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"The daily routine set in for the fire-fighting team. We had to
conceal the remaining museum treasures in safe places, adapt all the
halls and rooms to the wartime situation. Strips of paper were pasted
crosswise on the panes of the numerous windows so that a blast would
not scatter them in tiny fragments. The fire-fighters had to carry mountains
of sand into the halls and place baths of water to extinguish incendiary
bombs."
Boris Piotrovsky
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The Pavilion Hall
Photograph from 1941
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