The 900 Days (47 page)

Evacuees assembling at railroad station.
(Sovfoto)

Air-raid victims. Litcinv Prospekt. Leningrad.
(Sovfoto)

German shell hit on Leningrad apartment building.

The Badayev warehouses, Leningrad’s chief food storehouse, destroyed by Nazi incendiary bombs.

Drawing water from a hole in an ice-clad street. In the background, frozen streetcars are immobilized for the winter.

The famous “bronze horseman” equestrian statue of Peter the Great, sandbagged for protection.

Winter street. A woman pulls a sheet-wrapped corpse on a child’s sled.

A woman draws a starvation-weakened man on a child’s sled.

Leningrad in blockade. A woman listens to the radio, teapot on the brick stove, with only a candle for light.
(Sovjoto)

Coffins pile up outside Okhta Cemetery. Some dead are simply wrapped in rags or clothing.

Corpses—one in sitting posture, one half covered with snow—beside the Summer Gardens fence.

Tanya Savicheva, eleven-year-old Leningrad schoolgirl, and pages from her diary recording the death, one by one, of members of her family during the blockade winter and spring.