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The public at the Pushkin Drama Theatre. Leningrad. 1942
In besieged Leningrad in January and February all performances and concerts were cancelled and the artistes sent on leave without pay. But on 1 March 1942 a decree was issued stating that the singers Pavel Andreyev, Natalia and Pavel Bolotin, Maria Zyuzina, V. Pavlovskaya, Ivan Pleshakov, Sofia Preobrazhenskaya and Vasily Sorochinsky, the dancers Yevgenia Gempel, Nadezhda Fyodorova and Tatiana Shmyrova and the chorus members Glafira Nikiforova and Tatiana Kholmovskaya be recalled from their leave and come to work. The company was joined – from the Maly Opera Theatre – by Nina Velter and Vera Shestakova. This was done “in connection with organising concerts to entertain the Red Army and the Fleet as well as the population of Leningrad.” Bread brought in via the Road of Life and electricity produced at the Utkina Factory’s power station meant the theatre had a supply of electricity, and it was the intention of the city authorities to support the besieged and beleaguered city residents by reviving musical productions in the city.