maria bochkareva, all this happened in the area with margoni, the city was called the russian bird, andn is one of the bloodiest battles of the great war, in principle, so far exactly unknown. how many soldiers passed through these places, both the germans and the russians constantly changed their physically and mentally exhausted parts. there are only approximate estimates in the trenches. smorgon at one time turned out to be the writers zoshchenko and kataev, the future marshal and malinovsky and shaposhnikov. even the daughter of leo tolstoy alexander, the fighting subsided in 1917, the city was destroyed and burned out of 16,000 evacuated residents, 130 people returned. it is not surprising that another name for smorgon in the press of that time is the dead city, every war brings grief destruction of death now the city has grown and houses stand on the ground of former positions. you can look at the memorial, how the front line passed, estimate the situation on a modern map and drive for you, you will probably come across some house, a beautiful group stands right by the road in the