our correspondent olga pautova met with the only living artist from those same agid brigades, irina kostrovaow 101 years old. the report contains memories and chronicle footage. now there will be singing. they did not hold weapons in their hands, did not dig trenches, but spent the entire war side by side with the soldiers, and with their words, as precise as a sight, they knew how to give them strength before the battle, and sometimes drown out the more despair that the wounded experienced in hospitals. when you see young people in front of you, one has no arm, another has no leg, the third, something with the face. this is the feminine principle, you always want it directly, how can you help, and i generally lit fires, i just lit them, i just don’t know how she generously shares her inner fire to this day, irina kostrova, the only living artist from those same front-line brigades, who recently celebrated her 101st birthday, celebrated the holiday on stage, as she once read before the military. poems, because i made him drunk with tart sadness, as soon as war was declared, i finished my ten