Elise Blackwell

Elise Blackwell

female, 45 years old
Louisiana State University, J.M. Coetzee, University of California, Irvine, L.A. Times, Time Warner, American…siegeofleningrad, University of South Carolina, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
Elise Blackwell (b. July 18, 1964) is an American novelist, born in Austin, Texas. The daughter of botanists, Blackwell was educated at Louisiana...
Olga Berggolts

Olga Berggolts

female, deceased (1975)
Soviet women writer, Russian women writer, From Saint Petersburg, blockade, soviet, siegeofleningrad…leningrad, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts (also Berggoltz or Bergholz was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's...
Vera Inber

Vera Inber

female, deceased (1972)
odessa, siegeofleningrad, World War II, Russian, journalist, soviet…besieged Leningrad
Vera Mikhaylovna Inber, born Spenzer was a Russian-Soviet poet and writer. Her father owned a scientific publishing house "Matematika"...
Andrei Zhdanov

Andrei Zhdanov

male, deceased (1948)
death from cardiovascular disease, Mariupol, ukrainian, Old Bolshevik, Allied Control Commission, soviet…siegeofleningrad, leningrad, Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar, defense of Leningrad
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Mariupol', -August 31, 1948, Moscow) was a Soviet politician.
Nikolai Vavilov

Nikolai Vavilov

male, deceased (1943)
seedbank, wheat, cereal crops, mycology, corn, immunity…leningrad, siegeofleningrad, Victim of Soviet repressions, centres of origin
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a prominent Russian botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated...

Georg von Küchler

male, deceased (1968)
Recipient of the Knight's Cross, Recipient of the Iron Cross, German nobility, hitler, German, Field Marshal of Nazi Germany…siegeofleningrad, leningrad, Battle of the Netherlands, invasion of neutral Netherlands
Georg Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Küchler was a German field marshal during World War II. Born in Philippsruhe castle near Hanau, von Küchler led th...
Aleksei Kuznetsov

Aleksei Kuznetsov

male, deceased (1950)
soviet, Soviet politician, siegeofleningrad, Exonerated Soviet death sentence, leningrad, cpsu…Leningrad Affair
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov (1905-1950) was a Soviet statesman, CPSU (since 1925) functionary, Lieutenant General, member of CPSU Central...
Tanya Savicheva

Tanya Savicheva

female, deceased (1944)
child in war, stove, Diarist, siegeofleningrad, trench warfare, operation barbarossa…the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva was a Russian child diarist who died during the Siege of Leningrad during...
Daniil Granin

Daniil Granin

male, 91 years old
Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Zubr, Iskateli, D.A. German, Those Who Seek, The Blockade Book…Alumni of St. Petersburg Polytechnical University, siegeofleningrad
Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin (pseudonym of D.A. German (born 1 January 1919) is a Russian writer, best known as the author of stories about Soviet...