How We Survived

Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev is a man whose name is known worldwide. An outstanding expert in domestic and world culture, elected an honorary member of many foreign academies, a profound thinker and public figure. The book ‘My War. In Blockade Leningrad’ includes the memoirs of Dmitry Sergeyevich from different years, including piercing, sometimes ruthless and burdensome observations about the life of Leningraders during the city's blockade. Against the backdrop of all the horrors of war, Likhachev reflects on the moral and ethical state of people in these harsh conditions. The second part of the book consists of ‘Letters about Kindness’, known worldwide and translated into different languages. Dmitry Sergeyevich himself wrote: ‘In my book, I try to explain in the simplest arguments that the path of goodness is the most acceptable and the only one for a person.’