Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Russian girl who kept a diary in 1942, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva recorded the successive deaths of each member of her family in her diary, with her final entry indicating her belief to be the sole living family member. Although Savicheva was rescued and transferred to a hospital, she succumbed to intestinal tuberculosis in July 1944 at age 14.
The diary is on display in St. Petersburg, in the Museum of Leningrad History
Part of the 'Flower of Life' memorial complex dedicated to children of the Leningrad Siege, showing pages from Savicheva's diary.
Stele and commemorative wall in memory of Tanya Savicheva at Krasny Bor
Savicheva's grave at Krasny Bor Cemetery
The Road of Life was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North under Feldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photo of a section of the Ice Road, 60 km east of Leningrad
Road of life in November–December 1941
The steam locomotive at Petrokrepost railway station established in memory of a railwayman of the Road of Life
Memorial element The "Broken Circle", 1966,
