A teacher learns that Vovochka’s grandfather met Chapaev during the Russian Civil War. She asks him to come to the class on the eve of the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and tell the kids about his memories. The old man reluctantly agrees. Kids meet him with excitement: “Say, gramps, did you see [...]

Chapayev, Petka and Anka, in hiding from the Whites, are crawling across a field, first Anka, then Petka and Chapayev last. Petka says to Anka, “Your mother must have been a dancer – your legs are so fine!” Chapayev responds, “And your father, Petka, must have been a plowman: you are leaving such a deep [...]

“I flunked again, Petka. The question was about Caesar, and I told them it’s a stallion from the 7th cavalry squadron.” “Oh, sorry about that, Vasili Ivanovich, I had him moved to the 6th!”

- What feet you have, Vasily Ivanovich. They’re even more dirty than mine. – That’s because I’m much older then you, Petka.

- Vasily Ivanovich! shouts Petka. Our squadron received American condoms by lend-lease. – No need for that, replys Chapayev. For 20 years I’ve been using a 3″ shell, and it’s still good for another 30 years.

Chapayev is sitting at a table and eating cabbage soup. Petka storms into the room, frightened: -Vasily Ivanovich! Inflation is advancing! -Don’t panic, said Chapayev. Tell Anka to shoot it out with a machine gun.

The guide of the Museum of the October Revolution demonstrates to visitors the skeleton of the Civil War hero V.I.Chapaev. -And what is that small skeleton behind him? -That is V.I.Chapaev in childhood, explains the guide.