"The hullabaloo of the evacuation died away and our life on the roofs began. The air-raid alerts became longer and longer and in the first period of the siege we literally did not come down off the roofs. During air-raids and shelling the fate of the Hermitage halls depended to a large extent on the attics. A female storekeeper and a museum guide, an archaeologist and a roofer kept watch on the roofs."

Pavel Gubchevsky

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Pavel
Filippovich
Gubchevsky
(1909–1989)
specialist in methods of public education
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