"In the war years dolls helped their little owners to survive hard times," a member of the museum's press-service said in an interview with a RIA Novosti correspondent.
"Among the exhibits is a doll whose owner called it the Snowmaiden. Its story is wrapped up in legend. The girl's parents believed that the Snowmaiden had saved their daughter: glass shards from an explosion wave hit the doll perched next to the little one, rather than its owner," they told us in the museum.
All in all, the museum will have about 60 dolls on display, plus wartime photographs showing children and their toys. Also, drawings made by children in the besieged city will be demonstrated in the museum show cases..
The exhibition will be open until the end of the spring.
