How does history sound in letters and diaries? A lecture on the fates of those evacuated from besieged Leningrad will bring the past to life through personal testimonies. Together with researchers, participants will touch upon the military everyday life, learn about pain, hope, and the search for a new life after the horrors of the blockade. What does a person feel when leaving their hometown, engulfed by war and hunger? How do they survive far from home? And what remains after everything experienced - in memory, in words, in diary entries? These and other questions will be at the center of the lecture by Alexey Pavlovsky and Anastasia Pavlovskaya "You are probably from Leningrad?" as part of the series "Memory in the Fields: the Soviet Person in Documents and Diaries." The heroes of this meeting are not found in monuments - but exist in forgotten notebooks, family archives, letters, and diaries. These are the evacuated residents of besieged Leningrad, who left testimonies about the terrible transition from the besieged city to foreign places. In these records - pain, confusion, searches for meaning, a desire to maintain dignity and establish a new life. Personal sources allow us to view the war not as a chronology of battles, but as a living fabric of the experiences of ordinary people. The lecture will provide an opportunity to get acquainted with unique ego-documents - diaries and letters, which historians analyze as a key to studying everyday life in extreme conditions. These materials - rare, sometimes the only traces of private fates - have become the focus of scientific interest of the research center "Lived" and the series "Library 'Lived'. The Blockade," edited by Alexey Pavlovsky. Anastasia Pavlovskaya - a researcher at the "Lived" center of the European University in St. Petersburg - will talk about methods of working with such sources and their significance for historical science and public memory. Listeners will see how complex, emotionally rich pictures of the era emerge from fragments of personal records. This event is aimed at everyone interested in history, documentary studies, psychology, and the humanities.