The book of Карины Добротворской could be written with only the girl born in Leningrad. Ненамного before her blockade mythology that supports peculiar to his habitants feeling of мученичества and selectness was born in the same city and got strong. As usual, in these feeling much fictitious, stuck, standard. But for a woman, overcoming the own blockade dissociating her from the large world, from beauty, success, careers, - the theme of Leningrad hunger opens up quite on the other hand. It appears that the horror outlived by Leningrad nowhere went from her life.