It belongs to the series called "Years of Fighting" – a historical epopee, which brought the Lenin Prize to the artist in 1974.

[3][4][5] It was again a theme of Russian Civil War in this painting (before there were Cavalry the First (1957), Here Reds are (1961), Friends (1964), Son (1969) and others).

[7] Cherry was presented for the first time at the largest exhibition, the "Fine Arts of Leningrad" in Moscow, 1976.

As a subject Moiseyenko selected a very peaceable and idyllic episode of war in which it seems as if the soldiers have forgotten about death, which was not far from them.

[10] Moiseyenko allocated his main heroes in the top of the hill and divided the composition to the separate scenes, dissolving the border between an external space and a lyric reflection.