The Dmitriev Affair

The Life's Work and Trials of Yury Dmitriev

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    • Yu.A. Dmitriev
    • My Path to Golgotha
    • How we found Sandarmokh (video)
  • Remembrance
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    • Sandarmokh
      • Who wants to rewrite Sandarmokh?
      • The Search for Sandarmokh (Flige)
    • Krasny Bor
    • “Restoring the Names”
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    • The First Trial, 2017-2018
    • The charges
      • What We’ve Uncovered
      • What We’ve Uncovered (pt 2)
      • Natasha Held Firm
      • Last Words
    • Timeline 2, 2018-2021
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  • Background
    • The Unquiet Dead
    • Dekulakisation, 1930-1933
    • Deaths on the White Sea Canal, 1931-1933
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    • “Light in the Darkness” (review)
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Anatoly RAZUMOV*

A wonderful person, a wonderful historian

8 January 20218 January 2021 / editors (JC)

On 3 January 2021 Mikhail ROGACHOV passed away in St Petersburg. He created “the best Book of Remembrance in Russia, the Komi Republic’s “Repentance” Martyrology,” commented Anatoly Razumov and referred to his deceased colleague as “A wonderful person, a wonderful historian.”

Mikhail ROGACHOV (born Riga 1952; died 2021 of Covid-19 in Kronstadt hospital)

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“We shall go on, naming names” (Razumov)

8 December 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

Anatoly Razumov
“Their Names Restored” (St Petersburg)

Yury DMITRIEV’s friend and colleague describes recent acquisitions by his Centre and work on the forthcoming second volume of Sandarmokh, a Place of Remembrance, that incorporates Dmitriev’s extensive research on those forcibly deported with their families to Karelia in the early 1930s:

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On the Eve of a Verdict

21 July 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

On Friday, 10 July, Memorial hosted an online press conference about the forthcoming verdict in the DMITRIEV case. (The moderator was Oleg Orlov.)

In the absence of a transcribed and translated version of that event, here is a synchronic translation into English, …

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The Progress of the Trial: February 2020

27 February 202013 December 2020 / editors (JC)

“By 10 February, the prosecution planned, the final words by both sides would have come to an end and a verdict would be delivered,” says Anatoly RAZUMOV, a friend of Yury Dmitriev’s and a member of St Petersburg’s Human Rights Council. “However, the defence had prepared two speakers for that day.

Anatoly Ya. RAZUMOV, National Library, St Petersburg
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“How is he?” you ask. “In fine spirits”

2 February 202023 March 2020 / editors (JC)

“28 January 2020 marked the fourth birthday Yury DMITRIEV has spent in captivity,” writes his friend Anatoly Razumov. “I was given permission, together with his daughter Katya to visit him.

Yury Dmitriev (left) and Anatoly Razumov

“In Petrozavodsk that same day we launched Yury’s new book Sandormokh: A Place of Memory.

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Students from Moscow Film School (Krasny Bor)

“Solovki transport” Memorial (Sandarmokh)

Dmitriev with daughter Katya at Sandarmokh

Protest in Petrozavodsk

City Court – Razumov and Katya in background

near Derevyakeno village, Karelia (Krasny Bor)

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Yury Dmitriev (2014)

Anatoly Razumov (left) and Yury Dmitriev (2004)

The entrance to Sandarmokh

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