The Color of Your Blood

Hot June 1941. Facing almost no resistance, the fascist military armada is rapidly advancing deep into our country, to the east. Senior lieutenant of the border troops Kostya Bagrakov was caught in the war while on vacation, and he had to make his way alone following the retreating parts of the Red Army to catch up with his own.
In an inconspicuous Belarusian village, not yet occupied by the Germans, a young teacher named Oksana took him in for the night. From the first moment in her hut, Kostya felt that something was amiss. She had heated the bath without wood and a stove. She had cooked dinner over an incomprehensible fire. And her candies were strange, resembling chocolate shrapnel…
But what happened next truly shocked the young officer. Could Oksana be a witch? Then why, at the wave of her hand, did a long corridor with walls covered in shimmering purple lights open in the wall of an ordinary village hut? And there stood a man in some strange clothing…

Extraordinary military stories, which should definitely be classified as pure fiction and fantasy, are perceived as absolute truth in the retelling of the incomparable storyteller Alexander Bushkov. The author himself claims that the plots for most of his novellas were taken from the memories of his father, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. As they say, believe it or not.