The Great Patriotic War became a grief for many people and touched the fate of each of them. Many writers armed themselves not only with rifles, but also with a word. A cycle of works about the blockade of Leningrad came out of this struggle.
Black muse writers
Often museums of writers are past events. Unfortunately, part of our story is bitter. And inspiration is sometimes washed with blood. Such was the blockade in Leningrad. On August 30, 1941, the city was surrounded by Nazi troops. The option to turn in the city was discarded. And over eight hundred days, the inhabitants frantically defended themselves.
The blockade of Leningrad in literature was described by a wide range of masters who were imprisoned in the walls of the capital, defended it, fought in the rear and worried about the fate of the city thousands of kilometers from it.
The city is the birthplace of many poets and prose writers, and they reproduced the pain of Leningrad in their works.
Prose of tragic years
The war left deep wounds in the hearts. And those who survived the Great Patriotic War had the honor to share their impressions with their descendants. An important point in the war was the blockade of Leningrad. It was a tragedy of the whole people, but at the same time it was also the pride of the Soviet Union. Having recovered, such prose writers as L. Panteleev (Alexei Eremeev), Mikhail Chulaki, Lidia Ginzburg, Nikolai Tikhonov, write their best works, the foundation for which was the blockade of Leningrad.
In the works of writers, one can clearly trace the reality. Usually only names of heroes are invented, the rest of the writers themselves experienced. One way or another, during the years of hostilities, their fate was connected with the besieged city.
Direct reporting from Leningrad at the beginning of the forties
Each of the writers suffered the horrors of war on themselves. One of these is Alexander Borisovich Chakovsky. During the war, a man served in the Red Army and was a correspondent for many newspapers. So, he had to visit the blocked Leningrad. Subsequently, based on these recollections, he wrote a novel from five books of the Blockade. This work captures a wide range. Events begin even before World War II. The author skillfully depicts the then political picture. Its main characters are residents of Leningrad. The epic begins in peacetime, talks about hard, hungry and cold weekdays and ends with a breakthrough. This work is the most accurate about the blockade of Leningrad. Chakovsky was an eyewitness of those events and truthfully portrayed them in his book “Blockade”. In his epic filmed the same film.
The writer is also the author of other famous works about the years of the war. These are the novels “It Was in Leningrad” and “The Mirror”.
Firsthand
Another fate is associated with the blockade of Leningrad. Tamara Sergeyevna Zinberg was born in the hero city and worked there all her life. The Seventh Symphony - her personal memories. Having survived the blockade, she decided to share with the world the tragic fate of her citizens. This is a story about dramatic and difficult years that only kindness of people helped to survive. The bright souls remaining in the environment lived at the expense of each other's help. Such works about the blockade of Leningrad are written from the inside.
The victories of the heroes are the victories of the author. In general, this is a historical outline of the war years. The story tells of two children who, ironically, were close by. Readers sympathize with the heroes and empathize with them. And next to the horrors of war, the book teaches us to love one another. Tamara Zinberg survived the blockade of her hometown and subsequently helped rebuild it. She, like no one else, knew that it was labor that gives strength to a person to survive at any time, she put such an idea into her story. The book was filmed under the title Winter Morning.
Leningrad blockade from the sky
In 1955, the novel Baltic Sky was published. The author of the book is Nikolai Korneevich Chukovsky . From the beginning of the war, the writer participated in the defense of the city and during the blockade remained in Leningrad. He worked on the work from 1946 to 1954. And all because I wanted to share my experiences with the reader. The man worked as a war correspondent at the airport. Often flew with pilots. The heroism of the air aces inspired him to book.
“Baltic Sky” is Chukovsky’s best work. Works devoted to the siege of Leningrad usually describe its land side, but Nikolai Korneevich’s novel tells about the exploits of the Baltic Fleet pilots. All the heroes of the book are taken from life. The story tells of the pilots, their struggle for the freedom of their people. The fate of the heroes is not easy, the life path of most of them is short, but the novel teaches you to be faithful to the homeland and the idea for which the country is fighting.
The blockade in poetry
In all ages, people have poured out their feelings with words. The Great Patriotic War was no exception. Events of global disaster lay on the sheets as works of art. Many films were made about the blockade of Leningrad and many books were written. But it is rhyme that sinks into the soul most of all.
The poets of the Soviet Union took responsibility in the lines to transmit to the descendants the content of the war days. 872 days lasted resistance. It is this battle of people against violence that poets described in poetry.
He sang in verse the blockade of Musa Jalil. The famous poet before the war could not abandon the patriot's duty to defend his homeland. Death met him in captivity of the enemy. But it was the years of bondage that gave the world more than a hundred verses.
Works about the blockade of Leningrad - an idea in the works of Eduard Asadov. His poem “Leningrad” is full of sympathy for the city. The Kazakh poet Dzhambul Dzhabaev and his song “Leningraders, my children!” Also raise the spirit.
The poet defended Leningrad
The war did not spare anyone. Grief forced to take up arms. One of these was the famous author of children's poems Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lifshits. The struggle against fascism changed the direction of his poetry. Now he wrote about pain due to events in the country.
When they talk about
literary works about the siege of Leningrad, the first thing that comes to mind is the “Ballad on the Callousness of a Piece”, which was written in 1942. Vladimir Lifshits, a Leningrader in spirit, was desperately worried about his city. His ballad shows the true side of the blockade. An easy-to-read poem evokes vivid representations of the events of that time. So, even after many years, the story of a lieutenant appears before his eyes, who gave a piece of stale bread to his son. The son took pity on his mother and put the stale piece into her hands. When the lieutenant left the house, he groped for the very unsanitary bread in his pocket. His wife put him there.
Vladimir Alexandrovich himself fought for the freedom of the city, for which he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad."
The Other Side in Akhmatova’s Poems
The Great Patriotic War also occupies a large stage in rhymes of the pearl of Russian literature - Anna Andreevna Akhmatova. Dashing years caught the poetess in Leningrad. The city, with which part of her life was closely connected, was falling. The pain was expressed by a woman in verse. So, from her hands came such poetry: “The first long-range in Leningrad”, “Nox”, “Birds of death are at the zenith”. These were impressions of the first days of the war. The poetess wrote the works about the blockade of Leningrad not from the accounts of eyewitnesses, but from her own memoirs.
Her poems can be traced to the defeat and victory of the blockade. So, in 1941 creates the "Oath". Four lines are pierced through with sadness and patriotism. In 1942, Akhmatova wrote “And you, my friends of the last call,” where he thanks the soldiers for their courage and takes the responsibility to glorify the names of the winners. Her works do not describe the exploits, they are about the heroic deeds of women who remained in the rear.
A theme that does not die
So many years have passed from the distant and tragic days of World War II, and the theme of the hero city is eternal. Works about the blockade of Leningrad are still being written. Modern historians take their talented predecessors as an example. They devote their work to bitter time. So, on the shelves of bookstores a new post-modern novel “Mythogenic love of castes” appeared. The authors are Pavel Pepperstein and Sergey Anufriev. The events of the book revolve around military Leningrad.
The besieged novel "Sleep and Believe" by Andrei Turgenev also tells an amazing story about the years of the war. Igor Vishnevetsky and Boris Ivanov wrote, referring to the blockade. A popular theme of the siege is in the poetic works of Polina Barskova “Ariel's Message”, by Sergei Zavyalov in the poem “Christmas Post”, which is published in his book by Igor Vishnevetsky “Leningrad”.