“A Person Becomes Better after a Great Trial” (Tanya Wagner’s Letters, 1939–1945)
The article contains letters (1939–1946) of a Leningrad teenage girl Tanya Wagner preserved in her family archive. Most of them were addressed to her mother Maria F. Wagner, deportee after her husband had been arrested and then shot. These letters are at the same time a diary, a chronicle of life in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Литературный факт |
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| Online Access: | http://litfact.ru/images/2022-25/02_Zadneprovskaya_25-57.pdf |
| Summary: | The article contains letters (1939–1946) of a Leningrad teenage girl Tanya Wagner preserved in her family archive. Most of them were addressed to her mother Maria F. Wagner, deportee after her husband had been arrested and then shot. These letters are at the same time a diary, a chronicle of life in pre War and then besieged Leningrad. The appendix contains an extract from her unpublished memoir on the siege of Leningrad, written in later years. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-8297 2542-2421 |