In the story of K. Paust's "Snow", written in 1943, takes place during the war, and the landscape of pre-winter, which opens the story, is filled with hidden anxiety: "Behind the house, behind the leafless garden, there was a white birch grove. In it, from morning till dusk, jackdaws screamed, flew in clouds over the bare peaks, called bad weather." The description of nature, which creates an atmosphere of orphanhood and homelessness, is deeply in tune with the inner state of a young lieutenant Potapov, who returns to the front after being wounded and accidentally learns that his father has died: "Potapov went through the city to the river. The sky was blue above her. A rare snowball was flying obliquely between the sky and the ground... It was getting dark. The wind was blowing from the other side, from the woods, blowing tears away." The lieutenant doubts whether he should go to his own home now: "The idea that strangers, indifferent people live in his father's house, was unbearable." But he does not know that the singer Tatyana Petrovna, who was evacuated from Moscow, who settled in the house, read his letter from the front, addressed to his father, who by that time was no longer alive: "I close my eyes and then I see: I open the gate and enter the garden. Winter, snow, but the path to the old gazebo above the garden is open.- page 9 it's been cleared with a jerk, and the lilac bushes are all covered in frost. The stoves crackle in the rooms. It smells like birch smoke." When she learns that the lieutenant may arrive from the front any day, she realizes that "it will be hard for him to meet strangers here and see everything completely different from what he would like to see. In the morning, Tatyana Petrovna told Varya to take a wooden shovel and clear a path to the gazebo over the cliff." And indeed, Potapov thinks: "Now it's all like a stranger to me - and this town, and the river, and the house", but, approaching the house, he sees: "A path cleared in the snow ... Read more