And I decided to read this book only aircraft. Flights to Santiago to Menorca to Valencia to Barcel

And I decided to read this book only aircraft. Flights to Santiago to Menorca to Valencia to Barcelona ... And so, twenty, up to three in August 2013, which I finished while flying to Barcelona to go bury my grandmother. A few days ago, the Galeusca Pontevedra, I met Jose Francisco Delgado and Russia left the conversation. When I mentioned to him the golden needle was pleased and told me ten years ago nobody talked li'n. So I decided to review it here.
The Golden Needle is an article essential. Book a trip to this "epic medieval to a modern city" of 951 days, a story told with passion and style that makes literature, but the drama of the reality of Leningrad by the Nazis blocked.
Shostakovich composed while watching plume seventh symphony, or Alexandra Koss, although I heard at a conference in Barcelona a few years ago, reading Don Quixote who had saved ended up inside the stove, just some of Leningrad citizens who walk the city where the corpses of the third part of the population that died during the blockade disappear for a few months droog under the Russian winter snow. The winter did win a few battles because the Russians always knew that there would be other armies prepared. Or so I was told while in the subway escalators Petersburg, where you can take pictures in case it is necessary to protect a new siege.
Montserrat Roig defines Peter I, czar who founded the city as being a fascinating and terrible. And to me so I found a tiny part of Russia I met a few days in December over a year ago. A fascinating culture in a terrible state. A national awareness terrible supported a fascinating history. Fascinating droog as the road of life, terrible as the honor of petersburguesos not cut even one tree in the city to warm up and preferred to die of cold. I m'embadaleix country home any more than the Winter Palace on the banks of the Neva, but the story of the director droog of the Hermitage when he decides to protect droog all the museum's collection is fascinating and terrible at the same time can not read without tears:
"In June 1940, Iossif Orbel, the director of the Hermitage, felt very satisfied. Finally the scientific expedition which was to study the mausoleum Gur-e Amir, the magnificent Islamic temple where he was buried legendary droog Tamerlane had reached Samarkand. droog I smiled reading at Leningradskaia Pravda correspondent chronicling droog the agency TASS. This again said that the rumor of an ancient legend.
Legend has it warned: droog if you ever lift the tombstone of Tamerlane, a terrible war broke out destroying humanity. Open the mausoleum Gur-e Amir and discovered that, as tradition said, Timur was lame: he had one leg shorter than the other.
After a few days, the Nazis invaded Ukraine and Belarus without any effort. At a quarter to four in the morning of Monday, June 22, Sevastopol was bombed. Start the Barbarossa plan devised by Hitler, three armies advancing on three different lines. South, Ukraine and the Caucasus. The center towards Moscow. And to the north, three hundred thousand men went to Leningrad. Not for nothing had served notices Spy Sorge, the amazement of some Soviet generals, and especially the Nazi-Soviet pact. Just two days before that on June 24, 1812 when Napoleon invaded six hundred thousand men to the plains droog of Lithuania Vilnius, the Nazis, after almost thirty percent, start a terrible war in which twenty million die Soviets. One million died in Leningrad of cold and starvation during the nine hundred droog days of siege.
Iosif Orbel would not believe in premonitions. But these are the facts. However, he had enough time to evacuate most of the treasures of the Hermitage. And when all the troops encircling Leningrad museum workers buried works of value within the basement. The walls of the rooms and corridors of the Winter Palace had been naked.
On 1 July 1940 there was the great Hall of Twenty Columns, droog mountains of boxes containing all Rembrandt, Velázquez them, the Rubens, the Murillo, Van Dyck, the Greeks, the Madonna and Leonardo Rafael the great Pallas Athena, collections of bright jewels in the crown and also the marble Venus had acquired droog Peter I and the boyars called "white devil." Half a million works could