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“The RED CROSS THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN”
NOMINATION “BEST ESSAY”
DashaSevastopol-
legend of the Crimean War
Performed
Dementieva Irina
7th grade student
Municipal educational institution "Gruzschanskaya Secondary School"
Supervisor
Miroshnik Natalia Alexandrovna
S. Gruzskoe -
Russian women have such faces
You need to take a closer look at them slowly,
So that in their eyes I can open up to you
Beautiful and proud soul!
War... Crimean, Patriotic War of 1812, World War I, Great Patriotic War... How far they are from us, today's schoolchildren! Only from books, films and memories can we imagine at what cost the victory was won. I sometimes think that every day we go to school, study, have fun, do something, be sad, have fun. Life seems to us sometimes bright, sometimes dark. But how often do we find time to remember? Remember those who fought and did not return from the war, remember those who lived under occupation, fought for life and were able to survive. I am writing an essay to remember today the great feat of our people in all the wars that have taken place, because we, the younger generation, must know its history, otherwise we cannot truly learn to love our Motherland.
“War is not fireworks at all, but simply hard work,” wrote the poet and front-line soldier M. Kulchitsky. And this inhumanly difficult military work was performed not only by men, defenders of the Motherland from time immemorial, but also by women, girls, yesterday’s schoolgirls and students.
It would seem that what could be more unnatural than a woman in war. Created by nature itself to give life, in the hour of severe trials she was forced to take up arms in defense of her Motherland. At all times, women have been signalmen, doctors, snipers, and even piloted combat aircraft and tanks. Through the black tornado of war, which scorched millions of lives, they managed to bring kindness and tenderness, perseverance and loyalty, optimism and love. During all the wars, many “volunteers in skirts” gained immortal fame with their feats of arms. They performed important and very dangerous work. And the Motherland appreciated the military exploits of its brave daughters. And among them, Daria Lavrentievna Mikhailova is the first Russian sister of mercy, whose feat I learned about in a lesson in Orthodox culture, when we talked about mercy and kindness. I wanted to know more about this brave girl who devoted herself to serving sick soldiers during the defense of Sevastopol. And when I learned about the “Red Cross through the eyes of children” competition, I decided to tell about Dasha’s feat in my work.
Of the first Russian sisters of mercy, not a single one gained such fame among the people as Dasha Sevastopolskaya (real name Daria Lavrentievna Mikhailova). The history of the Russian Red Cross during the defense of Sevastopol in 1854 is connected with her name.
Perhaps today Dasha could take the place of Mother Teresa... True, the fighters of the Crimean War could not call her “mother”: Dasha was then 16 years old. Someone called her “daughter”, and more often “little sister” or “sister”. The bleeding soldiers believed in the miraculous power of these girlish hands, which, on inspiration, healed their wounds. Dasha saved people not out of duty as a doctor, but at the behest of her heart, driven by mercy. It was from here that the stable phrase “sister of mercy” appeared in Russian speech, filled with moral and philosophical meaning, embodying the image of an exalted sacrificial soul.
Dasha was born in 1838 in Sevastopol in the family of a Black Sea Fleet sailor. She was left without a mother early, and in November 1853 she also lost her father, a sailor of the 10th fin crew. The orphan lived in her father's dilapidated, dilapidated house in the village of sailors' families - Sukhaya Balka in the vicinity of Sevastopol. The girl saw a lot of grief, wandering around the houses of the same poor people in Sukhaya Balka in search of income and a piece of bread.
On September 1, 1854, a huge enemy fleet appeared near the Crimean coast. No one expected this, and Sevastopol was poorly defended, and now work began to fortify the city night and day. Everyone worked, women and even children helped. Dasha also worked. Together with many fellow countrymen - sailor's wives and daughters - she carried water and food to the bastions, spent days and nights at dressing stations. Dasha now received a sure income - doing laundry for the soldiers. Often, therefore, she came to the camp, bringing washed clothes and taking away dirty ones.
Soon the first shots were heard, and the first blood was shed on the altar of the fatherland. And here Dasha saw all the agony of the wounded defenders of Sevastopol, sometimes left without any care, and her compassionate heart shuddered. I remembered my father, a hero, dying among strangers without a word of affection or sympathy, without any help... and Dasha decided to devote herself to serving sick soldiers.
But it was not very easy to do this. There has never been anything like this in our army, and no one would allow a girl to live among the soldiers and do her holy work. Then Dasha suddenly cut off her braids, changed into a sailor's uniform, and sold the house that remained from her parents, all her orphan property. In return, she bought a horse and cart, many blankets and white linen, bottles of vinegar and wine. The neighbors thought that she had lost her mind after difficult experiences over her deceased father and decided to go to all four directions. But the cart moved to the banks of the Alma, to where one of the hardest battles of the Crimean War was taking place - Alminskoye.
This “carriage of grief,” as the residents of Korabelnaya Side called the carriage of the “crazed orphan,” became the first dressing station in history on the battlefield, and Dasha herself became the first nurse of mercy. According to the memoirs of the famous Russian surgeon Nikolai Pirogov, the situation of the wounded during the defense of Sevastopol was extremely difficult. “Bitter need and medical ignorance combined in fabulous proportions,” he wrote. There were not enough doctors, there were no vehicles to transport the wounded to hospitals, and they often lay on the bare ground without any help.
It was to them that Dasha appeared, like a bright angel, like their last hope. The thunder of shots, exploding bombs, cannonballs whistling in the air and exploding the ground, the stench of gunpowder, dust and fumes, desperate cries and groans of the wounded at first confused the girl, but she soon recovered. The girl took scissors out of her knapsack, disinfected the wounds with vinegar, bandaged the wounded, consoled them with warm words: “Be patient, my dear, everything will be fine, dear...” Forgetting fear, no longer paying attention to the horrors of the battle, the sailor ran across from one sufferer to another and tirelessly, without straightening his back, bandaged the wounds. How many defenders of the Black Sea fortress were then indebted to her for their lives - hundreds, thousands?
And the wounded are carried and carried... And the unfortunates lie for a long time on the grass and wait in line until the inexperienced hand of the sailor touches them.
Dasha did not have a medical education, and therefore had to act based on the experience of the common people. She did not deprive the “foreign” wounded of her mercy - the British, French, Italians, Turks. The dedication of Dasha of Sevastopol was called a “feat of humanism.” The young girl heard many words of warm gratitude and blessings for her great philanthropic deed.
But she was not limited to only providing assistance to the wounded, which in itself was a feat. Daria, under the name of Alexander Mikhailov, took part in battles and went on reconnaissance missions. Perhaps, after Nadezhda Durova, this was the only example at that time of a woman’s direct participation in hostilities with weapons in her hands. She was awarded military awards and went down in the history of the Sevastopol defense both as the “first sister of mercy” and as the “hero Alexander Mikhailov.”
When the war ended, and the Tsar was informed about her heroic feat, he awarded her a gold medal “For Diligence”, gave her 500 rubles and ordered to give her another 1000 rubles when she got married, and the Empress sent a gold cross with the inscription “Sevastopol”. Now Dasha could take off her sailor suit and freely work at the bedsides of the sick in an ordinary woman's dress.
After the Battle of Alma, she worked days and nights either at dressing stations or in hospitals, even assisting doctors during operations, courageously enduring all the hardships and hardships of wartime. But the soldiers also repaid their sister for their love with touching gratitude. They were reluctant to let the paramedics bandage their wounds, waiting for their sister’s turn. The dying bequeathed to her some watches, some money, some what they could. And no matter how much the sister refused such gifts, the soldiers convinced her that it was a sin not to fulfill the last will of a dying person.
And when, after the end of hostilities, Dasha came to say goodbye to her patients on the last day before leaving the hospital, she noticed that something unusual was being prepared. Some of the sick stood, others sat. An old invalid with an image of the Savior in his hands moved towards Dasha, tapping a piece of wood.
“You are our dear sister,” he spoke loudly, in a trembling voice.
You did not spare your youth for us, you washed our wounds and saw a lot of grief with us, you accepted great labors. Please accept our prostration and blessing. The Lord Father will send you happiness... And we will forever pray to the Lord God for you.
Sobbing, the young girl fell to her knees and reverently accepted the soldier’s blessing. They collected their labor money and bought an icon for their beloved sister. She could never forget these touching minutes, and throughout her long life the memories of them brought her quiet joy.
Here, on her native Korabelnaya side, Daria Lavrentievna lived quietly and modestly until the end of her days. According to the recollections of old-timers, Daria Lavrentievna Khvorostova (by her husband) died in 1910, was buried in the cemetery in Dokovy Ravine, her grave has not survived to this day.
The 3rd city hospital of Sevastopol bears the name of Dasha of Sevastopol; next to it there is a monument to the heroine. The bust of the Heroine is located on the building of the “Defense of Sevastopol” panorama. In the village of Shelanga, on the territory of a local school, a monument to Dasha of Sevastopol was unveiled. Today we can see her in one of the first Russian feature films, “The Defense of Sevastopol.”
Dasha Sevastopol sister of mercy, participant in the first defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855
That’s how I met you, Dasha Sevastopolskaya - the first sister of mercy, for whom human kindness, mercy, the ability to rejoice and worry about other people created the basis of her human happiness.
Many hundreds and thousands more women and girls who defended their Motherland are worthy of our respect. Being in the laundries, in the kitchen, in the headquarters office, they performed sometimes unnoticed, but at the same time extremely necessary work.
We, grateful descendants, will sacredly preserve in our hearts and carry through time and distance the memory of those who did not spare their lives in the name of the Motherland throughout its history. Their example helps us live, helps us revive Russia, fills the souls of young people with true patriotism.
It is good that in our time such forgotten concepts as “kindness”, “humanity”, “mercy”, “benevolence”, “attention to each other” are being revived. Many organizations and individual citizens of our country carry out acts of mercy towards the pupils of orphanages and boarding schools. Residents of nursing homes, disabled people, Afghan soldiers and simply elderly people. Some parents, having their own children, take in orphans from an orphanage. Our outstanding artists and musicians hold concerts, the proceeds of which are donated to charity.
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"The Red Cross through the eyes of children"
Grade 11
Head: Kholmovaya V.A.
2014
Mercy... If you ask someone what it is, in most cases you will get the following answer: it is generosity, kindness towards people, a willingness to forgive or at least understand a person, even if he has done something very bad. The term “mercy” is somewhat outdated and unpopular today. Something characteristic only of former times. “Sister of Mercy”, “Brother of Mercy”. Even the dictionary lists them as “obsolete.” Many people believe that in modern society people have forgotten what mercy is.
I believe that there are many people who are inclined to compassion and show mercy.Everyone rememberstragedy that occurred in the Krasnodar region. A fire started in a nursing home where sick old people lived who could not even walk. Nurse Lidia Pashentseva rushed to help the disabled. The woman pulled several sick people out of the fire, but could not get out herself.There are many such examples.
The active manifestation of mercy gradually grew to a national scale. One of the oldest public organizations is the Russian Red Cross. Thanks to the scale of its work, a global network of regional offices, extensive international connections and recognition of the population, the Russian Red Cross is Russia's leading non-governmental organization engaged in humanitarian work.
The Red Cross movement began in 1854. When the Crimean War was going on, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna founded the Holy Cross community of sisters of mercy in St. Petersburg. The community's sisters of mercy provided assistance to war victims - the wounded and sick. During the heroic defense of Sevastopol (1854-1855), the outstanding Russian surgeon N.I. Pirogov was entrusted with the leadership of this community. On May 18, the first meeting of the created society took place. By this time, Russia had accumulated extensive experience in providing assistance to war victims. Russia was one of the first countries in the world where the Red Cross Society was created. Over the years, the Russian Red Cross Society has become one of the most powerful in the world. The Russian Red Cross Society set itself broader goals than societies in other countries. The ROKK Charter, adopted in 1893, in addition to helping the wounded on the battlefields during the war, also provided for assistance to war invalids and the population affected by natural disasters.
Due to the nature of their work, Red Cross employees and volunteers rarely appear in places where joy and prosperity reign. They are with those who are in trouble, who suffered in wars or natural disasters, lost their home, shelter, lost contact with family and friends, who had to experience the hardships of poverty and loneliness, illness and rejection. And the work of the Red Cross is helped by people who are endowed with amazing spiritual generosity, the gift of keeping kindness and warmth in their hearts throughout their lives, no matter what. This is their work, combined with the work of thousands and thousands of employees and volunteer helpers. The Red Cross has earned the trust of millions and acquired a reputation as a great humanitarian. There has never been and never will be excessive kindness and selflessness in life. And therefore, the work of the Red Cross is not decreasing now and will not decrease even in much more prosperous times than ours. Today, serving noble goals is a difficult cross, which employees, volunteers, and Red Cross activists bear with courage and dignity.
Schoolchildren play a significant role in the development of this organization and contribute to its work. Every year they take part in the “White Daisy” event, which takes place in our area. The guys put on volunteer uniforms and distribute tickets. People willingly make a targeted donation to the charity program “Fighting Tuberculosis in the Belgorod Region”; the proceeds will be used to implement the program for the treatment and assistance of tuberculosis patients.
By participating in such events, we, schoolchildren, understand how necessary our help is to all those in need: an old sick grandfather, an HIV-infected patient, low-income families, orphans. During craft lessons we make wooden souvenirs. Children in junior classes make snow-white paper daisies that are distributed during the event. We bring our things, toys, congratulate and help veterans and disabled people. We donate the collected funds to the Red Cross organization.I am sure that things and toys will be a pleasant event in the life of a little man abandoned by fate. Frail and needy old people will be grateful for the attentive and sensitive attitude towards them.
Let's worship kindness!
Let's live with kindness in mind:
All in blue and starry beauty,
The land is good. She gives us bread
Living water and trees in bloom
Under this ever-restless sky
Let's fight for kindness!
A. Chepurov.
My sirs, Russian people! Whatever shadow may come over your life - whether anxiety about the fate of Russia visits you, whether “dark thoughts” come to you about your personal fate, or whether life simply seems like an “unbearable wound” - I wish you that at this moment next to You turned out to be just such a caring, merciful person.
It seems that these people have always existed. We have long been accustomed to seeing them in the most dangerous, most difficult life situations: among brutal battles and explosions, and in hot, half-starved Ethiopia, and even in peaceful, quiet Belgorod.
In our frantic times, when man and humanity are losing their face in the pursuit of pleasure, prosperity and profit; when everywhere in our society we can hear talk about rising prices and a falling standard of living of the population; when the drug of the television screen not only dulls the freshness of feelings and the sense of uniqueness of one’s own life, but also sharpens the intensity of the pursuit of goods and the thirst to own everything that is presented as “necessary for every family,” it is so difficult to stop and soberly judge where we are all going. I think we should remember the lessons of history...
The Red Cross is a worldwide movement. Its main task is to provide assistance and protection to victims of wars, conflicts and disasters across national and ideological boundaries. The organization was created by the Swiss Henri Dunant, who lived in northern Italy in 1859. He organized voluntary assistance to the victims of the Battle of Solferino. In 1863, a committee was created in Geneva, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross. After this, national Red Cross societies began to quickly emerge in Europe. The parties to the Red Cross movement are: National Red Cross or Red Crescent Societies, operating in more than 170 countries. In total they have 128 million members. The Committee and the Federation have observer status at the UN. The organization's emblems are a red cross and, in Islamic countries, a red crescent on a white background. They also serve as international security signs. Objects marked by them cannot be attacked
In Russia, the community of sisters of mercy appeared during the Crimean War in 1854. It was she who became the prototype of the modern International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which has existed all over the world for more than 150 years.
Such a long and successful activity of this organization is explained by the neutrality that it maintains, not taking sides in armed conflicts, political and religious disputes, providing assistance to all victims of natural disasters and catastrophes, the hungry in underdeveloped countries, prisoners of war and other people in need, all those wounded in battlefield without exception or preference.
It endeavors in all circumstances, both internationally and nationally, to prevent or alleviate human suffering. The movement is designed to protect the life and health of people and ensure respect for the human person. It promotes mutual understanding, friendship,
cooperation and peace between peoples. The main goal of the Red Cross is lasting peace. "Peace is not only the absence of war, but cooperation between states and peoples, based on respect for freedom, independence, equality and human rights and the fair distribution of resources."
(Red Cross definition of peace).
How many selfless, merciful, kind people worked faithfully and truly under the auspices of this organization. One of them was Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya. A socialite who traveled half of Europe, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, I.S. valued her friendship. Turgenev, poet Ya.P. Polonsky, artists
V. Vereshchagin and I. Aivazovsky. She knew Victor Hugo and Franz Liszt. She charmed Paris and St. Petersburg. And at one point she sells the Oryol estate, equips a hospital train and herself becomes an ordinary nurse. She is not afraid of hard work, working until exhaustion, trying to somehow help the wounded. A typhus epidemic interrupted the life of this selfless woman.
Now, when mutual hatred, embitterment, and alienation have reached terrifying proportions, the very idea that such people are possible in our troubled times seems absurd to some. Nevertheless, it is so! And I will never agree with the statement that Russian people have degenerated morally and have completely lost the spiritual originality that was once inherent in them. I don’t agree, first of all, because I am convinced that even the most terrible shocks cannot completely destroy the spirituality of a people in such a short historical period. Disfigure, distort - yes, but not destroy! If this were so, then how could we now talk about those girls - sisters of mercy, who during the Great Patriotic War pulled the wounded out of the battlefield, nursed them, sparing no effort and giving them attention, care, and hope. The wounded person will hear his native word and feel in it all the indescribable essence of his native nature - the smell of his native land, and the heat of his native sun, and the breath of his native flowers. He will see her eyes, alive, shining, radiating universal goodness and compassion, and it becomes easier for him to endure the pain and torment that befell him.
So what made them, these girls, risk their lives to save others? What strength did you have to have to make a dying person live, a weak spirit to straighten up, an embittered person to thaw his soul?
How could they, at the age of 16–18, understand that kindness, mercy, joy and concern for others create the basis of human happiness? Who are these people?
When, having fallen on the battlefield -
And not in poetry, but in reality, -
I suddenly saw above me
A living look at the blue,
When she leaned over me
My sister's suffering -
The pain immediately became different:
Not as strong, not as sharp.
It's like I've been watered
Living and dead water,
It's like Russia is above me
Bowed her brown head!...
(“Sister” by I. Utkin)
This is what those who were in that war and owe their lives to them, these sisters of mercy, write about them.
And I ask myself again and again the question, what does this organization mean to me and what can I do on this earth, seeing such an example in front of me?
I want to immediately bow deeply to these selfless people. They devote their entire lives to this matter, firmly realizing that this is why a person comes into this world, so that the world does not become poor without people and does not grow old without children. A sense of duty, sensitivity, responsiveness, kindness and mercy are the subtlest moral qualities that they possess. Their goal is to protect the human in man, which is perhaps most important today. For me they are real RIGHTEOUS. But it is known that living life righteously is both simple and impossibly difficult. Not everyone is given this. A.I. Solzhenitsyn said: “There are such born angels - they seem to be weightless, they seem to glide over this life (violence, lies, myths about happiness and legality), without drowning at all, even if their feet touch its surface? Each of us has met such people, there are not ten or a hundred of them in Russia - these are the righteous...” It is they who force us not to be indifferent, but to be creators of history.
Yes, every person is a participant in history. According to Tolstoy, he lives, as it were, two lives: private and social, so we cannot help but be concerned by everything that happens in the world. The current generation of young people and middle-aged people, alas, thinks that fascism has disappeared from the face of the earth and all the wounds from fascism have healed, that everything that humanity has experienced does not concern us. IT TOUCHES!!!
We are obliged to remember the bloody traces of fascism, we are obliged to prevent its restoration in new forms. We must understand that any fascism is a threat to human dignity and the right to freedom. He is godless, and therefore calls “Kill!”, he is bloodthirsty, and therefore invents the most sophisticated forms of destroying civilization and killing people. He is hypocritical and often dresses up as philanthropy, caring for his neighbors... We cannot allow him to be reborn again.
Looking at the people who give their lives to serving in the Red Cross, everyone must cultivate goodness in themselves, for it requires hourly, daily patient labor of the soul, goodness, because every good deed, word, desire is immortal... So let us bow our heads before people of great selflessness souls, because if there are no such people, something valuable and very important will disappear from life...
No matter how life flies -
Don't regret your days,
Do a good deed
For the sake of people's happiness.
To make the heart burn,
And it didn’t smolder in the darkness,
Do a good deed -
That's why we live on earth.
The drawing competition “The Red Cross through the eyes of children” was held by the Minsk regional organization of the Belarusian Red Cross Society.
The competition started on June 7 and was held in three stages - acceptance of works, evaluation by the jury and awarding of the winners. In total, more than forty works were sent. As Yuliya Knatko, a specialist at the Minsk regional organization BOKK, said, the children drew pictures of volunteers who help older people and people with disabilities. In addition, there were works that reflected the daily work of nurses and emergency response teams.
– When the first stage of the competition was completed, by order of the Chairman, a commission was created from among employees and volunteers. The main criteria for selecting drawings are relevance, depth of disclosure of the topic, expressiveness, accuracy, creativity,– Julia explained. – It was difficult to choose the best: all the work was done very diligently, because the children took the competition very seriously.
As a result, the victory went to five competitors - Vadim Strelsky from Volozhin, Anna Dyukareva from Borisov, Angelina Mitskevich from Myadel, Andrei Mitskevich from Nesvizh, Evgeniy Sukora from Chervensk. The mayor of Dzherzhinsk, Nikolai Artyushkevich, took part in awarding the contestants. All the children were awarded certificates and thermal mugs, but the main gift was participation in the XIII International Plein Air “R+Ya”, which took place on July 2.
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The XIII International Plein Air “R+Ya” is an annual event organized for artists from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine by the House of Folk Art in Velikoye Selo, in the Derzhinsky district. This year, Russian artist Sergei Vishnyakov, members of the Union of Professional Artists of Russia Andrey Averyanov, Anatoly Miklyaev, Alexey Gladkov and others took part in the plein air.
Under the guidance of artists, children painted their own paintings, receiving advice from the masters on how to position their hands correctly, what time of day is best to approach the easel, and what palette to use.
– At the end of the plein air, the children’s works, along with the works of famous artists, were exhibited in the children’s park in Dzerzhinsk on July 3, - said Yulia.
She also emphasized that the plein air allowed children to find new friends, communicate with peers, and get a lot of impressions that they miss in everyday life. The Minsk regional organization BOKK hopes that in the future participants of similar Red Cross competitions will also join plein airs and other events among artists.