Almost three years. Leningrad diary

Vera Mikhailovna Inber (1890–1972), the famous poetess, about
Zaik and translator, became a witness to all the shocks of the 20th century: three
revolutions, the First World War and Civil Wars, the blockade of Lenin /> Grad. ..
“Signs of hunger: either they lose weight, then swell. They get old from time to time,
as if they were touched by the hand of the make -up artist. And this dressing room is hunger. Man with
Cross, walking through the whole city. True Golgotha ​​”-Za-
wrote Inber in January 1942. In the besieged Leningrad, her voice
sounded on the radio, she read poetry in hospitals, in severe frosts,
dila to speak to the front. The blockade diary of Vera Inber “almost
three years” - that is how much the blockade lasted - one of the most
honest, frank and piercing evidence of that terrible
time, when arthobics, bombing, hunger and death turned < Br /> In the everyday life of Leningraders.
Inber herself refused to leave the besieged city, because
her husband, professor of medicine Ilya Strashun, author of the fundamental work Russian doctor in the war.
remained in Leningrad. For the first time, one book publishes a block diary
Vera Inber and all the poems of the poetess dedicated to the blockade
Leningrad, including the legendary poem Pulkovo Meridian