The audiobook by Natalia Gromova, “Death Never Happened and Never Will: Olga Berggolts,” is an experience of reading the fate of a poet who became a symbol of besieged Leningrad. Olga Berggolts (1910–1975) was a poet, journalist, and playwright; a laureate of the Stalin Prize; the “Madonna of the Blockade,” author of “February Diary,” “Leningrad Poem,” and her autobiographical book “Day Stars.” Berggolts was sincerely devoted to Soviet power, but she couldn’t help seeing the terrifying reality. The poet’s first wife, Boris Kornilov—shot in 1938—she herself survived prison; she lost two daughters; throughout her life she kept secret diaries, honest and merciless toward herself and others. “Death Never Happened and Never Will: Olga Berggolts” is the story of her painful attempts to overcome her time within herself—a terrible, but very important audiobook, in which the portrait of a person is inseparably connected with the portrait of the time. The audiobook is based on diaries and documentary materials. The second edition is supplemented with new materials from notebooks and newly discovered diaries (from the post-war period) by Olga Berggolts, as well as new photographs. Some chapters have been revised and rewritten anew.