"We all followed a barracks-like regime. The work went on round the clock... The crates in which we put things stood on the floor and we had to work bending over all the time. Soon many of us had nosebleeds. Ready to drop, you would doze off for half an hour towards morning… Your mind immediately switched off, but half an hour or an hour later some internal impulse turned your mind back on again, you shook yourself - and back to work."

Alisa Bank

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Alisa
Vladimirovna
Bank
(1906–1984),
specialist on the art and history of Byzantium and the Middle East
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