The Siege of Leningrad. No one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten

«No one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten!» - these legendary lines by Olga Berggolts are inscribed on the memorial wall of the Piskarevsky Cemetery, where half a million victims of the Leningrad blockade are buried. For all 872 days of the blockade, Olga Fyodorovna was in Leningrad. Her voice sounded daily on the radio, instilling hope in the hungry and weakened. The famous poetess, author of poignant poems and prose, forever entered the history of the Great Patriotic War as the MUSE OF THE BLOCKADE OF LENINGRAD «One hundred and twenty-five grams of blockade, / With fire and blood in equal measure», - she wrote about those terrible days.

This collection includes the books "Daytime Stars", "Leningrad Speaks", as well as all the poems and verses of Olga Berggolts dedicated to one of the most tragic pages in the history of the war - the Siege of Leningrad.