"Christened with crosses" by Eduard Kochergin




RBTH on Literature: Russian Bookshelf show

Summary: I can’t remember how I ended up in the orphanage right before the war. My Godfather uncle Janek took me there. Or perhaps I was taken away from him. I don’t remember how the war began either. I remember that all of us little mites, as the adults called us, suddenly started playing at war.