A story is told of how during the height of World War II, a woman, so weak, fainted in the streets of Leningrad, today St Petersburg.
Eventually, workers collecting corpses from the streets picked up her body and added it to the pile they had collected that day.
It was only when she woke up and started to moan that a passer-by heard her and assisted her in freeing herself from the dead bodies piled on top of her.
She was nursed back to full health, and
