Municipal educational institution
"Secondary school pst. Podz"
Scientific and practical conference
“My Republic is 90”
The work was completed by Lyudmila Tebenkova, 10th grade.
Teacher - Demyanova L.B.
February 2011
Purpose of the work - introduce children to the best athletes– skiers of the Komi Republic.
Tasks:
1.Nurturing the need for healthy image life.
2. Involving schoolchildren in regular classes sports.
3. Personality development.
Soviet athletes completed the 12th Winter Games with a remarkable victory. Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 1976.
The USSR team won 27 medals.
The multinational Olympic team of the Soviet Union also included representatives of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The weight of their contribution to the overall success is 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals. Great debut! These awards reflect the talent, willpower and courage of our athletes. Raisa Smetanina, Nikolay Bazhukov, Vasily Rochev - three athletes represented our northern republic in the ski team.
This year, 2011, Vasily Pavlovich Rochev turns60th anniversary!
And he is still on the ski team, working as the senior coach of the Komi Republic national team ski racing.
And not only he, but his entire family is actively involved in skiing.
Vasily Pavlovich Rochev
(1951) - Soviet Russian skier, bronze and silver medalist at the World Championships in Lahti (1974), Olympic champion at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, America. Honored Master of Sports (1980). 
Vasily was born in the village of Bakur, Izhemsky district, on December 22, 1951.
In 1965, he began to actively engage in skiing.
In 1968, in Syktyvkar, All-Russian competitions in cross-country skiing, where Vasya Rochev became the champion of Russia. These were the first major competitions in his life.
Then there were victories at all-Union competitions, at European and world championships.
Ski connoisseurs soon started talking about the fact that a new talented racer had appeared in our country. They predicted a great future for him. In the 1973-1974 season, Rochev started 36 times in major competitions in our country, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria and only twice remained behind the medal list.
Vasily Rochev's sports age was quite long and happy - he had the opportunity to compete at two Olympics (1976 and 1980) and two World Championships (1974 and 1978). In 1974, at his debut World Championships in Lahti, he won bronze in the 15-kilometer sprint, losing less than a second to the second prize-winner, German G. Grimmer, and to the winner, Norwegian M. Myurmo, by just over a second. In addition, together with his teammates Ivan Garanin, Fedor Simashov and Yuri Skobov, he won the championship
silver medals in the relay race.
The 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck and the 1978 World Championships in Lahti turned out to be relatively unsuccessful for Vasily Rochev Sr., in any case, he never managed to climb onto the podium. But his finest hour came, without a doubt, at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, America, where he won an individual silver medal in the 30-kilometer race, losing only to his teammate Nikolai Zimyatov, and also became an Olympic champion in the 4x10 relay race km together with his teammates Nikolai Bazhukov, Evgeny Belyaev and Niklay Zimyatov.
In 2004 he was awarded the Order of Honor for services to development physical culture and sports.
Nina Petrovna Rocheva - wife
Vasily Pavlovich Rochev.
Bronze medalist at the Lake Placid Olympics, three-time USSR champion, winner International holiday Severa, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation,
Member of the national team with 13 years of experience.
I became interested in skiing during my school years. Characteristics developed in a large family - diligence and the ability to persevere in overcoming difficulties - came in handy both in studies and in sports. Nina’s sports results became the best not only at school. She was enrolled in the youth team of the city, and then the Republic of Mari-El. In 1971, Nina was included in the national team. Three years later, at a training camp, she met Vasily Rochev. Love inspired them and spurred them on. And she strictly dictated to win your place next to your loved one and be worthy of each other. Two years later, in 1976, Nina and Vasily got married, and the first family of famous skiers appeared in the Komi Republic.
In 1980, from the 13th Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, the Rochev couple returned as Olympic champions.
This was the first and main contribution to the treasury of the fledgling star dynasty.
I say dynasties, because the main member of the family was waiting for them at home -
three-year-old son Tolya. On this same happy day for the Rochevs olympic year
Olya and Vasya were born.Symbolic coincidence. Another future
An Olympic participant is born into an Olympian family in the year of the Olympic Games.
Together with Vasily Pavlovich, they raised and raised healthy, strong, smart children. All three have excellent education, excellent physical training and, of course, a strong, reliable and comfortable future.
The eldest son is Anatoly Rochev (b. 1977).
I have been interested in skiing since childhood. In 2003, at the World Cup in the 10 km race, he took 33rd place.
The youngest son is Vasily Rochev. International Master of Sports in cross-country skiing, Honored Master of Sports of Russia.
Born on October 23, 1980 in Syktyvkar. Graduated from secondary school No. 38 in Syktyvkar, Ryazan Institute of Law and Economics of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
Vasily’s first serious hobby in sports was skating. However, the famous parents decided that their son should take up skiing.
In 1998 in Syktyvkar, V. Rochev took 2nd and 3rd places at the Russian Junior Championships.
In 2000, he became the world champion among juniors in the 4x10 km relay race and the silver medalist in the 30 km classic style race.
At the age of 25 he became the world champion in sprint.
Participant of the XIX Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002, where he participated in the 30 km race and took 15th place.
At the XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006, he won bronze in the team sprint paired with Ivan Alypin.
At the 2007 World Championships he won two silver medals. Over the past three years, Vasily from the Russian team has won the most medals. My favorite distance was and remains 15 km classic. 
He is married to three-time Olympic champion Yulia Chepalova, and they have a daughter, Vasilina.
But Rochev missed the Olympics in Vancouver. At the beginning of the season, he had to have his appendix removed, so he was unable to get into optimal shape for the Games.
Vasily's twin sister,Olga Rocheva.
Born on October 23, 1980 in Syktyvkar.
Master of Sports of international class.
Debut at the World Cup in 2002. winner of the FIS Race stages, winner of the Continental Cup in double pursuit (2003), winner of the Alpine Cup in the 10 km mass start race (2004), multiple winner and medalist of the Eastern European Cup in individual races, in sprint races, pursuit races,
bronze medalist of the Russian Championship in the 30 km mass start race (2005).
Participant in the Vancouver Olympics.
In 2007 she married Sergei Shchuchkin (MS in cross-country skiing). Since 2008 he has been playing for the Tyumen region.
Yulia Chepalova – wife of Vasily Rochev Jr.
Born on December 23, 1976 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Very soon, her parents realized that Yulia would definitely find her calling in sports - their daughter had been so tireless, cheerful and purposeful since childhood.
“Yulia got on skis as soon as she started walking,” recalls the champion’s father and coach, Anatoly Mikhailovich, “it doesn’t matter that the skis were size thirty-five, she climbed in them along with felt boots. If she had to go around the circle, she wouldn’t.” but it will fly by."
Your first sports victory Julia won when she was only five years old. Employees of the stores, in one of which Yulia’s mother, Tamara Mikhailovna, worked, passed the mandatory GTO standards at that time. However, everyone took part in the competition. Imagine the surprise of the adult participants in the race when a five-year-old girl came first to the finish line.
At the age of nine, Yulia continued playing sports in the ski section of the Amur sports club.
Very soon Yulia began to take part in official competitions, both Russian and international. Then there were many successful performances at the Junior World Championships, but main victory Yulia still had a long way to go...
Victory in the Olympic Nagano in 1998. The first Olympic gold medal in Yulia’s life was an event. The whole world paid attention to the young charming girl, who overnight became the best. The Snow Princess - this is what they began to call Yulia Chepalova after that victory.
In the 2000-2001 season, Yulia became the winner of the World Cup, showing a phenomenal result - seven victories in seventeen stages. In 2001, Yulia also won the World Championship - and now everyone is expecting a new Olympic victory from her.
2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City - 1.5 km sprint - gold.
Running 10km “classic” – bronze.
15km run – bronze.
2006 Olympics in Turin -
30km race – silver.
4x5km relay – gold.
Olga Rocheva-Moskalenko is the wife of Anatoly Rochev.
Born on July 4, 1978 in Krasnoyarsk. She started ski racing at the age of 10. International Master of Sports. 1995 At the Small Winter European Games in the Spanish city of Andorra, Olga was the only one to win gold medal as part of the Russian youth team.
Multiple winner of Russian championships.
1998 At the World Junior Championships she won a bronze medal in the relay race.
1999 On World Universiade in Slovakia she won a gold medal.
In 2000, Olga achieved great success at the World Universiade in Zakopane (Poland), where she won three gold medals: in the 5 km free and classic style, in the relay race.
The best achievement at the Olympic Games was 6th place in the team sprint at the Olympics in Turin in 2006.
Participant in the Vancouver Olympics. I ran a duathlon.
The Rochev House is a whole constellation of champion skiers, of whom not only the republic, but the whole of great Russia is proud. And the star family tree grows. Three granddaughters and one grandson are growing up in the Rochev family: two daughters of Anatoly and Olga, Sophia and Yulia; son of Olga and Sergei Shchuchkin - Kirill; daughter of Vasily and Yulia - Vasilina.
In such a family, children cannot help but grow up to be athletes.
Vasily and Vasilina...Isn’t it familiar to have names of the same root in one family? Time will show…
Vasily Rochev Sr.: “If there is a good song, let’s sing it from the heart”
We present to the attention of site readers a direct line with the January interlocutor of www.site, Olympic champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Trainer of Russia Vasily Pavlovich Rochev.
Alexey Ilvovsky:
Good afternoon, Vasily Pavlovich!
Let me first thank you for your independence and self-esteem, which you and your wife managed to pass on to your children. For many in the Russian ski community, you are a kind of beacon, living proof that in Russia you can work in skiing high level without compromising these qualities (dignity and independence).
Questions:
- Do you train regularly? Do you participate in veteran competitions?
I myself do not train and do not participate in veteran competitions, because three years ago I had an injury: a fracture of the fibula and torn ligaments in my foot. The bones have fused, but the ligaments remain loose, so I can neither walk quickly nor ski. On skis I just try the ointment.
- How did this happen?
I simply stepped down the step with my straight leg onto a hard surface. He took a wide step - and that’s it! It turned out very powerful blow, and the ligaments were torn.
- How do you generally assess the current period in the life of our country - positive or negative?
Thank you very much for your answers.
What can we do, we don’t choose the country. When was Soviet Union, there were the same values. We also ran the same way, were on the national team, and earned money. By the way, we managed to earn a lot of money then, but it all disappeared. Therefore, when perestroika took place, everything had to start all over again, practically from scratch. Now, I think, more or less. You get used to any system. Democracy is democracy, now, for example, it has become freer to travel abroad. Many people go to travel. Those values that exist all over the world have also appeared here in Russia.
Modest Soloviev:
Dear Vasily Pavlovich,
- Please tell us in detail about your family, who does (or did in the past) what profession, what successes have you achieved?
My wife and I after graduation sports career started studying coaching activities. She and I have one group, which has now expanded to 25 people. There are also five coaches in our team. We work as a team, because this is probably the most advanced form of work in these conditions. We train athletes of different ages, so one coach has to go to adult competitions, the other to junior competitions. But there is always someone who stays here in Syktyvkar. After all, not all athletes leave anyway. That’s why we don’t have such turnover, the guys are always busy, there’s always a senior. We got very close good trainers, we have complete mutual understanding with them, there are no problems. Andrey Nutrikhin has been working with us for a year now; he has now switched to coaching. Sergey Vyatkin provides us with great assistance in preparing skis. We have a lot of skis; if we prepare two pairs for each athlete for a race, we will get about fifty pairs at a time. This is a lot of work, sometimes you have to prepare your skis all night before a race. This is the kind of team we have, and this is the team we work with.
Yuri M.:
First of all, I want to wish you health and good luck! I had the honor to meet personally in the early 80s and even sit at the same table)),
Yeah, it's from Lesgaft!
when you visited St. Petersburg and stayed at the Lesgaft hostel.
-Are you satisfied with how your sports career, including coaching, turned out?
Thanks in advance and good luck to you again!
Well, are you happy? Any coach is a maximalist. Every coach wants to achieve the greatest success, wants his students to achieve high results. There is no coach who didn’t want there to be no success. So coaching career as it folds, so it folds. Now we are better funded, we have the necessary equipment for competitions and training. This was a big problem before. But all the same, financed only from the budget it is unrealistic to prepare competition for the Russian national team on the spot. Because if someone starts to show results, then they already need to reach that level. The competition there is very high. But overall, I'm probably pleased.
Alexey Ilvovsky:
- Does your club have sufficient funding now?
Our club was not created to finance anyone. Its charter states that it was created to provide additional help leading athletes of the republic to achieve high sports results. And we are slowly carrying out this activity and trying to expand it as much as possible.
Ivan Isaev:
- What is your opinion about the state of the club movement in the world and in Russia? I mean, of course, not basketball and football, but skiing. Are there these clubs in Russia? How influential are they? How much can you raise adequate money? By “adequate” I mean amounts that allow teams to travel to training camps, perform at away competitions, have uniforms, equipment, medical care, and pay more or less decent salaries to athletes and coaches.
Based on these criteria, I can say that now in Russia there are only two clubs that meet them, and both of them are located in the Moscow region. This is “Truth” and the Vyalbe club. Their training is carried out at a very solid level. Therefore, these clubs have a certain independence. Besides this, there are, of course, many clubs that we can even see just by looking at the competition report. In addition, it is not always clear which club was created for what purpose.
For example, Grushin tried to hold competitions among clubs, but this attempt was not successful, the reason for which, in my opinion, was poor funding. Because no organization sends you to club competitions, which means you have to look for some other funding options.
- What about the Rochevs’ club?
We have never participated in such competitions. We simply did not have the opportunity to go to these competitions. In addition, everything was complicated by the fact that at that time, when the championship among clubs was held in Rybinsk, we had a very busy competition schedule.
- IC "Saturn" collapsed - a colossus that was capable of becoming the vanguard, the locomotive of the development of the ski club movement in Russia. I could have, but I didn’t. Your opinion - why?
I understand that you cannot help but look back at Loginov and Borodavko in your answers, but I really want to hear honest, open answers. And if not from you, then from whom?
A lot depends on who works at the club. Grushin worked at Saturn and brought together all the strongest guys. But some of what he wanted, apparently, did not work out. Of course, he had good results. Although in terms of medals at the national championship international competitions They never beat the Rochevs’ club (smiles). It so happened that we always performed better. I simply cannot, Ivan, answer this question unambiguously. Because it was necessary to communicate with them on this topic, to talk, but you can’t judge by looking at them. Then it will turn out like on the Internet, when people ask why the national team performs this way, and others like them answer them. But we must at least be there, because what we see on TV is not everything, it is only one side of the coin. And the other side of it is constant work. Something, it means, didn’t work out for Grushin.
-Have you not talked to him yourself?
No on this topic.
Vladimir Fedorov:
- Are there, in your opinion, any differences in the system of training skiers, including “top-level skiers,” between the “Rochev school” and the “Chepalov school”?
Each coach works in his own way, there are no identical methods for any coach, this is one hundred percent. The national team is also working, they are trying to introduce a lot of innovations, because time passes, speeds change, the rules themselves change. Now there is a tendency towards a more forceful nature of conducting wrestling. If earlier we ran longer distances and stretched ourselves, now, especially in races from a general start, sometimes there are such speeds as in a sprint. Everything is changing. After all, why coaching is interesting is because it is everyday creativity. Some will find one way, others another, some go to achieve results through strength work, others – via remote.
- Well, if we talk specifically about you and Chepalov?
Of course, we are all different and have very little in common. Everyone tries to prepare based on existing conditions. For example, we have a good roller skating track, so in our training we use roller skates to the maximum. We don’t have the opportunity to ride a bicycle here; we rarely use it. We proceed from what we have. The fact is that, for financial reasons, we can only travel once during the summer. exit fee. The rest of the time we train at home.
- Do you have to communicate with Anatoly Mikhailovich?
Yes, sure.
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Vladimir Fedorov:
Hello, dear Vasily Pavlovich!
- What, in your opinion, are the reasons for the lackluster performance of our team this season? What can be listed as an asset and what as a failure? In general, have the expectations for the success of both the men's and women's teams been justified?
This question worries not only fans who write on the Internet. It is impossible to answer this unequivocally, because to answer this question, as I already said, you need to be in the national team. I can answer this question only from the position of a fan. I only watch the national team when I watch competitions on TV or communicate with my athletes. And to know, you need to be inside the team. Of course, I know something, but there are issues that are not usually discussed in front of a wide audience. This includes both the methodology and the approach to the training process, implementation, and recovery. Such a conversation could take place, as before, at the coaching council. But our coaching council had been slowly dying for two years, and in Krasnogorsk it was finally solemnly buried. Not a single coach came to the appointed coaching council. Two years ago we tried to choose the chairman of the coaching council (Grushin - editor's note) - it didn't work. The Executive Committee independently appointed the chairman of the coaching council. Now the executive committee is in charge of everything. But despite the fact that they are in charge, the coaches who prepared their guys for the national team know the methodology better. Currently there is only one active coach on the executive committee - this head coach national team Yuri Borodavko. There is no other coach there. Members of the executive committee, of course, have a lot of responsibilities that they need to fulfill and not take on themselves additional load also the coaching council. Now they are going to hold a coaching council (March 25 - editor's note), but I don't know how it will be held. In Krasnogorsk I went up there and found myself in the only place. But at least I went and found out what issue was on the agenda. The question was very important, it should have been discussed with the coaches, but no one came. Apparently, after the coaching council was assembled in Moscow in the spring. We went through three cordons, and we were told that the executive committee will now meet, and you come here at 12, we will announce its decisions to you. And it turns out they spat in everyone’s faces again, and for the second time. The first was when the chairman we had chosen was not approved. And the Russian coaches have run out of patience.
- And what kind of question was that?
I would not like to bring it up for discussion in the general public; this is a rather special issue. And again the wordplay of the fans will begin. I haven’t performed online before because I’m afraid of the karaoke effect. This is what I mean: they wrote a beautiful song, the melody is beautiful, people love it, but you have to sing it. The downside of karaoke is that you have to earn points, and to do this you have to either sing loudly or yell. The louder you sing, the more points you get. Therefore, you should not endure special questions on the Internet, you have to sing them, not shout them, in order to earn points.
I am very worried that our team now has such results. They scold the head coach a lot, they scold Loginov, but scolding is an easy thing, but you have to do something yourself. We need to get in touch, we need to try to get away from this situation, establish a good dialogue, then we will get help from the local coaches, but now, as I said, there is no such connection. Under the leadership of Vladimir Alekseevich, this connecting thread was cut.
Andrey Toropov:
Dear Olympic champion,
- When, finally, Russian athlete will be able to win the overall WC? How, after all, can we explain the success of the Norwegians and others, including the Czech Bauer in the overall World Cup standings? Why can our western neighbors perform consistently throughout the season, but ours cannot? Maybe they are doping? But in our country, only Mikhail Ivanov sacrificed his health to win the Olympics, and then... - failure.
Health is such a thing that if you do everything right, you won’t ruin it. Naturally, every athlete in a race works to the maximum of his capabilities and does a large amount of training work, but the body tries to regenerate after each load. There are, of course, mistakes, and often they consist of insufficient restoration. I believe, this is my personal opinion, that the cause of poor recovery is weak massage. There are many others natural ways recovery, but they are not used. I can’t say anything good or bad about medicine, I don’t work there. But we see everything in the results. It seems to me that the task of the executive committee should be to resolve these issues, to provide maximum support for the needs of the national team so that they achieve high results. And the coaching council should be a link between the national team coaches and personal trainers. Because personal trainer, who transfers his athlete to the national team, knows him better than anyone. Therefore, there must be this connection, but it is now largely interrupted. Only unofficially can I approach Yuri Viktorovich and talk to him about this, and in good times the coaching council formed the national team to participate in the Olympic Games and World Championships, and without its recommendation the composition was never changed. The coaching council was the highest body sports authorities. The coaching council recommended a coach to work in the national team, and if this coach did not live up to expectations, he left. IN last time this was the case when Alexander Voronin left the national team after a doping scandal. This was nobility and responsibility to the coaches, but now this is not the case. There is no responsibility of national team coaches to local coaches. What responsibility do members of the executive committee have? I don’t think that a member of the executive committee will ever be punished for anything, these are people who are simply not subject to punishment, but coaches can be punished.
- Well, what is the reason for such a powerful and stable performance of foreign stars, Bauer, for example?
It’s rare that even foreign athletes run all races from start to finish. They have sprinters, they have stayers, they have someone who is very gifted and feels good in a particular season, like, say, Bauer. Then a person runs everything: classics, speed skate, and sprints - he runs all distances, but this happens very rarely. The person gets tired. Therefore, apparently, there should be specialization. Most foreign athletes do not participate in all stages; they try to skip some race, recover, and then perform well again. I see this as a huge advantage. And sometimes we don’t even have enough athletes to compete at the World Cup stages, so everyone who is there runs. And it is precisely this under-recovery that negatively affects the result. Secondly, I believe that in any foreign federation the funding is an order of magnitude better than in Russia.
Yuri M.:
- Vasily Pavlovich, just honestly, are you satisfied with the current situation in Russian cross-country skiing? In my opinion, FLGR gradually turned into an uncontrolled private shop. We'll take whoever we want, and remove whoever we want. And the results are gradually sliding down...
Of course, I'm offended. No coach would want to see no success. Everyone wants it to be better. There are no pessimists, because the sport is difficult, and everyone is only waiting for good performances.
I'm Modest:
Vasily Pavlovich, good afternoon!
- Does the FLGR have a coaching council?
We have already answered this question.
- Who and when can re-elect - appoint the head and other coaches of the national team?
On at the moment coaches do not participate in this process; all decisions are made by the presidium and the executive committee. A purely bureaucratic machine was created.
Do they report to the federation and coaching council? When will the debriefing take place this year?
They report, they report to coaching councils, but there is no dialogue in the reports. Previously, any coach could get up from his seat and ask a question of interest to him about every, even the smallest case at any start, regarding the volume of training, and the intensity. Now there is no such thing, there is just a regular report. We already know the results ourselves, we know who participated and where, but they simply repeat this to us, conveying to us not very valuable information. This year, the coaching council is scheduled for a rest day during the Russian Championship on March 25.
What can you say about the pharmaceutical program in the Russian national team? Is it folded?
Sorry for the naive questions of ordinary fans of the Russian national team!
Good luck to you in your coaching career, and to Vasily Jr. on the ski track!
What I don’t know, I don’t know, and there’s nothing to say, I don’t work there.
Vladimir Fedorov, I Am Modest:
- What can you say about the existing selection for the national team? Does he exist? And if so, do you think the existing system of selection for the national team is correct? After all, from year to year it seems that the national team and the rest of ski Russia are two different planets. Like Moscow the capital and the rest of Russia...
By the way, the selection system is always discussed at the coaching council in the spring, when coaches report, and then plans for the next season are drawn up. These reports, plans, and especially the selection system are discussed by the coaches. Everyone is always very interested in her. But I think that the selection never went one hundred percent as planned, because the situation changes, weather conditions change. For example, there is no snow in Krasnogorsk, and the Krasnogorsk race can no longer be held there, even here it was held two years ago. And it happens that an athlete gets sick, and if you adhere to the selection system one hundred percent, it turns out that you cannot take him. Previously, these issues were decided by the coaching council. The coaching council made up the team and said that this one, this one and this one would be on the team. The coach gets up and says: “Why didn’t they take mine, he got sick, didn’t perform?” The question is raised that a person speaks in such and such a way, closes such and such distances, and it is decided collectively. No one was offended later that the head coach took one and not the other. This has never happened before, because the coaching council used to be very lively and very bright, always in a stormy atmosphere, everyone tried to protect their athlete, to prove what and how it is. And after that, the coaches felt responsible.
- Objectively, are all the strongest racers now gathered in the national team?
A national team becomes a national team when it goes to international competitions to defend the honor of our country. Until then, the strongest athletes are currently gathering for centralized training. However, not all the strongest, for a number of reasons, train with the national team of the country. Let’s say there are conditions at the team level in “Truth” or in “Saturn”, then the athletes train on their own, the coach can say, for example: “I don’t trust.” Now we have practically moved away from this, but there are still athletes who could be on the national team, but train separately.
- Are all the strongest taken to international competitions?
It's not working yet. For example, the regulations stated that the winner of the Country Cup goes to the Scandinavian stages of the World Cup. Ivan Arteev won the Russian Cup with us, but did not go to the stages because he did not have a Schengen visa. We sent our passport, but they didn’t give us a visa. Therefore, you see, there is such a situation, but they could not fulfill it. You can look for reasons. Galina Andreevna Shlykova, who deals with visas, was at the competitions in Zlatoust at that time, and others were not doing this, so instead of Arteev, Kuznetsov and Tishkin were sent to Holmenkollen for a distance of 50 km. Such moments happen, by and large, it depends on the organization. They could not organize the implementation of this decision, and the athlete did not leave.
I'm Modest:
- What are your proposals for increasing competition in the national team and rotation at the World Cup stages? Should there be strict rules here or should everything be left to the discretion of the senior (head) coach?
These are the issues that need to be resolved at the coaching council, there should be a conversation face to face, it is necessary to discuss pressing issues and come to a common opinion. Only at the coaching council! Of course, I have my own opinion, but there must be a dialogue, and a dialogue with experts. You know the proverb “One head is good, but two are better”? No one has canceled it yet!
- What importance should domestic competitions have for the formation of the national team? When should this formation take place - at the Krasnogorsk Ski Track, in the spring at the Russian Championships or in the fall? Or should the national team led by the senior coach remain untouchable?
Touchable, untouchable - it’s all about the result! Perform, train - everyone who shows results will be accepted. There is no such thing as someone overtaking everyone and not being taken to the national team. If there are equal athletes, then the head coach can have the final say in the fight for the last place in the team. He can take from these equals according to his choice, because he can, for example, consider that this athlete can cover the required distances. This has always been the case, even in the most best years. In fact, we used to call the last two places in the team “tourist”. Because when there is strong team, then the leaders close all distances, and the last numbers can go to the competition, but not compete in it. It was, is and will be.
- So even now a high sports result is a guarantee of getting into the national team?
Certainly.
- Nikolai Petrovich Lopukhov, for example, complains that his guys are not always hired on the basis of sportsmanship.
Yes, I read somewhere that he complains that Ivanov was not taken, but I saw Ivanov at the sprints in Rybinsk, he didn’t show anything like that there. So Nikolai Petrovich is being a little disingenuous. Why did he have to go online with such a question? He could have just walked up to the head coach and told him this face to face.
Vladimir Fedorov:
- What needs to be changed or, on the contrary, nothing needs to be changed so that Russia can perform well in cross-country skiing at the next Olympics?
Naturally, something needs to change, because everyone understands that they cannot perform as they are now. Everyone is rooting for it, everyone wants the performance to be good. But now I can’t say: “Do it like this, Yuri Viktorovich, and next year everything will be fine.” This cannot be said in one word. The national team itself, for example, raised the question of why our athletes are disqualified the most, but foreigners are not. When I recently worked in the national team, I saw this myself. There is one very good person there, Yuri Anatolyevich Charkovsky, who does a lot of work. But as long as I have worked, he will rarely say that at such and such competitions there are such and such restrictions. After all, even at each stage of the World Cup they proceed from the current situation. Let’s say there was no snow in Davos, so the organizers said that a kilometer from the start and a kilometer to the finish you can’t warm up or just sit there, because a violation will result in disqualification. And I didn’t even know, and I’m the coach of the national team! In other places, the track closes 25 minutes before the start, but the Finns, for example, take a more relaxed approach to this, closing the track only five minutes, so the situation is different everywhere, and you need to work with people: both coaches and athletes. After all, violating the rules results in disqualification; foreigners, especially Germans, simply bite their teeth to prove that they are right, and often understand them. But ours are not! This is exactly where the executive committee should work to eliminate such negative aspects. Because someone must point out these mistakes to athletes and coaches, and this issue must be resolved at a solid level.
I'm Modest:
Vasily Pavlovich!
A modest question from foreign compatriots:
- What needs to be done so that the victory in the relay race - the most prestigious in the cross-country skiing program - is won by the RUSSIA team? How to bring the relay four (as well as the entire team) to peak form for the 2009 World Cup and the 2010 Olympic Games?
- The most important thing is not to repeat mistakes. After all, any athlete gains experience while performing. What is experience? Experience is the non-repetition of mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, but you can't repeat them. If one year they made a mistake, then the second goal they made a mistake again on the same goal, then this athlete does not have the right to be called a great experienced master. Of course, during these two years, a huge number of mistakes were made: problems with hemoglobin, and speaking from scratch. Well, where is this good? We arrived and lost so much at the marathon that it’s simply scary to say.
- I would like your son Vasily Rochev Jr. to become an Olympic champion, like you. Having won the title of 2005 World Champion in the sprint (+3 medals at two World Championships in different relays), and in Turin bronze in the sprint relay, at Vancouver 2010 Vasily has the best chance (in my humble opinion) of winning the 4x10km relay.
Do you think the main team of Pankratov-Rochev-Legkov-Dementyev can and should stay for another 2 years?
The team is not created immediately, and when a strong athlete arrives, he replaces the weaker one. Many factors are taken into account, before, for example, we had a lot of experience in relay races, but now there are fewer relay races, but still the quartet is selected from the strongest. And there is no guarantee that next year this one, this one and this one will perform the strongest. The one who is currently stronger should perform. Of course, some people don't make it. For me, too, the decision that Shiryaev would not run in the relay at the World Championships seemed unexpected, but who was to be changed? Of course, they ran well in Davos, so this issue had to be decided by the coaching council. Naturally, everyone wants it to be good result, but the relay is now very unpredictable. There are a lot of equal teams, and any chance can change the situation, just like in sprints. A situation arose in Sapporo that three teams left. And no matter what the Germans did, no matter how hard they tried, they could no longer catch up. It turned out that the fate of the prize places was decided at the second stage - that’s the situation for you. So this is an unanswered question; it is impossible to name the composition of the relay a year in advance!
Alexander Vertyshev:
Dear Vasily Pavlovich!
A few questions:
- A lot of words are said about the experimental season and the like. It seems to me that any experiment presupposes the presence of a control group that works as usual and serves as a comparison, to evaluate the effectiveness of the experiments (and, in extreme cases, to back up in case of strict need to obtain results). And also assumes large number frequent instrumental measurements to assess ongoing physiological changes over time. How realistic, in your opinion, is it to experiment in this way at the level of the national team, juniors, and clubs? Do athletes agree to get into different groups? Are coaches able to divide athletes into groups according to physiological type to ensure similar group compositions? Is it possible to create such groups, financially and simply numerically (3 and a half athletes cannot be divided into groups, and such a number is meaningless for a statistical assessment of the results)?
There used to be such groups. For example, there was a high mountain group. The athletes trained on high altitude, recorded all the changes occurring in their body, but in the end they did not beat anyone from the national team. Maybe, in a scientific sense, in order to defend a dissertation, there was a point in creating such groups, but for big sport I didn't see any benefit in them.
Maybe they simply expressed it a little incorrectly that the season is experimental, because there are no results, and the team trained the same way last year and is training this year. Not much has been changed in the methodology.
- Do you conduct experiments in training process in your club?
I wouldn’t call it experiments, but we are taking on new loads. Because everything changes, and you can’t stay with the good old ways. It should not be forgotten under any circumstances, but something new must be constantly introduced, especially when the athlete is already at the mature age of about 30 years. If you repeat the same load from year to year, the result will not increase.
And what are the results of this work?
Results? Our young people are growing up. If we have five people from the Republic team in the national team, it means there is a result, and there is a reserve.
- How, in your opinion, is it better to build a system for the training and growth of athletes, so that coaches do not have the need to “squeeze” athletes long before their expected prime? What do you consider the key factor in this problem?
There is such a problem especially in children's sports. Because if the coach gets a good result, a lot of dischargers, then the coach begins to receive good salary. And this, of course, encouraged young athletes to accelerate their sports results. Of course, this is a negative phenomenon, it has already been discussed many times, and I don’t want to repeat it. In our group, we try not to force the results of young athletes. Serious work begins with us only from junior age.
Vladimir Fedorov:
- Preparation in the highlands, to what extent do you share the point of view of the leadership of the national team about its necessity immediately before important starts?
There must be high altitudes, because this is a natural way to increase hemoglobin. In addition, the necessary functional qualities can only be developed at altitude.
- Your point of view on last year doping scandal on the national team?
Of course, I have a negative attitude towards this. But what happened, happened. After all, a lot of athletes from different countries, but maybe it’s not their custom to stir up scandals like that? After the doping scandal in Salt Lake City, when I came home and read it, my hair stood on end! This has been written, and everyone is trying to make it even more interesting, to invent something even more. But no one even knew that the Ukrainian team, for example, was not allowed to start.
- What do you think happened there?
I can't say what happened. WADA said what happened.
- How to deal with increased hemoglobin?
This question needs to be asked to doctors; there is probably a certain method. Since hemoglobin rises, it means that it falls.
Do you think Yulia Chepalova will be able to return to the leadership of skiing both in Russia and in the world?
¬- The individual characteristics of Yulia’s body are such that she finds this break very difficult. After all, even after the birth of her first child, she recovered for a very long time. Also now. But she has already taken part in the World Cup stages, and is competing here at the national championship. And it is clear that there is an increase in results, although she did not manage to get straight into the elite, to the prize places. But Yulia herself really wants this, she works, and without work, as we know, there will be no result. But we are waiting, we hope that she will continue to show the best results, we are really rooting for her.
Yuri M.:
-Please comment on the performance of Lukasz Bauer this season. Did ski racing get a long-term leader or did he just have such a successful season, as they say, the stars aligned?
From the point of view of a fan, I can say that he really had a wonderful season. I heard that he trained with the Germans this year, so maybe this change of scenery, as they say, helped. But the result is obvious. Bauer is one of our main competitors next season, so we shouldn’t forget about that.
Modest Soloviev:
- Your son Vasily has proven himself to be an intelligent, thinking person with the makings of a journalist and lawyer. There is an opinion that a skier (the same applies to biathletes) should think less, talk less and work more, in general, be closer to a horse than to Homo Sapiens. What do you feel about it?
I will say that if you don’t think with your head, you won’t reach the finish line. I believe that this opinion about the backwardness of skiers is fundamentally wrong. In any form, if an athlete performs at the national team level, he does a tremendous job, it’s just visible in some places and not in others. All athletes train a lot, but they are the same people, they have different interests. Maybe some people just don’t want to think a lot, but there are also athletes who think. It cannot be said that skiing is a sport that turns off the intellect, and if you are a skier, then you should not think. Excuse me, many skiers, after completing their sports career, become excellent specialists in many other areas.
Yuri M.:
- You know your son Vasily better than anyone else.
He's simply unrecognizable this season. What is the reason?
There's really no way to know. When he comes home between training camps and I give him a massage, I have a good device for vacuum and vibration massage, I see that insufficient attention is paid to massage in the national team. And this is a very big omission. Maybe there are no financial resources, maybe there are no good massage therapists, but the situation in this matter in the national team is at a very low level. When we were training, under heavy loads we massaged every day, and there were results. That is, they left the good.
Alexey Ilvovsky:
- Does he discuss with you on a regular basis training plans and the condition of your son, the head coach of the national team (this is what, for example, Guus Hiddink does in his relations with club coaches and their players recruited to the national team)?
Naturally not. Firstly, there is no such possibility, and secondly, each coach plans the training process more than one day or one training session. And, as we say, teaching a scientist only spoils him. Not every person likes to be taught, because he is responsible for the result. And the one who teaches will remain on the sidelines. Then, of course, you can say: “You see, I spoke, but you didn’t listen, but then you would have been great!” This is a thankless task, and I think that no one will do this.
Alexander Malygin:
- Objectively, Rochev Jr. has stopped growing for several years now (to say the least) Do you agree? What needs to be changed in Vasily’s training for him to progress?
Firstly, Vasily has matured. And, for example, for sprints, in my opinion, you need a young sharp organism, and when volumes increase, distance loads are superimposed on sprint loads, then this is an improvement sports uniform doesn't lead. And, apparently, general fatigue begins to take its toll, and the results in sprints gradually disappear. But Vasya has not yet achieved great long-distance results. Here we need to make a radical decision, either to completely switch to distance training, because sharpness is lost with age, this has already been proven, or to continue to develop speed endurance. But then we need to move away from distance learning. You cannot run both sprints and distances equally well, it doesn’t happen that way. Let's take even any other sport, for example, athletics. Well, there are no stayers who would win the sprint, and never have been.
- This year collections complained about overload. You probably know what exactly the overload is? Total volumes? Express? Power? Something has reached amateurs, I would like to be more specific. Let’s say we did 3 strength exercises per week for an hour, and this year we did 10 strength exercises for 2 hours each.
Either the intensity was increased... or...
I can’t say anything about the methodology, because I was not present during the training process.
- Maybe you know about this from Vasily’s stories?
Yes, the preparation has changed, but I first want to talk with Yuri Viktorovich face to face, rather than talk to him through a third party, and the Internet is precisely a third party.
Vyacheslav Murov:
Hello, Vasily Pavlovich!
- Due to the fact that such a trend has appeared among ski racers - many of them have heart problems, I would like to know: what “correct” speed training should be done so as not to get myocardial dystrophy? It would be advisable to tell us: what is the length of speed training and how many segments should you do? And is it necessary to do short periods of 10 to 15 seconds? If yes, how much?
Here, at the national championship, there are a lot of different teams, and each trains in its own way. They also do short accelerations, up to 15 seconds, but these are, rather, athletes more prone to sprinting. Distance pilots are unlikely to do such accelerations. What can I recommend to a person? It is never possible to recommend in one word. For the technique to be effective, we must first understand who we are training. If I start training distance athletes in sprints, nothing good will happen. There must be a natural predisposition to sprint or long distances. When I understand this, then I will approach this athlete and look for a suitable technique. And, not knowing anything, we will talk about nothing.
Andrey Toropov:
- Vasily Rochev, according to him, is gradually abandoning the sprint. At the next Olympic Games (I really don’t know the schedule) there should be long races: 15 speed skating, duathlon, 50 classic. But there should also be a classic sprint. Where can your son prove himself if not in the sprint?
No one can make such a long-term forecast. We don’t even know what will happen next year, and the Olympics will only be in two more years. It's incredibly simple. There is a category of coaches who say: “Give me the conditions, I will prepare you an Olympic champion.” Three years pass and everyone forgets what he said there. There are some, but why do it? You have to work every day, and if the work is beneficial, then there will be a result.
Alexander Malygin:
- Is it possible to combine sprint and distance? If not, who is better to make Vasily a sprinter or a distance runner?
Thank you.
Now Vasya is already quite old, but my opinion is that he can run both sprints and distances well. You just need reasonable loads so that you have time to recover after each performance. Recovery deteriorates with age. And if there are always races, races, races, then in our village in the spring even the horses got up and were hung up. This happens in nature. You need to treat a person very carefully, and if he has talent, if he has already shown himself in something, then he can show it a second time. And if not, then there is nothing to wait for. Here are the weightlifters going out to ski, and let them ski to their health. But such a person will not make an easy, graceful racer. Perhaps, with all his efforts, such a person can grow to become a master of sports, but it won’t be possible further, because the warehouse is different, the structure of the body is different, the bones may be thick, and the racer is a light person. He must have good technique, endurance, and the muscles themselves are ready for racing. Therefore, if something is given, then it can always be manifested. You just need to change something in the training system in order to get out of the crisis, but to say that Vasily is given the ability to run sprints, but not the ability to run distances and vice versa, is wrong.
- This was the last question, thank you very much, Vasily Pavlovich, for agreeing to answer the questions of our readers.
Thank you. I almost never speak on the Internet, I only sometimes read what they write on your website. But most of all I try not to miss competitions, because this is live communication, this is a professional assessment of the progress of the races, and I get more benefit from this than from the Internet. I wish our readers to be more friendly towards everything and earn fewer points, like in karaoke. If there is a good song, then let's sing it from the heart, guys. Let's help each other, communicate without offense. Coaching creativity is everyday work, you have to re-oil your skis every day, and who will find it today? best option, he won. The same is true in the training process: if you get sick, you train, your condition worsens, but the person is alive, you also need to work with him every day. And there is also a wish from our federation: “Love your athletes!”
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Well, brother Yurka, popular wisdom says: what the racer doesn’t finish, goes to the drinker!
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The Rochev family is a whole ski dynasty Vasily Pavlovich Rochev and Nina Petrovna Rocheva (Selyunina) Anatoly Vasilyevich Rochev and Olga Vladimirovna Rocheva (Moskalenko) Vasily Vasilyevich Rochev and Yulia Chepalova Olga Rocheva (Shchuchkina) with her brother
Vasily Pavlovich Rochev is a Komi athlete, ski racer, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, champion of the USSR, Europe, the world and the Olympic Games. In 1969 he graduated from Bakur secondary school and entered the Syktyvkar Pedagogical School No. 1 named after. I.A. Kuratov to the department of “Physical Education”. In 1970 he was called up to serve in the internal troops of the USSR, where he began to advocate sports club"Dynamo" and gets into the USSR youth team. In 1971, at the European Junior Championships, she took second place in the 10 km race and first place in the 3x10 relay team. Vasily Rochev – participant of the 1976 Olympiad (Innsburk, Austria) “Rochev’s character” is a genuine passion for victory.
Vasily Rochev is a participant in the 1980 Olympics (Lake Placid, USA), where he becomes an Olympic champion and silver medalist. V. Rochev is a participant in five World Championships, where he won one gold, two silver, two bronze medals. Multiple winner and prize-winner of prestigious international competitions. Participating in the USSR Championships, V. Rochev won 12 gold, 8 silver, 5 bronze medals. February 22, 2004 - Order of Honor for services to the development of physical culture and sports. Most skiers trained by coach Vasily Rochev say that wherever they compete today, the name of their mentor is always present where the phrase “Komi Republic” is uttered.
"Gold" of pupils. Already in the mid-80s, Vasily Pavlovich’s students began to win national championships and go to the Olympics. Vasily Pavlovich over the years coaching work trained Russian champions, Olympic participants Andrei Nutrikhin, Vladimir Legotin, he trained Olympians Olga Rocheva - Moskalenko and Ivan Arteev. The elder Rochev was the coach of the younger Rochev when he won gold at the World Championships and bronze at the Turin Olympics. It seems that the Honored Master of Sports will have many more victories ahead with new generations of students. From 1982 to the present day, V.P. Rochev is the senior coach of the national team of the Komi Republic. Ivan Arteev Vladimir Legotin Andrey Nutrikhin
Nina Petrovna Rocheva (Selyunina) - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in cross-country skiing. Graduated from Mari State Pedagogical University. Since 1976, she performed as a member of the national team of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Three-time USSR champion, bronze medalist at the World Championships in Lahti, silver medalist at the Lake Placid Olympics. Champion of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, winner of the international competition "Festival of the North". Honored Worker of Culture of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation.
Anatoly Vasilyevich Rochev Olga Vladimirovna Rocheva (Moskalenko) - Russian skier In 1995, she was awarded the title of Master of Sports. Olga's best achievement at the Olympic Games is sixth place in the team sprint at the Olympics in Turin. In 2008, Olga Rocheva-Moskalenko became the best Russian woman in the World Cup, taking 12th place. In 2003, Olga won a gold medal by running 50 km at the “Festival of the North”. In 2004, Olga participated in the Russian Cup Final. She is the winner of three medals: gold (sprint), silver (duathlon) and bronze (15 km). From 1994 to 2004, Moskalenko’s coach was Alexander Vladimirovich Zdzyarsky, a coach of the highest qualification category. She was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.
Vasily Vasilyevich Rochev is an Honored Master of Sports of Russia in cross-country skiing. Yulia Anatolyevna Chepalova is a Russian skier, Olympic champion in 1998, 2002 and 2006. Member of the Russian cross-country skiing team since 1999. Repeated champion of Russia. Winner and silver medalist of the 2000 World Junior Championships. Participant in the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. World champion 2005 in sprint. Bronze medalist at the 2006 Olympic Games in team sprint paired with Ivan Alypov. Winner of two silver medals at the 2007 World Championships. Six-time world junior champion. Triple Olympic champion, two-time champion world champion, silver medalist of the 2006 Olympic Games in the 30 km freestyle race and silver medalist of the 2002 Olympic Games in the 10 km classic style race, bronze medalist of the 2002 Olympic Games in the 15 km freestyle race, winner of the 2001 World Cup.
Olga Rocheva (Shchuchkina) is a Russian skier. International Master of Sports in cross-country skiing. Member of the Russian Olympic cross-country skiing team at the Vancouver Olympics. Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship 2006 in the 30th race in the classical style from a general start.
I, Daria Yudina, studying at the Ruchevskaya secondary school, believe that the Rochev ski dynasty, great athletes, legends of skiing, Soviet and Russian sports, - my idol, they performed and defended the country’s sporting honor at the World and European Championships and the Olympic Games. They rightfully deserved popular love for their victories, the path to which was paved not only by extraordinary talent, but also by colossal work, perseverance, endurance, injuries and illnesses, self-sacrifice and, of course, love for skiing. I admire these great athletes and am very proud to be born and live in the same country as them. The XIV Winter Olympic Games are just around the corner, which will be held in Russia, in Sochi. I really want our athletes to perform well and show high results in all sports. I sincerely believe in victory Russian team, to victory domestic sports: “Our strength is in unity, hear me, Russia!”
Vasily Pavlovich Rochev() - Soviet Russian skier, bronze and silver medalist at the World Championships in Lahti (1974), Olympic champion at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, 12-time champion of the USSR: 15 km (, 1975), 30 km (, 1977) , 50 km (), 4x10 km relay (1972, 1973, , 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1980), Honored Trainer of Russia (1998).
Biography
Nowadays, Vasily Pavlovich Rochev is usually called “Vasily Rochev Sr.” This is due to the fact that his son, Vasily Vasilyevich Rochev, world champion in sprint and multiple medalist of the Olympics and world championships, is today a member of the Russian national cross-country skiing team and his name, objectively, is more widely known these days among fans and journalists.
The sports age of Vasily Rochev Sr. was quite long and happy - he had the opportunity to compete at two Olympics (1976 and 1980) and two World Championships (1974 and 1978). In 1974, at his debut World Championships in Lahti, he won bronze in the 15-kilometer sprint, losing less than a second to the second prize-winner, German G. Grimmer, and to the winner, Norwegian M. Myurmo, by just over a second. In addition, together with his teammates Ivan Garanin, Fedor Simashov and Yuri Skobov, he won silver medals in the relay at this championship.
The 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck and the 1978 World Championships in Lahti turned out to be relatively unsuccessful for Vasily Rochev Sr., in any case, he never managed to climb onto the podium. But his finest hour came, without a doubt, at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, America, where he won an individual silver medal in the 30-kilometer race, losing only to his teammate Nikolai Zimyatov, and also became an Olympic champion in the 4x10 relay race km along with his teammates Nikolai Bazhukov, Evgeniy Belyaev and Nikolai Zimyatov.
Today
Now Vasily Pavlovich Rochev is the senior coach of the Komi Republic cross-country skiing team and the informal leader of the public organization “Rochev Ski Club”. Trains his son, Vasily Vasilyevich Rochev, who left the national team for independent training (as of 2009-10), and several others strong athletes republic, in particular, the wife of his eldest son, Anatoly Rochev, Olga Rocheva.
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The next day, the troops gathered in the appointed places in the evening and set out at night. It was an autumn night with black-purple clouds, but no rain. The ground was wet, but there was no mud, and the troops marched without noise, only the occasional clink of artillery could be faintly heard. They forbade talking loudly, smoking pipes, lighting fires; the horses were kept from neighing. The mystery of the enterprise increased its appeal. People walked cheerfully. Some of the columns stopped, put their guns on the goats and lay down on the cold ground, believing that they had come to the right place; some (most) columns walked all night and, obviously, went to the wrong place.Count Orlov Denisov with the Cossacks (the most insignificant detachment of all the others) alone ended up in their place and at their time. This detachment stopped at the extreme edge of the forest, on the path from the village of Stromilova to Dmitrovskoye.
Before dawn, Count Orlov, who had dozed off, was awakened. They brought a defector from the French camp. This was a Polish non-commissioned officer of Poniatowski's corps. This non-commissioned officer explained in Polish that he had defected because he had been wronged in his service, that it was high time for him to be an officer, that he was braver than everyone else and that is why he abandoned them and wants to punish them. He said that Murat was spending the night a mile away from them and that if they gave him a hundred men as an escort, he would take him alive. Count Orlov Denisov consulted with his comrades. The offer was too flattering to refuse. Everyone volunteered to go, everyone advised me to try. After many disputes and considerations, Major General Grekov with two Cossack regiments decided to go with a non-commissioned officer.
“Well, remember,” Count Orlov Denisov said to the non-commissioned officer, releasing him, “if you lied, I’ll have you hanged like a dog, but the truth is a hundred ducats.”
The non-commissioned officer with a decisive look did not answer these words, sat on horseback and rode off with Grekov, who had quickly gathered. They disappeared into the forest. Count Orlov, shaking from the freshness of the morning that was beginning to break, excited by what he had started on his own responsibility, having seen Grekov off, came out of the forest and began to look around the enemy camp, which was now visible deceptively in the light of the beginning of the morning and the dying fires. To the right of Count Orlov Denisov, along the open slope, our columns should have appeared. Count Orlov looked there; but despite the fact that they would have been noticeable from afar, these columns were not visible. In the French camp, as it seemed to Count Orlov Denisov, and especially according to his very vigilant adjutant, they began to stir.
“Oh, really, it’s late,” said Count Orlov, looking at the camp. Suddenly, as often happens, after the person we trust is no longer in front of his eyes, it suddenly became completely clear and obvious to him that the non-commissioned officer was a deceiver, that he had lied and would only ruin the whole attack by the absence of these two regiments, whom he will lead God knows where. Is it possible to snatch the commander-in-chief from such a mass of troops?
“Really, he’s lying, this scoundrel,” said the count.
“We can turn it back,” said one of the retinue, who, like Count Orlov Denisov, felt distrust of the enterprise when he looked at the camp.
- A? Right?..what do you think, or leave it? Or not?
-Would you like to turn it back?
- Turn back, turn back! - Count Orlov suddenly said decisively, looking at his watch, “it will be late, it’s quite light.”
And the adjutant galloped through the forest after Grekov. When Grekov returned, Count Orlov Denisov, excited by this canceled attempt, and by the vain wait for the infantry columns, which still did not show up, and by the proximity of the enemy (all the people of his detachment felt the same), decided to attack.
He commanded in a whisper: “Sit down!” They distributed themselves, crossed themselves...
- With God!
“Hurray!” - there was a rustle through the forest, and, one hundred after another, as if pouring out of a bag, the Cossacks flew cheerfully with their darts at the ready, across the stream to the camp.
One desperate, frightened cry from the first Frenchman who saw the Cossacks - and everyone in the camp, unclothed and sleepy, abandoned their cannons, rifles, horses and ran anywhere.
If the Cossacks had pursued the French, not paying attention to what was behind and around them, they would have taken Murat and everything that was there. The bosses wanted this. But it was impossible to move the Cossacks from their place when they got to the booty and prisoners. Nobody listened to the commands. One thousand five hundred prisoners, thirty-eight guns, banners and, most importantly for the Cossacks, horses, saddles, blankets and various items were immediately taken. All this had to be dealt with, the prisoners and guns had to be taken over, the spoils had to be divided, shouting, even fighting among themselves: the Cossacks did all this.
