History of St. Petersburg: Exhibition “Vsevolod Tarasevich. The Siege of Leningrad. The City and the Front” opened in the ROSPHOTO Museum and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg

The exhibition “Vsevolod Tarasevich. The Siege of Leningrad. The City and the Front” opened in the ROSPHOTO Museum and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

Vsevolod Sergeyevich Tarasevich (1919–1998) is an established master of Soviet journalism, who created numerous pictures of Leningrad from the very first days of the Great Patriotic War. In his photographs, you can see a beautiful city in bloom at the peak of the White Nights season, and its citizens who do not yet realize what an awful disaster is knocking at their door. The first shelling, evacuation, construction of fortifications by the civilian population, the deadly winter of 1941–1942 in the city under siege, corpses in the streets, rivers and canals used by the exhausted people as the only source of water.