Marking the 76th anniversary of the Great Victory: Exhibition "On Opposite Sides of the Front Line" to open in Saint-Petersburg

On ​​May 8, 2021, the State Hermitage Museum (Saint-Petersburg) will open the exhibition "On Opposite Sides of the Front Line".

The exhibition’s title invokes its key idea, which is a narrative of the deadly opposition that unfolded in wartime Leningrad, told through books, drawings and records published by Soviet and German authorities.

The centrepiece of the exhibition is an album of 1943, made up of reproductions of photographs with the views of Leningrad and Leningrad Region under occupation, taken by a German military photographer.

"On Opposite Sides of the Front Line" are Soviet and Russian publications, drawings and illustrations of the wartime and postwar years, some testifying to the damage suffered by buildings and monuments, like those depicted by a German photographer in 1943, as well as Soviet leaflets designed for German troops located at the Leningrad front. The exhibition also features military posters printed in Sverdlovsk, where the evacuated collections from the State Hermitage Museum spent the long five years of their life.