"We were all young and sincere ..."

The book published the memoirs of the famous Crimean scientist-archaeologist, artist and restorer Oleg Ivanovich Dombrovsky about pre-war time and the first meeting with the enemy at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on the approaches to Leningrad. The memoirs are complemented by Oleg Ivanovich’s letters for the first time from the front discovered in the archive of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. This is a description of the everyday life of the war directly from the scene, a complete truth about the experienced, the entire front -line biography of the artist. For the first time, O.I. Dombrovsky’s thesis is also published, which gives an idea of ​​the grandiose plans that he dreamed of devoting himself, but defeated by the war and left after the loss of relatives, friends and beloved teachers.
Compiler of interest A.V