Did you know both the chess masters - Romanovsky and Rabinovich - called in their moves by telephone to coordinators on site, and the latter used megaphones to command the human chess pieces.

In Leningrad’s Evangelical Baptist Church ... At the opening last week in the huge auditorium of the Palace of Cultural and Industrial Cooperatives, the Stars and Stripes flew beside the ...

On Monday morning, the day of the première, the cast met in Leningrad’s Palace of Culture for a final dress rehearsal, with full orchestra. Originally, the Russians had intended housing the ...

The siege of Leningrad was the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. It lasted 872 days but is colloquially known as the 900-day siege. Leningrad’s population of 2.5 million was ...

In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and ...

Following our introduction, Rita agreed to share her eyewitness testimony with me. “I was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in the mid 1930’s. In September 1941, my family (father ...