About Tanya Savicheva
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Russian: Татьяна Николаевна Савичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva (Таня Савичева; (1930-01-23)23 January 1930 – (1944-07-01)1 July 1944), was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva wrote the successive and unfortunate deaths of each member of her family from starvation and diseases such as dysentery and dystrophy over four and a half months in her diary, with the last family member to die being her mother, Mariya, on 13 May 1942. After her mother died, Tanya Savicheva wrote her final diary entry: The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left (Савичевы умерли. Умерли все. Осталась одна Таня). Savicheva was evacuated from the besieged Leningrad and sent to live in an orphanage (and later a hospital when her health rapidly deteriorated), she eventually died from tuberculosis on 1 July 1944, at the age of 14, in Gorky Oblast (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (in modern-day Russia). 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 Saint Petersburg with a memorial complex on the Green Belt of Glory along the Road of Life. Her diary is speculated to have been used during the Nuremberg trials as evidence of the Nazis’ crimes, although this speculation is probably false, as her diary probably would not have left the archives of the Nuremberg trials. == Early life == Savicheva was born on 23 January 1930, the youngest child in the family of a baker father, Nikolay Rodionovich Savichev, and a seamstress mother, Mariya Ignatievna Savicheva.
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