The Siege Book. Part I

There are things humanity must never forget if it wants to remain human. And the feat of the Leningraders who endured the blockade will never be forgotten!

“Apparently, the book is devoted to memories of hunger and cold, of terrible deaths—but it is not a book about death, it is a book about life,” the authors themselves, Daniil Granin and Ales Adamovich, said of their “Blockade Book”—a powerful and tragic work that the writers worked on for many years, gathering and recording more than 200 stories from surviving Leningrad residents.

900 days of the blockade of Leningrad, which took hundreds of thousands of innocent lives—women, the elderly, children.

The courage of some of the residents, who worked and fought in truly inhuman conditions— and the vile looting of others, who bought up, for bread and groats, the very last values of the hungry.

The terrible winter of 1942, when whole families died of starvation—and New Year’s Christmas trees, to which—by a miracle—Leningrad children managed to have mandarins delivered along the Road of Life…