A wooden box, made in 1947 by an unknown prisoner in the Nyrob Corrective Labour Camp (NyrobLag, Molotovskii Region, Perm’ oblast'), given to Kseniia Kharlampievna Gornushkina (1914-1991) by prisoner friends. In 1995, K.X. Gornushkina’s husband, Evgenii Aleksandrovich Rudakovskii (1913 – post-1995)...

A box made by an unknown prisoner in PechorLag (Komi ASSR) in 1950 for Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1907-1989). In 1950 N.A. Glazov, a former political prisoner, was working as a doctor in the camp infirmary. His family (his wife and a daughter) lived with him in Inta. The box with the dedicatory...

A cigar-case made out of Perspex, made by Nikolai Andreeevich Semenov (1906-1996) while he was a prisoner in the Special Prison No.16 of the MGB SSSR OKB [Ministry of State Security of the USSR Joint Design Office], the Marfino “sharashka” [a sharashka was a research and development office employing...

A landscape, watercolour-painted by an unknown prisoner of Administration of the North-East Corrective Labour Camps, signed with the initials “M.S.” (“M.C.” in Cyrillic). The picture was given to the prisoner Elena L’vovna Vladimirova (1902-1962) on the Kolyma in the second half of the 1940s. After...

A mirror in a self-made frame made out of tree-fungus. Made by an unidentified prisoner of the camp Ukhta-Izhemsk. It was given to Mariia L’vovna Kano (1908 - ?) a prisoner of this camp (camp section No.8, Vetlosian, between 1948 and 1955). After she was released from captivity, M.L. Kano kept the mirror...

A wooden model of a three-masted sailing-boat, made by the political prisoner Vladimir Nikolaevich Gaenko (born 1937) in the DubrovLag (Mordovia). When his wife, Nina Savinovna Gaenko, and daughter, Tat’iana, (born 1961), came to see him, he gave the toy boat to his daughter. The model was kept in the...

A home-made album. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in the UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a gift for Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), a political prisoner exiled to spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. The inscribed congratulation is dated 17 April, 1955. The album...