"For a month and a day now the city has been being bombed. For
a month and a day my wife and I hear in the darkness the heart-rending
song of the German engines, the whistle of the bombs and we rock gently
together with the building from the explosion of a bomb that this time
has missed us. Then our remarkable Hermitage with its remarkable director
and remarkable staff appeared before us, We moved into the third bomb
shelter and dropped off to sleep like logs beneath the indestructible
vaults."
From the diary of
Alexander Nikolsky
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