'It turns out that houses from the gases of the blast wave change color: this is how a person's face changes from shock.' The diary of the Russian poet and translator Vera Mikhailovna Inber tells about the hard days of the war in the period from 1941 to 1944 and fully conveys the tragedy of besieged Leningrad. Sagging legs are from fear when a bomb explodes nearby. Laughter and tears are from happiness when they added 75 grams of bread. The blockade diary is the most honest and poignant evidence of that terrible and heroic time ...