Hero Soviet Union, army General
Born June 30, 1924 in the village of Kryukovka, Michurinsky District, Tambov Region, in a peasant family. Both father, Pavel Karpovich, and mother, Olga Mikhailovna, taught children to work from an early age. Children: Andrey Yurievich Maksimov, Sergey Yurievich Maksimov.
Yuri learned the war at the age of seventeen. Then he, like many residents of the Moscow region, where the family moved, had a chance, often under bombing, to dig trenches and anti-tank ditches in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Kashirskoye highway. In 1942, Yuri became a cadet at the 1st Moscow Machine Gun School. He is awarded the rank of lieutenant. And he is sent to the South-Western Front as the commander of the machine-gun platoon of the 187th Guards infantry regiment 61st Guards rifle division.
The lieutenant receives his baptism of fire during the crossing of the Seversky Donets. Then the machine guns of the Maksimov platoon, changing positions, conducted continuous fire, brought confusion into the ranks of the attacking Nazis. In this battle, a shell fragment found the platoon one. Wounded, he continued to lead the battle for several hours. Having lost consciousness, he was taken to the medical battalion. Someone thought that Maksimov was killed, and a funeral was sent to the parents, which settled grief in the family before receiving news from Yuri. The letter said that everything worked out, he is alive and well.
And new, no less fierce battles are ahead. Again and again, Maksimov's platoon rescued mother infantry with machine-gun fire. And the platoon commander, every time after the battle, analyzed the actions of his subordinates, his own decisions, and found weak and strong sides in them. Apparently, the command of the regiment liked this, and Maksimov was sent to Mariupol to study in the battalion of advanced training for the officers at the courses of junior lieutenants of the 4th Ukrainian Front.
Yuri Pavlovich returned to the front as the commander of the machine-gun company of the 195th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 66th Guards Rifle Division. It was already in the Carpathians. The mountainous terrain required a lot to learn on the go. And especially for machine gunners. The position taken by them often depended on the success of actions.
The Carpathian-Uzhgorod operation was coming to an end. The fighting was to be transferred to the territory of Hungary. By that time, the order was added to the Order of the Red Star for the battles on the Seversky Donets on the tunic Patriotic War I degree.
Maksimov's machine-gunners quickly adapted to combat operations in urban areas. They also had a chance to participate in repelling an attempt to unblock the fascist grouping surrounded in Budapest. In hot battles, machine guns successfully cut off enemy infantry from tanks. An attempt to unblock the encircled failed. The company commander now has a new award: the Order of the Red Banner. And in a battle on the Vienna direction, he was wounded for the third time.
After being cured in the medical battalion, Maksimov returns to his regiment. With his fellow soldiers, he participates in battles in the Austrian Alps. Soon good news comes: Germany has surrendered, the war is over.
In 1947, Yuri Pavlovich was sent to Military academy named after M.V. Frunze. Three years later, he graduated with honors and a gold medal and was sent to the Operations Directorate of the General Staff. However, the position of operator-operator was not to Maksimov's liking. The drill "vein" made itself felt. Soon an experienced officer is appointed battalion commander. A little later, he became chief of staff of the 205th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 70th Guards Rifle Division.
Soon, the military fate throws Maksimov to Hungary. After several years of service there, he returns to Transcarpathia. Here in 1961 he was appointed chief of staff of the 128th Guards Motorized Rifle Division. From here, as a promising military leader, he receives a referral to the Military Academy of the General Staff. In 1965, Yuri Pavlovich graduated from it with honors and a gold medal.
Now the way to Arkhangelsk. Here he receives the famous 77th Chernigov Red Banner, the Orders of Lenin and Suvorov, the Guards Motorized Rifle Division. It includes a battalion of Glory and a company of Heroes. Hundreds of fighters for courage and heroism during the crossing of the Vistula were awarded the Orders of Glory, and 12 soldiers of one of the companies became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Here, in the north, Colonel Maksimov is awarded the rank of Major General.
And then a new sharp turn - a business trip to Yemen. Yuri Pavlovich becomes the chief military adviser in the Yemen Arab Republic. Two years of hard work bore significant results: a republican system was established in Yemen, the possibility of restoring the monarchy was removed. General Maksimov is awarded the Order of the Maghreb. Work in Yemen also received the third Order of the Red Banner.
Upon his return from Yemen in 1969, he took up a new position: First Deputy Commander of the 28th Army. And at the beginning of the summer of 1973, Maksimov's wife, Lyudmila Mikhailovna, again packs her bags. Yuri Pavlovich was appointed first deputy commander of the troops of the Turkestan military district. Not having time to settle, the road again: in the rank of lieutenant general, he is sent to Algeria as a senior group of military advisers. Only at the end of 1978 did Yuri Pavlovich return to his native Turkestan. This time already as commander of the district troops. Here he receives the rank of colonel general and then army general.
In connection with the introduction of our troops into Afghanistan, the worries of the commander of the TurkVO Maksimov have much increased. Maximov is constantly in the thick of military events. Often it was necessary to return to the airfield with holes in helicopters from the shelling of spooks, to get into critical situations, to risk their lives. And as a result of all his activities - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
After a year in the position of the commander-in-chief of the troops of the southern direction, stationed in Baku, in July 1985, Maksimov assumed the post of the commander-in-chief of the strategic missile forces - deputy defense minister of the USSR. And again the work, as they say, is a lot. For seven years, the rearmament of these troops - the forces of deterring the enemy from possible aggression - was carried out on missile systems of a new generation.
In 1992 and 1993, General of the Army Maksimov was the commander-in-chief of the CIS strategic forces. Much has been changed over the years and, having retired, Yuri Pavlovich sat down at a book. Soon it was published. In these "Notes of the Former Commander-in-Chief of Strategic" Yuri Pavlovich wrote: "... With the weak they speak the language of dictatorship, impose their will. Russia has significantly weakened ... In order not to lose its face at all, not to lose its real independence, to have the opportunity to influence international affairs, Russia must seriously take care of its defense capability. " No comments are needed here.
Yu.P. Maksimov was elected a member of the CPSU Central Committee from 1986 to 1990, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 10th and 11th convocations (1979-1989), and a people's deputy of the USSR (1989-1991).
He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Orders of the October Revolution, three Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Red Star, the Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" of the 3rd degree, medals, foreign awards: the Orders of the White Lion, "For Victory" (Czechoslovakia), Maghreb (Yemen Arab Republic), Red Banner (Afghanistan), medals of Mongolia, Afghanistan and the Republic of Belarus.
Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov was born into a peasant family in the village of Kryukovka, Tambov province, now part of the Michurinsky district of the Tambov region. Russian. Graduated high school.
The Great Patriotic War
In the first months of the Great Patriotic War, he was mobilized to build fortifications on the outskirts of Moscow. In August 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. He graduated from the First Moscow Machine Gun School in 1943, immediately after graduation he was sent to the army. Fought on Southwestern Front the commander of a machine-gun platoon. In his first battle on the Seversky Donets River, he was seriously wounded, lost consciousness, a death notification was sent to his family. After recovering, he graduated from the front-line advanced training courses for officers. Since 1944 he commanded a machine-gun company on the 4th Ukrainian Front, liberated the Transcarpathian Ukraine, Hungary, Austria. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1943.
For two years at the front he was wounded three times and awarded with three military orders.
Post-war time
After the war he continued to command a company. In 1950 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy. He served in the Operations Directorate of the General Staff. Since 1951, he again joined the troops, commanded a battalion, was the chief of staff of the Guards Rifle Regiment, since 1957 he commanded a regiment in the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary. Since 1961 - Chief of Staff of the Guards Motorized Rifle Division in the Carpathian Military District. In 1965 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff with a gold medal.
Since 1965, he commanded the Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District in Arkhangelsk. Since 1967 - military adviser in the Yemen Arab Republic. Since 1969 - First Deputy Commander of the 28th Combined Arms Army of the Belarusian Military District. From June 1973 - First Deputy Commander of the Turkestan Military District. Since 1976 - head of a group of Soviet military specialists in Algeria. At the end of 1978, at the end of the business trip, he returned to his former position, and in January 1979 he was appointed commander of the Turkestan Military District.
Afghan war
In December 1979, Soviet troops entered the territory of Afghanistan and began Afghan war... Directly fighting led by the 40th combined-arms army, which was part of the Turkestan military district. The district headquarters was responsible for the full supply of army troops, replenishment of personnel and weapons, preparation of troops for military operations, together with the army command and the operational leadership group of the USSR Ministry of Defense, planned large combat operations. Long time was in Afghanistan. Maximov's work in this position was assessed as successful. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 5, 1982, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the wording "for the successful fulfillment of the tasks of the government and for the courage and heroism shown at the same time." In addition, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 16, 1982, General Maksimov was also assigned military rank army General.
Last years of service
Since 1984, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Strategic Direction. Since July 10, 1985 - Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. One of the few top military leaders who remained in office after the August 1991 events. From November 12, 1991 - Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Deterrent Forces of the USSR, and from March 27, 1992 - Commander of the Strategic Nuclear Forces of the United armed forces CIS. On August 26, 1992, he was dismissed from his post, and in November of the same year he was dismissed.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 10th and 11th convocations (1979-1989). People's Deputy of the USSR in 1989-1991. Candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1981-1986. Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1986-1991.
Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (07/05/1982)
Orders of the USSR
- Two Orders of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Three Orders of the Red Banner
- Two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1 degree
- Order of the Red Star
- Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree
USSR medals
- For military service
- In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin
- for the defense of Moscow
- For the defense of Stalingrad
- For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
- 20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
- 30 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
- 40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
- 50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
- For the liberation of Prague
- 30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy
- 40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR
- 50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR
- 60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR
- 70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR
- In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow
- In commemoration of the 850th anniversary of Moscow
- Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR
- For strengthening the military community
- For impeccable service, 2nd degree
- For impeccable service, 1st degree
- Zhukova (Russian Federation)
Foreign awards
- Order of "Marib" (Yemen)
- Order of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov, a famous Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, retired to the reserve with the rank of army general. In the 80s, he commanded in the southern strategic direction, and later served as deputy defense minister.
Officer biography
Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov was born in 1924. He was born in the small village of Kryukovka on the territory of the Tambov province, now this settlement is part of the Michurinsky district of the Tambov region.
Russian by nationality, in the family and biography of Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov, serious changes took place - together with his parents, he moved to the village of Barybino, which is located in the Moscow region. By 1939, he graduated from the seven-year school in Barybino, and already during the Great Patriotic War he graduated from the school in Domodedovo in 1942.
Participation in the war
In the very first months after the attack of the Nazi invaders on the Soviet Union, Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov was sent to build fortifications on the outskirts of the capital.
He was drafted into the Red Army at the end of the summer of 1942. Maksimov was assigned to a machine gun school, which he graduated from in 1943, and then received a referral to the army. He fought on the Southwestern Front and commanded a machine-gun platoon in the Third Guards Army. During the battle on the Severny Donets River, he was seriously wounded. He remained unconscious for a long time. This happened in July 1943, in Maksimov's unit they were considered dead, even sent a funeral to his relatives.
But in reality, the hero of our article escaped, and when he was discharged from the hospital, he went to the front-line courses to improve the qualifications of the officers. He returned to the front line in 1944, commanded a machine-gun company on the Second Ukrainian Front. After the Germans were driven out of the territory of the USSR, he liberated Austria and Hungary. In 1943 he joined the party, which helped in his career advancement
As a result, during the war, Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov was wounded three times and received three military orders.
Career after the war
When the war was over, Maksimov decided to stay in the army. In the Carpathian military district, until 1947, he commanded a machine-gun company, and then went to study at the academy. He needed to get an education in order to count on the highest posts in the command of the Soviet army.
In 1950, Maksimov received a diploma from the Frunze Military Academy. He served as an operator in the western direction, and then in the operational management of the General Staff. In 1953, the hero of our article commanded a rifle battalion, then was chief of staff in the 205th rifle regiment, deputy commander of a motorized rifle division, held leading posts in the Southern Group of Forces, which was based on Hungarian territory. In 1961 he was appointed the headquarters of a motorized rifle division in the Carpathian region.
Moving up the officer's career ladder, I did not forget about education. In 1965 he graduated with a gold medal.
Commanding staff
By the 60s, the military leader Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov had firmly taken his place in the commanding staff soviet army... The year 1965 became a landmark in his biography, when he was sent to Arkhangelsk to command a motorized rifle division, which was assigned to the Leningrad Military District. Since the spring of 1968 he was on a business trip abroad for a year. He was sent to the Republic of Yemen as a military adviser. There he performed his international duty, as the official channels later said. soviet propaganda.
Returning to the Soviet Union, he was appointed first deputy commander of the 28th Army, which was part of the Belarusian Military District. And in 1973 he was transferred to Central Asia... Then he began to lead the Turkestan military district.
In 1976, Maksimov was sent on another business trip abroad. This time, lead a group of Soviet military specialists on the territory of Algeria. He returned to his former position at the very end of 1978, and at the beginning of the next he was appointed commander of the Turkestan military district. By that time, Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov was already in the post of Army General. Wikipedia talks about this fact, a detailed account of the officer's biography and fate is also in this article.
In 1979, another promotion - Maximov becomes Colonel General.
When in 1979 Soviet troops entered the territory of Afghanistan, a protracted and bloody conflict began, which lasted for ten years. He entered Soviet historiography under the name of the Afghan War.
The main hostilities in this Asian country were conducted by the 40th Combined Arms Army, which was part of the Turkestan Military District. By that time, they were commanded by the hero of our article. The headquarters and command of this Red Banner District solved a range of issues related to the replenishment of personnel, the supply of troops, the timely delivery of weapons, and direct preparation for hostilities.
Together with the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, the commander of the troops, Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov and his assistants, developed the preparation and conduct of major military operations. As an experienced participant in foreign military missions, Maksimov was sent directly to Afghanistan, where he was for quite a long time.
Well-deserved reward
The authorities praised his work in this post, considering it successful. As a result, in 1982, the Supreme Soviet issued a decree on awarding the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov.
In the order, it was especially noted that such a high rank was awarded to him for the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to his army, as well as for the heroism and courage shown at the same time. At the same time, the hero of our article received another rank, becoming an army general.
Last years in military service
In 1984, Maksimov was appointed commander-in-chief of a group of forces stationed in the southern strategic direction. In the summer of 85, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, by that time he had already returned from an overseas military trip to Afghanistan. He lived in Moscow.
At the post, Maksimov was responsible for the strategic missile troops, in fact, he was the commander-in-chief of these troops.
After the August putsch in 1991, he remained one of the few military leaders in the entire country who retained his post and privileged position. The country's leadership highly appreciated his experience and professionalism, and therefore did not dismiss along with many other military leaders.
Dismissal from military service
Until October 1992, Maksimov first held the important post of commander-in-chief of the strategic containment forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and then commanded the strategic forces of the united armed forces of the Union of Independent States. Then for several months he was at the disposal of the Ministry of Defense. Russian Federation, in March 1993 he retired at the venerable age of 69 years.
After that he lived in Moscow. He was a member of various veteran organizations. In November 2002, Yuri Maksimov died after a long illness. This happened on November 17th. A Soviet officer, Hero of the Soviet Union was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow, he was 78 years old.
(06/30/1924, the village of Kryukovka, Michurinsky district, Tambov region - 11/17/2002, Moscow; buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery), General of the Army (1982), Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces (1985-1992), Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) ... On military service from August 1942. Graduated from the First Moscow Machine-Gun School (1943); Military Academy. M.V. Frunze (1950), the Military Academy of the General Staff (1965).
During the Great Patriotic War, after graduating from school in April 1943 in the active army: commander of a machine-gun platoon and company on the Southwest, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian fronts. Participated in the liberation of Western Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. After the war he commanded a company until 1947. After graduating from the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze served as an officer-operator of the western direction, operator of the Directorate of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff. June - September 1953 commander infantry battalion, from September 1953 chief of staff of the regiment, from June 1957 deputy chief of staff of a motorized rifle division, from December 1957 commander motorized rifle regiment... In September 1961 - August 1963 chief of staff, from 1965 commander of a motorized rifle division. From March 1968 to May 1969, Chief Military Adviser in the Armed Forces of the Yemen Arab Republic. In May - November 1969 at the disposal of the commander in chief Ground forces... From November 1969 - 1st deputy commander of the army, from May 1973 1st deputy commander of the troops of the Turkestan military district. In 1976-1978 senior group of Soviet military specialists in the Algerian People's Democratic Republic. Since December 1978, 1st deputy commander, and since January 1979, commander of the troops of the Turkestan Military District. For the successful completion of government assignments for leadership soviet troops in Afghanistan and the courage and heroism shown at the same time was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In September 1984 - July 1985 he was the commander-in-chief of the troops of the southern direction. Since July 1985 Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Chairman of the Military Council of the Strategic Missile Forces (07/10/1985 - 08/26/1992). Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Deterrent Forces since November 1991, Commander of the Strategic Forces of the CIS since March 1992, at the disposal of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation since October, and retired since March 1993.
He made a great contribution to the development of the grouping of mobile missile systems, the development of the principles of their combat use, as well as the successful implementation of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range Missiles (IRBM), as well as maintaining the combat readiness of the Strategic Missile Forces. Organized the introduction into the Strategic Missile Forces grouping and the development of IV generation missile systems RS-20V, RS-22 Topol. He paid a lot of attention to improving the principles of combat use and alert duty of mobile railway and ground combat systems. Supervised the adoption of an automated command and control system for troops and weapons as part of IV generation complexes. He paid a lot of attention to maintaining the irreducible combat readiness of the troops and the placement of officer cadres of divisions re-equipped with new complexes, as well as divisions to be reformed.
Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov (June 30 - November 17) - Soviet military leader, army general. The hero of the USSR ().
Biography
Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov was born into a peasant family in the village of Kryukovka, Tambov province (now part of the Michurinsky district of the Tambov region). Russian. Since 1933, the family lived in the village of Barybino near Moscow. He graduated from the seven-year school in Barybino in 1939, high school in Domodedovo in 1942.
The Great Patriotic War
For two years at the front he was wounded three times and awarded with three military orders.
Post-war time
After the war, he continued to command a machine-gun company in the Carpathian military district until 1947, when he was sent to study at the academy. In 1950 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy. He served as an officer-operator in the western direction, as a control operator in the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff. From June 1953 again in the troops: commander of a rifle battalion, from September 1953 - chief of staff of the 205th Guards rifle regiment, from June 1957 - deputy commander of a motorized rifle division, from December 1957 - commander of a motorized rifle regiment in the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary ... From September 1961 - Chief of Staff of the 128th Guards Motorized Rifle Division in the Carpathian Military District. In 1965 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff with a gold medal.
Afghan war
Last years of service
From September 1984 he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Strategic Direction. Since July 10, 1985 - Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. One of the few top military leaders who remained in office after the August 1991 events. From November 12, 1991 - Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Forces of Deterrence of the USSR, and from March 20 to October 9, 1992 - Commander of the Strategic Forces of the Joint Armed Forces of the CIS. Since October 1992 - at the disposal of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. Since March 1993 - retired.
Awards
- * Medal "Gold Star" (No. 11478) of the Hero of the Soviet Union (07/05/1982).
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: Brief biographical dictionary / Prev ed. Collegium I. N. Shkadov. - M .: Military Publishing, 1988. - T. 2 / Lyubov - Yashchuk /. - 863 p. - 100,000 copies - ISBN 5-203-00536-2. - S. 21.
- Military encyclopedia in 8 volumes. - M .: Publishing house of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 1994-2004. - T. 5.
- Sukhnev G.A., Masliy S. B. Military Council of the Strategic Missile Forces. - Moscow, 2007.
- Military encyclopedic Dictionary strategic missile forces / RF Ministry of Defense; Ch. ed .: I. D. Sergeev, V. N. Yakovlev, N. E. Solovtsov. - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 1999 .-- 632 p. - 8500 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-315-X.. [[Category: Buried at Troekurovsky
An excerpt characterizing Maksimov, Yuri Pavlovich
- Ah, ah, ah! .. - The Frenchman laughed merrily, sanguinely, patting Pierre on the shoulder. - Ah! elle est forte celle la, ”he said. - Paris? Mais Paris Paris ... [Ha, ha, ha! .. But he said a thing. Paris? .. But Paris ... Paris ...]- Paris la capitale du monde ... [Paris is the capital of the world ...] - said Pierre, finishing his speech.
The captain looked at Pierre. He had a habit in the middle of a conversation to stop and look with intently laughing, affectionate eyes.
- Eh bien, si vous ne m "aviez pas dit que vous etes Russe, j" aurai parie que vous etes Parisien. Vous avez ce je ne sais, quoi, ce ... [Well, if you hadn’t told me that you are Russian, I would have bet that you were Parisian. There is something in you, this ...] - and, having said this compliment, he again silently looked.
- J "ai ete a Paris, j" y ai passe des annees, [I was in Paris, I spent whole years there,] - said Pierre.
- Oh ca se voit bien. Paris! .. Un homme qui ne connait pas Paris, est un sauvage. Un Parisien, ca se sent a deux lieux. Paris, s "est Talma, la Duschenois, Potier, la Sorbonne, les boulevards, - and noticing that the conclusion is weaker than the previous one, he hastily added: - Il n" ya qu "un Paris au monde. Vous avez ete a Paris et vous etes reste Busse. Eh bien, je ne vous en estime pas moins. [Oh, you can see it. Paris! .. A man who does not know Paris is a savage. You can recognize a Parisian two miles away. Paris is Talma, Duchenois, Potier, Sorbonne, boulevards ... There is one Paris all over the world. You were in Paris and remained Russian. Well, I respect you no less for that.]
Under the influence of the wine he had drunk and after days spent in solitude with his gloomy thoughts, Pierre felt involuntary pleasure in talking with this cheerful and good-natured man.
- Pour en revenir a vos dames, on les dit bien belles. Quelle fichue idee d "aller s" enterrer dans les steppes, quand l "armee francaise est a Moscou. Quelle chance elles ont manque celles la. Vos moujiks c" est autre chose, mais voua autres gens civilises vous devriez nous connaitre mieux que ca ... Nous avons pris Vienne, Berlin, Madrid, Naples, Rome, Varsovie, toutes les capitales du monde ... On nous craint, mais on nous aime. Nous sommes bons a connaitre. Et puis l "Empereur! [But back to your ladies: they say they are very beautiful. What a stupid idea to go to bury yourself in the steppe when the French army is in Moscow! They missed a wonderful opportunity. Your men, I understand, but you are people educated - should have known us better than this. We took Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Naples, Rome, Warsaw, all the capitals of the world. They are afraid of us, but they love us. It is not harmful to know us better. And then the emperor ...] - he began, but Pierre interrupted him.
- L "Empereur," repeated Pierre, and his face suddenly caught a sad and embarrassed expression. - Est ce que l "Empereur? .. [Emperor ... What is the emperor? ..]
- L "Empereur? C" est la generosite, la clemence, la justice, l "ordre, le genie, voila l" Empereur! C "est moi, Ram ball, qui vous le dit. Tel que vous me voyez, j" etais son ennemi il y a encore huit ans. Mon pere a ete comte emigre ... Mais il m "a vaincu, cet homme. Il m" a empoigne. Je n "ai pas pu resister au spectacle de grandeur et de gloire dont il couvrait la France. Quand j" ai comprised ce qu "il voulait, quand j" ai vu qu "il nous faisait une litiere de lauriers, voyez vous, je me suis dit: voila un souverain, et je me suis donne a lui. Eh voila! Oh, oui, mon cher, c "est le plus grand homme des siecles passes et a venir. [Emperor? This generosity, mercy, justice, order, genius - that's what an emperor is! This is me, Rambal, I tell you. As you see me, I was his enemy eight years ago. My father was a count and an emigrant. But he defeated me, this man. He took possession of me. I could not resist the spectacle of greatness and glory with which he covered France. When I realized what he wanted, when I saw that he was preparing a bed of laurels for us, I said to myself: here is the sovereign, and I surrendered to him. And so! Oh yes my dear, this is the most great person past and future centuries.]
- Est il a Moscou? [What, is he in Moscow?] - Pierre said hesitantly and with a criminal face.
The Frenchman looked at Pierre's criminal face and grinned.
- Non, il fera son entree demain, [No, he will make his entry tomorrow,] - he said and continued his stories.
Their conversation was interrupted by a shout of several voices at the gate and by the arrival of Morel, who came to announce to the captain that the Wiertemberg hussars had arrived and wanted to put their horses in the same yard where the captain's horses were stationed. The difficulty arose mainly because the hussars did not understand what they were told.
The captain ordered to call the senior non-commissioned officer in a stern voice asked him to which regiment he belongs, who is their chief and on what basis he allows himself to occupy an apartment, which is already occupied. In response to the first two questions, the German, who did not understand French well, named his regiment and his chief; but to the last question, not understanding it, inserting broken French words into German speech, he replied that he was the regiment's lodger and that he was instructed by the chief to occupy all the houses in a row, Pierre, who knew German, translated to the captain what the German had said, and the captain's reply was relayed in German to the Wirttemberg hussar. Realizing what he was told, the German surrendered and took his people away. The captain went out onto the porch, giving orders in a loud voice.
When he returned back to the room, Pierre was sitting in the same place where he had sat before, with his hands on his head. His face expressed suffering. He really suffered at that moment. When the captain went out and Pierre was left alone, he suddenly came to his senses and realized the position in which he was. Not that Moscow was taken, and not that these happy victors ruled in it and patronized him - no matter how hard Pierre felt, this was not what tormented him at the present moment. He was tormented by the consciousness of his weakness. Several glasses of wine he had drunk, a conversation with this good-natured man destroyed the concentrated gloomy mood in which Pierre lived these the last days and which was necessary for the fulfillment of his intention. The pistol, and the dagger, and the armyak were ready, Napoleon drove in tomorrow. Pierre also considered it useful and worthy to kill the villain; but he felt that now he would not do it. Why? - he did not know, but as if he had a presentiment that he would not fulfill his intention. He fought against the consciousness of his weakness, but vaguely felt that he could not overcome it, that the old gloomy structure of thoughts about revenge, murder and self-sacrifice scattered like dust at the touch of the first person.
The captain, limping slightly and whistling something, entered the room.
The Frenchman's chatter, which had previously amused Pierre, now seemed repulsive to him. And the whistled song, and the gait, and the gesture of twisting his mustache - everything now seemed insulting to Pierre.
“I'm leaving now, I won't say a word more with him,” thought Pierre. He thought this, but meanwhile he was still sitting in the same place. Some strange feeling of weakness chained him to his place: he wanted and could not get up and leave.
The captain, on the other hand, seemed very cheerful. He paced the room twice. His eyes glittered, and his mustache twitched slightly, as if he were smiling with himself at some funny invention.
“Charmant,” he said suddenly, “le colonel de ces Wurtembourgeois! C "est un Allemand; mais brave garcon, s" il en fut. Mais Allemand. [Nice, Colonel of these Württembergs! He is German; but a fine fellow, despite that. But German.]
He sat down opposite Pierre.
- A propos, vous savez donc l "allemand, vous? [By the way, do you know German?]
Pierre looked at him in silence.
- Comment dites vous asile en allemand? [What is the German asylum?]
- Asile? - Pierre repeated. - Asile en allemand - Unterkunft. [Asylum? Asylum - in German - Unterkunft.]
- Comment dites vous? [How do you say?] The captain asked incredulously and quickly.
“Unterkunft,” Pierre repeated.
- Onterkoff, - said the captain and for several seconds looked at Pierre with laughing eyes. - Les Allemands sont de fieres betes. N "est ce pas, monsieur Pierre? [What fools these Germans are. Isn't that so, Monsieur Pierre?] - he concluded.
- Eh bien, encore une bouteille de ce Bordeau Moscovite, n "est ce pas? Morel, va nous chauffer encore une pelilo bouteille. Morel! [Well, another bottle of this Moscow Bordeaux, isn't it? Morel will warm us up another bottle. Morel !] - the captain shouted cheerfully.
Morel brought in candles and a bottle of wine. The captain looked at Pierre in the light, and he was apparently struck by the upset face of his interlocutor. Rambal, with sincere grief and sympathy in his face, went up to Pierre and bent over him.
- Eh bien, nous sommes tristes, [What is it, are we sad?] - he said, touching Pierre's hand. - Vous aurai je fait de la peine? Non, vrai, avez vous quelque chose contre moi, he asked. - Peut etre rapport a la situation? [Maybe I upset you? No, really, don't you have anything against me? Perhaps regarding the position?]
Pierre did not answer, but looked affectionately into the Frenchman's eyes. This expression of sympathy pleased him.
- Parole d "honneur, sans parler de ce que je vous dois, j" ai de l "amitie pour vous. Puis je faire quelque chose pour vous? Disposez de moi. C" est a la vie et a la mort. C "est la main sur le c? Ur que je vous le dis, [Honestly, not to mention what I owe you, I feel friendship for you. Is there anything I can do for you? Have me. This is for life and death. I tell you this, putting my hand on my heart,] - he said, hitting his chest.
“Merci,” said Pierre. The captain looked intently at Pierre in the same way he looked when he learned the name of the shelter in German, and his face suddenly brightened.
- Ah! dans ce cas je bois a notre amitie! [And, in that case, I drink to your friendship!] - he shouted cheerfully, pouring two glasses of wine. Pierre took the poured glass and drank it. Rambal drank his own, shook Pierre's hand once more, and leaned his elbows on the table in a pensive melancholy pose.
“Oui, mon cher ami, voila les caprices de la fortune,” he began. - Qui m "aurait dit que je serai soldat et capitaine de dragons au service de Bonaparte, comme nous l" appellions jadis. Et cependant me voila a Moscou avec lui. Il faut vous dire, mon cher, "he continued in the sad, measured voice of a man who is about to tell a long story," que notre nom est l "un des plus anciens de la France. [Yes, my friend, here is the wheel of fortune. Who said I wish I would be a soldier and captain of dragoons in the service of Bonaparte, as we used to call him. However, here I am in Moscow with him. I must tell you, my dear ... that our name is one of the most ancient in France.]
And with a light and naive frankness of the Frenchman, the captain told Pierre the story of his ancestors, his childhood, adolescence and maturity, all his kinship, property, family relations. “Ma pauvre mere ['My poor mother.'] Played, of course, an important role in this story.
- Mais tout ca ce n "est que la mise en scene de la vie, le fond c" est l "amour? L" amour! N "est ce pas, monsieur; Pierre?" He said, brightening up. "Encore un verre. [But all this is only an introduction into life, its essence is love. Love! Isn't it, Monsieur Pierre? Another glass." ]
Pierre drank again and poured himself a third.
- Oh! les femmes, les femmes! [ABOUT! women, women!] - and the captain, looking at Pierre with oily eyes, began to talk about love and about his love affairs. There were a lot of them, which was easy to believe, looking at the smug, handsome face of the officer and at the enthusiastic animation with which he spoke about women. Despite the fact that all of Rambal's love stories had that character of filth in which the French see the exceptional charm and poetry of love, the captain told his stories with such sincere conviction that he alone experienced and knew all the charms of love, and described women so temptingly that Pierre listened to him with curiosity.
It was obvious that l "amour, which the Frenchman loved so much, was neither that lower and simple kind of love that Pierre once felt for his wife, nor that romantic love inflated by him that he felt for Natasha (both kinds of this love Rambal equally despised - one was l "amour des charretiers, the other l" amour des nigauds) [the love of the cabbies, the other is more evil love.]; l "amour, which the Frenchman worshiped, consisted mainly in the unnaturalness of the relationship to a woman and in a combination of ugliness, which gave the main charm to the feeling.