Leningrad catalog. Granin D.

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin - laureate of the State Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, participant in the Great Patriotic War, a gentleman of many orders and medals, an outstanding writer of his time. His name has long become one of the symbols of the city over Neva, who once bore the name “Leningrad.”

“Leningrad catalog” D. A. Granin is not a dictionary of objects of the departed era of childhood of a writer, the 30s the years of the past century. This is a memory, this is our story, a quiet story about the "affectionate charms of antiquity." Life, the customs of Leningrad, and therefore many cities of that time, paintings of the city of the first five -year period, disappeared from everyday life, forgotten songs, the language of those years, city stories and legends resurrect the face of the Neva capital of eighty years ago.

Old photos and drawings complement the visual range of the book: here are white buttons, a pateophone, a sofa with rollers and a mirror, a knife for cutting books, a brass iron, manual washing machine, office, transportation of ice for refrigerators, old magazines, forgotten mods... < /p>

the new edition of the book is timed to the 100th anniversary of the writer.