65 years after the Victory, the results of the blockade of Leningrad have not yet been summed up.
Writer Igor Bogdanov created the author’s encyclopedia of the blockade. 400 pages of dense text based on all available sources — from the «Guide to Leningrad» in 1940, the official two volumes «Leningrad in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union» (1944) to the diaries and letters of the defenders and residents of the city. The encyclopedia is illustrated by the exhibits of the famous St. Petersburg collection of Vsevolod Inchik. He kept leaflets, cartoons, ration cards, certificates, posters from his blockade childhood … and an absolute rarity — the poster «Act on the Unconditional Surrender of the Enemy.» The book is difficult to read, it is not prose. But that rare case when a set of discreet information makes the heart shrink.
Centaur, 464 p.