another page from sokolova’s biography is connected with the bridge over the sver river.arts in order to raise fragments of the bridge. the first diver who got there... or immediately began to give signs that he needed to be raised, then sokolova i decided to go down myself. she puts on diving equipment, goes down and sees that the trusses of the bridge have collapsed, it looks like a dam, like beavers built their time, yes, well , filled with boards, then with driftwood and the corpses of soviet and german soldiers, well , since there was a fast current, these all... the dead people who were under water, they danced like this, as she tells me, it seemed like they were dancing some kind of dance of death, they were all circling, they were touching me with their bodies, yes, that’s it - after all, the charges were installed, the task was completed, then the bridge was blown up, it was with these parts that navigation was restored, but she says: after this incident, i noticed, looking in the mirror, that i had a gray strand. church of the merciful icon of our lady on vasily