Stalingrad battle. heroic defenders of "Pavlov's house"
There are many heroic pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War, but this one stands apart. Even the Nazis themselves admitted that it would be difficult to believe in such a thing if they had not seen it with their own eyes. Even if on the field maps of German officers "Pavlov's house" was marked as a fortress.
This house seemed to be no different from other houses in the area, only from it there was a direct road to the Volga, this moment was very important. And a group of scouts under the command of Sergeant Pavlov, having captured him, received an important strategic initiative. Three days later, reinforcements with manpower and weapons arrived to help the scouts. The command passed to Senior Lieutenant I.F. Afanasiev. About two dozen fighters armed with small arms, anti-tank rifles and machine guns fought under his command.
German troops stormed the "Pavlov's house" several times during the day, but the most they could achieve was the capture of the first floors. However, the Soviet soldiers went on a counterattack and returned to their previous positions.
Tanks and additional military formations were brought up to the area of the "Pavlov's house", however, the soldiers of the Red Army met them with heavy fire and did not allow them to enter the building. At the same time, civilians were hiding in the basement of the house. For the Germans, it remained a mystery how the scouts were supplied with ammunition and provisions in the conditions of a complete blockade of the building.
During the siege of the “Pavlov’s house”, the German troops lost more manpower than during the entire campaign against Paris!
Thanks to the courage of the scouts, who diverted the attention of a large group of Wehrmacht troops, the Red Army units received a respite, reorganized and launched a counterattack.
We can say that the feat of the Soviet soldiers in the "Pavlov's house" became the starting point and the key to a successful offensive on the entire front.
It is worth noting that among the soldiers who defended the "Pavlov's house" there were representatives of eleven nationalities. Their feat is not forgotten, and already after the war, a memorial plaque dedicated to the feat of scouts was installed on the house number 39 on Sovetskaya Street.
Yakov Fedotovich
"Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd"
Hero of the Soviet Union, participant in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Born on October 4 (17), 1917, the village of Krestovaya, now the Valdai district of the Novgorod region, In the Red Army since 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, the commander of the machine-gun squad, gunner and squad leader. Passed the battle path from Stalingrad to the Elbe. Member of the battles on the South-Western, Stalingrad, 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts. Yakov Fedotovich took an active part in the historical Battle of Stalingrad, fought as part of the legendary 13th Guards Order of Lenin Rifle Division of the 62nd Army. During the defense of Stalingrad, at the end of September 1942, a reconnaissance and assault group led by Sergeant Pavlov captured a 4-storey building in the city center and entrenched in it. Then reinforcements arrived at the house, and the house became an important stronghold in the division's defense system. 24 warriors of nine nationalities staunchly defended themselves in the fortified house, repelling the fierce attacks of the Nazis and held the house until the start of the counteroffensive of the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad. This house went down in the history of the Battle of Stalingrad as "Pavlov's House". Pavlov's house in the history of the Battle of Stalingrad has become a symbol of courage, stamina and heroism. For 58 days, Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov and his comrades-in-arms defended this house, repelling all attacks of the Nazis. For his feat, Pavlov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The house, held by the garrison of Sergeant Pavlov, was restored thanks to the inhabitants of the city by one of the first in honor of the courageous defenders, whose names are immortalized in stone on its pediment. In August 1946, Pavlov was demobilized, graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU. He worked in the national economy. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, 2 Orders of the Red Star and medals. In his personal life, Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov was an open and sociable person. The title "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd" was awarded to Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov by the decision of the Volgograd City Council of People's Deputies of May 7, 1980 for special military merits shown in the defense of the city and the defeat of the Nazi troops in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Born in the village of Krestovaya, now the Valdai district of the Novgorod region, graduated from elementary school, worked in agriculture. From there he was drafted into the Red Army in 1938. He met the Great Patriotic War in combat units in the Kovel region, as part of the troops of the Southwestern Front, who fought heavy defensive battles on the territory of Ukraine.
In 1942 he was sent to the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Division of General A.I. Rodimtsev. He took part in defensive battles on the outskirts of Stalingrad. In July-August 1942, Senior Sergeant Ya.F. Pavlov was on reorganization in the city of Kamyshin, where he was appointed commander of the machine gun section of the 7th company. In September 1942 - in the battles for Stalingrad, carried out reconnaissance missions.
On the evening of September 27, 1942, Ya.F. Pavlov received a combat mission from the company commander, Lieutenant Naumov, to reconnoiter the situation in a 4-storey building overlooking January 9 Square (the central square of the city) and occupying an important tactical position. With three fighters (Chernogolov, Glushchenko and Alexandrov), he managed to knock the Germans out of the building and completely capture it. Soon the group received reinforcements, ammunition, a telephone line. Together with the platoon of Lieutenant I. Afanasyev, the number of defenders reached 24 people. Far from immediately, it was possible to dig a trench and evacuate civilians hiding in the basements of the house.
The fascist invaders continuously attacked the building, tried to smash it with artillery and air bombs. Skillfully maneuvering the forces of a small "garrison", Ya.F. Pavlov avoided heavy losses and for almost two months did not allow the enemy to break through to the Volga.
On November 19, 1942, the troops of the Stalingrad Front (see Operation Uranus) launched a counteroffensive. On November 25, during the attack, Ya.F. Pavlov was wounded in the leg. He lay in the hospital, then fought as a gunner and commander of the reconnaissance section in the artillery units of the 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts, reached Stettin. He was awarded two orders of the Red Star, medals. Shortly after the end of the war (June 17, 1945), junior lieutenant Ya.F. Pavlov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (medal No. 6775). He was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army in August 1946.
After demobilization, he worked in Novgorod, graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU. Three times he was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Novgorod region. After the war, he was also awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution. He repeatedly came to Stalingrad (now Volgograd), met with the inhabitants of the city, who survived the war and restored it from ruins. In 1980 Ya.F. Pavlov was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd".
In Veliky Novgorod, in a boarding school named after him for orphans and children left without parental care, there is a Pavlov Museum (Derevyanitsa microdistrict, Beregovaya Street, 44).
Ya.F. Pavlov was buried in the alley of heroes of the Western cemetery of Veliky Novgorod. The version that Ya.F. Pavlov did not die in 1981, but became the confessor of the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Fr. Kirill has no basis - this is his namesake, although in the past he was also the defender of Stalingrad.
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"I was approached by my voters - residents of the city of Veliky Novgorod, who work at the OJSC" Zavod "Kometa". In their letter, they ask for help in protecting the honest name of their countryman and former colleague, Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov, about whom false information has recently begun to appear more and more often in the media ... "From the request of a State Duma deputy, Hero of Russia E. Zelenova to the Council of Veterans of the Volgograd Region.
Who hasn't heard of the famous "Pavlov's House" in Volgograd?! It is named after Guards Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov, commander of the machine gun section of the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment. During the defensive battles in Stalingrad in September 1942, a reconnaissance group of three fighters, commanded by Ya. F. Pavlov, recaptured the only four-story building of the regional consumer union on Penzenskaya Street, 61 from the enemy in the city center that survived the bombing.
A handful of brave men held this building for three days, which was of strategic importance: from here the situation was controlled in a rather large area of contact between troops. Then a platoon under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Afanasyev arrived to help this group. A total of 24 soldiers for almost 2 months held the building, which went down in history as the "Pavlov's House" - this is how it originally appeared in combat reports. Yakov Pavlov fought with dignity in the future, and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the feat in Stalingrad was awarded to him after the end of the war - by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 27, 1945 (since 1943, Yakov Pavlov fought as an artilleryman: He met victory in the rank foremen, later he was awarded the first officer rank of "junior lieutenant").
Let us turn again to the history of Pavlov's House. Even in recent times, every boy knew the chronology of 58 days of his defense in Volgograd. Pavlov himself and his front-line comrades were well-known people in the hero city. Often they came here for the holidays, corresponded with pioneer squads, work teams that bore their names. Only two of that small garrison survived today. And they don't want to travel. Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov himself worked in the national economy in the post-war years, graduated from the Higher School of Education under the Central Committee of the CPSU, was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR three times, and was awarded the Orders of Lenin and the October Revolution. In 1980, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of Volgograd". A year later, the front-line hero was gone ...
The man died, but his name remained in history. And around this name in recent years, something of a phantasmagoria has begun to occur. I won’t retell everything that other newspapers print, I’ll just name the headlines of several publications: “Is Sergeant Pavlov alive?”, “The secret of the machine gunner Pavlov”, “Has Sergeant Pavlov become an elder Kirill?”, “Pavlov’s house is for sale. The hero’s name has been stolen” .. .
Now it is already difficult to establish who was the first to put forward the "version" that the legendary defender of Stalingrad is still alive, being ... an old miracle worker, Archimandrite Kirill (?!). Such a legend is presented in different variations. Like, at the most terrible moment of the battle, when death was already hovering over the defenders of that house, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to the brave warrior. Pavlov cheered up and realized that he would stand and survive, no matter what. Then he swore that if he survived, he would leave after the war for a monastery. And, returning from the front, Sergeant Pavlov allegedly entered the seminary, then became a monk and received the name Cyril. It was as if he was once summoned to the military registration and enlistment office of the city of Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad) and asked: "What will we say to the authorities?" Monk Cyril replied: "Tell me that I'm dead." And the military enlistment office agreed with this ...
Since the story is too vague and unlikely, the employees of the Volgograd Panorama Museum "Battle of Stalingrad" persistently tried to unravel this knot ... And it turned out that not one, but three Pavlovs, who distinguished themselves in Stalingrad, became Heroes of the Soviet Union. In addition to Yakov, these are Captain Sergei Mikhailovich Pavlov and Guards Senior Sergeant Dmitry Ivanovich Pavlov (the latter died in 1971). The deputy director of the museum, candidate of art history Svetlana Argastseva even showed photographs of the three Pavlovs and the elder Kirill to forensic specialists in order to establish an external resemblance, but they did not find one.
But back to the legendary hero. The funeral of Yakov Fedotovich in the autumn of 1981 was visited by the museum employee Ivan Loginov. The hero was buried with a large crowd of people who for many years personally and knew Yakov Fedotovich well. What questions could arise after this sad ceremony at the Western cemetery of Novgorod? None. The exposition of the museum keeps the Gold Star and other awards of Ya.F. Pavlova.
Nevertheless, on the eve of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, the "story of reincarnation" again began to roam the pages of newspapers. At the same time, many are puzzled why Elder Kirill himself does not refute it? He knows for sure that this is just a beautiful fairy tale on a military-spiritual theme. However, it also has its own truth. She is that about. Kirill, living in the world, bore the common Russian surname Pavlov, and during the Great Patriotic War he defended Stalingrad.
And the last. A documentary film has survived that captured the post-war meeting in Stalingrad of junior lieutenant Yakov Pavlov with women who restored the house that he defended with his brothers-in-arms. Then the guardsman boldly signed on the wall: "The house received from Cherkasova (Alexandra Maksimovna Cherkasova was the initiator of the women's movement to restore Stalingrad. - M.V.) in full suitability. Guards junior lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Pavlov."
Volgograd
There is an opinion that Sergeant Pavlov, who heroically defended the famous house in Stalingrad during the Nazi onslaught, supposedly died a long time ago. After one of the publications, the Editorial Office began to receive perplexed calls, saying that the journalists of the President newspaper were not mistaken? Were not mistaken. And here is an article dedicated to the memory of Sergeant Pavlov, who died a few days earlier.
Sergeant Pavlov (Pavlov's House) - Schema-Archimandrite Kirill
The fate of the Hero of the Great War - Sergeant Ivan Pavlov
Schema-archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov) reposed in Bose. In recent years, he took the schema with the name Adam. This is the same legendary sergeant Ivan Pavlov, who fought against the Third Reich, in front of whose house more Germans died than during the battles in France. The Nazis died at Pavlov's house, never reaching the banks of the Volga. They lacked literally a hundred meters!
Farewell to Schema-Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov). Author's photo
For such a feat, Stalin awarded Pavlov the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and presented Ivan with an apartment in Moscow on Tverskaya Street No. 6, and also offered him a position in the General Staff, for which he wanted to give him the appropriate title - many stars higher.
The prepared resting place in the fence of Schema-Archimandrite Cyril-Adam (Pavlov).
But Ivan Pavlov refused the post, answering Stalin that he had made a vow to the Lord to become a monk if he survived after the battles in Stalingrad.
Stalin, as an Orthodox person, did not object and respected the choice of Sergeant Pavlov.
After the assassination of Stalin, the Jew Khrushchev-Perlmutter, who closed churches and monasteries, was frightened by the Hero of Stalingrad and did not close only the Sergius Lavra, since it was in it that the monk Kirill (Pavlov), famous throughout the USSR, was located. Khrushchev decided to lure him to his side by cunning and said: since you are a Hero of the USSR, then you need to join the party ...
Monk Kirill answered such a proposal with a categorical refusal. Then enraged Khrushchev-Perlmutter deprived him of the title of Hero of the USSR, and all the exploits of Sergeant Pavlov were attributed by order of Perlmutter to Lieutenant Yakov Pavlov ...
After the collapse of the USSR, the Cainites, the son of SS Standartenführer Rediger (Patriarch Alexy) and the nephew of Politburo member Vekselman (Patriarch Kirill), transported Elder Kirill from Sergius Lavra to Peredelkino.
They hoped that in the mass of priests and monks it would become inaccessible. They acted with Pavlov in such a way that they did not strengthen the brothers with the Spirit and did not prevent these individuals from corrupting Orthodoxy. And for "their cover" they threw dust in the eyes of believers and announced, that Elder Kirill is their "type of confessor"...
Just imagine for a moment, could a Highly Spiritual Elder be their confessor and “bless” these soulless, money-hungry petty Cainite hucksters? After all, he knew perfectly well that they were promoting Masha Hohenzollern, the heiress of the Third Reich, the daughter of the SS Obergruppenführer, in the form of a “queen” to the Russian throne!
(Pay attention, on the memorial in Volgograd-Stalingrad there is no name of the hero, either imaginary or real?!
Before the era of the Internet, and those who studied in the schools of the USSR, they must remember that they always talked about Sergeant PAVLOV and his house! After the name of Ivan was erased, and the goggle-eyed YAKOV Pavlov, a lieutenant, began to be introduced into history. This is how Russian history was rewritten. So the history of Ukraine-Little Russia is being rewritten before our eyes, and the "ancient dill" are the progenitors of all mankind.)
Recall that it was near Stalingrad that the 6th army of the Wehrmacht was destroyed, in which those same punishers, natives of the USSR, traitor collaborators served, for the most part subordinate to the SS Obergruppenführer - Vladimir Kirillovich. And many of them went to another world from the fire of Sergeant Pavlov, never taking Stalingrad!
And the enemies of Orthodoxy, Rediger and Gundyaev, faithfully serving the Third Reich, decided to remove Sergeant Pavlov (Elder Kirill) from the road, so as not to “wash, but ride”, to enable the Third Reich to take revenge for Stalingrad.
This was the main reason that Elder Kirill was removed from the Lavra and simply “closed” from communication with normal people in Peredelkino, so that he would not interfere with these Cainites from doing complete lawlessness in the Church and the country.
Especially after Elder Kirill blessed the Orthodox Patriots who came to him from Kaliningrad and told him about how Rediger and Gundyaev were participating in the project of separating the Kaliningrad region from Russia.
Elder Kirill then fervently prayed that the Cainite scenario of the “Baltic Republic” under the auspices of the European Union would not come true. And through his prayers, then the Cainites Rediger and Gundyaev were never able to carry out their plans to glorify in the “face of saints” Bishop Adalbert of Prague, who flooded all of Prussia with the blood of the Orthodox.
At that time, whole territories remained in Russia, and various Cainite projects in the form of Maidans and swamp areas were slowed down for 15 years ...
In 2011, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin restored justice and presented Sergeant Pavlov - Archimandrite Kirill - with the medal of the Hero of Russia.
Several years ago, Schema-Archimandrite Kirill (Adam) prophesied: ... after my death, Patriarch Kirill will die, and hostilities against Russia will begin ...
We see that the clouds are gathering over Russia, and the fifth column inside the country is doing everything for the fastest collapse of Russia, especially the Cainites at the top of the Moscow Patriarchate, headed by Gundyaev, who are in a hurry to please their “Western masters”, succeed in this. They are doing everything to ensure that the degradation of the Church proceeds exponentially.
But God cannot be mocked, and they themselves will saw down the branch on which they sit, after which their fall will be so powerful and sudden that the ROC will instantly be cleansed of all traitors at once and very quickly, after which chaos will stop and the country will fall into the abyss.
It is interesting that Gundyaev constantly faints at the entrance to the altar, during the liturgy. And, as Elder Kirill predicted, he will soon fly like a stone to hell. Following the son of SS Standartenführer Rediger. And the Local Council will soon put an end to the fate of the rest of the Cainites. That's just before the war or after - it depends on all of us. Sergeant Pavlov, who fought all his life against the Third Reich, did not have time to tell us about this.
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On Victory Day, we publish the stories of the spiritual children of Archimandrite Kirill, the testimonies of which were recorded by priest Viktor Kuznetsov.
« This great, terrible Patriotic War, of course, was the result of God’s allowance for our apostasy from God, for our moral, moral violation of God’s law and for the fact that in Russia they tried to do away with religion, with faith, with the Church ... And we see that the war really converted people to faith».
Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)
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Who serves whom, he is like that. Those who saw the humble and loving confessor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov), involuntarily compared him with the Abbot of the Russian Land, Reverend Sergius. The monk is a prayer book, a mentor of monasticism, a patron of the Russian army, and here is Archimandrite Kirill, confessor of Lavra Sergius, hero of the Great Patriotic War, defender of Stalingrad.
Since World War II, Pavlov's House in Volgograd has been considered a symbol of the courage and heroism of the defenders of the Fatherland. During the Battle of Stalingrad in September 1942
The reconnaissance group, commanded by Sergeant Pavlov, recaptured the only surviving four-story house from the enemy in the city center and held the building, which was a strategic foothold, for two months. The ruins of one of the walls of Pavlov's House are still preserved, reminding our contemporaries of how the city looked after the battle.
Did the future monk Kirill, and then Sergeant Ivan Pavlov, lead the legendary defense of Sergeant Pavlov's house in Stalingrad? Or was it Yakov Pavlov, who is reported by official sources? With different opinions on this matter, one thing is obvious - the true hero of the war - Sergeant Pavlov - remained nameless in the people's memory ... How unlike the Soviet tradition to perpetuate the names of heroes - Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Alexander Matrosov, Nikolai Gastello ...
Why was the defender of the Pavlov House called the generalized name "sergeant"? Why did the people's memory not preserve the name of Yakov Pavlov, which appears in official documents?
Ivan Pavlov after the war
Ivan or Jacob?
Alexander Viktorovich Nedostup, professor-cardiologist, doctor of medical sciences (I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy) tells:
“The war played a big role in the fate of the priest. He had served in the army since 1939 and was already preparing for demobilization when Germany was informed of the attack on the USSR. He, like many others, was sent to the North-Western Front instead of home. On the way, the train was bombed, few survived. But Ivan Pavlov survived and went to fight.
In January 1942 he was seriously wounded. After the hospital, he ended up near Stalingrad, ended up on the left bank of the Volga, where German air raids were especially frequent. Then the Germans first used the scorched earth tactics - an armada of bombers plowed the earth, turning it into a hellish "carpet".
After such raids, there was no building, no tree, no living creature. Later, the same monstrous bombings began to be carried out by the Americans.
Batiushka participated in the defense of Stalingrad. There, on the "no-man's land", was the House of Sergeant Pavlov.
I have a friend doctor Irina Nikolaevna. Once, after examining the priest, when they were sitting at a meal, Irina asked: “Father, is it true that you are Sergeant Pavlov?” He didn't say no to her. He just bowed his head and said, "It doesn't matter anymore."
Another friend of mine, A.A. Budanova, a native of the Volga, returned to Stalingrad after the liberation of the city. She said that she remembers Pavlov's House well. On its ruins, after the battles, a board hung under glass for a long time, on which it was written in black pencil: “Soviet soldiers under the command of Sergeant I.D. held the heroic defense in this house. Pavlova".
Then they removed it, hung another one with a different text. But our father - this is Ivan Dmitrievich Pavlov. She remembers well that the name Jacob was not there.
Pavlov's house after the Battle of Stalingrad
The reason for the disgrace of the hero - Ivan Pavlov - long before his decision to go to the monastery was this. Sergeant Ivan Pavlov, after the battle in the recaptured house and many other battles, was recorded as an honorary candidate for party membership. And by that time he had already found the Gospel in the destroyed house, believed and realized that the party was not for him.
Ivan Pavlov went to the political department to the political instructor and said that he would not join the party, he was “not ready” yet. This was usually said by those who did not want to join the ranks of atheists. If it had been a simple fighter, not burdened with glory, everything would have gone well. There is a special case here: a well-known in the army, illustrious hero ... Riot!
The head of the political department began to persuade, then to threaten. But Ivan Pavlov was adamant. Said it was his firm decision. Then he was told that he would go to the landing, in essence a penal battalion. These soldiers sat on the armor of the tanks, and then stormed the impregnable fortifications of the enemy. They went on the attack first and mostly died.
So Ivan Pavlov, from heroes, distinguished fighters, fell into the number of those convicted without trial, who were fined. With the intercession of the Mother of God, who saved Sergeant Ivan Pavlov more than once, there were good people among the authorities who changed this disastrous decision, sent the hero to a calmer part. This is what I heard from him. So, by the grace of God, the father remained alive.
He ended the war in 1945 in Vienna, having fought his way through the entire Soviet Union, through Europe.”
Water to a German mill
Nikolai Sedov says:
“It is known that the hero, the defender of the House, Sergeant Pavlov, after the Battle of Stalingrad, was offered to join the party. He, unexpectedly for the workers of the political department, evaded this "attractive" offer ... The political commanders and "special officers" were shocked.
A brave hero, Sergeant Pavlov instantly became uncomfortable with the authorities. The legendary warrior, famous throughout the country, refused an honorary, solemn entry into the ranks of the ruling party! The news of this spread throughout the front, passed from mouth to mouth. Scandal! How many political commissars and political officers of the highest rank trembled in fear for their well-fed and safe position.
The local NKVD officers helped and quickly got their bearings. They instantly knocked the hero off the pedestal, transferring him to another part, to the very inferno, to the reconnaissance troops. Sure, quick death. Then you can remember: they say, sorry for the hero. And give a medal - posthumously. Drop a crocodile tear...
By a miracle of God, Sergeant Ivan Pavlov survived. Kind people after being wounded transferred him to another, less disastrous part. Worthy, honestly completed his military career glorious warrior. And already forgotten, "buried", again appeared alive. Yes, even in the monastery, the monks leaned! What to do?
In peacetime, there are no more penal battalions convenient for specialists in “cloak and sword”. It is impossible to quietly shoot in the back. There is no way to put them in jail, in the Gulag either. You don't cling to anything. There is no more military confusion. Cunning, inventive "organs" used a different, proven method of bloodless murder. Created, put forward a double.
Another supposedly "Sergeant Pavlov". Moreover, there were only three direct witnesses, the fighters who defended Pavlov's House. One is a former Uzbek peasant, two more were soon repressed for various reasons. Having called and threatened, having received from the hero-sergeant, a monk, consent to silence, the "organs" more confidently and with great pomp began to unwind the double.
Newspaper articles, books, films glorifying the copy of the hero poured in. The atheistic authorities who hate Orthodoxy - the root of the Russian people - succeeded in everything. Moreover, the real hero, the unpretentious monk, was silent. He also changed his name. From Ivan, formidable to them, he became an unknown modest monk Cyril.
All that was left for the organs was from time to time to support the structure of the established lies they had constructed. Somehow, creaking, she held on for the time being ... But a lie is not all-consuming, eternal. For the gospel truth lives on. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed and made clear.
Monk Kirill (Pavlov)
The house of Sergeant Pavlov still stands on the former Penza street, renamed the square (of course!) Lenin. But what is he now? "Restored" and settled it hastily, immediately after the war. What for? And the party members and "specialists" know this. Now it is whole, solid, inhabited by tenants.
Only a small fragment of the ruins of the former House and a memorial plaque remind of what is associated with this fortress. The main monument to the courage of the soldiers who defended an important line in the "neutral" zone - the House of Sergeant Pavlov, was the unrestored ruins of a private mill of a German.
Many people take pictures of this neighboring building and think that this is the same heroic House. Ridiculous, absurd? Not at all! This is still a visible expression of the panicked fear of the authorities before the truth, the truth associated with the real (and not composed and replicated by the authorities) history of this line of defense and its true defenders.
“Yes, I was there, in Stalingrad”
Another of our interlocutors, Father Nikolai, adds:
“... Father Kirill was congratulated on Victory Day, and his eyes somehow lit up like that, they betrayed that he was the same combat hero of the war. In words, he denied:
What a hero I am. So, I was one of many there ...
Two elderly women do not let up and directly ask him:
Father! In honor of the holiday, Victory Day, confess that you are Hero of the Soviet Union, Sergeant Pavlov?
Father Kirill is a little stunned by the unexpected and specific question, looks at them and laughs. Eyes light up. What about words? The words are:
“Yes, I was there, in Stalingrad. Everything was there. Everyone got it. And so, who did what where, who will figure it out? In a word, the boiler. What happened, how - but who will figure it out?
And that's it. Left, as always, from the answer. But everyone paid attention to his eyes, which shone in a boyish way.
The Choice of Monasticism
And here are the testimonies of Abbot Ephraim:
“One old nun has a front-line Stalingrad newspaper. And there, in the newspaper, an article and a photograph - the House of Sergeant Pavlov, and next to it is a portrait of Ivan Pavlov. When I asked the nun: “Why doesn’t the priest say anything about this?” - she answered that - out of monastic humility.
He was summoned to the draft board and asked: “Are you such and such?” Father Kirill, realizing what they wanted from him, said: "If it is so convenient for you, then I am the monk Kirill Pavlov, and Ivan Pavlov is dead." And that's it!
Pavlov's house in modern Volgograd
When the question arose whether to enroll him in the brethren or not, the “authorities” set a condition for him: either you keep silent, or we will expel him from the Lavra. He faced a choice, and he made it in favor of monasticism. What no one could refuse, he managed, agreed. Chose a new life - monasticism. Burned all bridges.
Otherwise, they would not have left him in the Lavra, and he would have had to renounce monasticism. The name of Sergeant Pavlov became glorious, collective. The Antichrist authorities, the “specialists” were afraid that people would find out that the war hero not only refused to join the Communist Party, but became a monk!
So the organs concocted another Pavlov. After Stalin's death, the persecution intensified. Another life began, even more harsh towards the Church."
But we, who love Father Cyril, need to restore the truth.
Priest Viktor Kuznetsov
