Lena Mukhina, also Lena Muchina (Russian: Елена Владимировна Мухина, Yelena Vladimirovna Mukhina; 21 November 1924 in Ufa – 5 August 1991 in Moscow), was a Russian woman who wrote a diary about her experiences as a teenage schoolgirl during the Siege of Leningrad.
Mukhina's diary entries are dated from 21 May 1941 to 25 May 1942. She was evacuated from Leningrad in June 1942, and lived in Moscow until her death in 1991.[1]
An unknown donor handed the diary to a state archive in 1962; it was later discovered there by Sergei Yarov. It has been published in Russia (Сохрани мою печальную историю), Norway (Lena's Dagbok), Spain (El diario de Lena),[2] Germany (Lenas Tagebuch),[3] Poland (Dziennik czasu blokady),[4] Finland (Piirityspäiväkirja),[5] and the Netherlands (Lena's Dagboek), as well as in English as The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad.
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edit- ^ Mukhina, Elena (2016). The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad. London: MacMillan. p. 15. ISBN 9781447269878. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ Jacinto Antón in Spanish newspaper El País, “El gato dio para comer diez días”, on 30 September 2013
- ^ Anja Hirsch, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 31 Mai 2013, Wie unbemerkt so ein Schreckenstag vergeht, retrieved on 1 October 2013
- ^ Katarzyna Grabarczyk in Histmag.org on 2014-03-16, Lena Muchina – „Dziennik czasu blokady”, retrieved on 29 April 2015
- ^ Pentti Stranius in Savon Sanomat 5. March 2014: Lena Muhina: Piirityspäiväkirja 2014