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Living Pictures by Polina Barskova, with an introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky lgbt The personal accounts contained inA poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction. Living Pictures refers to the parlour game of tableaux vivants, in which people dress up in costume to bring scenes from history back to life. It's a game about survival, in a sense, and what it means to be a survivor is the question that Polina Barskova explores in the scintillating literary