Воспоминания о блокаде

Vladislav Mikhaĭlovich Glinka (1903–1983) — pisatelʹ i istorik, mnogo let prorabotavshiĭ v Gosudarstvennom Ėrmitazhe. On perezhil blokadu Leningrada, rabotaia v ėto tiazheloe vremia khranitelem v Ėrmitazhe, felʹdsherom v gospitale i odnovremenno otvechaia za sokhranenie kollektsiĭ IRLI AN SSSR ('Pushkinskiĭ dom'). Rukopisʹ 'Vospominaniia o blokade' byla obnaruzhena naslednikami V. M. Glinki posle smerti avtora pri razbore arkhiva. Povestvovanie o pervoĭ blokadnoĭ zime v Leningrade — ėto, nesomnenno, glavnoe iz memuaristiki avtora, gde osnovnymi deĭstvuiushchimi litsami vystupaiut dva sloia liudeĭ, okazavshikhsia v blokade. Odin iz ėtikh sloev — gibnushchiĭ. Drugoĭ, naprotiv, neobyknovenno zhivuchiĭ. V ėtom osobennostʹ blokadnykh memuarov V. M. Glinki — stseny, kharakterizuiushchie neotvratimostʹ gibeli tselykh plastov rabotnikov kulʹtury v usloviiakh bedstviia 1941–1942 gg.

Vladislav Mikhailovich Glinka (1903-1983) was a writer and historian who worked for many years at the State Hermitage Museum. He survived the siege of Leningrad, working during this difficult time as a curator at the Hermitage, a paramedic at the hospital, and at the same time responsible for preserving the collections of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House). The manuscript "Memories of the Blockade" was discovered by the heirs of V. M. Glinka after the author's death during the analysis of the archive. The narrative of the first winter of the siege in Leningrad is undoubtedly the most important of the author's memoirs, where the main characters are two layers of people trapped in the blockade. One of these layers is dying. The other, on the contrary, is extraordinarily tenacious. This is the peculiarity of the blockade memoirs of V. M. Glinka — scenes that characterize the inevitability of the death of entire layers of cultural workers in the disaster of 1941-1942.