THE ART FOR THE FRONT (FROM MEMORIES)
This first publication presents the Soviet ballet dancers memories of the everyday life of the Great Patriotic War from the archives belonging to the People’s Artist of the USSR, choreographer, Dr. habil. in Arts Professor Rostislav Vladimirovich Zakharov (1907-1984). The published materials are the fragments of an unpublished manuscript archives and records ofR. V. Zakharov on the history of the Soviet ballet. In the presented memories of the 1970s Rostislav Vladimirovich, famous ballerinas Olga Lepeshinskaya and Tatyana Lazarevich talk about the days of the Bolshoi evacuation to Kuybyshev, about inspired creativity in the atmosphere of the war hardships and the selfless desire to contribute to the Great Victory.