At the end of the novel, when Pluzhnikov was captured by the German troops and was interrogated, he simply replied "I am a Russian soldier" and died due to exhaustion from months of fighting.
小說的最後，普魯茲尼科夫在被德軍俘虜並審訊時，僅僅回答了一句「我是俄國士兵」，接著便因數個月戰鬥的精疲力竭而死亡。