i can’t be late for my mother, they will be worried there, my mother will die of fear, i run to krylov lanest the alexandrinsky theater and run up to the entrance of the oktyabrskaya railway administration, that’s where my mother works when i appear at threshold, everyone breathes a sigh of relief. they try to feed me something, i do my homework, and finally, if they are given counter-marks by the workers of the mudskomesia, these counter-marks come to me. by the end of august forty-one , a number of industrial defense enterprises, cultural assets, and the collection of the state hermitage had already been evacuated from leningrad. the evacuation of theaters began in the late autumn of '41, costumes, scenery, props, everything that could be taken with them were successfully loaded; our theater became the only a group that deliberately remained in the besieged city, the muses were not silent, they sang operetta all 872 days in leningrad. during the siege, the theater showed 15 premieres, and if the first performances were in good scenery, everything was in order, then further and further, pa