The number-badge with the personal number of the prisoner (“AK-709”) belonged to Ida Moiseevna Nappelbaum (1900-1992), a prisoner in the OzerLag (Taishet town, Irkutsk oblast’) at the beginning of the 1950s. After her release in 1954 I.M. Nappelbaum kept the badge as a reminder of her time in prison....

A carved wooden box. First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a present for another political prisoner Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), who was in exile in Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. Symbols of Lithuanian...

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 capsule for a “ksiva” (secret note) made in 1985 in Camp VS 389/36 (Kuchino village, Chukovsk region, Perm oblast’) by the political prisoner Grigorii Zinov’evich Isaev (born 1943) for the political prisoner Rostislav Borisovich Evdokimov (born 1950). Evdokimov put a “ksiva” containing a chronicle...

This icon depicting the Saints Pitirim and Tikhon belonged to Tikhon Romanovich Muravskii (1896- shot 20.12.1937). It was preserved in the family, first by T.R. Muravskii’s sister Evdokia Romanovna Povaliaeva (around 1900-1986), later by T.R. Muravskii’s son, Valentin Tikhonovich Muravskii (born 1928)...

An inscription carved on a plank that served as the sill of the feeding hole in a prison door in the former Community Accommodation of the Golgofa-Raspiatskii Monastery (Anzer Island in the Solovetskii Archipelago, Archangel Province). The text of the inscription reads “180 lenin po KRDT sid. 12/XI.36...

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 letter by Solomon L’vovich Entin (1892-1947), a political prisoner, to his relatives, written on the 13.10.1947 in the prison hospital of Vladimir Prison, a few days before his death. The letter was kept by the family in their father’s memory. In 2004, Larisa Solomonovna Krutilova (born 1927), Entin’s...

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...

The marble model of the first (wooden) Lenin Mausoleum belonged to Professor Il’ia Venediktovich Slavin (1883-1938). After the arrest of I.V. Slavin the new owners of his flat smashed the model and threw out the pieces. I.V. Slavin’s daughter, Ida Il’inichna Slavina (born 1921), glued together the...

Aluminium mug with the inscription “Varkuta/50-55 m. / Kašeta. Z. / O.L.P.-59" was presented to the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in the 1990s by a political prisoner, Zenonas Kašeta. Kašeta had inscribed a contemporary mug in order to represent daily life in a camp – he had used a mug of the...

A pillowcase made and embroidered by an unidentified woman prisoner of the Akmolinskii Camp for Family Members of Traitors of the Fatherland [ChSIR] (Dolinka Settlement, KarLag [Karaganda Camp]). It belonged to Esfir’Isaakovna Slavina (1885-1964), who was imprisoned in this camp from 1938-1943. In 1994...

A portrait of Masao Matsuda (1915-after 1984), a former Japanese prisoner-of-war, taken in May 1945. The photograph was sent with a letter to S.S. Korobchenko, a doctor in the municipal hospital of Anzhero-Suzhdensk. In the letter, M.Matsuda expresses his gratitude to the Doctor for saving his life....

Portrait of Masao Matsuda (1915-later than 1984), a former Japanese prisoner-of-war, taken in Japan in 1984. The photograph was sent with a letter to SS. Korobchenko, a doctor in the municipal hospital of Anzhero-Sudzhensk. In the letter M. Matsuda expresses his gratitude to the doctor for saving his...

A mosaic portrait of I. Stalin created in 1936 by Aleksei Feodosevich Vangengeim (1881-1937), a prisoner of the Solovetskii Camp, as a present to his daughter Eleonora. The portrait turned out to be the last present received by the family from their father, who was shot on 03.11.1937. In 2004 Eleonora...