During World War II, as Nazi forces besieged the Russian city of Leningrad, scientists at the city’s famed seed bank made a pact to protect the collection and consume nothing, even if it could have ...

Simple History The Siege of Leningrad (1941-44) Posted: December 20, 2024 | Last updated: December 20, 2024 The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history. The German forces were ...

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Simon Parkin Scribner (2024) After Simon Parkin’s account of the siege of Leningrad and the fate of the ...

From 1975: U.S. Rep. Thomas Foley, the district’s Democratic congressman, was expected to be appointed to a key position in ...

For more than two years during the Nazi siege of Leningrad, botanists in the Russian city guarded a treasury of seeds, grains and tubers with their lives. In 1921, when Nikolai I. Vavilov arrived ...

He tells the extraordinary story of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, performed and broadcast as a symbol of hope in the midst of the horrifying siege of Leningrad during World War Two. Features ...

Born in post-war Leningrad amid the grim legacy of the Nazi siege, the young Vladimir Putin learnt survival arts more appropriate to the chaotic post-Soviet dog-eat-dog society of the 1990s than ...

Russian President Vladimir Putinsaid Wednesday that he signed a decree awarding 80,000 rubles ($780) to the country’s World ...