…the Hot summer of 1941. The school year is over, what could be better than a vacation? “And on this day, June 22, we played on the street. And then the yard became a mom, she was crying. Approaching us, bitterly said: the War has begun,” recalls Praskovya Pavlovna. So 14-year-old of panem suddenly matured from the beginning of the great Patriotic war.
In the early days of the war went to the front three brothers Sapegina Peter, Basil and Ilya. Living back Peter and Basil. “Elijah always in our memory. I have a 93, I still remember him as my big brother forever remaining young,” recalls fondly Praskovya Pavlovna. According to her, after the war, their family long lost hope that he will return home. “We wrote letters, looking for him. Reported missing, like thousands of beardless boys,” says Praskovya Pavlovna.
About the war Praskovya Pavlovna does not like to talk. Says only that the war was popular: all forged the victory – both at the front and in the rear. Slender of panem in his 14 years because of his small stature looked much younger than his age. And when the memories of Praskovia Pavlovna, with girls they went to help the hospital care for the wounded, it just ran from there. But the brave girl still found a job. “Guys from our yard from the roof dropped high-explosive bombs. We reached the bottom helped to extinguish them,” she recalls.
in the Autumn of 1941 to Leningrad fell on hard days. Began a military blockade of the city on the Neva. It lasted from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944. In the city there was a massive famine. “It was hungry and cold” – so says the blockade time Praskovya Pavlovna. Remained in the memory 125 grams of bread, which in the morning went to sister Anna, and the youngest had to wait for her. “During the blockade we survived thanks to my mother, who worked in the dining room and brought the leftover food, which was preparing a simple dinner was shared equally between all the bread,” recalls Praskovya Pavlovna. According to her, the city with full force tried to survive, not thinking about death, dream about winning. “That our people will win, everyone believed, fought on the front left in the rear, the elderly and children, everyone wanted to help the country. In our family no one panicked, everyone lived life of the country,” said Praskovia Pavlovna. In the siege was not their father. “One day suddenly gave a herring, he ate a little more than normal and died from indigestion,” says Praskovya Pavlovna.
When in January 1943 broke through the blockade ring, the Leningrad children were evacuated across lake Ladoga to other regions. All were taken on the barge. Their four girls were taken and Efrosinya evdokimovna. “We were all bundled up, it was warm, I fell asleep. Somehow, still it seems to me that we were brought out on a submarine” – shares memories Praskovya Pavlovna.
In the evacuation, they lived in the Altai region, 100 km away from Barnaul. There PRhaskova p. he graduated from the 8 classes and self-learned by the typist, the beginning of his career. Print ads, leaflets. Printed it and the announcement of the end of the war. With what joy and excitement she typed these lines!
Immediately after the victory they returned to Leningrad. Apartment in their two-story house that was still heated with wood, was occupied by other tenants and gave them another in the same house.
the pan immediately got a job in a printing house. The girls after work immediately fled to the dance. There pan met her future husband, got married and went to Moscow. Her husband Valentin was a soldier, he was sent to serve in Western Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk. There in 1953, their first child was born Anatoly. They then returned to Moscow, where in 1960 a daughter, Marina.
In Moscow, the young family lived on Kudinovich Wood square two-storey wooden house between the streets Khavskaya, Mytnaya and Shukhov. Unfortunately, after the birth of her daughter she and her husband divorced. Praskovya Pavlovna never remarried, but she never discouraged and did not complain about the fate. Its share fell to a severe war years, it failed to get a higher education, but she always tried to give knowledge, good upbringing and education for children. Continued to work as a typist at the factory that manufactured aircraft engines. Wrote and typed the lyrics correctly, the work was responsible for her colleagues, she says, is treated with respect.
Already retired Praskovya Pavlovna with her daughter Marina went to Leningrad (she still calls it that), walked through the places of her childhood and adolescence. Praskovya Pavlovna awarded by a sign “Inhabitant of blockade Leningrad”. For many years of conscientious work was awarded the medal “Veteran of labor”.
Despite nearly a century of age, Praskovya Pavlovna, until recently, was working in the orchard, engaged in the blanks. Its always different, and distinguished by such qualities as kindness, sincerity, compassion. Today, Praskovya Pavlovna lives with her daughter Marina. It is surrounded by care and attention of her family people. In any weather, except ice, she goes for a walk.
women Have Poly four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. On the eve of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war of the Baba Field 5 may marks 93 years. Relatives and friends will gather at the festive table, and the woman of the Field to make my traditional toast: “take care of the Motherland!”.
