Children of the Siege by Dr Olga Kucherenko
Darwin College Silver Street, Cambridge, CambridgeshireChildren of the Siege of Leningrad In her presentation Olga Kucherenko will explore the life of children in besieged Leningrad. She will investigate how they coped with cruelty, starvation, separation and loss, and show that, contrary to the Soviet propagandistic … Continue reading
Presentation and Screening ‘Blockade’ by Sergei Loznitsa, 2006, followed by Q&As
Trinity Hall Lecture Theatre Trinity Lane, Cambridge'Blockade' by Sergei Loznitsa (2006) The project of making a film about life under the 900 day siege of Leningrad dates to October 1941, when, in the unimaginably bleak winter conditions on starvation rations, Leningrad filmmakers turned from filming for … Continue reading
Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony: Document, Masterpiece and Weapon – a talk by Prof Marina Frolova-Walker
Darwin College Silver Street, Cambridge, CambridgeshireSeventh Symphony in Leningrad 1942 Shostakovich began his Seventh Symphony in Leningrad, in the late summer of 1941, and completed it about six months later in evacuation. Owing to a series of radio interviews with the composer, the Symphony became … Continue reading
Discovering Freedom Under Siege: the Leningrad Poet Olga Berggolts – talk by Prof Katharine Hodgson
Darwin College Silver Street, Cambridge, CambridgeshireOlga Berggolts, September 1941 As a poet and Communist Party member whose career began in the 1930s, Berggolts was familiar with the constraints of censorship and self-censorship. She experienced a spell of imprisonment in the late 1930s, and the wartime … Continue reading
