In war, there is little


It happened in the winter. Our dance ensemble successfully performed at the Palace of Pioneers. But here Tolya noticed that in the fifth row there is an elderly gray-haired man. He did not smile, did not applaud, but was thoughtful and sad. After the concert, we invited him backstage. He told us such a story.

“I was a battalion commander and choreographer, I organized a dance group at the agitation squad, the case was in besieged Leningrad, and I managed to convince the military commanders that boys and girls who were engaged in the Dunayevsky Ensemble at the Palace of Pioneers could dance in this group. , how wonderful they danced in that ensemble “Tachanka”! .. It was February 1942. That winter, the bread norm dropped to 125 grams, and the Fascists shot at the Pioneer Palace uninterruptedly. I found out only five of all Dunaevsky’s pupils Five of the emaciated, pale boys wrapped in handkerchiefs set out on their way, it was more accurate to say that we could only stand four, five, weakened on the snow on the plywood sheet, but in five days the guys gave the first concert for army. In the Hopak Gena Korenevsky went to squat, but could not get up. The front accordion player turned pale: to play further or not? But we helped Gene, and the dance went on… “

Such a sad story told us a veteran of the war Arkady Obrant…


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In war, there is little