Tanya Savicheva
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Russian: Татья́на Никола́ыевна Са́вичева; 23 January 1930 – 1 July 1944) was a Soviet schoolgirl who during the Siege of Leningrad, used her notebook as a diary. Almost the entire family of Tanya Savicheva died during the siege from December 1941 to May 1942. Her diary consists of nine pages, six of which contains the death dates of her family members. Tanya died after evacuation on 1 July 1944, at the age of 14. Her hospital registration card stated that she suffered from scurvy, dystrophy, neurosis, blindness, and intestinal tuberculosis. Only her older sister Nina and her brother Mikahil had survived the siege, thanks to whom Tanya's diary has survived and has become one of the mournful symbols of the Great Patriotic War. During the 20th century, only excerpts of Tanya's diary has been published. The diary was digitized in 2016, and exhibited at the Rumyantsev Mansion.