The Forbidden Garden -- Simon Parkin

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1942/Title: The Forbidden Garden Author: Simon Parkin Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick Format: mp3 Length: 12 hrs Release date: 10-15-24 Ratings: 3.7 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings Genres: Russia Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly three-quarters of a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted palace that housed the world’s largest collection of seeds—more than 250,000 samples hand-collected over two decades from all over the globe by world-famous explorer, geneticist, and dissident Nikolai Vavilov, who had recently been disappeared by the Soviet government.