An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Schoolboy Petya Ivanov receives a letter from a famous scientist and 20 grains of a new high-yield variety of wheat. Petya and his schoolmates decide to create an experimental plot. Fearing that adults will take the seeds away from them, the children do everything in secret.
About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....
