Text Box: 1937 Russian Posters of Byev and Yordansky, a Peek into a Forbidden World

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Unknown artist's depiction of Ruslan

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photo of USSR map and team that took Gulag photos

SOME OF GOOD Books BY SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT PURGES :

A Train to Potevka, Mike Ramsdell 2006, Zhivago Press, SLC, UT

Exiled to Siberia , Klaus Hergt, 2000, Crescent Lake, Publishing, Cheboygan MI

God’s Smuggler, Brother Andrew, 1967, Signet Classics, NY, NY

 

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Posters: Byev and Yordansky 1937, Moscow, Russia

Other original artwork, artist unknown, 1998, Moscow, Russia

Photos, G.  Farris and D. McIntosh, 1997-2000, various locations, Russia

ABOVE: An unknown  young artist’s conception of “Ruslan”, the hero of one of Lermontov’s poetical works.

BELOW: Visitors to Russia who photographed some of today’s gulags.