The Siege of Leningrad

Abstract

When the big bombing of Leningrad started, on the night of the 7th to the 8 th of November 1941, I was living with my mother in a large apartment on Giliarovsky Prospect, today known as Chkalov.1 Four families, all wealthy and taken care of by servants, shared these seven rooms when the war started. Despite the “filling up” and communal living, many exbourgeoisies had kept their servants after the Revolution.