LIUDMILA IVANOVNA VESHENKOVA: Sweet Earth

“Sweet Earth” is held in the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad. At the start of the war the mother would come home from work later and later to feed her little girl and then immediately would go to bed. The little girl was alone all day, locked inside with no one to talk to, save her doll Katia, and she could only watch passers-by from the window. The window was almost even with the roadway; across the fence was the garden of the Karl Marx Hospital. The German air-raid attack began late at night while the tired city slept.