In Leningrad, was born and worked as a great composer of our time Dmitri Shostakovich - deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of Lenin and State Prizes. In Leningrad, he wrote eleven of his fifteen immortal symphonies and most of the other works. Music Shostakovich, inspired by the ideas of the Communist Party, found deep in the hearts of millions of people and has become an integral part of the history of Petrograd - Leningrad. Musicologist SM Hentova many years studying the art of Shostakovich. She has written the book "Young years of Shostakovich," "Tales of the Shostakovich", "Shostakovich pianist" and others. In this book, created on the basis of archival sources and personal communication with Shostakovich, with his disciples and friends, the first detailed account of the Leningrad period of life, creativity, and social and political activities of the composer.