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Nadezhda Velter at the Blood Transfusion Institute. 1942
Singers Nadezhda Velter, Sofia Preobrazhenskaya and Nikolai Gladkovsky and pianist Marianna Gramenitskaya became donors in 1942. “I’ve had a blood transfusion,” Velter quotes in her memoirs from a letter from one of the wounded, “and now I’m off to the front. I’d like to know – are you the Honoured Artist who so frequently comforts us soldiers with your art? How happy I would be if I knew that within me was an entire bottle of your blood.”
N. Velter. About the Opera House and Me. Leningrad: Sovietsky Kompozitor, 1984. P. 137