The battle at Ajaslar

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Garschin in the war year 1877

The battle near Ajaslar ( Russian Аясларское дело , Ajaslarskoje delo ) is a short story by the Russian writer Vsevolod Garschin , which appeared in 1877 in No. 296 of the Novosti newspaper (Russian Новости - news ) as a Sunday supplement.

The text is a piece of autobiography. The volunteer Garschin was wounded on August 11, 1877 in a battle near Ajaslar.

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Vsevolod Mikhailovich fights in the ranks of the Russians and reports how he was wounded by the Ottomans on Mount Ayaslar during the Russo-Ottoman War in Bulgaria .

The first-person narrator's brigade has been bored for two weeks in Kowachitza near Lom .

Behind the summit of Mount Ajaslar, the Russian Sofia regiment is fighting the Ottomans. The regiment to which Vsevolod belongs replaces the Sofia people. The commander of this regiment, a colonel, admits as he marches that it is difficult for him to climb. A small soldier from the 8th company of the regiment boldly responds to the statement made by the mountaineering colonel. Sofioters meet and are asked about the current strength of the Ottomans. Answer: The fight is raging.

At the top of the mountain, you run forward. Those who have just fallen are on the way. Wounded are carried behind the line. The cheeky little soldier is holding his heavily bleeding hand. A sinewy Russian major instructs the arriving Russians. A grenade bursts. Vsevolod throws himself down, gets up, has lost his train and asks the cold-blooded major: What next? The officer points silently in a direction of battle. One of the Sofia people doesn't want to withdraw and just keeps fighting. Vsevolod actually finds his own people again. A shell splinter rips open the stomach of a comrade. Why do the wounded crawl back in silence? It could be possible that Vsevolod overheard their screams in the noise of the battle. He fires his cartridges a little uncontrollably. The Russian rifle chain can no longer be recognized. Walking between the Russians and the Ottomans, Vsevolod meets Fyodorov, a young comrade from his company. His shot shoulder is bleeding. The seriously wounded asks for drinking water. Vsevolod struggled to call two Russians to be patient carriers in the turmoil. The three of them carry Fyodorov a few steps and immediately put him down again. Fyodorov died. The Ottomans are within fifteen meters. Vsevolod can no longer hold himself upright. One leg is bleeding profusely.

German-language editions

Used edition

  • The battle at Ajaslar . P. 23–42 in Vsevolod M. Garschin: The stories. Transferred and with afterword by Valerian Tornius . 464 pages. Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1956 (Dieterich Collection, Vol. 177)

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  1. ↑ The battle at Ajaslar (Bulgarian Аязлар) is described by Lieutenant General Dmitri Prokhorov (1827–1881, Russian Прохоров, Дмитрий Дмитриевич ) (see also bulgar. Светлен (област Търг) ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tornius in the afterword of the edition used, pp. 447,10. Zvu
  2. ↑ Russian Ковачица (Болгария)