It was in Leningrad. Chakovsky A.B.

“It was in Leningrad” - a novel about a daily feat, about devoted, uncompromising love, about the very innermost and better that the harsh reality of the war exposed people in people. It was based on the personally seen and experienced by the writer who, with documentary accuracy, tells about the feat of Leningrad, about the harsh, heroic everyday life of the besieged years, combining the great and tragic, immortal and everyday concern for the daily bread. He managed to recreate many significant features of a folk nature, folk morality, describe examples of the stamina and perseverance of the defenders of the Northern capital.