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08.1994

Dolinin, Viacheslav Emmanuilovich

Fragment of a door

1920s –1930s, Solovetskii camp, Anzer island

1920s –1930s, Solovetskii camp, Anzer island, Golgotha

Wood, metal

Width – 4.5cm Length – 17.5cm and 14.5cm Thickness – 5cm and 6.8cm

Part of a wooden squared beam of a trapezoid form, unevenly sawn off the whole. A nail, now bent, going through the beam has been preserved. There are the remains of some writing in pencil, in the form of some crossed out figures: "17, 18, 19, 20 [нрзб] суток" ["17, 18, 19, 20 {illegible} days"]

Unevenly sawn. Wood cracked, writing much faded, nail covered in rust and eaten by corrosion.

Sawn off a squared beam by V.E. Dolinin. Internal door crossbeam. The door was, apparently, that of a cell in the Golgotha-Raspiatskii monastery on Anzer island in the Solovetskii archipelago. Found by an RIC "Memorial" expedition in August 1994.