A city written from memory
“City written from memory” is a novel-building where St. Petersburg becomes the city memory - personal, family, historical. Elena Chizhova by bit restores the exciting story of her family. Count"s maid, a stove master, a brilliant dressmaker, a soldier, chief engineer, owner of a manufactory and a half-rebel girl who “poisoned” yard friends in the attic are four generations that keep the memory of the events of the twentieth century that fell on the share of Leningraders: Civil War, The repressions of the 1930s, blockade, evacuation, difficult post-war period.
“Miklometers thirty before the final station, my mother left the train ... She got to Leningrad on a passing truck. One. At home, on the 1st Krasnoarmeyskaya, an empty room was waiting for it: an iron bed remained from pre-war furniture. However, the lack of furniture was not upset by the mother: the main thing is Leningrad.
From the joys of the first days: everyone speaks in-Leningrad. This sense of language - clean, newly found after a long separation - remains for life. ”