What is Tanya Savicheva?
{{Infobox person | name = Tanya Savicheva | image = Tanya Savicheva 1.jpg | image_size = 170px | caption = Tanya Savicheva at the age of six (1936) | birth_name = Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva | occupation = [[wikidata:diarist|Diarist]] and [[student]] | birth_date = 23 January 1930 | birth_place = [[Dvorishchi]], [[Leningrad Oblast]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | nationality = Soviet | death_date = 1 July 1944 (aged 14) | death_place = [[Shatki]], [[Gorky Oblast]], Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | father = Nikolai Rodionovich Savichev | mother = Maria Ignatievna Savicheva (Fedorova) }} '''Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva''' (Russian: Татья́на Никола́ыевна Са́вичева; 23 January 1930 – 1 July 1944) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] schoolgirl who during the [[Siege of Leningrad]], used her notebook as a diary. Almost the entire family of Tanya Savicheva died during the siege from December 1941 to May 1942. Her diary consists of nine pages, six of which contains the death dates of her family members. Tanya died after evacuation on 1 July 1944, at the age of 14. Her hospital registration card stated that she suffered from [[scurvy]], [[dystrophy]], [[neurosis]], [[blindness]], and intestinal [[tuberculosis]]. Only her older sister Nina and her brother Mikahil had survived the siege, thanks to whom Tanya's diary has survived and has become one of the mournful symbols of the [[Great Patriotic War]]. During the 20th century, only excerpts of Tanya's diary were published. The diary was digitized in 2016, and exhibited at the [[Rumyantsev Mansion]]. == Biography == Tanya was born on 23 Janaury 1930 in the village of [[Dvorishchi]] near [[Gdov]], not far from [[Lake Peipus]], but, liker her brothers and sisters, she grew up in [[Leningrad]] (which is why Leningrad is often erroneously indicated as her birthplace). Tanya was the fifth and youngest child of Nikolai Rodionovich Savichev (1884 – 5 March 1936) and Maria Ignatievna Fedorova (1889 – 13 May 1942). She had two sisters named Evgenia (1909 – 28 December 1941)