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Stage director Ilya Shlepyanov. Conductor Boris Khaikin. Photograph from 1945
1944 ended with a new production of La traviata (directed by Ilya Shlepyanov, conducted by Sergei Yeltsin and designed by Tatiana Bruni). And by May 1945 there was a new production of Eugene Onegin. The premiere was conducted by the theatre’s new Music Director Boris Khaikin.

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.