Valery Gulyakin - St. Petersburg Island. Phototravel to History…

View of the former river port at Trinity Square

Finishing the story about Trinity Square, I cannot but tell of what occurred at it during the salute in honor of full lifting the blockade of Leningrad. And there was it on January 27, 1944.

Here, I write, and and the hackneyed stamp asks for a line: “tears of joy”! – But is not present, not here. Not in this case!

According to stories by mine of the grandmother and mother, the people who gathered then on the square – from those who could move even after 872-day hungry blockade, after the longest in the history of all times (three years, one month and two days!) fights to the country! – of course, rejoiced! – Yes! They joyfully looked into the sky decked by salute fires… being ready to drop at each its volley! Yes! They cried with happiness… but without tears! – At their exhausted people was not, – tears just did not flow! Now, gathering these lines, I cannot constrain them, but then…

– No, did not know, the tsar Pyotr what price descendants will be fated to execute his order: “… to hold this place, even unto death!”

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