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Photographs

^{Me at the Neva embankment with the Peter and Paul Fortress in the background.}

^{Day 1: Dinner at Anatoly and Ellie’s. Clockwise from left: Viktor, Alla, Papa, Ellie, Anatoly, Anatoly’s brother Viktor and his wife Lyuba.}

^{Day 1: My childhood friend Alla (centre) with her husband, Viktor, and daughter, Marina.}

^{Day 2: My dacha at Shepelevo.}

^{Day 2: Shepelevo, on Lake Gora-Valdaisko. When I was little I would row across this lake to the shore in the distance to go mushroom and blueberry picking, on a boat much like the one behind me.}

^{Day 2: A Soviet bus on the way to Shepelevo.}

^{Day 3: My school and schoolyard, and Papa standing outside the school doors.}

^{Day 3: Tauride Park and the elms under which Tatiana sat and ate her ice cream when Alexander saw her from across this street in The Bronze Horseman.}

^{Me next to a sign on Nevsky Prospekt left over from the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941–1944. It says, “Citizens! In the event of bombing, this side of the street is more dangerous”.}

^{Day 4: The Broken Ring at Lake Ladoga, the memorial at the start of the Road of Life.}

^{Day 4: The mouth of the Neva emptying out into Lake Ladoga at Schlisselburg. The strip of land is where the Germans entrenched during the blockade.}

^{The mass graves at Piskarev Cemetery.}

^{My Fifth Soviet apartment building.}

^{The stairs to the communal apartment on Fifth Soviet, where I lived as a child.}

^{Our kitchen in the Fifth Soviet apartment, which had two kitchens, shared by 13 families.}

^{The corridor in the Fifth Soviet apartment leading away from our two rooms to the front door.}

^{Day 4: Diorama at Schlisselburg, the Breaking of the Blockade.}

^{Day 4: Schlisselburg,the city pivotal in the defense of Leningrad battles, at the mouth where the Neva empties out into Lake Ladoga. The fortress island is Oreshek, and in front of it is the Catherine Canal on which the Germans dug their trenches.}