it was they they come to the hermitage to help the employees move heavy things in gratitude, gubchevskyem an amazing tour of gratitude to these guys who have not even been to leningrad, not only in the hermitage, he begins to lead this amazing tour of uh, empty frames, uh, as if imagining describing , as if these paintings were in frames, and then pavlov filippovich gurchevsky, with surprise , recalls with surprise that these cadets asked the same questions to him, as if the visitors were in peacetime for some time with electricity the hermitage was supplied by the former pleasure yacht of nicholas ii polar star, which was laid up on the palace embankment, the employees lived in the basements every day, making raids through the halls together with the mpo fighters in february 1942 . here it is in the footage of the chronicle in the spring when shells broke through the water supply hermitage resident olga mikhailova recalled how in the dark she felt out of the icy water to the touch. it was necessary to lift the porcelain and send shells up to the hermitage palaces to dry. and bombs. inj