People want to know. The story of the creation of the "Blockade Book" Ales Adamovich and Daniil Granin

With the release of the Blockade Book, “the conspiracy of silence around Leningrad” was broken. From now on, the city felt its right to speak and know the truth.
What difficulties did A. Adamovich and D. Granin had to face in the work on the book and during her publication? How did Soviet censorship counteract the release of the first folk book about the blockade? How did the people who survived the Leningrad Apocalypse responded to publication?
The book People want to know gives answers to these questions. Here, for the first time, materials from the D. Granin fund to Tsgali St. Petersburg were reproduced for the first time. Also for the first time, materials from the personal archive of A. Adamovich, letter 3.V. Blucher, letters of I.A. Andreeenko (in the blockade was the deputy chairman of the Leningrad Executive Committee, the head of the Department of Trade), A.S. Boldyrev (in the blockade was an employee of A.N. Kosygin, the authorized state committee of defense), V.I. Pimenova (retired colonel, deputy secretary of the party bureau for ideological work) For the first time, a transcript was reproduced by the conversations of the authors of the book with I.A. Andreeenko (in particular, about the number of victims of the blockade), typewriter of the book and layout with author, editorial and censorship, as well as letters from blockade and secret documents that stopped the journal publication of the book. For the first time, pre -war and post -war photographs of N.A. Panova, known to the whole world for the nameless photograph of a blockade with bread in his hand