In the blockade Leningrad

Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev is a world -famous scientist: philologist, culturologist, art critic, author of about 500 scientific and 600 journalistic works, chairman of the Russian board (Soviet until 1991) of the Culture Fund.
During the Great Patriotic War, he was in the besieged by the Nazis Leningrad, where he saw all the horrors of the blockade. In his memoirs, he writes about this, the details of the life of the “blockade”, the efforts on the defense of the city are shown against the backdrop of general thoughts about the moral state of people in these difficult conditions, about the war, about the political and social system of the USSR and Germany, and the reasons for the world conflict