“Everyone died... Nikolai Kazimirovich Barbe, one of the organizers of the Russian Komsomol, a comrade who helped me pull a large stone out of a narrow pit, ...

“How did it start? On which winter day did the wind change and everything became too scary? In the fall we are still working...How did it start? Klyuev's tea...

Varlam Shalamov is rightly called a great artist, the author of deep psychological and philosophical prose. What Shalamov wrote is a terrible document of the...

Varlam Shalamov is rightly called a great artist, the author of deep psychological and philosophical prose. What Shalamov wrote is a terrible document of the...

Varlam Shalamov is rightly called a great artist, the author of deep psychological and philosophical prose. What Shalamov wrote is a terrible document of the...

Varlam Shalamov is rightly called a great artist, the author of deep psychological and philosophical prose. What Shalamov wrote is a terrible document of the...

Varlam Shalamov is rightly called a great artist, the author of deep psychological and philosophical prose. What Shalamov wrote is a terrible document of the...

The author’s collection “Essays on the Underworld” includes stories about real Kolyma life: about people, characters, rules and laws. Varlam Shalamov present...

“I had a wonderful trail in the taiga. I laid it myself in the summer when I was storing firewood for the winter. There was a lot of dry wood around the hut ...

“The heavy doors of the hold opened above us, and one by one we slowly walked out onto the deck along a narrow iron staircase. The guards were placed in a th...

“Since 1930, this fashion has started: selling engineers. The camp had considerable income from the sale of technical knowledge to the side. The camp receive...

“For many years I thought that death is a form of life, and, calmed by the instability of judgment, I developed a formula for the active defense of my existe...