Interested reader, a long time ago, children lived in our Tula region just as now. They helped adults do their daily work, and if necessary, help repel raids on our cities. We lived with our dreams about the future, finding ourselves in various, sometimes quite dangerous situations, and got out of them both independently and with the help of our friends and older comrades. We bring to your attention several sketches from our common past, based on historical documents. In the book photographs of exhibits of the Kireevsky Museum of Local Lore and from the collection of A.N. were used. Lepekhin, as well as archives and the Internet. Drawings by A. Guselnikov, V. Sveshnikov, engravings from the book by A.V. Viskovatova.