"Not on the list" is one of Boris Vasiliev's most famous novels. This is a story about the first days of the war, about the defense of the legendary Brest fortress and, of course, about the people who stood up for the Motherland. The main character, Lieutenant Pluzhnikov, who fought the Nazis until his last breath, is a symbol of all the unknown, "nameless" soldiers who selflessly fought against the German invaders. "Not on the list" is one of Boris Vasiliev's most famous novels. This is a story about the first days of the war, about the defense of the legendary Brest fortress and, of course, about the people who stood up for the Motherland. The main character, Lieutenant Pluzhnikov, who fought the Nazis until his last breath, is a symbol of all the unknown, "nameless" soldiers who selflessly fought against the German invaders. The famous writer Boris Vasiliev volunteered for the front as a seventeen-year-old boy. He got out of the encirclement of his battalion on his own, landed with troops on enemy territory, received a concussion and spent a long time in the hospital. All these trials have tempered the author's character and forced him to grow up quickly — and it is not surprising that in his military novels the theme of personality formation in war often comes to the fore. The novel "I was not on the list" was no exception, the main character of which, yesterday's cadet Nikolai Pluzhnikov, was forced to heroically defend the Brest Fortress from the hordes of Nazis on his very first day in the service.…