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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin book prize 2023 новая книга Александра Эткинда рисуетThe Forbidden Garden of Leningrad plunges into the harrowing Siege of 194144, when Leningrad was starved into submission by Nazi forces. Amid unimaginable hunger, a bold group of Soviet botanists chose to shield the worlds largest seedbank, risking their lives rather than use it to feed themselves, in an act of scientific courage and sacrifice. In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad now St Petersburg and began