History of St. Petersburg: "Leningrad Stories. The War and the Book" exhibition in Staraya Russa

The "Leningrad Stories. War and the Book" exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Year of Literature in the Russian Federation opens in the House-Museum of Fyodor Dostoevsky in Staraya Russa (Novgorod Region).

The authors of the exhibition are the members of the "Petersburg of the Diverse Ranks" Memorial Museum.

The exhibition presents books published in Leningrad in 1941-1944 and the edition of Dostoevsky's works of 1946 from the funds of the House-Museum of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The exhibition is dedicated to the complex and heavy time of the siege of Leningrad, reflected, among other writers and artists, in the works of the artist Alexey Pakhomov and poet-writer Nikolai Tikhonov. The series of graphic sheets entitled "Leningrad During the Siege" and "In our City" by Alexei Pakhomov became eyewitness account.

Life of the besieged Leningrad gave the artist new threads for creativity: "On Guard," "The Neva River Watering," "On the Mars Field during Blue Alert" — these are just a few works of that period.

During the Great Patriotic War the writer Nikolai Tikhonov became a military journalist. He worked as a journalist and radio announcer from the first day of the siege. "Leningrad Stories" became a kind of chronicle of the heroic defense of the city.