Blockaded Leningrad

The Blockade of Leningrad is the most difficult and at the same time heroic time in the city's history. The first winter, famine, more than a million dead, the Road of Life, and memory preserved in the Piskaryovskoye Memorial, Tanya Savicheva's diary, and places where the city continued to live even under shelling.

Дворцовая площадь во время блокады

Siege of Leningrad: 872 days of courage, hunger, and unyielding will

The Siege of Leningrad: how the city survived 872 days in the blockade, 125 grams of bread, children of war, the cat mobilization, the Road of Life across Ladoga, Operation 'Iskra', and the recovery after the siege.

Исаакиевский дворец во время блокады

Camouflage of Leningrad during the siege: how architectural monuments were saved

Camouflage of Leningrad during the siege: how domes and monuments were hidden from shelling, spires painted with ship paint, fake blocks built, and city symbols saved.

Пустые рамы в Эрмитаже во время блокады

When paintings left and people stayed: the Hermitage during the siege

The Hermitage in besieged Leningrad: evacuation of masterpieces to Sverdlovsk, empty frames, a boarding school for children, a hospital in the basements, a vegetable garden in the Hanging Garden, and the museum's restor…

Вид на Исаакиевский собор во время блокады

St. Isaac's Cathedral during the siege of Leningrad: the feat of people, the rescue of art, and life on the edge

St. Isaac's Cathedral in besieged Leningrad: camouflage of the dome, storage of museum treasures, life of people in the basements, vegetable gardens on St. Isaac's Square, and the fate of the cathedral after the war.

Вид на Блокадный храм Успения Пресвятой Богородицы с золотыми куполами и мемориальными памятниками

The Blockade Church in St. Petersburg: a memorial site worth seeing in person

The Blockade Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in St. Petersburg: history of construction, memorials, named bricks, and the spiritual atmosphere of a place commemorating Leningraders.

To feel Petersburg, it is not enough to see the facades and palaces. The city keeps the memory of a time that changed it forever.

The Road of Life, Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Blockade museums, memorial courtyards, and addresses. Places where history ceases to be a line in a textbook and becomes a personal experience.