There are musicians, even entire symphony orchestras, who end up in exile when wars force them to flee. Example Russia, Second World War: The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and its chief conductor were brought to Siberia for many years when the German Wehrmacht tried to starve the city, which is now called Saint Petersburg again, with a total blockade in 1941. “The Führer is determined,” said the secret directive of the Wehrmacht High Command, “to make the city of Petersburg disappear from the face of the earth.” More than a million Russians die. The orchestra from Leningrad is currently playing a huge number of concerts in distant Novosibirsk. And only returns in 1945.