Lileev Ivan Sergeevich

Memoirs are marked by a clear literary talent. Cover the entire life of the author.
Born in 1921. Childhood and youth passed (before being drafted into the army) in Leningrad. His paternal grandfather, an archpriest, organized an orphanage during the war years, was arrested four times and shot in Yaroslavl in 1937. The author's father is a doctor of technical sciences, his mother is a music teacher.
In the preface “If you’re not lucky, you won’t survive,” the idea that the author was very lucky, since he was not wounded at the front, his father was not arrested, he did not die in German captivity, was not shot by the Germans during the retreat, did not die of starvation at the stage, was not tortured during the investigation, ended up in the camp when the horrors of the Gulag had already softened, etc. The author’s genealogy.
Further memoirs are divided into chapters.
The first chapter is "Before the war." Description of childhood and school years. A detailed and very interesting story about the life of the family, its way of life, characteristic of the intelligentsia. Description of the apartment. Yard and street life. Communion in the Cathedral of the Sign. Celebration of the New Year, Easter. Fun for carnival. Family music. Visiting theaters. home performances. Teaching foreign languages ​​at home. School. School items. Memorable teachers. Seeing off by the whole class at the station classmate Lev Skachkov, the son of the "enemy of the people", expelled from Leningrad. A constant feeling of fear in the family, the destruction of grandfather's diaries, letters. Dacha on the Karelian Isthmus. Eviction in 1936 of Finnish peasants. With the exception of these fears, a description of life in bright colors.
Chapter 2 - "Estonians". Army service in Estonia for two years. The beginning of V.O. war. The advance of the Germans. Captivity. Description of life in the German camp. Set of laborers by Estonians. Farm life. Sending laborers-prisoners to Germany. Parting with the Estonians.
Chapter 3 - "The Germans". Quarantine in the Polish city of Deblin. Work as a translator. Stage to the west of Germany. Work in the mine. German miners helping Russian prisoners. Another job as a translator. Request for transfer to the electrical department. Denunciation. punishment cell. Life in the family of German peasants Lauks. Friendly relations with owners. The arrival of the Americans. Striving for Russia. An American officer's warning about the bitter fate of prisoners of war in Russia. Soviet prison in Frankfurt an der Oder.
Chapter 4 - "After the war." Interrogation. Sentence - 10 years of labor camp and 3 years of disqualification. Transit prison. Stage in freight cars. Beatings on the way. Food - 200 g of bread, salted fish, very little water. Timber processing plant near the city of Pechory. Work in the electrical shop, then at the power plant. Softer conditions in the camp than before. The production laboratory, which was led by a wonderful person - Georgy Yakovlevich Straskov. Entertainment in the camp. The system of crediting working days, in connection with which the reduction of the term for the author by 1 year 4 months. August 8, 1954 release with a 101-kilometer restriction. Six months of work at the Tesovo-Netylskoye peat enterprise in an electrical workshop. In September 1955 he returned to Leningrad. Work as an electrician and study at the evening faculty of the institute. After graduating from college teacher. Traveling with his wife in Sov. Union. Together with the society "Memorial" visiting Solovki. Journey through the Baltic States with a stop at the farm where he lived during the war and where he was accepted as a native. Late visit to host Walter's children. A trip to visit the German peasants who saved the author when the SS troops were combing the area. The author recalls the life he lived without bitterness.

The annotation was compiled by Zhidkova T.G.

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