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Leningrad

Former name for the city of St Petersburg.

On January 26, 1924, five days after Lenin's death, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad. Later some streets and other toponyms were renamed accordingly. ...more

Leningrad Books

City of Thieves
Winter Garden
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
The Madonnas of Leningrad
Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
The Siege (The Siege, #1)
A Mountain of Crumbs
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
Writing The Siege Of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
The Betrayal (The Siege #2)
The Conductor
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
Deathless
Leningrad Under Siege: First-hand Accounts of the Ordeal
Leningrad: State of Siege
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Quotes Tagged “Leningrad”

M.T. Anderson
“ And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad ”
― M T Anderson
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Anna Akhmatova
“ In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons. ”
― Anna Akhmatova, Akhmatova: Poems
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Today in History: Germans bombard Leningrad (6 minutes)
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