“Sushkin received a vacation. In the battery and at the headquarters they gave him instructions: the battery officer asked to bring sausages and punch caramel, others asked what, and the division commander, an elderly man, took him aside and said, frowning his eyebrows: “Go, second lieutenant, to the synodal shop and buy something like this.” ... - he showed from an inch, - the Gospel. I lost it, but they sent me a larger format. Buy the smallest thing. This order was pleasant, although Sushkin had not revealed the Gospel since high school: it was nice to know that his commander, a dry and businesslike man, also lives another life, not just a business life...”