When, at the age of 87, Nikolai Morozov picked up a rifle to fight the Germans, he became the oldest combatant of World War ...

In the late summer of 1941, German troops surrounded Leningrad – the Russian city now known as St Petersburg – with a plan to starve its population into submission. So began the longest ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s nothing like the siege of Leningrad to put our current woes (and winter) into perspective.

Ceremonies have taken place in St Petersburg to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the deadly and gruelling World War Two siege of Leningrad, as the Russian city was then known. Honour guards ...