The madonnas of Leningrad
By: Debra Dean
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780007215065
Subjects: Art treasures in war; Memory; Fiction; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia); History
Description: Marina was a guide at Leningrad's Hermitage Museum. In the autumn of 1941, a task was set of taking priceless masterpieces out of the grand galleries, and storing them safely against the German bombardment. This is a novel about one woman's struggle to preserve an artistic heritage from World War II.
Notes: Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2006.