Vincent Bartels’s Reviews > Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad > Status Update

Terribly sad story of the depths of depravity people experienced during WW2. Rightfully points out that Leningrad (Petersburg/Petrograd) had been under siege from the whites, to the reds, to the Stalinist regime, to the Nazis, and then once again Stalin.

A terrifying tail of a terrific composer.

sometimes feels like the authors fanfiction of Dimitri's life. lots of, "we assume"s and "must have been"s... not a lot of direct quotes.