report by sergei ladysev. grandparents waited for letters from the front, how they they rejoiced when they learned that their loved one was alive and well, and how they felt when the funeral arrived. letters were written while sitting in the trenches and after battles. in them, the soldiers confessed their love and made plans for the future. he comes to the museum every year. new letters, new artifacts, objects, so it’s difficult to say the exact number, literally every month more than 2.5 thousand are received, a front-line letter is a very complex phenomenon for some unambiguous short description, it’s always a personal story, it’s a page personal life, wrote in difficult conditions, if front-line soldiers wrote this, they often wrote it in short moments of rest or while already in an evacuation hospital, while in the rear during a regrouping at the moment, well, moments of ignorance of combat operations. they wrote on ordinary pieces of paper, most often with a pencil, since there was no ink or pens in the