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In June 1805 the 17th Chasseurs Colonel Karyagin squad as part of 493 soldiers and 2 guns, met in the city of Shusha region with forty thousand Persian army under the command of the Crown Prince Abbas Mirza. To repel the next attack of the Persians, Russian squad urgently needed to change the position. But on the way they have turned out to be a moat, which could not be circumvented. Hiking and horse moat could overcome, but the gun ... There was neither the time nor the materials for the construction of the bridge. A detachment was doomed without guns. Then the soldiers Gavrila Sidorov, saying: "The gun - a soldier's mistress, I must help her" first lay down on the bottom of the pit. His example was followed by a dozen more. Cast-iron cannons weighing several tons was dragged to the other side of the bodies of the soldiers. Gavrila Sidorov this test is not perezhil.Takova legend. the memory of this feat in 1902 in front of Peter and Paul church in Manglisi was erected this monument.