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The return to Leningrad from evacuation. Georgy Nelepp, Feya Balabina, Konstantin Sergeyev, Natalia Dudinskaya, Vladimir Ponomarev and Nikolai Zubkovsky on the platform of the Moscow Railway Station. 1944
The performers met with a triumphant welcome from the victorious city. While in Molotov, many of the audience’s favourites had also received letters from theatre-goers, anxiously anticipating their return to their home theatre. Extract from a letter to Natalia Dudinskaya: “Believe me, my dear, that at the most difficult times I have never forgotten you or the theatre. The most important thing that has supported us and given us strength in this struggle has been the hope of being in that theatre once more, albeit on the 3rd balcony, to see Giselle or Laurencia. There is nothing more dear to me in life than the theatre and so I can never forget you. Will it come soon, that delicious moment that I hear of the theatre’s return home?”*
* Letter to N.M. Dudinskaya from I. Timofeyeva, an admirer of her art. 1942// Manuscript department of the Russian National Library. F. 1477 (N.M. Dudinskaya and K.M. Sergeyev), list 1, archive unit 32, sheets 1–1 reverse.