![]() ![]() ![]() The next morning Lev and Kolya are taken to Colonel Grechko of the NKVD, who offers them a bizarre “gift.” His daughter is about to be married, and if Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for the wedding cake by the following Thursday, they will walk free. In his prison cell he is joined by Kolya, a handsome, charming, talkative soldier who was arrested for desertion-something he fiercely denies. Lev is surprised that he is not immediately executed. A few minutes later, Lev is caught and arrested for looting, but his friends manage to escape. Abandoning their posts, they run to find the body, helping themselves to the dead man’s possessions, including a knife. One night, while he and his friends guard the roofs of their apartment block, they see a German parachutist fall from the sky. Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov has remained in his beloved city, determined to defend it even though he is too young to join the army. Leningrad, nicknamed Piter, is under siege and its people are starving. ![]()
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