Home  About project  Contents  New Materials  St.Petersburg  Countries  Names  Chronicles  The Soul of  St.Petersburg  Questions and  answers  Contacts  Русский Boldyrev A.  ·  - Our front honoured Nizami like Nizami was honouring heroes, - said poet and soldier Nikolai Tikhonov at the jubilee meeting in the besieged Leningrad. In those days of hardships only the Hermitage observed the great poet's anniversary.