About the book: 1981 / A tale of the feat of a young drummer during the Civil War. 1918. Twelve-year-old Larik goes to the front with the Red Army soldiers and becomes a drummer in the detachment of the Red commander Chumak. Once, when the tired soldiers were sleeping and no one heard the White Guards surrounding the partisan detachment, Larik raised the fighters with a loud drum and, at the cost of his own life, saved his comrades.