Awareness. The memory of the participant of historical events

Our grandfather Vasily Zakharovich Zavyalov (1901-1970) left us, his descendants, precious records of his life. Childhood in the Arkhangelsk province, the participation of a teenager in the Par -Tizan detachment in the First World War, the Red Army in the civil war, a short peaceful life without war and work in Novgorod and again the war -Finnish. Unfortunately, this records were interrupted, notebooks with memories of participation in the Great Patriotic War were lost, but we know that he was a worthy of a sash, an otnik of the Fatherland, went through the whole war from the first to the last day. He was restrained and harsh, he did not like to recall and tell.
For us, a distant story suddenly came to life and spoke with a lively simple language of one of its ordinary participants