Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

This guide to Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg follows Tanya Savicheva, an eleven-year-old girl who kept a small notebook recording the deaths of her family, one by one, during the siege of Leningrad. You'll hear how her grandmother and other victims were buried in the mass graves that shape this ground, one hundred eighty six mounds marked only by year, and what historians estimate about how many died in the siege. A copy of Tanya's diary is kept in the museum on site.