Bryan Karetnyk

Reclaiming the siege of Leningrad from the Russian state: Living Pictures reviewed

This mix of memoir and research wrests the official narrative from the authorities and places it back with the people

Residents clear ice and snow from Leningrad’s Nevsky Prospekt in the winter of 1942. [Sovfoto/Universal Images/Getty]
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  • Living Pictures

    Polina Barskova, translated by Catherine Ciepiela

    Pushkin Press, pp. 198, £10

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