galina fedorovna couldn’t forget the taste of that bread.as like that and the words you and like that, as if there was a lot of someone else’s something, like sawdust. bread was tasteless, but for us at that time this gold was hunger cold winter, 41 42 one of the most severe minus 34. everyone was waiting for spring . even before the blockade, the hermitage employees managed to bring some of the exhibits to sverdlovsk, the rest in the cellars in the halls left empty frames for that so that you can quickly restore exposure. in the spring, the basement was flooded, and priceless works of art from the new one were in danger descending from absolutely dark knee-deep ones, these porcelain things were taken out in the water and lifted up to the first floor of the new hermitage, nothing was broken. the city began to chew on every piece of land , the worst was sown, and on january 18, 1943, the troops of the leningrad volkhov front, after a six-day offensive , united in the area of ​​workers' settlements. the blockade was broken. lyudmila dmitrievna