History of St. Petersburg: Tanya Savicheva Museum to open its doors on 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Siege of Leningrad

On the day of 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Siege of Leningrad, September 8, at the facility of the school №35, Vasileostrovsky District, St. Petersburg, will be opened a museum bearing the name of Tanya Savicheva, the Vice Governor Alla Manilova announced.

The museum is called after the pupil of this school Tanya Savicheva, whose diary was among accusatory papers at the Nuremberg Trials. One of the first exhibits to go on show at the museum will be a piece of bread, provided during the siege, that was preserved with care by a siege survivor. In addition, the museum will display diaries of residents of the besieged Leningrad.

Alla Manilova highlighted that as for the city “this is more than a mere school renovation, this is a revival of the historical heritage”. The building was erected in 1937 to the draft of the architect L. Ye. Uss. A small outbuilding, that houses a kindergarten, was built in the end 18th c. on the site of the former Cadet Corps of Alexander Menshikov. It was there that meetings of the editorial board responsible for preparing the Manifesto on peasant reform took place.