This library was one of the most difficult for us to gain access to. For many months I wrote to the library and never received a reply. On the day I photographed the severe, Soviet-era exterior, Ellen wandered inside the library and succeeded in getting us an appointment to photograph the interior the next day. We were assigned a wonderful young librarian who showed us the Book Museum and then gave us a tour throughout the library. I learned later that the Lenin Library, as it was once known, had become home for many of the books stolen by the Soviet Army at the end of WWII, some of which had been stolen earlier from the USSR by the German Army.