September 8 marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Leningrad

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on September 8 marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Leningrad

Bloody date. Exactly 70 years ago September 8 began the blockade of Leningrad - the longest in the defense of the Great Patriotic War, which lasted almost 900 days and took a half a million lives.

 September 8, 1941 after heavy fighting around Leningrad closed the ring of Nazi blockade. Enemy aircraft made its first massive attack on Leningrad, dropping him for a few minutes over 6,500 incendiary bombs. The blockade lasted for nine hundred days, it's called the tragedy of the century. Died of starvation more than 700 thousand citizens.

In the history of one of the most beautiful cities in the world - St. Petersburg (Leningrad, Petrograd) was a lot of complex and controversial issues. But perhaps the most terrible days during which the city and its inhabitants were put to the brink of survival, there were 900 days of the blockade - September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944.

The plan "Barbarossa" Leningrad was considered as one of the most important strategic assets. The capture of Moscow was supposed to after the fall and will be destroyed by the Northern capital. September 8, 1941 Leningrad blockade took. After several unsuccessful attempts to storm the city, Hitler chose to change tactics. He said: "This city must starve. Cut all the way bringing up that there a mouse could not slip through. Mercilessly bombed from the air, and then the city will collapse, like overripe fruit. "

21 September, the rate of the enemy were developed abstract "about the siege of Leningrad," which stated: "... first we block and destroy the city of Leningrad artillery and aircraft ... In the spring we get into the city ... take out all that is left alive, the interior of Russia or take a prisoner, to raze Leningrad to the ground and give the area north of the Neva in Finland. "

Began regular bombing of the city. Besieged Leningrad was almost no food reserves. Bread was delivered now by air and ice road across Lake Ladoga. Of starvation during the siege were killed, according to official Soviet data, about 700 thousand people. According to other estimates - more than 850 000. One in five of the remaining in the besieged city - the child.

In September 1941, launched the famous road of life, providing links with the country of Leningrad in Lake Ladoga. As it headed into the city from the hinterland to the completion of troops, ammunition and fuel.

January 27, 1944 block of the city was finally aborted. In the city by this time had 560 000 inhabitants - up to five times less than at the beginning of the blockade. The Siege of Leningrad lasted 880 days and was the bloodiest siege in the history of mankind. In 1945, Leningrad was declared a city-hero. How many people in it perished in the terrible 900 days - does not know exactly

Sources: News, "The History of the Siege of Leningrad» http://www.vesti.ru/, history of present day http://www.2day.ru/

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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin ( 4 (16) August 1876 - February 7, 1942) - The great Russian artist , book illustrator and stage designer , a member of the "World of Art ».

[B]Bilibin died in besieged Leningrad February 7, 1942 in hospital at the Russian Academy for Fine Arts. His last work was the preparation of the famous artist illustration of the epic " Duke S. " in 1941. He was buried in a mass grave professors of the Academy of Fine Arts near Smolensk

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Shillingovsky Pavel (1881-1942), Soviet plot . Studied at Odessa Art School (1895-1900) and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts ( 1901-14 ) in D. Kardovsky and VV Mate . He taught at the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1921-29 and 1935-37) . Creating strong in drawing, composition honed prints ( a series of "Bessarabia ", etching , 1913, "St. Petersburg . Ruins and Rebirth" , woodcut , 1922-23 ; portraits of Lenin , 1924, Karl Marx , 1933 , - both woodcut ), worked as an illustrator (design "The Odyssey " by Homer , 1935) and painter.
[B]He died in the siege

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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin ( 4 (16) August 1876 - February 7, 1942) - the great Russian painter , book illustrator and stage designer , a member of the "World of Art ».

[B]Bilibin died in besieged Leningrad, February 7, 1942 in hospital at the Russian Academy for Fine Arts. His last work was the preparation of the famous artist illustration of the epic " Duke S. " in 1941. He was buried in a mass grave professors of the Academy of Fine Arts near Smolensk

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Shillingovsky Pavel (1881-1942), a Soviet plot . Studied at Odessa Art School (1895-1900) and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts ( 1901-14 ) in D. Kardovsky and VV Mate . He taught at the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1921-29 and 1935-37) . Created stricter in drawing, composition honed prints (series "Bessarabia ", etching , 1913, "St. Petersburg . Ruins and Revival" , woodcut , 1922-23 ; portraits of Lenin , 1924, Karl Marx , 1933 , - both woodcut ), worked as an illustrator (drawing "The Odyssey " by Homer , 1935) and painter.
[B]He died in the siege

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in the fortress Neva curtain opened an exhibition of Paul Shillingovsky

August 18, 2011 at 16:00 in the Neva curtain fortress opened an exhibition of the famous Russian graphic, master drawings and prints easel Pavel Alexandrovich Shillingovsky. On display will be presented over 230 works by the artist from the State Museum of St. Petersburg's history and famous art archive PE Kornilov. Many of the works will be exhibited for the first time.

Pavel was born Shillingovsky 15 (27) January 1881 in Kishinev. He studied at the Art School of the Odessa Society of Fine Arts in KC Kostandi and GA Ladyzhenskaya. Graduated from Art School at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg (1901-1914), where he studied first at the beautiful studio of DN Kardovsky, and then - in the studio of renowned masters of engraving, VV Mate. He taught at the Higher Artistic-Technical Institute (VHUTEIN), then transformed into the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. IE Repin (1921-1929, 1935-1937). artist died of starvation in the siege of Leningrad in April 1942.

PA Shillingovsky worked in etchings, linocuts, but the artist's favorite technique was the woodcut. It is the technique of wood engraving was created by the best works of masters of national classics of graphic art.

The exhibition will present a retrospective of the fortress of creativity PA Shillingovsky. The exhibition will be shown first engraving by the artist on the tree, "Mountain Landscape with trees" (1917) of the 1920-1930 - lists of the series "Bakhchisarai", "Erevan", "Kazan", "Old Armenia"; bookplates, book graphics. In particular, for the first time will be exhibited preparatory drawings for the book of Homer's "Odyssey" and drawings for an unpublished book by Dante Alighieri "Divine Comedy" in the translation of DE Mina, as well as portraits of the IV Stalin and VI Lenin.

The centerpiece of the exhibition will take a series of etchings in 1921 and 1941's, dedicated to St. Petersburg. Created during the Civil War and World Wars, during the most difficult test for our city, these works sounded like a hymn to St. Petersburg.

Three years (1921-1923) worked to create Shillingovsky album of engravings, "St. Petersburg. Ruins and revival. " In the summer of 1923 in the department of Polygraphic Academy of Arts, the album was printed in 500 numbered copies, it consists of 10 woodcuts. All 10 pages Albums can be seen in the exhibition. As a preparatory material he created numerous drawings and watercolors 25 sheets combined in series with the ambiguous title "The ruins of the revolution." In St. Petersburg GMI kept the entire collection of watercolors in the series, and the first time she will be fully represented in the exhibition.

A series of etchings in 1941 - "Besieged City" - was the last work Shillingovsky. Above her, he worked in 1941-1942 in besieged Leningrad. Because of the death of the artist, this work remained unfinished. The exhibition will be exhibited preparatory drawings and seven prints from this series.

The exhibition State History Museum of St. Petersburg released a reprint of the album PA Shillingovsky "St. Petersburg. Ruins and revival. " Presentation of the album took place at the show September 6, 2011.

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Let us recall one of the most heartbreaking of documents Leningrad [/URL], blog Savicheva [/URL].

December 28, 1941 . Jack died at 12 am.
My grandmother died on 25 January 1942 , at 3 pm .
Leka died March 17 at 5:00 am.
Uncle Bob died April 13 at 2:00 am .
Uncle Alex May 10 at 4 pm .
Mom - May 13, 7:30 am.
Savichevs died.
All died .
Tanya was left alone .