Girl from the Hermitage
Girl from the Hermitage It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Katya are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead…
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Girl from the Hermitage
It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Katya are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Its cellars could now provide a safe haven, provided Mikhail can navigate the perils of a portrait commission from one of Stalin's colonels. Galina's artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage.
What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. Nearly 40 years later, Galina herself is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. The painting she embarks upon that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and Galina's familiar world changes out of all recognition.
Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland's debut novel
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