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Original Title:	The Madonnas of Leningrad
ISBN:	0060825316 (ISBN13: 9780060825317)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.debradean.com/the-madonnas-of-leningrad/

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Debra Dean

Paperback | Pages: 228 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 16510 Users | 2140 Reviews

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Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—her distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of her youth in war-torn Leningrad.

In the fall of 1941, the German army approached the outskirts of Leningrad, signaling the beginning of what would become a long and torturous siege. During the ensuing months, the city's inhabitants would brave starvation and the bitter cold, all while fending off the constant German onslaught. Marina, then a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum, along with other staff members, was instructed to take down the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, yet leave the frames hanging empty on the walls—a symbol of the artworks' eventual return. To hold on to sanity when the Luftwaffe's bombs began to fall, she burned to memory, brushstroke by brushstroke, these exquisite artworks: the nude figures of women, the angels, the serene Madonnas that had so shortly before gazed down upon her. She used them to furnish a "memory palace," a personal Hermitage in her mind to which she retreated to escape terror, hunger, and encroaching death. A refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .

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Title	:	The Madonnas of Leningrad
Author	:	Debra Dean
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 228 pages
Published	:	February 20th 2007 by Harper Perennial (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Art. War. World War II

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Ratings: 3.78 From 16510 Users | 2140 Reviews

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When I allot the stars I go by my gut feeling, but I do try to be restrictive. When you have just finished a book and think of all the things you liked about it, you tend to give the book too many stars. If you do this, a four or five star book just doesn't mean anything! So this gets three stars.I DO like this book! A lot. I liked the wonderful description of the Hermitage and the paintings there. Sometimes when you take a guided tour of a museum and you get a guide who really knows their

I think I was in the right place and the right frame of mind for this story. It started off a little slow for me, but the war time story in Leningrad and the paintings and art in the museum, and the characters especially, were so real. I spent hours Googling the paintings that were described. The present story of the same elderly woman with memory issues was sad and haunting. A well done story and definitely worth reading.

Thank you, Joe. The title is beautiful as is this book.

i was so intrigued by the plot of this book. the setting is both in WWII Leningrad and modern day California. The main character, Marina is a young woman in love in Leningrad (her fiance joins the army) and then as an 80 year old struggling with Alzheimers. I did not get caught up in the depictions of living with the war, which i thought i would. Instead, i was rivetted by the way the author took you back and forth between 1940's and present day, much in the way that Marina's mind was

Debra Dean - image from her Facebook pagesThis is a stunning novel. Marina is a woman in her 80s about to attend her granddaughters wedding near her home in Seattle. Her mind is failing, however, and she is transported back to other times in her life, most particularly to the time when, as a young woman, she worked at the Hermitage. The joy she took in her work there was countered by the horror of remaining while Germans laid siege to Leningrad. It was the most intense period of her life, both

2.5 stars

I loved how The Madonnas of Leningrad looked at memory in so many different ways. Marina is an older woman caught in the tangle of Alzheimer's Disease. She's intelligent and tries to compensated, but has problems with her short-term memory. Her mind goes back to her experiences in 1941 during the Siege of Leningrad.Marina was working as a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum when the German army was getting close to Leningrad during World War II. The museum staff removed the paintings on the walls