Sailor Cat is not a character in an adventure story, myth or fairy tale. This is a real person, one of the heroes of the legendary defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855. Who else could so deftly extinguish the enemy's core in a pot of soldier's porridge, figure out how to get four bags of apples for children under fire, penetrate the enemy's camp for valuable information. "This is he by the name - Cat, and in the soul - a real lion," contemporaries said about him.