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Tanya Savicheva

1930 - 1944

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Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva ((1930-01-23)23 January 1930 – (1944-07-01)1 July 1944), was a Russian teenage diarist who kept a diary in 1942 whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva recorded the successive deaths of each member of her family in her diary, with her final entry indicating her belief to be the sole living family member. Although Savicheva was rescued and transferred to a hospital, she succumbed to intestinal tuberculosis in July 1944 at age 14. Savicheva's image and the pages from her diary became symbolic of the human cost of the siege of Leningrad, and she is remembered in St. Petersburg with a memorial complex on the Green Belt of Glory along the Road of Life. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tanya Savicheva is the 2,466th most popular writer (down from 2,018th in 2019), the 844th most popular biography from Russia (down from 730th in 2019) and the 100th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tanya Savicheva ranks 2,466 out of 7,302. Before her are Apollonius Dyscolus, Dares Phrygius, Jules Supervielle, Juan de Valdés, Ron Kovic, and Umberto Saba. After her are Michele Ruggieri, Alfréd Wetzler, Forrest J Ackerman, Karel Hynek Mácha, Charles Mackay, and Phan Thi Kim Phuc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Tanya Savicheva ranks 194. Before her are Sa'dun Hammadi, Babushka Lady, Barbara Lawrence, Anerood Jugnauth, Veljo Tormis, and June Almeida. After her are Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Guy Ligier, Yi-Fu Tuan, Anthony Steffen, Paul Veyne, and Venantino Venantini. Among people deceased in 1944, Tanya Savicheva ranks 146. Before her are Musa Cälil, Israel Joshua Singer, Felix Nussbaum, Alberts Kviesis, Andrey Sheptytsky, and Helmut Lent. After her are Carl Flesch, Wilhelm Falley, Joseph Caillaux, Max Nettlau, Walter Heitz, and Franz Kutschera.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tanya Savicheva ranks 844 out of 3,761. Before her are Söyembikä of Kazan (1516), Vladimir Ilyushin (1927), Slava Metreveli (1936), Iona Nikitchenko (1895), Alexander Novikov (1900), and Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901). After her are Prince Paul of Württemberg (1785), Konstantin Balmont (1867), Pavel Rotmistrov (1901), Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (1879), Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725), and Ivan Yefremov (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Tanya Savicheva ranks 100. Before her are Afanasy Fet (1820), Musa Cälil (1906), Andrei Voznesensky (1933), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), and Samuil Marshak (1887). After her are Konstantin Balmont (1867), Ivan Yefremov (1908), Sergey Aksakov (1791), Gennadiy Aygi (1934), Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), and Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850).

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