Doświadczenie głodu: Piotrogród-Leningrad
Famine experience: Petrograd-Leningrad

Summary/Abstract: Reading reminiscences and notes of besieged citizens of Leningrad many times one can come across information concerning famine set in the Russian city during the civil war. It turns out that those two boundary experiences imply many frightening similarities, such as the same mechanism of behavior towards escalating famine. The article attempts to analyze Reminiscences by Dmitry Likhachov from this perspective. The author pays attention to the similarities in describing famine in Petrograd and Leningrad, but also differences. After all, the famine in post-revolutionary Russia is present in Likhachov’s witness in the context of reminiscences form his childhood. Whereas, the siege of Leningrad is seen by grown-up man — husband, father, but also son, who in an interesting way records traumatic changes of the body and psychology of besieged man.

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