Elena Vladimirovna Mukhina
Jelena Vladimirovna Muchina ( Russian Елена Владимировна Мухина , known as Lena Muchina ; born November 21, 1924 in Ufa , Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ; † August 5, 1991 in Moscow , Soviet Union) was a Russian woman who lived as a teenager in the Soviet Union 1941 and 1942 recorded her experiences, hopes and feelings in the besieged Leningrad in a diary .
Life
The diary ends on May 25, 1942, the day Muchina was probably evacuated from Leningrad. In the later years of her life she worked as a miller , as a mosaic designer and in a Moscow electrotechnical factory. She remained unmarried.
Muchina's diary was handed over to a state archive by an unknown person in 1962, where it was later discovered by the historian Sergei Yarov (1959–2015).
publication
- The original was released in 2011.
- Edition in German, translated and provided with foreword and afterword as well as notes by Lena Gorelik and Gero Fedtke: Lenas Tagebuch. Leningrad 1941–1942 . Graf Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86220-036-8 .
reception
The document and the German edition received high praise in newspapers and radio. The journalist Anja Hirsch wrote in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung :
"... 'Lena's diary' is not only a sensation in its completeness. Lena Muchina makes the time of the Leningrad blockade ... exemplarily visible and palpable for many. ... Her diary, like that of Anne Frank, is a document that covers this inhuman chapter in the history of illuminated inside ...
... a new, important and oppressively sustainable, because undisguised voice from these 872 days ...
... pictorial language so that you can see everything in front of you. That makes reading this diary, this amazing document of time touching and impressive "(May 31, 2013).
Web links
- Review notes on the information portal perlentaucher .
- Review of the diary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on May 31, 2013.
- Report on the information portal of Deutschlandfunk from September 12, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muchina, Jelena Vladimirovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muchina, Lena; Мухина, Елена Владимировна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian worker and diary writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ufa , Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th August 1991 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Soviet Union |