"The exhibition was of very great significance: it was the first
stage in the restoration of normal life to the museum, a transition
to peacetime work, a response to the cultural needs of the population,
needs that had not declined.
The inhabitants of Leningrad perceived the chance to walk the clean,
warm floors of the Hermitage once more as a deserved reward after the
trials they had been through, as a real proof of the brilliant victories
over the enemy."
Antonina Izergina
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