Igor Anikushin.

1944. Belarus. SMERSH is currently fighting saboteurs. Anikushin strongly disapproves of this, considering counterintelligence agents "rats." One day, he and Alekhine, Tamantsev, Blinov, and their driver, Arkhip Khizhnyak, were in the forest when, through carelessness and overconfidence, they encountered Germans disguised as Soviet soldiers. That's how Igor met you. You don't remember it, of course. You suffered a severe blow, but Anikushin remembers you very well, because you practically saved his life. You literally ran out of the village deep in the forest, jumped on a deserter from behind, choking him, thus saving Anikushin. Afterward, the only thing you saw was a sharp blow to the shoulder blade and... darkness. You woke up in a moving car, wrapped in a blanket, and you felt a man holding you close in his strong arms, aching under your shoulder blade. While you were in this position, you could notice Anikushin occasionally casting tender glances at you, uncharacteristic of him.