Cossacks XV-XXI cent.

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The section presents the memories of the Cossack past, recorded directly by the Cossacks and their descendants, or recorded by a narrator with others ...

Zaporozhets, VP, Musatov ZV On the Waves of Fate. Book Three. Lost and returned homeland. - Togliatti of PP "Contemporary", 2003. (An electronic version of memoirs of Vasily Prokofyevich Zaporozhtseva provided by his daughter and co-author Zoe Vasilyevna Musatov)

Drones, VA About Dynasty drone
PART I. Doomed Dynasty
PART II. My own

One of the most basic moral values ??- is the human memory. Yuri Gagarin said something
profound in its meaning: "A truly happy person can be only in his country."
Relentless winds of time swept grain by grain from the storerooms of the history of the most valuable resources. If
before we had the opportunity to receive from members of the great battles of the immediate impression that
Now these sources are increasingly becoming the media. They, in turn,
often seek to impose different standards of living and culture, to distort the meaning of values.
Only the knowledge of his ancestry, which preserved along with yellowed photographs and family legends
legends, history is made by the country's personal story of a man. Let's admit it: Every family knows whether
and protects the family tree? In each family, whether children grow up with knowledge of his involvement in the history of
its people? I am ashamed and sad to know that from history, for example, World War I, in our
families are not left evidence that grandchildren are so proud of the former allies of Russia.
The feeling of love for his native land begins with the study of the history of his family. The members of the family name
united by ties of kinship, a sense of responsibility for everything that happens in the family. It is the family
is the cradle of spirituality in a generic cell, one can say: "My family - my wealth."
It is important that our descendants will know in what year, where, on any front, fought their grandfathers and great grandfathers, in
exemption which countries participated, what orders, medals, for which they were awarded. This is a class
decent and honorable, because they help preserve for posterity the image and work of the previous
generations to come.
Concern for the family heirlooms will provide an opportunity to bring up such qualities as honor and
kindness and willingness to protect the weak, the ability to overcome difficulties, will, to some extent,
solve the acute problems that bedevil society, broke a "social failure" of people
as a whole.
Now, many teens are unaware of the deep cultural roots of our families. Should they
help to find his place in life, the very place in society to define, implement self-esteem
actions, to cultivate a sense of belonging to the historical process, the responsibility for
happening around them. Need to educate citizens, ready to defend the homeland, not only - in
ultimately prove to be a winner, as the element of evil and the enemy.
Family story forms the experience of overcoming mental and physical overload, the ability to
control their behavior, to block some feelings (fear, panic, confusion) and enhance
others (duty, responsibility), the possibility to carry out in practice to test yourself, a willingness to become
defender of the hearth.
The book chronicles the family author, a descendant of Don Cossacks, the reminiscences of his father's publishing
the sad story of the dynasty drone. Through the entire XX century sweep pain and bitterness which befell
Many families of the Don.
Story of an impressive brightness of the characters of ancestors, historical details, events,
place in our region, bitter tone of the author, his mourning - both white and red.
Patriotism begins with the cradle. There can be a real citizen who does not become a true
son, mother and father.