Afterword to the Pamphlet of 1942

A Unesco World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg which survived a 900day Nazi siege in World War Two is today under threat again over the past several years Russias new capitalists have demolished over two hundred historic buildings in the city Retracing Dimitry Likhachevs eponymous article the film draws parallels between the Siege of Leningrad and the defense of medieval Russian cities as described in the chronicles Returning to the present it compares todays destroyers of history with foreign invaders