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Photograph of repairs to the theatre
“In every corner of the theatre you could hear hammers, the walls were covered in scaffolding, and there was already a rehearsal of Susanin. On 25 August the theatre’s box-office opened. It was hard to get near to the building as there were so many people trying to get tickets. <...> “There was still a smell of paint, you couldn’t touch the walls but the theatre was seething with life. In the dressing rooms there were insufficient chairs and tables, people were getting undressed at the windows and on window sills, wherever they could. The performers helped to wash the floors, doors and re-glazed windows.”*
* 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. 94