Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (born 1930)

Tanya Savicheva

Russian diarist and victim of the Siege of Leningrad

Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Russian teenage diarist who kept a diary in 1942 whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva recorded the successive deaths of each member of her family in…