Dmitrovsky lane, Leningrad.
Dmitrovsky lane, Leningrad. 1941/Dmitrovsky lane, St. Petersburg, 2019.
I found the information about this picture in the memoir of Anatoly Molchanov, a poet from Leningrad, who was 11 when the war started. He lived a couple of blocks away on Pravda street and provided an eyewitness account of what happened. When the air raid warning was announced by radio, about 30 people took shelter in the basement of this house. However, the airbomb which made the big crater visible on the picture, not only wrecked tram rails and damaged the building, but also bent the basement door and partly barricaded it with rubble. The worst of all was that it burst open underground water pipes and water started pouring through basement windows. Eventually, all those who managed to escape bombs and fire met an unlikely death of drowning. The building was demolished after the war and nothing was built in its place, which was not typical for the city center.
Alexander Shmidke
I found the information about this picture in the memoir of Anatoly Molchanov, a poet from Leningrad, who was 11 when the war started. He lived a couple of blocks away on Pravda street and provided an eyewitness account of what happened. When the air raid warning was announced by radio, about 30 people took shelter in the basement of this house. However, the airbomb which made the big crater visible on the picture, not only wrecked tram rails and damaged the building, but also bent the basement door and partly barricaded it with rubble. The worst of all was that it burst open underground water pipes and water started pouring through basement windows. Eventually, all those who managed to escape bombs and fire met an unlikely death of drowning. The building was demolished after the war and nothing was built in its place, which was not typical for the city center.
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