Tanya Sevicheva's diary availability

[Maya Karin Peterson]

Yes, Elena is correct - it is not a "diary", but rather a small address
book, in which Tanya recorded the deaths of her family members on
the appropriate pages (for instance, her mother's death appears in the "M"
section). There is no content beyond simple sentences containing the
relative's name and the date of death, so any story written from these
notes would be a fabrication.  The pages with sentences on them are on
display at Piskarevskoe.

 On Tue, 24 May 2005, Elena Gapova wrote:

> If I am trying to remember correctly from my school days (I might not, as we
> were all brainwashed then, and when our minds have been cleaned cleaned, we
> forgot about Tanya Savicheva completely), the diary was, in fact, several
> notes registering the death of her family as it was happening, not something
> extended that could make a book.
>
> For a diary, I can recommend "Blokadnaya kniga" (1981) by Granin and
> Adamovich, where they extensively use, among others, the diary of Yura
> Ryabinkin, a teenager of 15 or 16. He had a dense intellectual, or, rather
> spiritual life, and he describes what he reads and thinks (and he reads
> academic Tarle on Napoleon) - and at the same time fights with his mother
> and is mad that she does not let him eat his daily ration at once, but
> divides it into smaller pieces bo te eaten during the day. He died.
> "Blokadnaya kniga" is not available online.
>
> e.g.
>
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> Is Tanya Sevicheva's diary available to be read by the general public, or
> only for display purposes in the Petersburg musem?
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