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About Lidiya Ginzburg
Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg was a Soviet literary critic, historian, writer of the Russian Formalist school, and survivor of the siege of Leningrad. She is best known among English-reading audiences for her Blockade Diary, written during and after the Siege of Leningrad. Ginzburg died at the age of 88 from a heart attack proceeded by a stroke. She is buried in a cemetery in Komarovo.
Everything about Lidiya Ginzburg →- Occupation
- writer, literary scholar, memoirist, literary critic
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Born
- March 18, 1902
- Died
- July 17, 1990