Diary

The life of Sophia Kazimirovna Ostrovskaya (1902-1983) accommodated a lot: childhood in a wealthy family, studying at the History Department of Petrograd University, the service of the head of the criminal investigation of the Murmansk Railway, the work as a translator of technical texts, the ambition of an unrecognized writer, friendly relations with Anna Akhmatova and others. All this was reflected on the pages of her first -published diary, which she led from her young to the middle of the 20th century. A special place is occupied by the blockade of Leningrad in its records, shown in detail and expressively. Outside the scope of the diary, only Ostrovskaya’s activity remained as an agent of special services, in particular on observing Akhmatova