Film Screening ‘Dystrofiia’ (1943) – introduction by Dr John Barber and Prof Jonathan Wells
Keynes Hall, King's CollegeKeynes Hall, King's College King's Parade, CambridgeEmaciated child of the blockade -photograph by G.Shchukin, 1942 Nutritional or alimentary dystrophy was the term first used in Leningrad to describe the condition resulting from starvation suffered by thousands of Leningraders by the end of 1941. It was the … Continue reading
Film Presentation and Screening ‘900 Days’ (2011) by Jessica Gorter – followed by Q&As with Caroline Walton
Main Lecture Hall, The Old Divinity School, St. John’s College All Saints' Passage, CambridgeScene from the film '900 days' painter Lenina Dmitrievna The siege of Leningrad is one of history’s finest examples of the triumph of the human spirit. During those 900 days of the Nazi siege most people’s rations were too meagre … Continue reading
Eating Restoration Glue to Stay Alive: The History of The Hermitage – talk by Dr Rosalind P. Blakesley
Darwin College Silver Street, Cambridge, CambridgeshireThe Hermitage Hall 249, 1941-2015 by Sergei Larenkov The Hermitage is an institution like no other, housing over three million objects in buildings as iconic as the Winter Palace, seat of the Romanov dynasty until its spectacular fall from grace … Continue reading
Closing talk of the exhibition programme – ‘Elena Marttila: Art and Endurance in the Siege of Leningrad’ with the curators Ksenia Afonina and Libby Howie, followed by open discussion and drinks reception
Darwin College Silver Street, Cambridge, CambridgeshireElena Oskarovna Marttila December 2016 Talks by the exhibition curators, Ksenia Afonina and Libby Howie, will cover the story of how this moving art exhibition entitled ‘Elena Marttila: Art and Endurance in the Siege of Leningrad’, came to fruition, the … Continue reading
