Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" Did I ever want to give up? Sometimes, when there was no food at home and work on the execution lists and burial sites took up all my time. By then I was no longer an aide to a people’s deputy. Yury Dmitriev (photo, Sophia Pankevich) I made some … Continue reading “It was all preparation for what I do now” (part 4)
DMITRIEV 1 (pre-2016)*
“We must be able to find something” (part 3)
Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" "In 1997 I met Veniamin Joffe and Irina Flige from Petersburg Memorial at the FSB archives in Karelia. We agreed to look for the site near Medvezhyegorsk where executions took place. "Joffe and Flige were on the track of the missing transport from Solovki special prison. They began their … Continue reading “We must be able to find something” (part 3)
In the archives (part 2)
Yury Dmitriev, "My Path to Golgotha" "Then I became an aide to Ivan Chukhin, a deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet (and the State Duma, 1990-1995). He was a lieutenant-colonel in the police, a psychologist. Ivan Chukhin, 1948-1997 "Around that time, it was decided to compile a Book of Remembrance for Karelia. That’s to say, … Continue reading In the archives (part 2)
September 2016 – just before the arrest
Yury Dmitriev in his Petrozavodsk apartment (photo, Hester den Boer) On Friday, 13 December 2016, the police knocked at the door and arrested the 60-year-old historian. Dmitriev has been held in custody ever since, at the city's Detention Centre No 1. In early June 2017 his trial began at the Petrozavodsk City Court (see Timeline). … Continue reading September 2016 – just before the arrest
How we found Sandarmokh (video)
Dmitriev half-seriously expresses the wish that, by his 60th birthday (28 January 2016), there would also be sixty collective memorials at Sandarmokh, one for each of the nationalities and confessions represented there. https://youtu.be/9drECOXHpbE A 38-minute recording made in 2014 (?) in which Yury Dmitriev described a chance meeting with Irina Flige and Venyamin Ioffe at … Continue reading How we found Sandarmokh (video)
The Dmitriev Affair 