Difficult Years (1935-1956)
The years after Tverskoy are considered to be a crisis for the theater. The leaders of the theater frequently changed, the level of performances lowered and the numbers of theater-goes dramatically decreased.
The Artistic Directors (khudozhetvenniy rukovoditel) of that period were:
- V.F. Fyodorov – 1935–1936;
- Aleksei Dikiy – 1936–1937;
- Boris Babochkin – 1938–1940;
- L.S. Rudnik – 1940–1944;
- N.S. Rashevskaya – 1946–1950;
- I.S. Yefremov – 1951–1952;
- O.G. Kaziko – 1952–1954;
- K.P. Khokhlov – 1954–1955.
During World War II the theater was evacuated to Kirov, Kirov Oblast. In 1943 in the last days of the Siege of Leningrad the theater returned to serve the troops of Leningrad Front and the military hospitals.
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