Olga Berggolts – the voice of besieged Leningrad

Soviet poetess, who with her poems warmed hearts during the most terrible days of the blockade.

“I am not a hero. I just lived among my people” – she wrote.

In 186 mass graves and 6 thousand individual military burials rest 420 thousand inhabitants of Leningrad, who died of hunger, cold, disease and bombing, as well as 70 thousand soldiers.

Name the famous words of the epitaph of poet Olga Berggolts, which were carved on the memorial wall “Mother Motherland” at the Piskaryovsky Cemetery in St. Petersburg.