Frontovik, famous for his piercing and honest prose about the war. This work, which some critics reproached for excessive sentimentalism, invariably causes the reader an acute pity and compassion for the fate of the protagonist and persistently recalls that the good is vulnerable. Whatever the matter, Yegor Polushkin was taken, it all ended with a misunderstanding. Both his wife and neighbors called him only as a poor carrier. But this bad man was endowed with the talent of a true artist and his own outlook on life, which greatly distinguished him from fellow villagers, practical and reasonable. But in the end, Yegor finds his vocation, a matter that he succeeds best is to love and take care of the beautiful. Having become a forester, he with particular tenderness protects the family of white swans. But once, poachers come to the forest...