Head of Museum’s disbanded Gulag section threatened with eviction

18 February 201822 September 2020 / editors (JC)

Attempts are being made to turn OLGA BOCHKARYOVA out of the accommodation transferred into her private ownership in 2011 by the Solovki Museum administration. On 1 January 2016, the Gulag section at the museum was disbanded and its head, Olga Bochkaryova, was dismissed from her post. Тhe present museum director, Vladimir V. Shutov, who is, … Continue reading Head of Museum’s disbanded Gulag section threatened with eviction

“I’m trying to finish what’s most important” (part 6)

18 February 201819 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Yury Dmitriev, "My Path to Golgotha" (conclusion) I first met students from the Moscow Film School, it seems, at Sandarmokh. They had come for the Day of Remembrance on 5 August. As it happened, one of the buses I’d laid on was empty and they travelled on it to the graveyard and back. They were … Continue reading “I’m trying to finish what’s most important” (part 6)