Tanya Savicheva
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Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World W
Savicheva in 1936
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
Siege of Leningrad
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The Siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the co
Tanya Savicheva
…Savicheva (Таня Савичева; 23 January 1930 – 1 July 1944), was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva wrote the successive and unfortunate deaths of each member of her family from starvation and diseases…
Soviet anti-aircraft battery in Leningrad near Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 1941
German soldiers in front of burning houses and a church, near Leningrad in 1941
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb with Erich Hoepner in September 1941
Women from Leningrad digging an anti-tank ditch, July 1941