Lyudmila Andreyevna survived the blockade. Her husband went to the front from Leningrad, leaving his wife and two young children there. When the blockade began, Lyudmila Andreyevna and her sister continued to work in the besieged city. Lyudmila Andreyevna lived with her children in a communal apartment. Life was hard. There was almost no food. When they went to work, parents left their children food for the whole day; of course, the children ate everything at once. People committed various crimes for food, people went crazy from hunger. There were looters and speculators. So the neighbor in the communal apartment where Lyudmila Andreyevna lived with her children, went mad from hunger. She followed Lyudmila Andreyevna around the apartment saying: "you know, Lyudochka, you can be eaten.» After these words, when leaving for work, Lyudmila Andreyevna asked the children to lock themselves in the room and not to open the door to the neighbor under any pretext. And during the bombing, children hid under the bed, as they could not quickly run out of the room to the bomb shelter. Lyudmila Andreyevna worked as a dishwasher in the military canteen. Maybe that's what kept her and her children alive. All the pots and cauldrons from under the food, were filled with water and rinsed. All this" fat " water was carefully collected by women, so that even the smell of food did not disappear, and carried to their homes – to theirs, neighbors, friends. This "fat" water was divided into glasses, so that everyone got at least a little. All cats, dogs, birds, rats, and leather goods were eaten in the city. It was from Lyudmila Andreyevna that I learned that people in the besieged city were eating each other, that corpses with soft body parts cut out were laying on the streets. For a whole year Lyudmila Andreyevna lived with her children in besieged Leningrad. Together with her sister Antonina Andreevna, they went to look for the body of their aunt, they had to look among the piles of dead bodies. After all, all the dead and killed were put in large piles. That's where they found her. Then Lyudmila Andreyevna and her children were evacuated from Leningrad to Siberia on the road of life through Ladoga. It was both the road of life and the road of death. When Lyudmila Andreyevna was driving in the car with her children, her children fell asleep from hunger and weakness, but she did not sleep. As she watched, the car behind them went under the ice, then another in front of them. And she sat and thought that if only the children would not wake up, so that if anything happened they would sleep and not understand anything. They were taken to Siberia. They lived there until the end of the war.