Lena Mukhina also ''Lena Muchina'' (russian: Елена Владимировна Мухина, ''Yelena Vladimirovna Mukhina''; 21 November 1924 in
Ufa
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– 5 August 1991 in
Moscow
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) was a Russian woman who wrote about her experiences as a teenage schoolgirl during the
Siege of Leningrad
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in her
diary
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, pouring out her hopes and fears.
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.
An unknown donor handed the diary to a state archive in 1962; it was discovered there by Sergei Yarov. It has been published in Russia (''Сохрани мою печальную историю''), Norway (''Lena's Dagbok''), Spain (''El diario de Lena''), Germany (''Lenas Tagebuch''), Poland (''Dziennik czasu blokady''). and Finland (''Piirityspäiväkirja'')
[Pentti Stranius in ]Savon Sanomat
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History and profile
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5. March 2014
''Lena Muhina: Piirityspäiväkirja
2014
See also
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Tanya Savicheva
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva (23 January 1930 – 1 July 1944), was a Russian child diary, diarist who endured the siege of Leningra ...
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Anne Frank
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20th-century women writers
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Historians of fascism
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1924 births
1991 deaths
Russian women writers
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