"Professor Natalya Davydovna Flittner, a Doctor of Historical Sciences, was known to all as a major scholar of the culture of the Ancient East. During the siege, this little, rather wizened old lady gave lectures in military hospitals. One member of her audience said, "Your professor used to come to us, sit on a chair, or even a table, and began to tell us about the tombs of the ancient pharaohs so fascinatingly that we forgot about our wounds."

O.E. Mikhailova

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Natalya
Davydovna
Flittner
(1879–1957)
specialist in the culture of the Ancient East
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