In March 1946, 10 months after the end of the most cruel and bloody Patriotic War, a short telegram was sent to Moscow from the Far East to Moscow: "We meet the TCT on the North Plister of the train 6 of the TCT car 10 PTC.
At the improvised exhibitions of the "Family Archive", which the Livertov family arranges at home on big holidays (65 years old, the iron wedding, whether the joke is!) - This telegram consistently attracts the attention of guests.
A wife with an amazing name Zorya is called to give them explanations. She starts, as a rule, according to: "When I got this telegram ..."
- ... when the commander sent me to Moscow to marry a girl, which I have not seen before that, and I punished without a wife back to the part not to return, - the husband eagerly, Mikhail Borisovich Livertovsky, Guard officer, who passed with the battles from the Moscow region through Smolensk , Stalingrad, Kiev, Budapest to Prague.
After the war with Japan, their part of Manchuria was transferred to the border with China. Desert, snow drifts and free wind, jokingly knocking down ...
Paper on demobilization from Moscow to those places traveled slowly, wandered through the staff labyrinths. Paper are not people. That they are human longing!
The border celin was required to master. And to whom, what is not the winners who fused half of Europe? The military judges in the nastown dug up dugouts, they wore the Japanese that was not the first fresh form, wrote endless reports to Moscow, drank Chinese vodka, which occasionally managed to get sideways, in part of them even water was on the coupons. And no events. Only snow, yes the wind, and the snow-swelling narrow rut as a sign is still existing somewhere in civilizations - far away. Where almost a year has already reigned peace, and beautiful girls wore light silk dresses ...
The soldiers and officers were forgotten on the cross-border wasteman, they dreamed about that sooner or later, too, will return home, now for sure, because he left them in the living war ended ...
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Lieutenant Misha Livertovsky had a nickname "star". Because he himself was from the breed of romantics and dreamers. With a huge red beard, to shave in the outfit just did not make sense ... But he was not distinguished among the fellow soldiers. A bunch of yellowed letters, which to maintain combat capability at the insistence of the commander taught by heart their entire part. There were no TV shows on TV. The author of the letters was Zorya Lavrentieva, a 20-year-old Muscovite.
Mikhail Borisovich: "At the beginning of the 43rd, the Moscow Plant female workers sent us, front-line, as a gift for them with warm mittens, socks and knee pads. Such parcels were not rare, but these paid attention to the accuracy of the packages. And the fact that all letters were written by the same handwriting. "If your knees do not bother, do not be frozen, then give them, friend, who needs them. Zorya Lavrentiev. " After my wounds, the joints were very hurt, I was shallow! And despite the fact that the parcel came at the end of May, everything sent to me very much, especially at night. I could not resist and wrote to her. "What do you do between knitting?" It turns out that she "in the interruptions between knitting" did in the Moscow procession for 76-millimeter guns, that is, for me, for my single-panel-artilleryrs! Word for the word - and ... I've more and more, letters of Zori Lavrentieva began to like more. Her handwriting. Words that have passed her feelings. "
Correspondence lasted more than three years. Merry and often sad stories, which described the life of military Moscow, work, study, September leaf fall, spring droplets, first washed from the missed cross-cross-time strips of the window ...
Strict military censors that they have read their messages for "issuing" the terrible military secrets, also set their marks, gave advice, jurilized lovers if they quarreled. Yes, it was, and this is not instant Internet messages, when there was often somewhat week from a quarrel to a quarrel, often the weeks and even months of war were held.
Instead of photographs Stranger Zory, an artist, once sent Misha, a self-portrait drawn with a pencil. That's all he knew about her. Well, what else is needed for the occurrence of love twenty-year?
He did not know that the Father Dawns, the Red Commander of the Civil War, was repressed in the memorable 37th, and before the sending to the camp he signed with Zoriorna Mother in her personal request. "So that you remember that in Moscow you have a family!" And that the dawn itself was conceived in love in the fields of all the same civil under the soldier's chinel ... and that the first her school love, classmate Alyosha, who left the volunteer to the front, was captured in the first months of war. And when he returned, already to our camp, he wrote to her from Siberia: "Forget me!" - to save. And Zorya rushed and ran to his mother, and when it came that "without missing", and then ... "The heart suggests that Alexey is alive, that he will return!"
Nothing of it was in her letters to the star of the guard of Mishke. ... But everything was in them.
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- You must understand what the meaning of this girl was played to maintain the combat spirit of our part! - Important said a deposit at the general meeting. - Here, for example, she writes in one of his last letters: "What should I do, so as not to think about you, so as not to dream of you almost in every dream, so that the meetings do not wait for the letters of these stupid not to write ?! "
"I order, Officer Mikhail Livertovsky immediately go on vacation to Moscow with a certain goal - to marry," supported him and comda. - Good goose! The girl of Zory suffers, and he even here does not give a report on vacation.
Mikhail Borisovich: "I was very surprised. I waited for your holidays for my months - and I was given him for cool. Head of the headquarters at the highest general level straightened all the necessary papers. Comda, always believed that the last word should remain behind him, showed a huge fist for goodbye. Look, they say, if you do not fulfill the order! And warmed allocated. And I represented how I tell dawn that I was threatened if she denied in her hand and heart! "
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Nodal stations, bags, cigarettes, people, which waiting for the next overcrowded composition, slept in the sow right on the floor, boiling water in a samovar, adhered by some kind of baby hole in the window ... Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, where the same ads hung on the tanne doors : "Notify passengers about the arrival and departure of trains will not. The radio does not work. Be careful! "," Do not smoke! "," Do not sift! "," No tickets! ".
... Two weeks went to the bride Lieutenant Mikhail Livertovsky through the entire Soviet Union, travelers changed, suitcases. The efforts of the essential wagon knew who was such a bear and for what purpose went to the other end of the country. The closer to the capital, the stronger in their car smelled not with dirty socks and unwashed bodies, but "Red Moscow" and "Lily of Silver." A little on the latter in front of Moscow, the station who spoiled and death, to be honest, the frightened "Guard Bear", still gave itself to know "Bride". After all, until this point in the dawn, I did not know that he was sent to her ... "I will meet the TCK on the North Plot, the train 6 of the TCT car 10."
Zorya Vladimirovna: "I took over from school, where I led drawing lessons in the younger classes. I pulled off the coat and ran to the station. The telegram came about this - quite shortly before the arrival of the hero himself. I stood on the platform and waited - the train stopped. People ran out of it, a whole crowd. Suddenly one person came up to me: "Your teddy bear came ..." Then another one, and more ... "Do not worry, he arrived." And now everyone who left the car, hurried to inform me that the bear is here. (They saw him my portrait.) "Be happy!" Finally, he came out ... "
Mikhail Borisovich: "I saw a silver curly pillar that supports the roof of the perrone. The pillar stood a girl, very similar to all the zorkins self-portrait immediately. Only more beautiful and better. Live! "
At the same time, near the figured post, their real acquaintance and the first kiss took place ... in a month, fulfilling the command of the command, Livertovsky got married.
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Since then, 65 years have passed ... I look at them, gray-haired, in wrinkles, shifting your family albums. Between the wedding of the 46th year and the Iron Wedding is only a few pages filled with snapshots - and all life!
It seems completely incredible, but it turns out our grandparents, too, were ever young. And they fell in love, and loved, and were happy ...
Livertovsky raised children, grandchildren ... after demobilization, he worked as a screenwriter on television. She taught. But the bunch of front letters, which has once been reading the whole division, and today they are stored at home. Only now to read their outsiders no longer give.
It is said that this is a very personal ...