A flower town donut sells drinks. Characters of the books about dunno

The world of literature has been replenished with another striking work - a trilogy about the adventures of Dunno. The first of these books is The Adventure of Dunno and His Friends. Summary this colorful, kind and cheerful story can definitely inspire the idea of ​​reading it. Introduce your child to the full version of the work, and you will have to re-read it over and over again.

Why Nosov's books want to read

Nikolai Nikolaevich, the author of the book, managed to become a favorite writer not only for children, but also for adults. This is because his works are both realistic and fabulous, children are taught good, and adults are immersed in warm atmosphere joyful childhood.

The idea of ​​creating the book came to Nikolai Nosov when his son was born. He created original stories about life in his mind. ordinary boys from the yard and talked until the younger Nosov grew up. "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" is why readers like them because they are close, understandable and witty. The author's love for children is read between the lines, and the books themselves are timeless, so they do not lose their attractiveness to this day.

"Adventure of Dunno and his friends": summary

The events of the work take place in which the shorty kids inhabit. They are called short. This is because they are "as tall as a small cucumber", so the flowers, grass, leaves, insects surrounding them are simply huge. In this "jungle" the little ones have adapted to live, build their houses, walk and even make scientific discoveries!

This small model of society, in which everyone is engaged in a certain business, has his own character and is responsible for his actions. The only one who does not do this is Dunno. This prankster is able to disturb the general peace by his mere appearance, but more on that later.

Shorty - who are they?

Acquaintance with all the characters occurs gradually, depending on what kind of trouble the main character, described in the work "The Adventure of Dunno and His Friends", gets into. The summary of the book can fit into one of the chapter titles (there are 30 of them). For example, the section "How Dunno was an artist" tells about the hard work it cost him to comprehend the fundamentals of art, and the chapter entitled "How Dunno wrote poetry" tells what poetic masterpieces he managed to create (the rhyme "stick - herring" was probably remembered to all readers).

The tale "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" tells about the short men as professionals or outstanding personalities... Even their names match that. Live here: Znayka (scientist, wears glasses and comes up with various scientific ideas), Doctor Pilyulkin (doctor), mechanics Vintik and Shpuntik, creative personalities Guslya, Tube and Tsvetik (musician, artist and poet), lovers of cooking Donut and Syrup, astronomer Steklyashkin. The features of the rest of the characters can not be explained, these are: Toropyzhka, Grumpy, the twins Avoska and Neboska.

Dunno and his team

The carefree and calm life of the Flower City is impossible without periodic outbursts of self-indulgence, intrigues and elimination of the consequences of the chaos caused by Dunno. This uneducated fellow is always where something was smashed, someone pulled by their pigtails or teased.

He is not distinguished by neatness - his tousled head of hair always sticks out from under a huge hat, which the hero never takes off. And he lives according to the principle "why spread the bed before going to bed, if you make it again in the morning?"

It should be noted that this behavior is not malicious intent. It is impossible for a dunno not to love for his misdeeds, because he commits them out of curiosity and his childish spontaneity. His friends are Donut and Gunka. It just so happened that they are also not particularly useful to the rest of the city's residents. And where is without a lady of the heart? It's a Button. It is she who begins the hard work of teaching Dunno to read and write.

The adventures of the young hero are described in the book "The Adventure of Dunno and His Friends". The summary of his "victories" in the Flower City ends with how Znayka comes up with balloon and residents are going to fly to other countries. Here the plot is just beginning to unfold and sends the reader together with the heroes on an exciting journey with Dunno and his friends.

Dunno on the Moon (cartoon)

"Dunno on the Moon"- a fairy tale novel by Nikolai Nosov from the series about the adventures of Dunno with elements science fiction, social satire and dystopia. This is the final part of the trilogy of Nosov's novels, consisting of the works: "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" (1953-1954), "Dunno in the Solar City" (1958), "Dunno on the Moon" (1964-1965).

The book is intended for children of primary school age, while in it simple language describes economic phenomena such as trade securities, the functioning of joint stock companies, product placement and many others.

Characters (edit)

Inhabitants of the Flower City

Main characters:

• Dunno- the main character of the trilogy.
• Znayka- a short scientist who discovered lunit and antilunite, designed a zero gravity device and supervised the preparation of a lunar expedition.
• Donut- a short man, known for his irrepressible appetite, who goes to the moon with Dunno.
• Mechanics Cog and Shpuntik.

Minor characters:

• Doctor Pilyulkin.
• Astronomer Steklyashkin.
• Painter Tube.
• Musician Guslya.
• Poet Flower.

Residents of the Sun City

• Scientists babies Fuchsia and Herring.
• Professor Zvezdochkin- a full member of the Academy of Astronomical Sciences, scientific opponent of Znayka, later his friend and colleague.
• Engineer Riveting.
• Architect Cube.

Inhabitants of the moon

• Goat- a friend of Dunno, with whom he meets in jail.
• Miga- a swindler who also met Dunno in a jail and came up with the idea of ​​creating a Joint Stock Company of Giant Plants.
• Julio- A friend of Migi, the owner of a miscellaneous goods store (that is, an arms store), who became the chairman of the Society of Giant Plants. Krabs characterizes Miga and Julio as two very cunning world-famous fraudsters.
• Spruce- the richest inhabitant of the moon, a billionaire, chairman of the big delirium (that is, the main syndicate of capitalists), the owner of large agricultural latifundia, numerous sugar factories and the famous Sprut's manufactory, as well as several newspapers and TV channels.
• Krabs- Chief Executive Officer of Sprots.
• Scooperfield- the owner of a huge pasta and noodle factory, known for his pathological greed.
• Other rich people who have banded together in delusions.
• Spikelet and other poor people who received seeds from Znayka.
• Drygl, Figl, Migl and other police officers.

: "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends", "Dunno in the Solar City", "Dunno on the Moon", the works of his followers.

The main features of the universe is that it is inhabited by short men - little people as tall as a small cucumber.

The growth of the little ones and the targeting of the children's audience determines the rest of the features of the universe. Due to their small stature, the short ones perceive ordinary plants as huge and this makes it easier for them to get food. On the other hand, plant maintenance and harvesting require the organized work of a few dozen short men.

The heroes of the first books are more like children of 7-10 years old and their world is filled with corresponding objects and categories. For them, initially there is no concept of age, parenthood and kinship, death, love, family relations etc. The little ones live in small groups in houses, they meet alone, the concept of a family is also absent in the trilogy. Outside of the author's intention, there was also the origin of the heroes of all fairy-tale novels, and what role was played in this by their division into two sexes.

In everyday life, along with things familiar to the human world, there are details that are characteristic of children's imagination: a technique that runs on carbonated water, more sweets in the diet.

In addition to NN Nosov's text, illustrators Alexei Laptev and Heinrich Valk contributed to the visualization of the universe.

The short ones have an idea of ​​the fact that other countries exist, as well as what names their inhabitants can wear and what they might look like. According to the second part of the trilogy, Pachkulya Pestrenky, registering at the Solnechnogorodskaya hotel, signed the book for guests as "a foreigner Pachkuale Pestrini." At the very beginning of the same book, Dunno mentions French, and a little later says:

We, short ones, are very small and cannot cover big things with our small eyes.

Also in the second book, such a measure of length as a nail is mentioned. It is equal to 1 1/4 cm, and it is said that the height of almost 9 1/2 nails = 11 7/8 cm is quite large for short ones. Consequently, most of them are probably about 8 nails = 10 cm tall.

The reckoning of time coincides with ordinary earthly time, but as the author explains, for short people time goes slower, so in one short year they can build or create as many as ordinary people would create 5-10 years.

The self-determination of the short ones through small stature probably occurred in opposition to some kind of large creatures. The proximity of the short ones with ordinary plants, perceived by them as large, allows them to exist relatively comfortably in the prevailing food abundance.

Anthropology [ | ]

The social structure of the earthly short ones is heterogeneous, it differs between cities, but they are all united by the lack of money. In a sunny city, a communist society has been achieved, where everyone receives the set of social and material benefits he needs absolutely free of charge, and in return works for the good of society at an enterprise or institution based on his abilities. Guests of the city, despite the fact that they do not work in city enterprises, have the same amount of benefits.

In other cities described in the books, subsistence farming and barter are common.

The Lunar Society is a satire on the European and American capitalist society of the 60s in the minds of Soviet citizens. In addition to commodity-money relations and private property, which is the main difference from the Earth, corruption, monopoly, advertising, unfair competition, stock speculation, irrational use of manual labor, unemployment, vagrancy, lack of social policy and repressive legislation against vagrants and poor and other negative phenomena of capitalism. With the appearance of earthlings on the moon, a social revolution takes place there.

Flora and fauna [ | ]

The plant world of the short ones consists of ordinary terrestrial plants, which, taking into account the growth of the short ones, seem huge to them. This removes the problem of food security, but complicates the task of plant maintenance and harvesting.

The plant kingdom of the moon is different from earthly size plants.

The fauna is not described in such detail. On the one hand, the little ones have animals that match their height - dogs, donkeys, horses. The sunny city has a zoo with other animals - a lion and a monkey. A little misunderstanding was introduced by the illustrators of the works. The artist Laptev portrayed the hunter's dog Pulka in the book "Dunno in the Sunny City" in the form of an insect - a grasshopper.

The mentioned insects, like plants, are also impressive in size, for example, Dunno once encountered a May beetle.

Technologies [ | ]

The technologies of the shorty world are close to the technologies of the human world as of the middle of the 20th century. They know electricity, telephone, television, as means of transportation there are cars and trains, they mention, although not described, airplanes, progress has been made in automation and robotics. Most of technology is described in the second book. Distinctive features are the use of alternative energy sources, including gas released from carbonated water, alcohol, atomic energy, radio-magnetic energy. Burning fuel oil is considered obsolete and not environmentally friendly. A special source of energy is bioplastic, which, under the action of exciting electricity, generates kinetic energy that is many times higher than that spent. As means of transportation around the city are used different cars, spiral rovers, car horses, motorcycles and so on. Household machines, including agricultural ones, are often robotic. Automation is being introduced in personal vehicles, although not so quickly. Space technology is also developing. At the beginning of the third book, a method for easily obtaining artificial weightlessness was discovered, which gave a breakthrough in rocketry.

The technology of the moon is not so fantastic - everything corresponds to the terrestrial level of technology of the 1960s, moreover, it is cheap. work force allows you to use manual labor in many unsuitable cases - for example, to rotate water attractions in a water park. With the arrival of earthly short men on the Moon, weightlessness began to take root everywhere in industry.

Cities [ | ]

Flower city [ | ]

The hometown of Dunno and his 15 comrades, which stands on the Cucumber River. The city was named "Flower" due to the fact that all the streets were decorated with flower beds with big amount flowers. The river is named so because of the huge number of cucumbers growing on its banks. Other kids and babies live in this city. The flower city features in all three parts trilogy. There is a forest near it, where the little ones got supplies for themselves. At first, the kids had little contact with residents of neighboring cities, despite the fact that there was a car running on carbonated water in the city.

The kids made their first trip from the city in a hot air balloon. The entire trilogy begins and ends in the Flower City. After another trip, something new appears there, brought by travelers from other cities. The innovations are described at the beginning of the next novel.

After traveling to the Green City, the little ones built a bridge over the Cucumber River, a reed water supply system and fountains, installed electric lighting on the streets of the Flower City and installed a telephone, and also designed a TV. After traveling to the Sunny City of Dunno and many other short ones, revolving buildings appeared in the Flower City and a garment factory was built. A space town with a cosmodrome was built near the city.

Green City [ | ]

The police in the city are mainly concerned with the regulation of traffic, which has increased enormously in last years... A video surveillance system operates in police stations, allowing real-time monitoring of the situation at all intersections of the city. There was no crime in the city for many years before the advent of "carminers". Because of this, even the police did not know what to do with the hooligans who appeared on the streets, and when they turned to the old and dusty book of punishments and sentenced them to several days of arrest, they were tormented by remorse.

The city, however, is not without drawbacks - minor incidents gather large crowds of onlookers, which interferes with street traffic. Drivers violate traffic rules, and police officers conduct oral preventive conversations for this. The most frequent violations are the non-passage of pedestrians, collisions with pedestrians and passages on a red traffic light (especially among pipe operators, as they have a very high speed and bad brakes).

Automatic taxis in the city are designed specifically to reduce congestion and improve road safety, as well as to reduce costs - to spend less resources on repairing personal cars. But residents do not want to part with their personal transport. Due to the unrestrained nature of Dunno, who misused a magic wand, the city was embroiled in the hooligan lawlessness of "carminers" - imitators of three donkeys, turned into people by the power of magic. Only the wizard solved the social problem that had arisen, returning everything as it was. Every year the city celebrates "Day of mittens" - the Day of the city, during which residents fraternize among themselves, exchanging colored mittens.

See also City of the Sun, Heliopolis, Cité Soleil, Sun City. Katigoroshkin- the city mentioned in the book where everyone rides bicycles. The traveler Tsirkul from this city gave the shorty Pachkula a new nickname - "Motley", which practically replaced his name. Stone city and Earthen city are mentioned when Dunno chooses a further path at a fork.

Lunar cities [ | ]

The cities visited by Dunno and Donchik during their expedition to the moon on the NIP rocket (the name was given in honor of Dunno and Donut), and later by twelve shorties from the Flower and Sunny cities on the FIS rocket (the name was given in honor of Fuchsia and Herlochka ).

Objects and places [ | ]

sunny city [ | ]

• "Malvasia" is the hotel where Dunno, Knopochka and Pestrenky stayed. The only employee who appeared was the director on duty, Lilia, who communicated with the arriving guests via video link. The rest of the hotel staff were robots and machine guns.
• The Book Theater is a theater founded by Listik and Bukovka. In it, the founders read various books to viewers.
• Zoo - in it Dunno turned three donkeys into short ones, and also teased a monkey in a cage.
• A sewing factory is a factory that produces various clothes. Notable employees: Karasik, Thread, Needle.
• Sunny Park is a recreation park on the eastern outskirts of the Sunny City, which includes five thematic towns: Sports, Water, Teatralny, Chess and Merry.
• "Chess Town" is a specialized sector of the Solar Park for chess amateurs, designed in the form chess board, and the pavilions and buildings in it are in the form of chess pieces. It contains chess machines of various difficulty levels that the little ones can play with. Regular visitors to the town wear plaid suits or dresses adorned with chess pieces. In addition to the chess machines, the town regularly hosts tournaments, simultaneous games and thematic lectures, attracting, in addition to the players, many spectators.
• "Merry Town" - a sector of the Solar Park, a town of attractions. The entrance to it is through a rotating transparent pipe, through which you must pass so that you never fall. If the shorty fell, it causes a whole storm of laughter from the audience, although he himself had laughed at others before. Other attractions in the town include the Ferris wheel, crooked mirrors that can change their curvature on their own, atomic car chairs and voice-controlled rollerblades.

Sublunary world [ | ]

• Miscellaneous goods store - gun shop in the city of Davilone, owned by Julio. It contains a cache where explosives are stored. Subsequently, it was sold, and a confectionery began to occupy the building.
• "Izumrud" is a hotel in the city of Davylon, owned by Mr. Haps. It hosted a PR campaign for the arrival of the astronaut Dunno on the moon. Dunno, Kozlik, Miga and Julio lived there, and the last two managed to get Haps to stay free of charge.
• A merry show is an entertainment facility, the purpose of which is to throw rubber balls at the short man who has thrust his head through the hole in the curtain and is therefore constrained in movement, which can harm his health, and when the short man writhes in pain, this is madness amuses the audience. But the short man, if he holds out until closing time (and the "massacre" can last at least the whole day!), Gets 3 finings from the owner. The cost of one throw of the ball at the shorty is 1 centimeter. Kozlik took part in this public entertainment in San Komaric, wishing to make money.
• "Economic" - a hotel in the town of San Komarique. Staying in it is carried out on a pay-as-you-go basis, that is, even having rented a number, it is impossible to use any benefits in it without additional payment, the so-called “hidden payments”. Dunno and Kozlik stopped there. The latter earned 3 finings in the "Merry Booth", and a double room cost 50 sants. In just one evening and one night of staying there, the friends spent almost all the money, and they had only 20 santics left for two.
• Tupichok is a hotel in San Komaric located in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. Differs in extreme discomfort and the same cheapness. It also has underground floors. There are a great many hotels of this type, and all of them belong to Mr. Drying. Dunno and Kozlik moved into it after they spent almost all the money in the "Economic" hotel. At first, for 10 santics, everyone lived on the minus second floor, and when it became expensive too, they moved to minus fourth for only 5 santics from a short man, but the conditions there were much worse. In addition, the Goat was bitten there by a rat on the neck, and it almost cost him his life.
• Space town(on the Moon) - a temporary settlement near Fantomas, founded by Znayka with friends after landing on the FIS rocket. There was a town with the same name near the Flower City on Earth, from where the NIP rocket was sent to the moon.
• Stupid island(or island of Fools) - an island in the sea of ​​the inner moon ball. Apparently, this island is split into two parts. The first is a huge free amusement park with beaches and administrative buildings... The second is a sheep pasture. All the short ones, leading an asocial and impoverished lifestyle, are forcibly sent to the Foolish Island. Under influence harmful air islands, as well as the idle lifestyle of the short ones become sheep or rams with huge amount regrown wool, which is the final product and commodity that pays for the entire institution of the Island of Fools. The criteria by which the little ones are sentenced to be sent to this island are being on the street without some items of clothing (boots, shirt, or at least a hat) and spending the night on the territory of someone else's or municipal property, as well as poverty and vagrancy. Dunno and Kozlik end up on the Island of Fools for vagrancy and lack of shoes and a hat, respectively (they got together with other Brechenwilts who spent the night under the bridge), where Kozlik was exposed to harmful air and almost turned into a lamb. The idea of ​​the Wacky Island echoes the Land of Entertainment from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (in the latter, idlers turned into donkeys).

The organization [ | ]

• "Sprut's Manufactory" is the largest lunar plant in the city of Grabenberg, owned by Mr. Spruts and producing sugar, textiles and other products.
• Scooperfield Macaroni is one of the largest lunar factories in Brechenville, owned by Mr. Scooperfield. Consists of 12 huge buildings, and the number of workers is 5000 short ones. Produces pasta, noodles and noodles.
• "Society of Giant Plants" - joint-stock company, founded by Miga, Julio and Dunno with Kozlik. It was supposed to sell shares, which could later get the seeds of giant plants hidden in a rocket on the surface of the moon, but since his institution was not coordinated with the Sprits himself, he quickly ruined him with his influence. However, sleepwalkers eventually received the cherished seeds without any bureaucracy.
• The Society of Free Spinners is a secret organization founded by spinners Piskarik, Somik, Sudachk and Leshchik, whose goal is to get the owners of the attractions to improve their working conditions. It also included Donut.

Characters (edit) [ | ]

In all three books you can count more than a hundred characters. Most of the characters' names are his brief description(as a person or main activity). The names of some sound like surnames (Pilyulkin, Svistulkin), one has a name, patronymic and surname (Sakharin Sakharinich Syropchik).

Meet on the moon consonant names reflecting the activities of a group of characters. For the rich of the Moon, names often end with foreign suffixes, such as "s" (Sprots, Klops, Dubs,) or "ing" (Gryasing, Dryning), or are composed of foreign roots (Scooperfield). The names of the police and other servants of the law end with "gl" (Migl, Zhrigl, Figl, etc.). Ordinary lunar inhabitants also have names, with the suffix "s" (Fix, Krabs, Migs), but these are full names that ordinary lunatics rarely use.

Characters of the book "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends"[ | ]

Sixteen Shorties from Bell Street in Flower City[ | ]

The main characters of the first book and Dunno's “family”. Most appear in other books,

Front sight- a friend of Button and Gunka, who protected her and Button from Dunno. I watched the departure of the balloon.

Steklyashkin- an astronomer from the Flower City. In the first book, Dunno turned to him when he thought that a piece of the Sun had hit him on the head. In the third book, he was one of the key characters, conducted observations of the Moon, including witnessing the launch of a rocket, flew with Znayka to the Moon, where he was the first to see the surface of the Moon's inner core with a portable telescope.

Flower- the pseudonym of the poet Pudik from the Flower City. Taken because poets, according to the book, “love beautiful names". I tried to teach Dunno poetry.

chamomile- a baby from the Flower City. I watched the departure of the balloon.

Microsha- a resident of the Flower City and a friend of Topek. Watched the balloon fly off

Topic- a resident of the Flower City and a friend of Mikrosha. Initially, I did not believe that the balloon would fly.

Residents of the Green City[ | ]

Sineglazka- a baby from the Green City, where the travelers from the Flower City crash landed. Dunno, during his stay in the Green City, lived in the house where Sineglazka lived with other babies. Described as a fair and judicious little girl.

Squirrel- Sineglazka's friend. Wears an apron embroidered with a red squirrel.

Check mark- Sineglazka's neighbor. Black-haired baby.

Herringbone- Sineglazka's neighbor.

Zainka- Sineglazka's friend. Wears an apron embroidered with a green bunny.

Kisonka- a friend of Swallows.

Martin- Kisonka's friend.

Egg capsule- Sineglazka's neighbor. Plump baby.

Daisy- Sineglazka's neighbor.

Fluff- Sineglazka's friend.

Snowflake- colleague (co-worker) Sineglazki.

Straw- agronomist and breeder of watermelons from the Green City.

Dragonfly- Sineglazka's friend.

Lungwort- a doctor in the Green City. Due to the prejudices prevailing in the Green City about the hooligan behavior of all the kids, she kept the short travelers in the hospital for as long as possible. She had a particular conflict with Dr. Pilyulkin, who for the first time appeared in the patient's place, but categorically refused to recognize the methods of "treatment" of his colleague.

Gem- a poetess from the Green City.

Residents of Zmeyovka [ | ]

Bagel- a resident of Zmeyovka, a driver of a carbonated car. He helped Vintik and Shpuntik - he took them first to Zmeyovka, then to the Green City, where he took away fruits together with everyone.

Carnation- a resident of Zmeyovka, a bully, by whom the little ones from the Green City were judged about the behavior of all the kids, later reformed.

Screwdriver- a resident of Zmeyovka, a mechanic and an inventor, who has everything on the buttons at home.

Smekaylo- a writer from the city of Zmeyovka, who has not written a single book, but collects various devices for writing skills: the bugging device "Chatter", a folding table, etc. Vintik, Shpuntik and Bublik went to him to pick up a soldering iron, which had been borrowed by Shupchik for a long time, for car repairs.

Characters of the book "Dunno in the Sunny City"[ | ]

The main [ | ]

Dunno- after the first book I learned to write beautifully, fell in love with reading, but no longer wanted to study. In one of the books I learned that if you do three good deeds in a row, the Wizard will appear and give a magic wand. He did not eradicate vanity and cockiness in himself, which is why he committed three bad deeds with the help of a magic wand, which made the wand lose its strength, and the Sun City plunged into the riots of windmills.

Button- a kind and well-mannered baby. She got closer acquaintance with Dunno thanks to her general enthusiasm for fairy tales. The button made a trip to the Sunny City together with Dunno. It has a small nose, and for this reason it received the name Button.

Motley- he is Patchculya he is Patchkulya Motley... Accompanying Dunno and Button to the Sunny City. He got his nickname from a wandering short man named Compass, who, noticing him in the crowd, did not want to humiliate him with the word "dirty" and called him Pestrenky. He liked the new nickname more than his own name, so he began to use it as such. And Pacquale Pestrini is his pseudonym, which he wrote down in the registration journal of the Solnechnogorod hotel "Malvasia", having seen that Dunno was registered as "Neznam Neznamovich Neznaikin." During the trip, he experienced many adventures, after which he decided not to get involved with Dunno. He suffered from ablutophobia, or rather, he followed it in principle, i.e. he did not like to wash (and also to be surprised at everything) and got rid of it when the Wizard enchanted him in such a way that the dirt on his face would slightly irritate him for so long until he washes.

Key [ | ]

Wizard- the only character from the trilogy that does not fit into the general sci-fi concept of the work. Possesses supernatural powers... It has magic items, one of which (the magic wand) he gives for use to Dunno. Appears at the beginning and end of the second book.

Dunno's Conscience- constantly reproaches him at night for bad deeds.

The mentioned [ | ]

Droplet- a resident of the Flower City. Referred to as a little girl who "cried every time it started to rain."

Compass- the famous traveler-cyclist from the city of Katigoroshkin, who decided to go around all the shorty cities "that only were in the world." Mentioned when explaining the name of Patchuli Pestrenky.

sunny city [ | ]

Architects and engineers[ | ]

Riveting is an eccentric engineer and inventor from the Sun City. His multifunctional transforming and all-terrain vehicle surprised Dunno while traveling to the Sun City. Has a choleric temperament, is very mobile, always talks loudly and interrupts everyone. In the third book, Rivet traveled to the moon, where he was wounded in a clash with the police.

Watermelon- the famous architect who found wonderful way to build very beautiful buildings and invented a whole range of new building materials. Mentioned by Dice.

Vertibutylkin- an architect from the Sun City, who created the first project of a revolving house in the Sun City “several years ago”.

Cube- an architect from the Solnechny city. Demonstrated to Dunno and his companions the architectural delights of the Sunny City. Later he introduced them to other residents of the Sun. I flew with Znayka to the moon.

Cylinder- the engineer who is mentioned by Karasik during the demonstration of the large textile boiler of the Cylindrik engineer system at the clothing factory in the Sun City.

Militiamen [ | ]

Karaulkin- a policeman from Solnechny Gorod, who, when Dunno was detained for pouring water from a hose, was sitting at the control panel in the police station. Vertically challenged and plump.

Sapozhkin- a policeman who “grabbed Supchik by the collar and dragged him to the police station,” and then arrested him for 7 days, but, out of remorse, released him on the very first night.

Svistulkin- a policeman from Solnechny Gorod, who detained Dunno for dousing with water from a hose and sent him to the police station. Long and thin. After the destruction of the police station by Dunno, he received a head injury (probably a concussion) and temporarily lost his memory.

Fashion designers [ | ]

Needle- employee art department at a clothing factory in the Sun City.

Thread- an artist at a clothing factory in the Sun City and a chess player from the Chess Town.

Button

Hairpin- an artist at a clothing factory in the Sun City.

Karasik- a craftsman at a clothing factory in the Sunny City, as well as an actor in the theater.

Carminers [ | ]

Caligula, Brykun, Pegasik- donkeys (Caligula - mule), turned by Dunno into short ones. All have freckled faces and snub noses. They wear speckled berets (of various colors), narrow jackets (also of various colors) and trousers of a greenish-yellow poisonous color. Hooligans and brawlers.

Soup and Pretzel- residents of the Solnechny city, carminers who quarreled on the street.

Shtuchkin- a theater director-wind runner from the Solnechny city.

Artists [ | ]

Pancake- a famous transformer artist who performed at the Solnechnogorod pop theater.

Star- a singer from the pop theater in the Solnechny city.

Fantik- an entertainer from a variety theater in the Solnechny city.

Funtik- a singer from the pop theater in the Solnechny city.

Writers and newspaper article authors[ | ]

Kozyavkin- a professor from Sunny City, who published an article in the newspaper about his scientific discovery- the reason for the emergence of the social phenomenon of windmills and the classification of windmills.

Bukashkin- a newspaper reader from Solnechny Gorod who published “ great article in the newspaper "about the ugliness of carminers.

Tarakashkin- a reader of Solnechny Gorod, who posted a response to Bukashkin's article in “another newspaper”. It is mentioned that articles "on this topic" were also made by Gulkin, Mulkin, Promokashkin, Cherepushkin, Kondrashkin, Chushkin, Tyutelkin, Murashkin and also a professor Mordochkin.

Peryshkin is a newspaper correspondent from Solnechny Gorod.

Eraser- a famous writer from the Sun City. Mentioned as the author of the book "Thirty-Three Funny Little Ravens", which was used by Dr. Kompressik in the treatment of police officer Svistulkin.

Ordinary townspeople[ | ]

Bell- mentioned when discussing the case of Listik's disappearance by one of the passengers on the ninth bus number in the Sunny City as his acquaintance who "got lost one night on the street and could not find his way home in any way."

Bukovka- Listik's friend. Together with him, she founded a book theater.

Yorshik- a resident of the Sunny City, the leader of a crowd of pedestrians who tried to take the hose away from Pegasik and Dunno, who were drenched in water.

Kalachik- a harvester driver, a resident of the Solnechny city.

Klyushkin- a friend of Jokes and Cookie.

Compressor- a doctor from the hospital of the Sun City. He treated Svistulkin.

Lily- Director on duty of the Solnechnogorod hotel "Malvasia".

Leaf- a short man from the Sunny City, turned into a donkey by Dunno, a typical "book swallower", founder book theater and a friend of Bukovka. Her favorite pastime is reading. I read books even on the move, walking down the street.

Makovka- a baby who brought police officer Svistulkin to the hospital.

Joking and Cookie- residents of the Solnechny city, two witty friends. Candy factory chauffeurs living together. The wounded Svistulkin, who made a mistake by the door, fell asleep in their apartment.

Chubchik- a gardener in Solnechny Gorod, who lives next door to Professor Kozyavkin. He also became a carminative, which prompted the professor to think that carminativeness is the result of the thoughtless imitation of the little ones in the behavior of transformed donkeys.

Flyazhkin- a friend of Jokes and Cookie.

Pets[ | ]

Dogs appear in the books as pets.

Bulka- the hunter's dog Pulka, accompanying him on the hunt. Found in the first two books.

Milordic and Caesarino- the dogs of Mr. Klops, with which he poisoned Dunno as punishment for eating raspberries. When Klops tried to shoot Dunno with a gun, he accidentally killed Caesarino.

Mimi and Roland- Mrs. Lamprey's dogs; Mimi is a small Chihuahua dog, Roland is a male poodle. Dunno looked after them and took them to the shelter, visiting the sick Kozlik, for which he was fired with a scandal.

Leading characters appearing in all books

Main and notable characters

Avoska and Neboska- twin brothers from the Flower City. They became famous for the fact that they loved to do everything at random (at random). Favorite words: Avoska has "maybe", and Neboska, respectively, "I suppose", cf. Oh and ah). The grandson of the writer Igor Nosov notes that Avoska and Neboska in the novels of Nikolai Nosov could appear by analogy with the heroes of Gogol's "Inspector General", Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky.

Together with other short men, Avoska went on a hot air balloon trip. For this trip, he dressed in his ski suit, as he considered it very convenient for this kind of activity.

While traveling in a balloon, Avoska cut a hole in the balloon basket with a penknife to pour out the sand, which he scattered from Neboska's ballast bag. Thus, it contributed to the early breakdown of the basket when it hits the ground.

Wizard- The only character from the trilogy that does not fit into the general sci-fi concept of the work. Possesses supernatural powers. Has magic items, one of which (magic wand) he gives for use to Dunno.

Julio- a small, low-moral businessman from the moon, an arms dealer. His store was called "Miscellaneous goods store". He is not averse to doing any legal and illegal business that can bring profit - he took part in the creation of JSC "Giant Plants". He easily betrays his principles and people: he was bribed by Sprots, he was going to live sweetly on the millions he earned. Together with Miga and Krabs, he extorted money from Scooperfield, succumbed to his cunning. After hitting the head with a cane, he lost consciousness. Thrown by Miga and Krabs in the forest, later came to Mr. Sprots, helped him survive in the new conditions. Participated in the explosion of the FIS rocket.

Button- Kind and well-mannered baby. She got closer acquaintance with Dunno thanks to her general enthusiasm for fairy tales. The button made a trip to the Sunny City together with Dunno. It has a small nose, and for this reason it received the name Button.

Goat- a sleepwalker who has had his fill of life, who, despite all the problems that fall on him every day, still tries to preserve the appearance of an honest short man. Dunno met him in the jail, where Kozlik ended up for sniffing a bagel in a bakery, which was regarded by the seller as an attempt to steal. The wise Goat and the frivolous Dunno of steel good friends, which helped them survive in the harsh conditions of existence in the lunar world.

Miga- Julio's friend and partner. He was rescued by him from prison. Practical, witty and a rare scoundrel, however, according to Julio, the most honest and kindest little man. Initially, Miga, along with Julio, wanted to really help Dunno, but the wealthy of the city had other plans. I met Dunno in a jail, where I helped him adapt to the situation. Subsequently, he outwitted Julio, hiding with money along with Krabs.

Motley- he is Pachk y la, he's Pacquale Pestrini. Accompanying Dunno and Button to the Sunny City. He got his nickname from a wandering short man named Compass, who, noticing him in the crowd, did not want to humiliate him with the word "dirty" and called him Pestrenky. During the trip, he experienced many adventures, after which he decided not to get involved with Dunno.

Pulka- one of 16 shorties from Kolokolchikov Street. Hunter, has a gun that shoots corks, and a dog Bulka. After the balloon crashed, Bulka fled back to the Flower City, and Pulka sprained his leg and was treated for a long time at the Green City hospital near Medunitsa, where he was spoiled and became very moody - he almost went crazy. When Pulka and his friends returned to the Flower City, he met with Bulka.

Sineglazka- a baby from the Green City, where the travelers from the Flower City crash landed. Dunno, during his stay in the Green City, lived in the house where Sineglazka lived with other babies. Described as a fair and judicious little girl.

Sakharin Sakharinich Syrup- the shorty of the Flower City who loves syrup and others delicious drinks... Likes to dress in plaid clothes. Competed with Donut in thickness while flying in a hot air balloon.

Scooperfield- the character last book trilogy about Dunno. A resident of the city of Brechenville, an incredible curmudgeon and a greedy man. At the same time, he is also a little stupid. An example is the facts of his behavior in the hotel, in the forest and on the train, as well as the instructions that he gave to his "gorloderiks" (brokers) - to sell shares of giant plants by ferting a piece, as a result of which he almost burned out, because by that time the Society of Gigantic the plants burst and the shares became just paper, but he did not know anything about the news of the stock exchange, because he was sorry for the money for the newspapers. All his life he suffered from the fear of losing all his money. I got rid of this fear when I really lost all my money. I got into the forest for the first time with the help of Mr. long time tied up before the arrival of Miga and Julio. The latter wanted to receive a reward for their "care", but Scooperfield managed to escape from them, hitting Julio on the head with a cane. Then he wandered through the forest, was bitten by ants. In the fog I came across a potato field, where I picked potato tubers, not knowing what it was. Was driven away by the watchman. Lost part of his capital as a result of unsuccessful financial fraud with shares of the "Society of Giant Plants." After cutting their wages at the factory, the workers went on strike. The attempt to hire new ones failed - their workers did not let them into the factory and beat them. After Znayka and his friends arrived, the workers drove Scooperfield away and took over the factory. Subsequently, Scooperfield re-educated himself and went to work in his own pasta factory. Since then, every day he goes to the zoo, as he loves animals very much (especially after visiting the forest with Krabs) and nature.

Spruce- the richest and most influential sleepwalker. He loves the existing regime very much and reacts extremely painfully when someone tries to get rich without coordinating it with him. Even more, he dislikes those who get rich for good purposes, as is the case with the Giant Plant Society. Is a very dangerous opponent for positive characters, especially after he was able to lure the weak-willed Migu and Julio over to his side, but soon he has to find himself in a situation where his money is already powerless. True, this makes him even more dangerous - after all, he, together with Julio, detonated a FIS rocket.

Riveting is an eccentric engineer in the Sun City. Has a choleric temperament and is very mobile. Inventor. His multifunctional transforming and all-terrain vehicle impressed Dunno while traveling to the Sun City. Traveled to the moon, where he was wounded in a clash with the police.

Krabs- the manager of the manufactory Spruts, a clever negotiator. Convinced Miga and Julio to destroy the giant plant society, and then fled with Miga, betraying Julio.

Migl- one of the lunar policemen (it is interesting to note that the names of all police officers, judges and private detectives, ie those who work with laws and criminals, end in "gl"). Keeps registration of offenses and preliminary inquiry. Has a flat humor. He considers himself the first person in control, since the detainees first get to him. According to biometric data, he mistakenly identified the arrested Dunno as a dangerous criminal, bank robber Handsome. Corrupt. I extorted a bribe from Dunno.

Herring and Fuchsia- scientists from the Sun City, designers of at least three rockets that flew to the Moon.

Other characters

• Alpha and Memega- astronomer scientists from the Moon. Proved the existence of the outer Earth.
• Watermelon- a famous architect who found a wonderful way to build very beautiful buildings and invented a whole range of new building materials. Mentioned by Dice.
• Squirrel- Sineglazka's friend.
• Beagle- a detective hired by Mrs. Lamprey. I followed Dunno.
• Pancake- a famous transformer artist who performed at the Solnechnogorod pop theater.
• Bolt- TV reporter from Fantomas. Conducted a report about a police raid on the village of Neelovka, where giant plants were sown.
• Brykun- one of the donkeys turned into a short man by Dunno. Partner of Caligula and Pegasik.
• Bell- mentioned when discussing the case of Listik's disappearance by one of the passengers on the ninth bus number in the Sunny City as his acquaintance who "got lost one night on the street and could not find his way home in any way."
• Bagel- a resident of Zmeyovka and a driver of a carbonated car.
• Bukashkin- a newspaper reader from Solnechny Gorod, who published a "big article in the newspaper" about the ugliness of windmills.
• Bukovka- Listik's friend. Together with him, she founded a book theater.
• Vertibutylkin- an architect from the Sun City, who created the first project of a revolving house in the Sun City “several years ago”.
• Grunt- a grumpy character, always dissatisfied with everything. Lives in the Flower City.
• Wrigl- Judge in Davylon. At the trial he admitted Dunno not famous gangster Handsome, but "a shantrap with empty pockets" and ordered to put on the street (in fact, justified, so to speak).
• Check mark- Sineglazka's neighbor.
• Carnation- a resident of Zmeyovka and a bully, later reformed.
• Grizzly- lunar journalist, Chief Editor the newspaper "Davillon Humoresques", owned by Sprots, and a PR master. Itself is bought on it (plans to buy shares of giant plants)
• Muddy is a lunar capitalist and soap maker. Kozlik once worked in his house as a stoker.
• Guslya- musician and composer of the Flower City. Tried to teach Dunno music. I flew with Znayka to the moon.
• Dracula is one of the lunar capitalists and the largest landowner who owns the entire coast, from Los Paganos all the way to Los Svinos. Subsequently - a salt magnate and chairman of the salt delirium. Together with other salt magnates, he brought Donchik and other small salt producers to bankruptcy.
• Drygl- one of the moon cops and a guard in a jail.
• Dryning- one of the lunar oligarchs, the owner of paid shelters for the homeless and a member of the big delirium.
• Dubs- One of the lunar oligarchs, the owner of sawmills and a member of the big delusions. Thinks hard.
• Herringbone- Sineglazka's neighbor.
• Yorshik- the leader of the crowd of pedestrians in the Sun City, who were trying to take the hose away from Pegasik and Dunno, who were drenched in water.
• Jadding- one of the lunar oligarchs and a member of the big delirium. Competes in greed with Skryagins and Scooperfield.
• Zainka- Sineglazka's friend.
• Star- a singer from the pop theater in the Solnechny city.
• Zvezdochkin- a professor, an astronomer from the Solar City and an opponent of Znayka, who later admitted he was wrong. During the flight to the moon - his closest assistant.
• Needle- an employee of the art department at a clothing factory in the Solnechny city.
• Kalachik- a harvester driver and a resident of the Solnechny city.
• Caligula- one of the donkeys turned into a short man by Dunno. Partner of Brykun and Pegasik (in fact, their informal leader).
• Kantik and Quantik- lunar physicists.
• Droplet- a resident of the Flower City. Referred to as a little girl who "cried every time it started to rain."
• Karasik- a craftsman at a clothing factory in the Sunny City, as well as an actor in the theater.
• Karaulkin- a policeman from Solnechny Gorod, who, when Dunno was detained for pouring water from a hose, was sitting at the control panel in the police station. Small in stature and plump.
• Kisonka- a friend of Swallows.
• Klops- a resident of Davylon and the owner of the garden, where Dunno went down by parachute. Poisoned Dunno with dogs.
• Klyushkin- a friend of Jokes and Cookie.
• Kozyavkin- a professor from the Sun City. He revealed the secret of the public phenomenon of windmills.
• Spikelet- a lunatic and a peasant from the village of Neelovka near the lunar city of Fantomas. I was the first to meet Znayka with friends who had flown in on a FIS rocket.
• Compressor- a doctor from the hospital of the Sun City.
• Cube- an architect from the Solnechny city. I flew with Znayka to the moon.
• Egg capsule- Sineglazka's neighbor.
• Eraser- a famous writer from the Sun City. Mentioned as the author of the book "Thirty-Three Funny Little Ravens", which was used by Dr. Kompressik in the treatment of police officer Svistulkin.
• Martin- Kisonka's friend.
• Lily- Director on duty of the Solnechnogorod hotel "Malvasia".
• Leaf- a kid from the Sunny City, turned into a donkey by Dunno, a typical "book swallower", the founder of a book theater and a friend of Bukovka.
• Makovka- a baby who brought police officer Svistulkin to the hospital.
• Daisy- Sineglazka's neighbor.
• Lungwort- Doctor of the Green City.
• Microsha- a resident of the Flower City and a friend of Topek.
• Lamprey is a wealthy dog ​​lover in San Komaric. Dunno worked for her as a dog nanny. Having learned from the detective Beagle that Dunno was driving the dogs entrusted to him to the shelter, she personally appeared there and, seeing that her pets were lying on the dirty floor and amusing themselves with rats, arranged loud scandal, announcing to Dunno that he was fired.
• Silent- a resident of the Flower City. Almost always silent.
• Mstigl- Chief Ataman and Chief of Police of Fantomas. He directed the attack on the FIS missile.
• Front sight- a friend of Button and Gunka, who protected her and Button from Dunno. I watched the departure of the balloon.
• Thread- an artist at a clothing factory in the Sun City and a chess player from the Chess Town.
• Pegasik- one of the donkeys of the Sunny City, turned into a short man by Dunno. Partner of Brykun and Caligula.
• Peryshkin is a newspaper correspondent from Solnechny Gorod.
• Flexible- a homeless man from San Komaric and a dweller in a shelter. Seeks to see the good in everything. In this respect, he is the opponent of the Shrew.
• Button
• Fluff- Sineglazka's friend.
• Confusion- an inhabitant of the Flower City, inclined to lose and forget everything.
• Bagel- a resident of the Space City, the first to notice the disappearance of the rocket.
• chamomile- a baby from the Flower City. I watched the departure of the balloon.
• Gem- Poetess in the Green City.
• Sapozhkin- a policeman who “grabbed Supchik by the collar and dragged him to the police station,” and then arrested him for 7 days.
• Svistulkin- a policeman from Solnechny Gorod, who detained Dunno for dousing with water from a hose and sent him to the police station. Long and thin. After the destruction of the police station by Dunno, he received a head injury (probably a concussion) and temporarily lost his memory.
• Gray- a sleepwalker peasant, a poor man, and the first shareholder of the Society of Giant Plants to be interviewed in the press.
• Scryagins- one of the lunar oligarchs and a member of the big delirium.
• Smekaylo- the writer of the city of Zmeyovka. Gave a soldering iron to Cinch and Shpuntik for car repair.
• Snowflake- colleague (co-worker) Sineglazki.
• Dunno's Conscience- constantly reproaches him at night for bad deeds.
• Straw is a scientist, agronomist and breeder of watermelons from the Green City.
• Steklyashkin- Astronomer of the Flower City. I flew with Znayka to the moon.
• Dragonfly- Sineglazka's friend.
• Obstinate- a homeless man from San Komaric and a dweller in a shelter. Scolds Mr. Dryaning, the owner of the hotel. In this respect, he is an opponent of Compliant.
• Soup and Pretzel- residents of the Solnechny city and carminers who quarreled on the street.
• Tarakashkin- a reader of Solnechny Gorod, who posted a response to Bukashkin's article in “another newspaper”. It is mentioned that Gulkin, Mulkin, Promokashkin, Cherepushkin, Kondrashkin, Chushkin, Tyutelkin, Murashkin, as well as Professor Mordochkina, also made articles on this topic.
• Topic- a resident of the Flower City and a friend of Mikrosha. Initially, I did not believe that the balloon would fly.
• Toropyzhka- a resident of the Flower City. He is in a hurry all the time and does not sit still.
• Toops- one of the lunar oligarchs and a member of the big delirium. Like Mr. Dubs, he does not shine with intelligence.
• Tube- artist of the Flower City. He taught Dunno painting and painted portraits of the inhabitants of the Green City. I flew with Znayka to the moon.
• Fantik- an entertainer from a variety theater in the Solnechny city.
• Figure- a chess champion from the Sunny City. Constructed a large chess machine.
• Fix and Fex- servants of Klops. The first of them caught Dunno eating raspberries and, captivating, brought her to Klops by force. The second brought the dogs so that Klops could poison Dunno.
• Figl- one of the moon cops and a patrol. Judging by the name, prone to rudeness, sadism and psychopathy. He detained Dunno after an unpaid lunch in the canteen and took him to the police department.
• Flyazhkin- a friend of Jokes and Cookie.
• Funtik- a singer from the pop theater in the Solnechny city.
• Haps- the owner of the "Izumrud" hotel in the lunar city of Davylon, where Dunno settled for free after his arrival in the form of an astronaut and a wide PR campaign on television and radio.
• Flower- the pseudonym of the poet Pudik from the Flower City. Taken because poets, according to the book, "love beautiful names."
• Cylinder- the engineer who is mentioned by Karasik during the demonstration of the large textile boiler of the Cylindrik engineer system at the clothing factory in the Sun City.
• Compass- the famous traveler-cyclist from the city of Katigoroshkin, who decided to go around all the shorty cities "that only were in the world." Mentioned when explaining the name of Patchuli Pestrenky.
• Chubchik- a gardener in the Sunny City.
• Hairpin- an artist at a clothing factory in the Sun City.
• Syringe- a doctor from Davylon. During the ceremonial meeting, the alien from space volunteered to examine him free of charge. Listening to Dunno, he also advertised his services and prices.
• Shtuchkin- a theater director-wind runner from the Solnechny city.
• Screwdriver- a resident of Zmeyovka, a mechanic and an inventor, who has everything on buttons.
• Joking and Biscuit- residents of the Sun City, two friends and wit. Having mistaken the door, the wounded Svistulkin fell asleep in their apartment.

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For those people who are accustomed to thinking that plans for wars and battles are drawn up by commanders in the same way that each of us, sitting in his office over a map, makes considerations about how and how he would order in such and such a battle, questions arise as to why Kutuzov did not act this way when retreating, why did not he take up the position before Filia, why he did not immediately retreat to the Kaluga road, left Moscow, etc. People who are accustomed to think so forget or do not know those inevitable conditions in which the activity of every commander-in-chief always takes place. The activity of the commander has not the slightest resemblance to the activity that we imagine to ourselves, sitting freely in the office, sorting out some kind of campaign on a map with a known number of troops, from one side and the other, and in a certain area, and starting our considerations with what of some known moment. The commander-in-chief is never in those conditions of the beginning of an event, in which we always consider the event. The commander-in-chief is always in the middle of a moving series of events, and so that never, at any moment, is he in a position to ponder the entire meaning of the event taking place. The event is imperceptible, moment by moment, carved into its meaning, and at every moment of this sequential, continuous cutting out of the event, the commander-in-chief is at the center of a complex game, intrigue, worries, dependence, power, projects, advice, threats, deceptions, is constantly in the need to answer to the innumerable number of questions offered to him, always contradicting one another.
Scientists in the military tell us that Kutuzov had to move troops to the Kaluga road much earlier than Filay, that even someone proposed such a project. But before the commander-in-chief, especially in difficult moment, there is not one project, but always dozens at a time. And each of these projects, based on strategy and tactics, contradicts one another. It would seem that the commander-in-chief's business is only to choose one of these projects. But even this he cannot do. Events and time do not wait. He is offered, let's say, on the 28th to go to the Kaluga road, but at this time Miloradovich's adjutant comes and asks whether to tie up business with the French or retreat. He must now, this very minute, give the order. And the order to retreat knocks us off the turn onto the Kaluga road. And following the adjutant, the quartermaster asks where to take the provisions, and the head of the hospitals - where to take the wounded; and a courier from St. Petersburg brings a letter from the sovereign, which does not allow the possibility of leaving Moscow, and the rival of the commander-in-chief, the one who breaks under him (there are always such, and not one, but several), offers new project, diametrically opposite to the plan of the exit to the Kaluga road; and the forces of the commander-in-chief himself require sleep and reinforcement; and a rewarding venerable general comes to complain, and the inhabitants beg for protection; an officer sent to inspect the area arrives and reports exactly the opposite of what the sent officer said before him; and the spy, the prisoner and the general who made the reconnaissance - all describe differently the position of the enemy army. People who are used to not understanding or forgetting these the necessary conditions activities of any commander-in-chief, they present to us, for example, the position of the troops in Fili and at the same time assume that the commander-in-chief could on September 1 completely freely decide the issue of abandoning or defending Moscow, whereas with the position of the Russian army five miles from Moscow, this could not be ... When was this issue resolved? And at Drissa, and at Smolensk, and most noticeably on the 24th at Shevardin, and on the 26th at Borodino, and on every day, and hour, and minute of retreat from Borodino to Filia.

Russian troops, retreating from Borodino, were at Fili. Ermolov, who went to inspect the position, drove up to the field marshal.
“There is no way to fight in this position,” he said. Kutuzov looked at him in surprise and made him repeat the words he had spoken. When he spoke, Kutuzov held out his hand to him.
“Give me your hand,” he said, and turning it so that he could feel his pulse, he said: “You are not well, my dear. Think about what you are saying.
Kutuzov on Poklonnaya Gora, six versts from the Dorogomilovskaya outpost, got out of the carriage and sat on a bench at the edge of the road. A huge crowd of generals gathered around him. Count Rostopchin, having arrived from Moscow, joined them. All this brilliant society, divided into several circles, talked among themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of the position, about the position of the troops, about the proposed plans, about the state of Moscow, and about military issues in general. Everyone felt that although they had not been called upon, that although it was not called that, but that it was a council of war. All conversations were held in the area of ​​general issues. If someone reported or found out personal news, they spoke about it in a whisper, and immediately turned back to general questions: no jokes, no laughter, no smiles were even noticeable between all these people. Everyone, obviously with an effort, tried to keep to the height of the position. And all the groups, talking to each other, tried to keep close to the commander-in-chief (whose shop was the center of these circles) and spoke in such a way that he could hear them. The commander-in-chief listened and sometimes asked again what was being said around him, but he himself did not enter into the conversation and did not express any opinion. For the most part, having listened to the conversation of some circle, he turned away with an air of disappointment - as if they were not talking about what he wanted to know at all. Some spoke about the chosen position, criticizing not so much the position itself as the mental abilities of those who chose it; others argued that the mistake had been made before, that the battle had to be fought the day before yesterday; still others talked about the battle of Salamanca, about which the Frenchman Crosar, who had just arrived, in a Spanish uniform, spoke about. (This Frenchman, together with one of the German princes who served in the Russian army, dismantled the siege of Saragossa, foreseeing the possibility of defending Moscow in the same way.) In the fourth circle, Count Rostopchin said that he and his Moscow squad were ready to die under the walls of the capital, but that yet he cannot but regret the uncertainty in which he was left, and that if he had known it before, it would have been different ... Fifth, showing the depth of their strategic considerations, talked about the direction that the troops would have to take. The sixth were talking complete nonsense. Kutuzov's face became more anxious and sadder. Of all these conversations, Kutuzov saw one thing: there was no physical opportunity to defend Moscow in full meaning these words, that is, to such an extent it was not possible that if some insane commander-in-chief had given the order to give a battle, there would have been confusion and there would have been no battle; it would not be because all the top leaders not only recognized this position as impossible, but in their conversations they discussed only what would happen after the undoubted abandonment of this position. How could the commanders lead their troops into a battlefield that they considered impossible? The lower superiors, even the soldiers (who also reason), also recognized the position as impossible and therefore could not go to fight with the certainty of defeat. If Bennigsen insisted on defending this position and others were still discussing it, then this question no longer mattered in itself, but was only important as a pretext for dispute and intrigue. Kutuzov understood this.
Bennigsen, choosing a position, ardently exposing his Russian patriotism (which Kutuzov could not listen to without frowning), insisted on the defense of Moscow. Kutuzov clearly saw Bennigsen's goal as clear as day: in case of failure of the defense - to blame Kutuzov, who brought the troops without a battle to the Sparrow Hills, and in case of success - to attribute it to himself; in case of refusal, to purify oneself in the crime of leaving Moscow. But this question of intrigue did not now occupy the old man. One terrible question occupied him. And to this question he did not hear an answer from anyone. The only question for him now was: “Did I really allow Napoleon to reach Moscow, and when did I do it? When was it decided? Was it really yesterday, when I sent the order to Platov to retreat, or the day before yesterday, when I dozed off and ordered Bennigsen to give orders? Or even before? ... but when, when was this terrible thing decided? Moscow must be abandoned. The troops must retreat, and this order must be given. " To give this terrible order seemed to him the same as giving up command of the army. And not only did he love power, he got used to it (the honor given to Prince Prozorovsky, under whom he was in Turkey, teased him), he was convinced that the salvation of Russia was destined for him and that because only, against the will of the sovereign and according to the will of the people, he was elected commander-in-chief. He was convinced that he alone and in these difficult conditions could hold on to the head of the army, that he alone in the whole world was able to know without horror the invincible Napoleon as his adversary; and he was horrified at the thought of the order he had to give. But it was necessary to decide something, it was necessary to stop these conversations around him, which were beginning to take on a too free character.
He called the senior generals over to him.
- Ma tete fut elle bonne ou mauvaise, n "a qu" as "aider d" elle meme, [Is my head good or bad, but there is no one else to rely on,] - he said, getting up from the bench, and drove to Fili, where his carriages were stationed.

In the spacious, best hut of the peasant Andrei Savostyanov, a council met at two o'clock. Men, women and children of the peasant large family crowded in the black hut through the entrance. Only Andrei's granddaughter, Malasha, a six-year-old girl, to whom the Serene Highness, having caressed her, gave her a piece of sugar over tea, remained on the stove in a large hut. Malasha timidly and joyfully looked from the stove at the faces, uniforms and crosses of the generals, one after another entering the hut and sitting in the red corner, on wide benches under the icons. Grandfather himself, as Malasha Kutuzova internally called, sat apart from them, in a dark corner behind the stove. He sat down deeply in a folding chair, and incessantly grunting and straightening the collar of his coat, which, although unbuttoned, seemed to press his neck. Those who entered, one by one, approached the field marshal; to some he shook hands, to others he nodded his head. Adjutant Kaisarov was about to pull back the curtain in the window opposite Kutuzov, but Kutuzov angrily waved his hand, and Kaisarov realized that his lordship did not want to see his face.
So many people gathered around the peasant's spruce table, on which lay maps, plans, pencils, and papers, that the orderlies brought another bench and put it at the table. Those who came to this bench sat down: Ermolov, Kaisarov and Tol. Under the very images, in the first place, sat with George on his neck, with a pale, sickly face and with his high forehead, merging with his bare head, Barclay de Tolly. For the second day already he suffered from a fever, and at that very time he shivered and broke down. Uvarov was sitting next to him, and in a low voice (like everyone else was saying) was making quick gestures and telling Barclay. Small, plump Dokhturov, raised his eyebrows and folded his hands on his stomach, listened attentively. On the other side, Count Osterman Tolstoy was sitting, leaning his broad head with bold features and shining eyes on his arm, and seemed immersed in his thoughts. Raevsky, with an expression of impatience, curling his black hair at his temples in advance with a customary gesture, looked first at Kutuzov, then at front door... Konovnitsyn's firm, handsome and kind face shone with a gentle and sly smile. He met Malasha's gaze and made signs to her with his eyes that made the girl smile.
Everyone was waiting for Bennigsen, who was finishing his delicious dinner under the pretext of a new inspection of the position. They waited for him from four to six o'clock, and during all this time they did not start the meeting and carried on other conversations in low voices.
Only when Bennigsen entered the hut did Kutuzov move out of his corner and moved to the table, but so much so that his face was not lit by the candles brought to the table.
Bennigsen opened the council with a question: "Should we leave the sacred and ancient capital of Russia without a fight or defend it?" There was a long and general silence. All faces frowned, and in the silence one could hear Kutuzov's angry groaning and coughing. All eyes were looking at him. Malasha also looked at her grandfather. She was closest to him and saw how his face wrinkled: he seemed to be about to cry. But this did not last long.
- The sacred ancient capital of Russia! - he suddenly began to speak, repeating the words of Bennigsen in an angry voice and thus pointing to false note of these words. - Let me tell you, Your Excellency, that this question has no meaning for a Russian person. (He leaned forward with his heavy body.) Such a question cannot be asked, and such a question does not make sense. The question for which I asked these gentlemen to meet is a military question. The question is the following: “Salvation of Russia in the army. Is it more profitable to risk the loss of the army and Moscow by accepting the battle, or to give Moscow away without a fight? This is the question on which I would like to know your opinion. " (He leaned back into the chair.)
The debate began. Bennigsen did not yet consider the game to be lost. Admitting the opinion of Barclay and others that it was impossible to accept a defensive battle at Fili, he, imbued with Russian patriotism and love for Moscow, proposed to transfer troops at night from the right to the left flank and strike the next day on right wing French. Opinions were divided, there were controversies in favor and against this opinion. Ermolov, Dokhturov and Raevsky agreed with Bennigsen's opinion. Whether guided by a sense of need for sacrifices before leaving the capital, or other personal considerations, these generals did not seem to understand that this council could not change the inevitable course of affairs and that Moscow has now been abandoned. The rest of the generals understood this and, leaving aside the question of Moscow, talked about the direction that the army was supposed to take in its retreat. Malasha, who, without taking her eyes off, looked at what was being done in front of her, otherwise understood the meaning of this advice. It seemed to her that it was only a personal struggle between the "grandfather" and the "long-sex", as she called Bennigsen. She saw that they were angry when they talked to each other, and in her heart she took the side of her grandfather. In the middle of the conversation, she noticed a quick, sly glance thrown by her grandfather at Bennigsen, and then, to her joy, noticed that grandfather, having said something to the long-haired man, reined in him: Bennigsen suddenly blushed and angrily walked around the hut. The words that had such an effect on Bennigsen were in a calm and quiet voice the opinion expressed by Kutuzov about the advantages and disadvantages of Bennigsen's proposal: about the transfer of troops from the right to the left flank in the night to attack the right wing of the French.
“Gentlemen,” said Kutuzov, “I cannot approve the count's plan. Movement of troops close to the enemy is always dangerous, and military history confirms this consideration. So, for example ... (Kutuzov seemed to be thinking, looking for an example and looking at Bennigsen with a bright, naive look.) But at least the Battle of Friedland, which, I think, the count remembers well, was ... not entirely successful just because our troops were rebuilding too close to the enemy ... - There was a minute silence, which seemed to everyone to be very long.
The debate resumed again, but there were frequent breaks, and it was felt that there was nothing more to talk about.
During one of these breaks, Kutuzov sighed heavily, as if preparing to speak. Everyone looked at him.
- Eh bien, messieurs! Je vois que c "est moi qui payerai les pots casses, [So gentlemen, therefore, I have to pay for the broken pots,] - he said. And, slowly getting up, he went to the table. - Gentlemen, I heard your opinions. Some will disagree with me, but I (he stopped) by the authority entrusted to me by my sovereign and fatherland, I am ordering retreat.
Following this, the generals began to disperse with the same solemn and silent caution with which they disperse after the funeral.
Some of the generals, in a low voice, in a completely different range than when they spoke at the council, conveyed something to the commander-in-chief.
Malasha, who had been waiting for supper for a long time, cautiously descended backwards from the bed, clinging with her bare feet to the ledges of the stove, and, mixing between the generals' legs, darted through the door.
Having dismissed the generals, Kutuzov sat for a long time, leaning his elbows on the table, and kept thinking about the same terrible question: “When, when, finally, was it decided that Moscow had been abandoned? When was that done that resolved the issue, and who is to blame for this? "
“This, this I did not expect,” he said to the adjutant Schneider, who had entered him, already late at night, “I did not expect this! I didn't think that!
“You need to rest, Your Grace,” Schneider said.
- No! Will they eat horse meat like the Turks, ”Kutuzov shouted without answering, banging his chubby fist on the table,“ they’ll also be there, if only ...

In contrast to Kutuzov, at the same time, in an event even more important than the retreat of the army without a fight, in the abandonment of Moscow and the burning of it, Rostopchin, who seems to us to be the leader of this event, acted completely differently.
This event - the abandonment of Moscow and the burning of it - was as inevitable as the retreat of troops without a fight for Moscow after the Battle of Borodino.
Every Russian person, not on the basis of inferences, but on the basis of the feeling that lies in us and lay in our fathers, could predict what happened.
Starting from Smolensk, in all the cities and villages of the Russian land, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his posters, the same thing happened that happened in Moscow. The people carelessly waited for the enemy, did not rebel, did not worry, did not tear anyone to pieces, but calmly waited for their fate, feeling the strength in themselves in the most difficult moment to find what had to be done. And as soon as the enemy approached, the richest elements of the population left, leaving their property; the poorest stayed and burned and consumed what was left.
The consciousness that this will be so, and always will be so, lay and lies in the soul of the Russian person. And this consciousness and, moreover, the presentiment that Moscow would be taken, lay in the Russian Moscow society of the 12th year. Those who began to leave Moscow in July and early August showed that they were expecting this. Those who went out with what they could seize, leaving houses and half of their property, acted this way due to that latent patriotism, which is expressed not in phrases, not in killing children to save the fatherland, etc., by unnatural actions, but in imperceptibly, simply, organically and therefore always produces the strongest results.
“I am ashamed to run from danger; only cowards flee from Moscow, ”they were told. Rostopchin in his posters inspired them that it was shameful to leave Moscow. They were ashamed to receive the name of cowards, they were ashamed to go, but they still went, knowing that it was necessary. Why did they go? It cannot be assumed that Rostopchin frightened them with the horrors that Napoleon produced in the conquered lands. They left, and the first to leave were the rich, educated people, who knew very well that Vienna and Berlin remained intact and that there, during their occupation by Napoleon, the inhabitants had fun with the charming French, whom Russian men and especially ladies were so fond of at that time.
They went because for the Russian people there could be no question: will it be good or bad under the control of the French in Moscow. It was impossible to be under the control of the French: it was the worst of all. They left before the Battle of Borodino, and even faster after the Battle of Borodino, despite appeals to protection, despite the statements of the commander-in-chief of Moscow about his intention to raise Iverskaya and go to fight, and on balloons that were supposed to destroy the French, and despite all that nonsense that Rostopchin wrote about in his posters. They knew that the army must fight, and that if it cannot, then with young ladies and courtyard people it is impossible to go to the Three Mountains to fight Napoleon, and that it is necessary to leave, no matter how sorry it is to leave your property for destruction. They left and did not think about the majestic significance of this huge, rich capital, abandoned by the inhabitants and, obviously, burned down (the large abandoned wooden city had to be burned down); they left, each for himself, and at the same time only as a result of the fact that they left, and that majestic event took place, which will forever remain the best glory of the Russian people. That lady, who in June with her araps and firecrackers ascended from Moscow to the Saratov village, with a vague consciousness that she was not a servant to Bonaparte, and with fear that she would not be stopped by the order of Count Rostopchin, did that great simply and truly the cause that saved Russia. Count Rostopchin, who then shamed those who were leaving, then took out public places, then gave out useless weapons to drunken rabble, then raised images, then forbade Augustine to take out relics and icons, then seized all the private carts that were in Moscow, then to he took away one hundred and thirty-six carts with a balloon made by Leppich, then hinted that he would burn Moscow, then he told how he burned down his house and wrote a proclamation to the French, where he solemnly reproached them for having ruined his orphanage; then he accepted the glory of the burning of Moscow, then he renounced it, then he ordered the people to catch all the spies and bring them to him, then he reproached the people for this, then he expelled all the French from Moscow, then he left in the city Mrs. Aubert Chalme, who was the center of the entire French Moscow population , and without any particular guilt ordered to seize and take away into exile the old venerable post office director Klyucharyov; then he gathered people to the Three Mountains in order to fight the French, then, in order to get rid of this people, he gave them a man to kill and he himself left for the back gate; either he said that he would not survive the misfortunes of Moscow, then he wrote poetry in French about his participation in this business in albums - this person did not understand the meaning of the event, but only wanted to do something himself, surprise someone, do something patriotically heroic and, like a boy, he frolicked over the majestic and inevitable event of the abandonment and burning of Moscow and tried with his small hand to either encourage or delay the flow of the enormous stream of the people that carried him along with it.

In one fabulous city lived short men ... Their city was very beautiful. Flowers grew around every house: daisies, daisies, dandelions. There even the streets were named after flowers: Kolokolchikov Street, Romashki Alley, Vasilkov Boulevard. And the city itself was called the Flower City.

Sixteen short kids lived in one house on Kolokolchikov Street ... Znayka ... Dr. Pilyulkin ... Cog with his assistant Shpuntik ... Syrup ... the hunter Pulka. He had a small dog Bulka ... There lived the artist Tube, the musician Guslya and other kids: Toropyzhka, Grumbler, Silent, Donut, Rasteryayka, two brothers - Avoska and Neboska. But the most famous among them was a baby named Dunno ...

Brothers, save yourself! The piece is flying!
- What piece? - they ask him.
- Piece, brothers! A piece came off the sun. Soon it will flop - and everyone will be covered. Do you know what the sun is? It is larger than our entire Earth!

Guslya gave him a large copper pipe... Dunno how to blow into it, how the trumpet will roar!
- This is a good tool! - Dunno was delighted. - Plays loud!

No, this is a bad portrait, ”said Gunka. - Let me tear it.
- Why destroy work of fiction? - answered Dunno. Gunka wanted to take the portrait away from him, and they began to fight. Znayka, doctor Pilyulkin and the rest of the kids came running to the noise.

Once Dunno came to Tsvetik and said:
- Listen, Tsvetik, teach me how to write poetry. I also want to be a poet.
- Do you have the ability? - asked Tsvetik.
- Of course have. I am very capable, - answered Dunno.

Dunno got scared, wanted to stop the car and pulled some lever. But the car, instead of stopping, went even faster. On the road came across a gazebo. Fuck-ta-ra-rah! The gazebo fell to pieces. Dunno was thrown from head to toe with chips.

Meanwhile, the ball rose higher and higher ... Steklyashkin climbed onto the roof of the house and began to look at this speck in his pipe. Next to him, at the very edge of the roof, stood the poet Tsvetik ...

At this time, the basket hit the ground with force and overturned. Avoska grabbed Neboska with his hands, and Neboska grabbed Avoska, and together they fell out of the basket. After them, like peas, the rest of the short ones fell ...
The air travel is over.

Sineglazka took off the towel from the wall and handed it to Dunno. Dunno pulled a towel over his face and only after that he decided to open his eyes.

And we had a baby named Znayka. Such a coward! He saw that the ball was falling, and let's cry, and then, as he jumped down with a parachute, he went home. The ball immediately became lighter and again flew upward. Then suddenly it will fly down again, but as soon as it is enough on the ground, but as it will jump, but again as it is enough ... I fell out of the basket - bang my head on the ground! ..

The grunt looked at him in surprise.
- Dunno!
... He clung to the sleeve of Dunno and did not want to let him go.

This is an eight-wheeled steam car with pistachio cooling, - explained Shurupchik.

A few minutes later, the stalk was sawn and the apple hung on the rope. Cog told Bagel to drive the car right under the hanging apple. The little ones began to gradually release the rope. The apple sank right into the back of the car. The rope was untied, and the car drove the apple to the house.

Why the letter? he muttered in confusion. - We do not live nearby. You can talk like that.
- Oh, how boring you are, Dunno! You don't want to do anything for me. It's so interesting to receive a letter!
- Well, good, - agreed Dunno. - I will write a letter.

Dunno often planted blots in a notebook. And besides, as soon as he planted a blot, he would immediately lick it off with his tongue. From this, he got blots with long tails. Dunno called such tailed blots comets. These "comets" were on almost every page. But Dunno did not lose heart, as he knew that patience and work would help him get rid of the "comets".