Summary Sannikov Land Obruchev V. A
In the first lines of the novel Obruchev describes the appearance at the meeting of the Imperial Geographical Society of an unnamed “naval officer who performed a bold swim in the whaleboat through the Arctic Sea from the Novosibirsk Islands to the Bennett Island, to which Baron Tallle landed, who did not return from there,” mentioning the “courageous face of the speaker, polar weather “.
As the main character, the writer brings out a former student, political exile Matvey Goryunov, fanatically confident of the existence of the Sannikov Land, the haven of birds flying north, the habitat of the missing Onkilons and the only possible place where Toll and his companions could have escaped. Having received support and financial assistance from Academician Shenk, Goryunov forms an expedition consisting of two of his comrades, also exiled students Semyon Ordin and Pavel Kostyakov and two experienced industrialists – the Cossack Kapiton Nikiforov and the
The map of Sannikov Land, an illustration of the novel The characters of the main characters are only slightly outlined: the fanatic of science Goryunov, the romantic dreamer Ordin, the superstitious and down-to-earth practical Gorokhov, the good-natured and rude Nikiforov. One of the cross-cutting themes of the book is the opposition of the bearer of the mythological view of the world – the Yakut Gorokhov and the scientist Goryunov, who does not believe in “either in sleep or in choh.” Gorokhov repeatedly expresses warnings to the expedition members: “And it was thought to me that this is not the earth, but the haze.” He will entice us, everything will loom away and beckon. “Let’s go so far as to return and we will not be able to return… And as you wish, Matvey Ivanovich, and all this is a delusion, a haze, and this land, and forests, and meadows, and beasts. … You’ll see tomorrow we’ll wake up, nothing but snow will be… “
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Onkilony greeted the expedition. Within six months, the aliens and Onkilons lived together, hunted, fought with the Wampoo. Each member of the expedition even had to choose a wife, and Ordin took two at once. Nothing overshadowed the benign mood of the village until the moment when one of the earthquakes did not violate the natural underground passages along which the warmth was coming from the depths. Then the Onkilons began to perceive the “white people” as evil. The ensuing cataclysms threatened to destroy life on the volcanic island, but members of the expedition, with the exception of Kostyakov, and one of Ordin’s wives, Annuir, managed to escape and return home. Kostyakov died along with all the collections collected on Earth Sannikov during one of the earthquakes.
The novel ends with a direct appeal to the readers of the book: “Maybe it will arouse interest in the mysterious Earth Sannikov in someone from a new generation and will prompt you to go in search of her among the icy expanses of the North Sea”
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