without parents, grew up in an orphanage, and became a student of a musician platoon of the 44th infantry regimentve general infantry uniforms that are so crimson, they made us a pupil of this green color, the quartermaster’s, well, in general, we looked beautiful and were proud of our uniform. they arrived at the fortress at the end of may, when school ended, lived in the same barracks as the garrison soldiers, the boys on the third floor got used to military discipline, and in the evening, on the eve of the war, with the adults. nada, shell explosions, mortar fire, all of this shook the earth at once. buildings were destroyed, barracks were on fire, shells were exploding, everything was covered in smoke, fumes and soot. the first wounded who need to be helped, the artillery shelling does not stop, the first lull and together with the soldiers petya runs out into the street, their goal is to leave the fortress and get to the collection point. the units that stood on the border, that is. directly, who were in the fortress, in the event of the outbreak of war, had to leave their place of deployment