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 portrait of Boris Konstantinovich Rerikh (1880-1945) drawn by Nikolai Evgene’vich Lansere (1879-1942) in the OGPU Internal Prison in Leningrad (25, Shpalernaia Street). Dated 05.01.1932. The architects N.E.Lansere and B.K. Rerikh, who were in prison at the time, worked in OKTB-12 (Separate Construction...

A drawing (“A Game of Chess”) done by Nina Alekseevna Lekarenko (1911-1995) in Tomsk Camp for family members of traitors to the Fatherland in 1938 or 1939. According to the artist, the sketch from life depicts contemporaries in the Camp, who were the wives of astronomers under punishment. In 1993 N.A....

The picture (“Winter Landscape”) by Marcel-Mariia Georgievna Koente (1898-1971) was drawn between 1950 and 1952, when she was in prison in Kargopol’ Camp (station Ertsevo, Arkhangel’sk oblast’) and was sent to Leningrad accompanied by a letter. In 2004, M.G. Koente’s daughter, Natalia Sergeevna Gabaeva...