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Galina Ulanova in Giselle
“The town of Molotov was also preparing for the theatre’s departure. At Giselle with Ulanova there were fears that the balcony and the gallery would collapse. So many people had come to see the very last performance. People were standing in the aisles, which was not previously permitted, and they absolutely wanted to catch forever the image of the great artiste they were losing.

“On 29 May we again stood on the platform of Molotov Railway Station at which our train from Leningrad had arrived almost three years ago. Only instead of heated goods wagons there were carriages with carpets on the floors, clean curtains hanging in the windows and bed linen that was white as snow. <...> On 2 June the first special train arrived. The second left on 5 June and the third on 9 June.”*
* M. Frangopulo. The State Academic Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre, Recipient of the Order of Lenin// Leningrad Theatres during World War II. Moscow-Leningrad; Iskusstvo, 1948. P.P. 91-93