6 Pavlov,
7 Leon Gouré,
8 Yelena Skrjabina,
9 Yelena Kochina,
10 Klara Rakhman, unpublished manuscript, held by the diarist’s family.
11 Georgi Knyazev, 17 July 1941, in Adamovich and Granin,
12 Adamovich and Granin,
13 Order to district Party secretaries, 11 August 1941. RGASPI: Fond 17, op. 22, delo 1644, p. 41.
14 Skrjabina,
15 Nina Malakova, in Michael Jones,
16 Mariya Motovskaya, in Adamovich and Granin,
17 Ibid., pp. 248–9. Dmitri Likhachev,
18 William Moskoff,
19 Interviewed by the author, Vsevolozhsk, November 2006.
20 Skrjabina,
21 Ibid., p. 24; Likhachev,
22 Sidney Monas and Jennifer Greene Krupala, eds,
23 Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, eds,
24 Pavlov,
25 Aleksandr Barbovsky, 30 August 1941. RGALI: Fond 2733, op. 1, yed. khr. 872, pp. 15–16.
26 The commission’s visit is hard to date exactly. Salisbury infers from Admiral Kuznetsov’s memoirs that it set out on 27 August and arrived on the 28th. However, Stalin ordered the mission on the 21st, included Molotov among the addressees of a communication of 27 August and ordered its return on 29 August, suggesting that it arrived several days earlier.
27 RGASPI: Fond 558, op. 11, yed. khr. 492, p. 27.
28 Ibid., p. 35.
29 Ibid., p. 39.
30 Simon Sebag Montefiore,
31 Nikita Lomagin,
32 Lyubov Shaporina, 4 September 1941, in Simmons and Perlina, eds,
33 Olga Berggolts, 2 September 1941;
34 TsAMO: Fond 148a, op. 3763, delo 97, p. 29.
35 Skrjabina,
36 Adamovich and Granin,
1 Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds,
2 Winston Churchill,
3 RGASPI: Fond 558, op. 11, yed. khr. 492, p. 49.
4 The exact date of Zhukov’s arrival in Leningrad has only recently been firmly established. Though in practice he took over command immediately on arrival, the relevant Stavka order was not formally issued until 11 September.
5
6 Viktor Anfilov,
7 V. F. Chekrizov, ‘Dnevnik blokadnogo vremeni’, in
8 Anna Zelenova,
9 Lidiya Osipova, ‘Iz dnevnika o zhizni v prigorodakh Leningrada’, in Lomagin, ed,
10 Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky,
11 Konstantin Plotkin,