Surviving the hunger and devastation of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II has made 97-year-old Russian Fanny ...

The 900-day Siege of Leningrad, imposed by the invading forces ... was the worst - a time when starvation was a universal affliction and death was just around the corner. Many of the siege's ...

They relentlessly bombed the city and deliberately subjected nearly two and a half million people to starvation and extreme, unimaginable hardship. For 872 days, Leningrad had been under siege.