Alexandra Emelyanovna Dubrovina is a girl who grew up on the Don, from a large poor family, who managed to get a pedagogical education. The beginning of her working career and her further life was prevented by the war. During the occupation of Krasnodon, a young teacher joined the "Young Guard" and at the age of 23 she died along with her students.
From biography
Alexandra Emelyanovna Dubrovina was born in 1919 in the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov region. The Dubrovins moved to Krasnodon when the girl was not even a year old. Life was hard for a large family. Mother Anna Egorov often told her daughter about the past, about her life.
Since childhood, the girl dreamed of becoming a teacher. I collected the kids and played with them in the "school". Sasha told fascinatingly about many things, especially about flowers, about birds. And she could easily swim across the river and sing great. She loved to fish. I talked more with the boys. She and her brother Zhora often went skiing and ice skating.
School years
Teachers characterized Sasha as a reasonable and executive girl. Despite her young age, she was respected. She had few friends. The girl taught herself to work so that not a single minute was wasted. Among school subjects I loved natural science. I read a lot both prose and poetry, kept a diary. V. I. Chapaev, G. I. Kotovsky, A. Ya. Parkhomenko.
Happiness of student years
To receive a pedagogical education, the girl entered the Rostov University. Here she became a Komsomol member. During my studies at the institute, I worked a lot on myself, could sit for hours at the microscope, participated in the work of a scientific circle, went in for sports. Students were often sent to the labor front in the village of Staritsa. They were harvesting bread or hay. Shura was very hardworking. The girls got tired at work, and there was not always a desire to do something about the housework. Alexandra did not argue, stood up and said what she would do. She experienced any injustice, perceived the pain of others as her own.
At this time, the first love was imperceptibly born - fellow student Vanya Shcherbinin.
After graduating from the third year, A. Dubrovina, due to material difficulties, was transferred to Kharkov and before the start of the war she graduated from four courses.
The beginning of the occupation
Sasha was very worried about the arrival of the invaders. It was unbearable for her to look at the gloomy faces of people. The girl constantly saw how prisoners of the Red Army were driven through the streets of the city. Residents tried to throw them something edible. Policemen also appeared at their place. Seeing their poverty, they did not try to take something, but demanded to wash their underwear, peel potatoes, or come up with something else.
Sasha was also oppressed by the poverty of her family. Father hardly provided the family with sewing shoes and repairing them. They ate the simplest food, but there was not enough of it either. On Sunday we had breakfast with milk. When the mother said, there was not enough money, and promised to borrow next time, the father looked at her sadly. They saved on everything: they put out the smokehouse very early.
Shura found joy in her friends. She respected the black-eyed Armenian girl Maya Peglivanova very much, admired her. It seems that she never got tired or discouraged.
Books were a delight. She loved to write quotes, for example, that the activity itself contains a reward, that in action, in the struggle against circumstances, human joy and his moral health are contained.
Patriotic activities
One day, a friend of Maya came to her with hard news - the Germans mocked the miners who were betrayed by the traitors, and they threw earth at the living. People began to sing "Internationale". Then Shura told her that she had recently been unable to sleep at night, went out into the yard and heard something similar to a song. It was during this conversation of her friends that Alexandra realized that she had to fight against the invaders.
In the fall of 1942 A. Dubrovina became a member of the Young Guard. The first task - to fill in several copies of the leaflets - Shura performed with passion. She felt that she was finally doing useful work.
The girl carried out orders from the headquarters, obtained medicines and weapons. The Komsomol members secretly listened to the radio and edited leaflets, which they pasted in prominent places. They wrapped pies that were sold in the bazaar in leaflets. Shura asked the mother of Maya Peglivanova to give them a gramophone for the ball. And the parents did not even suspect that the ball was a place of appearance. On November 7, 1942, red flags appeared on the buildings of Krasnodon. Many cried for joy. Alexandra often spent the night not at home, but where she found herself at night on the affairs of an underground organization, which lifted her spirit, her mood.
Heroic Doom
When the arrests began, Maya Peglivanova's mother learned that Sasha was wanted. She tried to persuade the girl to hide, but realized that it was useless. She decided that she should be with her comrades in the fight. Taking the bundle, she went to prison to her students.
Seeing her exhausted friends, she no longer thought about herself. Barely standing on her feet, Sasha, like a mother, looked after others, encouraged and encouraged. The fascists could not understand the spiritual state that gave strength to the Young Guards to withstand bullying and overcome terrible pain. During the torture, she was severely mutilated. On the night of January 16, 1943, the crippled Young Guards were brought to the mine and thrown there.
The famous teacher was buried in a mass grave in Krasnodon.
Devoted teacher
The young teacher, who taught biology and chemistry to the future Young Guard, became a devoted and staunch comrade. Not much older than them, she always worried about them as a mother and in the last minutes tirelessly supported them. A. Dubrovina, like the rest of the Young Guard, made a worthy contribution to the fight against the Nazis.
