A man from an orchestra. Blockade Diary of Leo Margulis

Lenizdat represents the book “A Man from an Orchestra. The blockade diary of Leo Margulis. " These are the notes of the violinist, who took part in the first legendary performance of the Seventh Symphony D. D. Shostakovich in the blockade Leningrad. The time of records covers the most tragic months of the city’s life: from June 1941 to January 1943.

The book used unique materials from city archives. The extensive comments of A. N. Kryukov, a researcher of musical broadcasting in Leningrad from the Second World War and the Blockade, as well as comments by historian A. S. Romanov, revealing blockade and military realities, allow you to deeper understand the content of the diary, find out what happened during the blockade in the city and Around him. Both the diary and comments show what physical and moral trials the residents of the blockade city were subjected to, previously unknown tragic pages in the life of the Big Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Radio Committee are opened.

photos and documents from personal and city archives are presented. Readers will also be able to see the score of the seventh symphony stored in the native library of the Radio House. The book was published in the year of the seventh anniversary of the first performance of the seventh symphony in the blockade Leningrad.

opens the book of the introductory word of Yuri Temirikanov.