"The emptied halls were huge and majestic their walls covered in crystals of frost. They had never before seemed so splendid to me. Before one’s attention had usually been fixed on the painting, sculpture or applied art and the art of those remarkable architects and decorators who created the palaces went little noticed. Now, though, all that was left was their astonishing art (and the traces everywhere of the savage, implacable Fascist barbarity)".

Vera Miliutina

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Gallery of the History of Antique Painting during the siege of Leningrad
1942
Drawing by
Vasily Kuchumov
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