Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, nicknamed the Leningrad Symphony, was begun in Leningrad, completed in the city of Samara in December 1941, and premiered in that city on March
Fire of anti-aircraft guns deployed in the neighborhood of St. Isaac's cathedral during the defense of Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg, its pre-Soviet name) in 1941.
Alexei Tolstoy's Pravda article became instrumental in the life of the symphony, especially with Stalin.
Virgil Thomson called the symphony "written for the slow-witted, the not very musical and the distracted".
Karl Eliasberg
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Karl Ilitch Eliasberg was a Soviet conductor, best known for conducting the Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 during the Siege of Leningrad in 1942.
The grave of Karl Eliasberg and of his wife Nadezhda Bronnikova in Saint Petersburg
