ESMERALDA soviet era pix

[rg]

fyi: i few historic leningrad-lineage photos of the production - probably vaganova's from the mid-1930s - late '40s.

left to right:

1] Vecheslova presumably in act 1, c. 1935

2] Vecheslova presumably in the final act. c. 1935

3] Vecheslova and Fiedler (as Gringoire), 1949

4] Vecheslova and Shavrov (as Phoebus), 1949