《禁宫之园：被围困列宁格勒的植物学家与他们不可承受的选择》

Simon Parkin | 2024 | ISBN: 1668007665 | English | 384 pages | ePUB | 19 MB

From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to help end world hunger?

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. After attempts to evacuate the priceless collection failed and supplies dwindled amongst the three million starving citizens, the employes at the Plant Institute were left with a terrible choice. Should they save the collection? Or themselves?

These were not just any seeds. The botanists believed they could be bred into heartier, disease-resistant, and more productive varieties suited for harsh climates, therefore changing the future of food production and preventing famines like those that had plagued their countrymen before. But protecting the seeds was no idle business. The scientists rescued potato samples under enemy fire, extinguished bombs landing on the seed bank’s roof, and guarded the collection from scavengers, the bitter cold, and their own hunger. Then in the war’s eleventh hour, Nazi plunderers presented a new threat to the collection…

Drawing from previously unseen sources, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin—who has “an inimitable capacity to find the human pulse in the underbelly of war” (The Spectator)—tells the incredible true story of the botanists who held their posts at the Plant Institute during the 872-day siege and the remarkable sacrifices they made in the name of science.

从《岛上的非凡俘虏》这部获奖作品的作者那里，让我们了解到关于世界首个种子库园艺学家的真实不凡故事：在列宁格勒围城期间，他们面临着一个不可能的选择——是消耗收集品以防止挨饿，还是保护他们的毕生工作来帮助终结全球饥饿？ 1941年夏天，德军包围了俄罗斯城市列宁格勒——如今称作圣彼得堡，并开始了历史上最长的封锁之一。这一封锁最终导致近30万人丧生。在被围困的城市中心，一幢改造成宫殿的地方植物研究所，收藏着世界上最大的种子集——超过25万个样本，这些样本由全球著名的探险家、遗传学家和异议分子尼古拉·瓦维洛夫（Nikolai Vavilov）在过去二十年中从世界各地采集而来。尽管撤离珍贵收藏的努力失败了，并且有30万饥民处于营养不良状态之下，植物研究所的雇员们仍面临一个艰难的选择：是拯救收藏品？还是拯救自己？ 这些并非普通的种子。园艺学家相信，它们可以培育成更健壮、抗病和产量更高的品种，适用于恶劣气候条件，从而改变全球食物生产的未来，并防止像他们国家之前饱受困扰的那种饥荒。 但保护种子并非儿戏。科学家们冒着敌人的炮火抢救土豆样本，扑灭落在种子库屋顶上的炸弹，并从窃贼、严寒以及自己的饥饿中保卫收藏品。然而，在战争的最后一刻，纳粹强盗又提出了一个新威胁……

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