A City Drawn from Memory – a novel-investigation, where St. Petersburg becomes a city of memory – personal, family, historical. Elena Chizhova reconstructs the fascinating history of her family.
A count’s maid, a stove master, a brilliant dressmaker, a soldier, a chief engineer, the owner of a manufactory and a half-breed girl who trawls rómana to yard friends in the attic – four generations who keep the memory of the events of the twentieth century that fell to the lot of Leningraders: the Civil War, repression in the 1930s, the blockade, evacuation, and the difficult postwar period.






