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Christmas Eve. Conductor Ariy Pazovsky and stage director Leonid Baratov with performers after the premiere
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the theatre from 1936–1943, Perm native Ariy Pazovsky began his conducting career at the Perm Opera. Three of his works for the Kirov Theatre received the highest State award – the Stalin Prize (Ivan Susanin, 1941, The Enchantress, 1942, and Emelian Pugachev, 1943). In February 1943 Pazovsky rehearsed the Perm premiere of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. In January 1944 in line with a decree from the Arts Affairs Committee of the USSR he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre. In April Leonid Baratov was also transferred – he became Principal Stage Director of the Kirov Theatre.

The chronicle features photographs from the Mariinsky Theatre Archive, performers' family collections and the collection of the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of St Petersburg.