Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on 27 January 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind - the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) - ended. Its importance can ...

Some of Meena’s art pieces at the Russian Centre—composed out of watercolours and Russian ink—were paintings of the Monument ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President ...

They relentlessly bombed the city and deliberately subjected nearly two and a half million people to starvation and extreme, unimaginable hardship. For 872 days, Leningrad had been under siege.

The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan. 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over ...

to protect a collection for which the whole raison d’être was to one day save humanity from starvation. While, just around the corner, Leningrad’s Hermitage art museum’s two million ...

At the Leningrad Victory concert dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory and the 81st anniversary of the liberation of ...

Russian kindergartens made children reenact the Siege of Leningrad anniversary with activities like lining up for black bread ...