Dmitri Shostakovich – Leningradskaia : The End of the Siege and the Triumph of the Spirit – The Greanville Post greanvillepost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greanvillepost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad, was the scene of one of the bloodiest and most tragic episodes of the Second World War. Nazi Germany's siege of Russia's former capital lasted 872 days, claiming the lives up to a million civilians and about.