A substantial fire broke out yesterday afternoon on the first floor of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire during the course of construction work.
It appears the building was successfully evacuated. No casualties have been reported.
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I wonder if some ammunition was stored there…. (I wouldn’t be too surprised)
Russian first floor i.e. what we British call the ground floor – looks like it was in the canteen from the photos I have seen….
Wrong end of building – it is the garderob and library…
Oh-oh, someone is running out of money, surely the fire was purely accidental, for sure not to claim insurance money like theatres in Moscow did in the early 2000s
It seems to me that the fire was in the Italian restaurant “Teatro”, situated opposite the old Mariinsky Theatre.