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Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.
Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks' eventual return. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind—a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .
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Max Owen
reviewed The Madonnas of Leningrad on January 22, 2009 The Madonnas of Leningrad
I really didn't read this book. I was having some visual problems which made it impossible for me to read for a time. The Madonnas of Leningrad was our Book club choice for the month of January and it was not available in audio.
I asked my sister Jane, who was staying with me for the holidays if she would read it for me and tell me about it. She loves to read and I thought she would enjoy it.
A beautiful thing happened. My sister told me the story in such detail and with such emotion that the characters became real to me. She loved the book and so did I. During her story telling sessions we shed tears as she walked me through the scenes of Leningrad and the Hermitage Museum during the Nazi siege. Together we were so touched by the strength of the women in the story.
My sister has gone through some difficult times recently and in her search for healing has been considering ways that she can be of service to her community in Alabama. As she finished telling the book to me by reading the last few pages aloud I was so moved. I said to her as she closed the book. "Jane, I think you have found your calling." She tilted her head and gave me a questioning look. "Doing what you've done for me, for the blind or the elderly", I said. Jane's eyes filled with tears as she said, "You're right, I have."
The characters of this incredible story will stay with me and influence how I see and remember the beauty around me. My sisters charitable act of reading and telling this heroic saga will remain in my "memory palace" forever as well.
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