“Son of the Regiment” summary: retelling of Kataev’s story

Main characters

Vanya Solntsev is an orphan boy whom the Red Army soldiers accepted into their ranks. Brave, resourceful and stubborn.
Enakiev is a commander who wants to take Vanya with him after the war, captain. Honest, reasonable, loyal.
V. Bidenko is a Red Army soldier, one of those who found the boy. Hospitable, experienced intelligence officer.
K. Gorbunov is the second soldier from the detachment who takes care of the foundling. Economic, thrifty, brave.
Egorov is the commander of a reconnaissance detachment. Young, kind and sincere.
Kovalev is a hero-gunner of a military weapon. An experienced fighter with 40 years of experience.
Akhunbaev is a friend and ally of Enakiev. Hothead, brave and desperate.

Retelling briefly

The Red Army soldiers find a twelve-year-old boy, Vanya. He is an orphan, his entire family died in the war. The commander sends the child to the rear, to an orphanage, but along the way the smart boy escapes from his escort, the serviceman Bidenko, and returns back to his unit. Enakiev becomes imbued with fatherly feelings for the boy and allows him to leave. Scouts take care of the boy, and soon Vanya is sent to study artillery. Enakiev says that he wants to adopt him, and the boy agrees. During the battle with the Germans, the Red Army suffered heavy losses. Enakiev dies. The boy is taken to Leningrad to a military school.

Son of the regiment

Captain Enakiev was resting. He didn't often have to rest. But even these happy days, and even hours of rest, Captain Enakiev tried to use with the greatest benefit for his service.

There were many things to do that there was no time to do during the fighting days. For the most part, these matters were very important, although not a priority. Captain Enakiev never forgot about them. He only put them off until more free time.

As for his personal affairs, he had almost no personal affairs. After the death of his family, he had no one to receive letters from and no one else to write to. He had no relatives. He was completely alone. But he was a reserved person. Almost no one in the regiment knew about his misfortune and his loneliness and only a few guessed.

The battery became the family of Captain Enakiev. And every family has its own internal, family affairs. Captain Enakiev dealt with these family affairs of the battery on his days off. Among them was the question of the future fate of Vanya Solntsev.

Captain Enakiev saw the boy and spoke to him only once. But Vanya had the lucky ability to please people at first sight. There was something extraordinarily attractive in this ragged village shepherdess with a canvas bag, in his overgrown head, like the thatched roof of a small hut, in his clear blue eyes.

Captain Enakiev, like his soldiers, fell in love with the boy at first sight.

But the scouts fell in love with Vanya somehow too cheerfully. Maybe even a little frivolous. They jokingly called him their son. But, more accurately, he was not a son for them, but a younger brother, a mischievous and funny boy who brought so much variety to their harsh combat life.

As for Captain Enakiev, the boy awakened deeper feelings in his soul. Vanya opened a wound that had not yet healed in his soul.

Having allowed the scouts to keep Vanya with them, Captain Enakiev did not forget about him. Every time Lieutenant Sedykh reported on the affairs of the control platoon, Captain Enakiev certainly asked about the boy.

He thought about him often. And, thinking about him, I got used to connecting him in my thoughts with that little boy in a sailor’s cap, who would now be seven years old, but who is not and will never be in the world again.

Was Vanya like his late son? No. He was not at all like him - neither in appearance, nor in age, and even more so in character. That boy was still too young to have any particular character. And Vanya was already an almost mature person. No, that was not the case, of course. It was about the living, passionate, active love of Captain Enakiev for his late boy.

The boy had been gone for a long time, but love still did not die.

When Captain Enakiev was informed about the reconnaissance in which Vanya participated, when he learned about the incident in the “headquarters forest,” he became very angry. Only then did he understand how dear this freckled boy, a stranger to him, was to him. He allowed Vanya to be left with the scouts, but he did not say anything about sending the boy on reconnaissance. It would have been bad for Lieutenant Sedykh if the matter had not ended well.

Captain Enakiev then decided to take a closer look at Vanya Solntsev at the first opportunity.

Based on the many small signs that always distinguish the place where the commander’s apartment is located, Vanya Solntsev, according to the custom of scouts, without asking anyone, quickly found Captain Enakiev’s dugout.

Unusually knocking on the steps with the slippery, slightly convex soles of his new boots, Vanya went down to the commander’s dugout.

He felt that feeling of smartness, dashing and at the same time some fear that a soldier always experiences when he is called by his commander.

Captain Enakiev was sitting at home, without boots, in an unbuttoned tunic, under which a blue flannel sweatshirt was visible, on a camp cot covered with a blanket.

His bunk differed from the bunk of any intelligence officer only in that it had a pillow in a fresh, just ironed pillowcase.

Without an overcoat and without a cap, with several frayed medal ribbons on his tunic, with a slight gray streak at his dark temples, the battery commander seemed older to Vanya than when he saw him for the first time.

Vanya pulled his hat off his head with both hands and said:

- Hello, uncle!

Captain Enakiev looked at him with dark eyes surrounded by dry wrinkles and squinted slightly. At the first minute he did not recognize the shepherdess Vanya in this slender and rather tall soldier—the boots added to his height—with a round, strong head protruding from the wide collar of a new overcoat with artillery shoulder straps and buttonholes.

- Hello, uncle! – Vanya repeated, shining with happy eyes and as if inviting the battery commander to pay attention to his clothes.

But since Enakiev continued to remain silent, Vanya carefully sat down on a box near the door, pulled up the tops of his boots and put his hands in which he held his hat on his knees.

- Who are you? – the captain finally asked with cold curiosity.

No question could have given Vanya more pleasure.

“It’s me, Vanya, the shepherd,” said the boy, smiling widely. “Didn’t you recognize me?”

But the captain did not smile, as Vanya expected. On the contrary, his face became even colder.

- Vania? – he said, squinting. - Shepherd boy?

- Yeah.

-What are you dressed up in? What are those things on your shoulders?

Vanya was slightly confused.

“These are shoulder straps,” he said uncertainly.

- For what?

- All right.

- Oh, it’s supposed to! What is it for?

“All soldiers are entitled to it,” said Vanya, surprised at the captain’s ignorance.

- Well, this is for the soldiers. Are you a soldier?

- But of course! – Vanya said proudly. - I even passed the order. Today I received my clothing allowance. Brand new. For beauty!

- I do not see.

What don't you see, uncle? Here it is, the uniform. Boots, overcoat, shoulder straps.

Look at the guns on the shoulder straps. Do you see?

“I see guns on the shoulder straps, but I don’t see a soldier.”

“So I am a soldier,” Vanya whispered, completely confused by the captain’s icy tone, smiling stupidly.

- No, my friend, you are not a soldier.

Captain Enakiev sighed, and suddenly his face became stern. He threw the “Historical Journal” on the table, laying it down with a pencil, and said sharply, almost shouted:

- So a soldier does not report to his battery commander. Get up!

Vanya jumped up, stretched out and froze.

- Leave it aside. Show up again.

And only then the boy realized that, completely occupied with his uniform, he had forgotten everything in the world - who he was, and where he was, and to whom he had come on call.

He quickly pulled his hat down, jumped out the door, straightened the belt behind the strap, and entered the dugout again, but in a completely different way.

He entered with a marching step, clicked his heels, briefly threw his hand to the visor and briefly tore it down.

- May I come in? - he shouted in a squeaky childish voice, which he himself seemed dashing and warlike.

- Come in.

- Comrade captain, on your orders the Red Army soldier Solntsev has appeared.

- This is a different tobacco! – Captain Enakiev said, laughing with only his eyes. – Hello, Red Army soldier Solntsev.

- I wish you good health, comrade captain! – Vanya answered dashingly.

Now Captain Enakiev did not hide his cheerful, good-natured smile.

- Strong! - he said the same very common word at the front, which the boy had already heard many times at his address, both from Gorbunov, and from Bidenko, and from other intelligence officers. - Now I see that you are a soldier, Vanyusha. Come on, sit down. Let's talk... Sobolev, is the tea ripe? – Captain Enakiev shouted.

“That’s right, it’s ripe,” said Sobolev, appearing with a large teapot covered in steam.

- Pour it. Two glasses. For me and for the Red Army soldier Solntsev. Otherwise he will think that you and I live worse than his intelligence officers. Is that right, Sobolev?

“That’s just how it is,” said Sobolev, making it clear in his tone that he fully shared the captain’s opinion of the scouts as, although intelligent people, they had the weakness of showing off their food.

Sobolev put two glasses in silver cup holders on the table and poured strong, almost red tea, from which a wonderful hot aroma immediately spread.

And only then Vanya understood what real wealth and luxury were.

True, the sugar was not refined sugar, but sand, but Sobolev served it in a glass vase. There was no pork stew with potatoes either. But Captain Enakiev put a box of Red October cookies on the table and laid out a bar of Sport chocolate, which made the shepherdess almost go numb with admiration.

Captain Enakiev looked at Vanya with cheerful animation:

- Well, shepherd boy, tell me: where is it better - with us or with the scouts?

Vanya felt that it was better here. But he did not want to offend the scouts and speak ill of them, especially behind their backs.

He thought and said evasively:

– Yours is richer, comrade captain.

- And you, Vanyusha, are cunning. You don’t let your own people be offended... Right, Sobolev? Doesn't he offend his own people?

- Exactly. Will a soldier give his own offense?

- Okay, Sobolev. While you can be free. And here we will have a pleasant conversation with the Red Army soldier Solntsev... Such and such are the things, Vanyusha,” said Captain Enakiev, when Sobolev went to his partition. - What should I do with you next? That is the question.

Vanya was afraid that they wanted to send him to the rear again. He jumped up from the box and stretched out in front of his commander:

- I'm sorry, comrade captain. Honest battery, will not happen again.

– What won’t happen again?

- That he didn’t show up as expected.

- Yes bro. It doesn’t matter whether you showed up, I must say frankly. But this is a fixable matter. You'll learn. You're a smart guy... Why are you standing there? Sit down. I’m not talking to you now about work, but about family.

Vanya sat down.

“So I say: what should I do with you?” Although you are still small, you are still quite human. Alive soul. For you, life is just beginning. There's no way you can miss here. A?

Captain Enakiev looked at the boy with stern tenderness, as if trying to penetrate with his gaze into the very depths of his soul.

How different this little slender soldier with a neck as tender as a girl’s, already chafed by the rough collar of his overcoat, was from that bare-haired, barefoot shepherd who talked to him one day at the regimental headquarters! How unrecognizably he has changed in such a short time! Has his soul changed too? Has she grown since then, become stronger and more mature? Is she ready for what's to come?

And Vanya felt that right now, at this very moment, his fate was truly being decided. He became unusually serious. He became so serious that even his clean, convex childish forehead became covered with wrinkles, like that of an adult soldier.

If the scouts had seen him at that moment, they would not have believed that this was their mischievous, cheerful shepherd boy. They had never seen him like this. This was probably the first time in his life.

And this was not done by the words of Captain Enakiev - simple, serious words about life - and not even by the stern, gentle look of his slightly tired eyes, surrounded by dry wrinkles, but by that living, active, fatherly love that Vanya felt with all his lonely, in essence of a very devastated soul. And how she needed such love, how her soul unconsciously thirsted for it!

They were both silent for a long time - the battery commander and Vanya - united by one powerful feeling.

- Well, what about it, Vanya? A? – the captain finally said.

“As you order,” Vanya said quietly and lowered his eyelashes.

- It won’t take long to order me. But I want to know how you decide for yourself.

– What should we decide? I've already decided.

- What did you decide?

“I’ll be your artilleryman.”

- This is a serious question. It would be a good idea to ask your parents. But it seems like you have no one left.

- Yes. An orphan. The Nazis exterminated all my relatives. There is no one else.

- So, you are your own head?

- You're your own boss, Comrade Captain.

“Here I am, I’m my own head,” Captain Yenakiev said, unexpectedly for himself, with a sad smile, but immediately caught himself and added jokingly: “One head is good, but two are better.” Right, shepherd boy?

Captain Enakiev frowned and remained thoughtfully silent for some time, stroking the short brush of his mustache with his index finger, as he always used to do before making a final decision.

“Okay,” he said decisively and lightly hit the table with his palm. - It’s too early for you to go on reconnaissance. You will be my liaison... Sobolev! - he shouted cheerfully and decisively. - Go to the scouts and move the bed and belongings of the Red Army soldier Solntsev to my dugout.

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Further

Son of the regiment

Summary by chapter

Chapter 1 A small detachment of scouts led by Sergeant Egorov returns from a mission at night. Stopping for a smoke break, they hear strange sounds coming from a shell crater nearby. Approaching her, the soldiers find a sleeping boy, who is having a heavy dream. The child screams and cries. The Red Army soldiers wake him up, and the boy gets scared. Realizing that they are their own and there is nothing to be afraid of, the child faints.

Chapter 2 Commander Enakiev and Divisional Commander Akhunbaev have been fighting shoulder to shoulder for more than 2 years. They sit on a special platform in a tree and draw up a map of the area, marking enemy artillery targets. Akhunbaev wants to finish quickly and release the reconnaissance soldiers. Enakiev deals in detail with each sign that is planned to be put on the map.

Chapter 3 A light attack begins, Akhunbaev leaves for his location. Enakiev draws up a plan, an order comes for an immediate attack. While there are a few minutes before the battle, the captain calls Sergeant Egorov and asks how the foundling is feeling. The sergeant tells the story of the boy Vanya Solntsev: his mother was shot by the Germans, and later the rest of his relatives died. The village where the child lived was wiped off the face of the earth, and the boy wandered until the Nazis found him and sent him to a special detention center for children. There he was ill for a long time, then he escaped and wandered through the forest, half-starved, until Soviet soldiers came across the shelter. The boy is smart, nimble, and wants to stay in the regiment. Enakiev remembers his son, wife and mother. They all died during the bombing of Minsk. He believes that the child has no place in the regiment and gives the order to transport Vanya to the rear. The sergeant says that the boy promised to run away if he was taken away from here, but Enakiev repeats the order.

Chapter 4 The soldiers who walked in Egorov’s detachment and found Vanya sheltered him in their tent. The child, who had been starving until this time, happily eats the soldiers' grub. For the first time in three years, he felt safe. Bidenko and Gorbunov are strong Russian men: the former worked in a mine before the war, the latter cut down forests. Gorbunov receives an order to replace a deceased fellow soldier. Sergeant Egorov arrives and conveys the words of the battalion commander that Vanya should be sent to an orphanage, since he is not supposed to be on the front line. Bidenko reluctantly obeys the order. Ivan does not want to go, says that he will run away, and asks to be left in the unit. However, an order is an order: the child is put in the car with Bidenko.

Chapter 5 The location of parts is changing. Bidenko returns to the regiment sad, hungry and tired. Gorbunov meets him, telling him the details of the past battle. Bidenko asks where Sergeant Egorov is, but he is busy. And the man finally reveals that he was unable to deliver Vanya to his destination, because he nevertheless ran away along the way.

Chapter 6 Bidenko remembers how the boy ran away. The soldiers were driving in a car, when suddenly Vanya suddenly jumped out of it and ran into the forest. An experienced scout went ahead, hoping to catch the child before he ran far, but found no traces. Bidenko returns to the car, but it has already moved on. He decides to have a smoke break and sits under a tree, from where an ABC book falls on him. It turned out that Ivan hid in a tree so as not to be found, deciding to leave quietly later, but fell asleep there. Bidenko wakes him up, removes him from the tree and takes him with him.

Chapter 7 The corporal leads Vanya through the forest to the road to catch a ride. The child threatens to run away, the scout jokingly says that no one has ever run away from him. They get into the car, and Bidenko ties the child to himself with a rope for security. The man falls asleep, periodically waking up and checking if the boy is nearby. Once again, he wakes up and finds that the second part of the rope is tied to a stranger, and the boy managed to escape. Bidenko dismounts and, annoyed, returns to his unit.

Chapter 8 Vanya approaches the cavalrymen, asking them to report him to their superior. He meets a boy not much older than himself, who has been serving as a messenger for two years. Vanya becomes upset that the scouts did not keep him with them.

Chapter 9 While waiting for his superiors, Vanya meets Enakiev, whom he had never seen before. He talks about how unfairly he was not accepted as a son of the regiment, and complains about Captain Enakiev, not even realizing that he is sitting in front of him. The captain is amused by the story of Vanya's escape from the corporal, and he takes the child to the unit.

Chapter 10 The commander returns to the regiment, asking the scouts how they feel about the boy. The soldiers say that the boy is nimble and would make an excellent fighter. Enakiev asks to bring Vanya and leaves him in his favor.

Chapter 11 The child meets with familiar Red Army soldiers. Everyone is glad to meet you. It turns out that Vanya’s interlocutor is Enakiev himself. The boy pretends to be surprised, but in fact he recognized him a long time ago.

Chapter 12 Scout friends take Vanya with them secretly on a mission. The boy must go ahead and scout the road under the guise of a shepherd: they took with them the old nag Serko as a diversion. The soldiers lie in ambush, while Vanya went ahead. After 3 hours, the horse returned without a rider, and the boy came across the location of the Nazis.

Chapter 13 The scouts go to rescue Vanya. On the way, they find the place where he was captured, deciding to split up. Bidenko returns to the company with a report, and Gorbunov remains to save the boy.

It turned out that the child, imitating real scouts, clumsily drew up a map of the area. So the Germans caught him and took him prisoner.

Chapter 14 Vanya is taken for interrogation. He doesn't confess to anything, and they beat him. But the Nazis failed to find out anything. They order the boy to be left for 3 days without food or water.

Chapter 15 The boy wakes up to the sounds of explosions. One shell destroys the dugout where Vanya was kept. The boy manages to get out. Gorbunov is the first to break into the village, Vanya finds him himself. The Red Army is advancing, Gorbunov and Vanya occupy the dugout in which they conducted the interrogation.

Chapter 16 The young intelligence officer is ordered new uniforms. For shag and grub, they negotiate to have the uniform altered to his size. A barber nicknamed Eight-Forty comes and cuts his hair for the first time in three years, then Vanya goes to the bathhouse.

Chapter 17 Bidenko and Gorbunov steam the boy in the bathhouse - it is difficult to wash him off. After this, Vanya puts on a new uniform and learns to tie foot wraps.

Chapter 18 Enakiev calls Vanya for a conversation. The child evokes special feelings in him, reminding him of his deceased son. He invites him to serve as a liaison for the state and stick together, since both of their families died. Vanya agrees.

Chapter 19 Vanya Solntsev is transferred to another unit. Enakiev decided to take up his education and assigned him to the first weapon to learn the skill. Here the boy meets the soldiers, sees a cannon up close for the first time, feeling its still hidden power. Fate brings him together with the Hero of the Soviet Union, the brilliant gunner Kovalev.

Vanya meets Kovalev

Chapter 20 The order “Gun for battle” arrives; Vanya, Kovalev and the rest of the soldiers are preparing the cannon. Kovalev takes aim and fires. Then he gives each member of the squad to pull the trigger once. Vanya also asks to shoot once, and he is allowed. Troops are already on the border with Germany.

Chapter 21 Enakiev and Akhunbaev are preparing for the upcoming battle. The captain returns to his unit, approaches the sleeping Vanya and asks his colleague how the boy is coping with his new position.

Chapter 22 Enakiev admits to Kovalev that he wants to adopt Vanya. Kovalev supports his decision. Suddenly an attack begins, the fascists, having figured out Akhunbaev’s plan, began to bomb his companies. Enakiev is urgently preparing for an offensive.

Chapter 23 Vanya and his gun personnel are urgently transferred to the front line. On the way they meet Bidenko. He jealously examines the boy and sees that he has acquired a fighting appearance. The scout is glad to meet you. A real battle begins around.

Chapter 24 The battle goes on with varying success. Vanya helps the gun crew as best he can. Suddenly, 6 tanks appear from the German side, surrounded by infantry. Enakiev understands that the battle may be their last: the units are suffering heavy losses. Vanya approaches the captain, Enakiev asks, and then orders him to leave the front line and go to the rear. But the boy stubbornly does not agree. Then Enakiev writes a note, asking Vanya to hand it over to headquarters, thereby giving him a reason to get away from shots and explosions.

Chapter 25 By the time Vanya returns, the fight is already over. The German attack was repulsed, but the company suffered huge losses. The boy walks through damaged guns and burning trucks. Soon he finds the first weapon, near which the dead Enakiev is sitting, leaning against it. Vanya is crying, he is supported by Bidenko, who happened to be nearby at that moment.

Chapter 26 A note is found in Yenakiev’s pocket, where he says goodbye to his comrades and asks them to take care of Van. The boy is given the shoulder straps of his named father, and Bidenko accompanies him to study at the Suvorov School.

Chapter 27 Vanya sleeps with the rest of the school students in the barracks. An old general, who knows about the fate of the child, approaches him and recalls his childhood. A boy has a dream in which an old soldier takes him into the future.

Son of the regiment Vanya Solntsev

Summary

One day, three scouts were walking back from a mission through a damp forest. Suddenly, on their way, they saw a boy in a small hole, saying something under his breath. The child, hearing the approach of strangers, immediately woke up and grabbed the nail. Egorov reassured the boy, saying that they did not wish him harm.

The artillery battery was headed by the brave but stern captain Enakiev. In addition, the hero was very restrained and calculating.

The child found in the forest turned out to be Vanya Solntsev. The boy was a complete orphan . His dad died at the front, his mother was killed by the Nazis, and his grandmother and sister could not stand the famine. The boy went in search of food, but on the way he was captured by guards and put in an isolation cell. Vanya almost died there, but he still managed to escape. Now Solntsev wanted to go through the front line. He always had an old primer and a nail in his bag.

Looking at the boy, Enakiev remembered his son and wife, who were killed back in 1941.

Vanya's escape

The scouts fed the hungry boy. For the first time in so many years, he found himself among people whom he did not need to be afraid of.

Gorbunov and Bidenko promise to teach Vanya the art of war after Enakiev gives the order for his enrollment. However, not taking into account the wishes of the scouts, the captain decides to send Solntsev to an orphanage. Solntsev was very upset and directly said that he would not go there anyway and would run away along the way.

Bidenko arrived at the unit the next day late in the evening. The scout was upset about something and hardly spoke to anyone. After much persuasion, he finally confessed; along the way, Solntsev ran away from him twice . The first time he jumped out of the car at a turn and ran into the forest. Bidenko would never have been able to find the boy if his primer had not fallen on his head. Vanya climbed to the top of the tree and fell asleep there.

To prevent the child from running away again, Bidenko decided to tie his hand to his fist using a rope. Along the way, he stood up several times and tugged at it to check if the child was in place. The next morning, Bidenko discovered that the boy was gone, and the rope was tied to another person’s leg.

Solntsev walked along military roads for a long time and came out to the headquarters. He wanted to find the most important person and ask him for help in order to return to the scouts. As a result, the child complained to the captain and he took him with him.

Return and captivity

The scouts were very happy when they saw Solntsev again. Bidenko and Gorbunov took the child with them on a mission without reporting anything to the commander. Vanya was very useful to them, as he knew the terrain well and looked like an ordinary village shepherd.

The boy was sent ahead . After some time, only his horse returned. Gorbunov sends Bidenko to headquarters to report on what happened. At that moment, the scouts did not yet know that when Solntsev was studying the route, he was simultaneously making a diagram of the road in the margins of the primer - thus, he was trying to draw a diagram of the area. At that moment the Nazis discovered him and captured him.

The interrogation of the child was conducted by a German woman. He never admitted to anything, although the drawings were clear evidence against him.

Solntsev woke up in the dugout, hearing the sounds of bombing. One of the doors was torn off, and he saw that the Nazis were retreating. After a while the Russians arrived.

Life at Enakiev's

After the incident, Vanya was put in order and left with full satisfaction. The boy had one good feature - he knew how to please people from the first meeting. Enakiev immediately fell in love with Vanya, just like all his soldiers. When he learned about the mission in which the child took part along with the scouts, he became very angry with them.

From that moment on, Vanya began to live most of the time with Enakiev . Enakiev wanted to educate him himself and sent him for training. At first Vanya missed the scouts, and it seemed to him that he had lost his family. Very soon he got used to it and realized that it was no worse here.

Once, in a conversation with the gunner, the captain shared his thoughts about adopting Vanya. Suddenly the enemies suddenly approached, the Nazis managed to surround all the infantry units.

Enakiev gave the order to the first platoon to immediately move forward, the second to begin shooting and cover the attack company. Vanya helped the soldiers as best he could, when the captain saw this, he immediately ordered him to return to his unit. Solntsev refused. When Enakiev realized that it was useless to argue with the boy, he wrote a note on a piece of paper and asked him to give it to the commander.

What is the author's idea?

In this work, the author shows the harsh war years. The book tells about the sacrifices people made, regardless of age. The war left its mark on the fate of every family, but despite all the grief it caused, people find the strength to live and believe in the best. The Red Army soldiers fight desperately and to the bitter end. A brief retelling of the story by Valentin Kataev is a description of the last victorious year of the Great Patriotic War, which claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers. The story reliably conveys the mood of the soldiers, the courage and heroism that even children showed during the war. You can read the summary of the story “Son of the Regiment” already in elementary school. The work instills patriotism in the younger generation and gives knowledge about the history of their native country.