World of warships leningrad review9/26/2023 ![]() It also indicates the inclusion of the blockade in the category of events significant to the historical narrative of the Russian Orthodox Church. The construction of Russian Orthodox churches dedicated to the memory of the blockade, like the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Malaia Okhta and the Church of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land in Victory Park, testify to the emergence of a new language of historical commemoration in the post-Soviet Saint Petersburg. They were the driving force behind many memorials and commemorative signs dedicated to the Blockade of Leningrad in and around Saint Petersburg in the 1990s and early 2000s. Following the cultural transformations that took place during perestroika, I identify new actors of the politics of history: organizations of blockade survivors, Rus-sian nationalists, and the Russian Orthodox Church. The secular language of the artistic representation of the blockade created during the years of the USSR was instrumentalized by agents of the politics of history on the eve of perestroika and reinterpreted through the categories of Orthodox Christianity in contemporary Russia. The article, based on the analysis of architectural and memorial complexes dedicated to the Siege of Leningrad in Saint Petersburg, investigates the processes of formation and transformation of historical memory of this event in the urban space. I am grateful to Alexis Peri for assisting with translation of this article.
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