🎬 Olga Berggolts and the siege of Leningrad.
A city suffers an 872-day Nazi siege. It's the longest in recorded history. Their survival, and ultimate victory is led by a poet, in a testament to the ⚡️ of art.
I’ve been reading Symphony for the City of the Dead.
It’s about Dmitri Shostakovich, and the impact of his 7th Symphony, which he composes and presents in the midst of the most brutal siege in world history1.
Bombs fall, and the people of Soviet St. Petersberg starve for two and a half years. Their tenacity, and ultimate victory against a concerted attem…
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