Vitya Cherevichkin biography

Get one most read article once a day. Join us on Facebook and VKontakte. Subscription can be unsubscribed at any time. Monument to Vita Cherevichkin in the children's park Rostov-on-Don. Photo: Golubevod. The boy was only 16 years old when he was shot by the Germans who occupied the city in the year. Then, under pain of death, they forbidden to breed pigeons, but Vita secretly made his way to his dovecote to feed the birds for a week.

According to one version, the brave young man used pigeons to transfer messages for the front line ... Vitya Cherevichkin - a young hero, shot by the Nazis. Photo: Rodb-V. In the hand of Viti is still a living dove. A brave boy paid with his life for the reluctance to submit to the enemy.

The picture was taken by the Soviet photographer Max Alpert. Already after the victory, this photo became one of the many evidence of the inhuman cruelty of the Nazis provided by the USSR in the Nuremberg process. Photo of the murdered Viti Cherevichkin with a dove. The author of the picture is Max Alpert. Photo: ROSTOV-SEGION. Anna was four years younger than Viti, she remembers her brother well, his easy disposition and love of pigeons, enthusiasm for the sky, a dream of becoming a pilot.

There were always a lot of pigeons in Rostov, this hobby was especially popular among teenagers. Even before the war, the boys trumped pigeons, mastered the pigeon mail, passing each other notes tied with thread to the paws of birds. The house in which the family of Viti Cherevichkin lived. Photo: Rg. Vitya, of course, flatly refused to destroy the birds. It is not known for certain whether he sent notes with his pigeons, but Anna does not exclude such an opportunity.

Anna Cherevichkina with a photograph of the deceased brother. On the same dangerous sortie went on a fatal day - November 28. The Germans caught the boy, demonstratively took him to Frunze Park, where they shot. The death of his son was the strongest blow to the mother, who was experiencing losses one after another: at first, her husband Viti was taken to the front, and after that his eldest son Sasha.

Sasha did not return from the war. After the execution of Viti, his mother suffered from the strongest depression, and the chores on the upbringing of a three -year sister fell on the shoulders of the summer Anna. In the memory of Rostovites, Vitya forever remained a hero, and the birds, flying away from the dovecote on the day of the execution, did not return there anymore.

A memorial plaque on the house where Vitya Cherevichkin lived. Many of those who managed to survive in battles survived their century on the island of Valaam. About them - the frank cycle "Autographs of the War" by the artist Gennady Dobrov, who was personally familiar with abandoned veterans. Did you like the article? Then support us, press:.