Russian child diarist (died 1944)

Tanya Savicheva

Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva wrote the successive and unfortunate deaths of each member of her family from starvation and diseases such as dysentery and dystrophy over four and a half months in her diary, with the last family member to die being her mother, Mariya, on 13 May 1942. After her mother died, Tanya Savicheva wrote her final diary entry: The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead.

Born

1930

January 23

Died

1944

Era

1930s

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Tanya, in brief

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1930 Born
1944 Died

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The world in 1930

When Tanya arrived

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