In the German siege of Warsaw and since, he'd seen that proved too many times, too many horrible ways.

A documentary about the German siege of Leningrad, with newly discovered Russian film, it has drawn a big audience to this large theater.

In Leningrad, under German siege, over a million people died of starvation and disease.

The building survived the German siege of Leningrad in World War II.

These, and his valor during the German siege of Paris in 1870, earned him the Légion d'honneur.

He wrote the symphony while in Leningrad during the German siege.

He died during the German siege of Leningrad in World War II.

It was damaged during the German siege of Sevastopol in 1942 and restored in the 1950s.

He also encouraged volunteers to go with him and try to sneak through the German siege of Warsaw.

The Leningrad Shostakovich reportedly had in mind was not the one that withstood the German siege.