Vassoevich biography

Vassoevich, Tanya. Military diary and blockade letters. Vassoevich; aut. Reshetnikov; aut.

Until recently, we knew the tragic blocked diary of Tanya Savicheva, a schoolgirl from Leningrad, who celebrated the date of death of his relatives in his notebook. In the Nuremberg process, the pages from the diary were used as evidence of a crime against humanity. This book is a unique military diary of the Leningrad schoolgirl Tanya Vassoevich, which was among those who survived the most terrible besieged winter.

From the very first day of the war to the victorious May of the year, Tanya kept notes, which are also remarkable for containing many color drawings. It is they who turn Tanya’s diary into a genuine work of children's fine art of the Great Patriotic War. Today, this valuable historical document is carefully stored by her son-the head of the St. Petersburg Center of the Russian Institute for Strategic Research, Professor Andrei Leonidovich Vassoevich, who suggested the publication of the military diary, an extensive entry article, where the circumstances of the dramatic family history are entered into the wide historical context of the nineteenth and xx centuries.

Tanya Vassoevich’s diary is not reprinted, but scanned - this is a facsimile edition, which makes it possible to see it exactly the same as in the original. Tanya Vassoevich made the first entry on June 22, the last - on June 1 in a military diary, the schoolgirl spoke about life in the besieged city, about her impressions and experiences about the death of loved ones, evacuation, hunger, bombing and other horrors.

The older brother of the girl, summer Volodya, died on January 23, mothers, Ksenia Platonovna, did not become less than a month later, on February 17. Tolya cried - it moved me the most. At the funeral of my mother was me and Lucy. Vova and Mom are buried in real coffins, which I bought on Middle Avenue at the second line. Khudyakov watchman in the cemetery.

He was good and was kind to me, ”was brought out by a child’s hand in his diary. But among all the nightmares of the war there was a place and a miracle. In the spring, in the empty apartment of Tanya there was a block of ice. This is a brother’s gift, a frozen aquarium with fish frozen in ice. When it got warmer, the ice melted, and with it one goldfish, which again began to swim.

After some time, it was evacuated. Tanya went to Alma-Ata, met with her father. When the ring closed, he left the city on business, he simply could not get home to his family. After the war, they together returned to Leningrad. Tatyana Nikolaevna Vassoevich was born in the year, passed away in the year. For many years she taught children painting and always kept repeating to her students: “Keep a diary, because the diary is a story!

Her notebook is stored in the house of her son.