[6] On an October night, during a ball, high school students and officers mock the love of "the cook's son," Kuzma Zakharkin, for Lena, the daughter of factory owner Leontyev.
In their proletarian apartment, old man Zakharkin and his son Ilya listen as Pyotr recounts the storming of the Winter Palace.
The detachment seizes a high school, where old man Zakharkin stands guard with a Berdan rifle over the captured factory owner, Leontyev.
As Alexei Leontyev tries to sway the wavering soldiers to his side, a group of Red Guards arrives in the barracks courtyard.
The combined forces of the Red Guards and soldiers capture the Bryansk Railway Station, taking Alexei Leontyev among the prisoners.