Tsarev Alexey Ignatievich was born on December 27, 1912 in the village of Anokhino, Nerekhtsky district, Kostroma region. In the early 30s, on a Komsomol ticket, he was sent to the construction of a new city - Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Then, when the Tsarev family moved to live in Sereda, Alexey Ignatievich enrolled in a construction brigade and was engaged in the construction of buildings in the city there. In June 1941, Tsarev A.I. was summoned to the Furmanovsky city military enlistment office. At first, he delivered summons to future soldiers. In July 1941, Tsarev A.I. They sent him to the front, his wife, pregnant with twins, Tsareva Varvara Ivanovna, with two young daughters, remained at home. During the war Tsarev A.I. was a sapper. Since August 28, 1941, with the rank of junior sergeant, he took part in the hostilities of the 1219th rifle regiment of the 185th rifle division as deputy political instructor. These were battles near the city of Rzhev, where about 1.5 million people were killed, wounded and taken prisoner. The detachment where Tsarev A.I. served was surrounded in the area of ​​the village of Stupino. Alexei Ignatievich was wounded in the leg and a shrapnel shell in the head, woke up already in a concentration camp. The news came to his relatives: “He disappeared without a trace in the battles near Rzhev. February 21, 1942 ". According to the documents, Tsarev A.AND. was in captivity from February 26, 1942 to May 15, 1945. After his release, Aleksey Ignatievich underwent a check, which lasted from June 12 to November 11, 1945. First Tsarev A.I. was in the camp of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 273 of the city of Yelsk, then worked in the bakery of the military unit P / p 67945. After checking, he was transferred to the 91st separate bridge-building battalion as the commander of the department, where he served until October 1946. Home Tsarev A.I. returned at the end of 1946. The exhaustion of his body was very strong, but his wife was able to leave him. And after the war, three more daughters were born in their family: Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Alexei Ignatievich worked first as a fighter in the fire station number 17 in the city of Furmanov, then at the spinning and weaving factory number 2 as a repairman, assistant foreman, and in the last years of his life as a watchman. The former front-line soldier who shed blood on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War was awarded: the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the badge "Front-line soldier 1941-1945", Zhukov's medal, jubilee medals. Tsarev A.I. passed away at 94 with his family.