for a whole month using his work card , mother and me, siege bread with fire and blood in half, as bergoltzds, and personal diaries will later be included in the exhibition of the siege museum. the museum of defense and siege of leningrad began to be created even when the war was going on, it was huge, 37 halls, and the residents themselves replenished collection, until 1949, almost a million people visited the exhibition, but in the same year, as part of the leningrad affair, the museum was closed, and its leaders were repressed; they were accused of distorting the course of historical events and creating a myth. about the special fate of leningrad during the siege. here they are, the first guardians. the collection they were so proud of was ruined. some, for example, tanya savicheva’s diary, were transferred to other museums, and some were disposed of. among the absurd accusations was this. the exhibition contained weapons to seize power. the creator of the siege museum, lev rakov , was sentenced to death, as were the former leaders of the party elite in leningrad. but then his sentence w