Петр Евгеньевич Корнилов (1896–1981). Творческий путь. Испытание
Pyotr Yevgenyevich Kornilov (1896–1981). Creative Career. Probation

Summary/Abstract: The years of the World War II and 900-day blockade became for Leningrad and each of its residents a period of terrible and severe test that required an incredible tension of forces, which seemed to be over already, but they were still there. Pyotr Yevgenyevich Kornilov, whose life description continues on these pages (see the beginning № 2 (04) 2012, № 1 (06) 2013 and № 1 (09) 2014 of the magazine “Contemporary History of Russia”), spent all those years in the besieged city, affording only a short trip to Kazan after breaking of the blockade in 1943. His archive contains records fit into nine notebooks entitled as “Notes” but not “Diaries”, though narration of impressions about the events occurred, a participant of which the author himself was, were recorded daily, and sometimes even hourly. The handwriting is not very readable, but if you get used to it and get a grasp, to put down these pages is impossible. Nevertheless, with the permission of Natasha Kornilova, a granddaughter of Pyotr Yevgenyevich, I have decided to quote only the lines relating to our narration, and present some facts in my own words. This material is about the personal contribution of the scientist, his friends’ and colleagues’ contribution to the approaching of the triumph of the Victory, about their relationship in the living conditions of the blockaded city.

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