Savicheva's image and the pages from her diary became symbolic of the human cost of the siege of Leningrad, and she is remembered in St. Petersburg with a memorial complex on the Green Belt of Glory along the Road of Life.

This diary had been a large, thick notebook in which she recorded her day-to-day life, but the family had decided to burn it at some point early on in the siege when there was no fuel left to heat the stove.

This first entry concerned the death of her elder sister Zhenya, which most likely occurred due to severe malnutrition exacerbated by her work at the munitions factory.

It is estimated 100,000 people per month were dying from starvation, rations for an adult having been set at 250g (9 oz) of rye bread or half that for children and the elderly.

[5][6] Her weakened body was not strong enough to stand the blood donations and she died in her apartment, from complications resulting from exhaustion and malnutrition, in the arms of her sister Nina who had been worried when she had not turned up for her shift at the factory and had hurried round to Mokhovaya Street to check on her.

Her grandmother, Yevdokiya Grigorievna, died a month later, two days after Savicheva's twelfth birthday, of heart failure, having lost a third of her body weight.

[2][8] Savicheva recorded her death under the page heading for the letter Б with the words "Grandma died on the 25th of January at 3 o'clock, 1942."

Tanya later admitted that at the behest of their grandmother they postponed the burial and kept Yevdokiya's ration card until the end of the month; thus, the official date of her death was recorded as 1 February 1942.

In fact Nina Savicheva had been evacuated without warning across Lake Ladoga on the dangerous Road of Life ice route.

Nina had no opportunity to send word to any of her relatives, the ice route being reserved only for essential food, fuel, medicine and evacuation purposes.

Savicheva recorded his death under the letter В, mixing up some of her grammar, with the words "Uncle Vasya died on April 13th at 2 o'clock in the morning, 1942.

Mariya Ignatievna Savicheva was born in 1889 and worked as a seamstress, which she continued during the civilian war effort by sewing soldiers' uniforms.

Savicheva recorded her death under the letter М, again making grammatical errors and missing the word 'died': "Mama on May 13th at 7:30 in the morning, 1942."

After the death of her mother, Savicheva stayed with a neighbour the next night and then, although severely weakened, took the family's personal belongings to the house of her aunt Evdokiya (Dusya).

[10] According to several sources, one of the documents presented by the Allied prosecutors during the Nuremberg Trials was the small notebook that once belonged to Tanya.

Melnikov and eight stone tabets representing pages of her diary where she writes of the members of her family who died, designed by Levyenkov, G.G.

Serbian poet Mika Antić penned a poem dedicated to Tanya Savicheva named "A lost rendez-vous".

[16] There are memorial plaques on the wall and in the courtyard of her home on Vasilievsky Island, St. Petersburg, and a museum housed in the school she attended.