In besieged Leningrad

Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev is a world-famous scientist: philologist, cultural critic, art critic, author of about 500 scientific and 600 journalistic works; Chairman of the Board of the Russian (Soviet until 1991) Cultural Foundation. During the Great Patriotic War, he was in Leningrad besieged by the Nazis, where he saw all the horrors of the blockade. In his memoirs he writes about this; detail...