Oleg Wassiljewitsch Volkov

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Oleg Wassiljewitsch Wolkow ( Russian Олег Васильевич Волков , scientific transliteration Oleg Vasil'evič Volkov ; born January 21, 1900 , Saint Petersburg ; died February 10, 1996 , Moscow ) was a Russian writer, publicist and translator. He is an important contemporary witness of the Soviet prison camp system.

life and work

Oleg Volkov was born into a prominent family of the Russian aristocracy. One of his classmates in high school was Nabokov . He categorically rejected the revolution. Volkov was from the beginning to the mid-1930s prisoner in a concentration camp SLON on the Solovetsky Islands , later in the in the ASSR of Komi nearby camp of Ukhta - Pechora ( UchtPetschLag ). He lived through a total of more than a quarter of a century in Soviet penal camps and in exile.

Pogrushenie where tmu

His book Pogruschenije wo tmu ( Russian Погружение во тьму , scientific transliteration Pogruženie vo t'mu / sinking into darkness / sinking into darkness) is his main autobiographical work. It counts together with the GULAG archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Naskalnaja zhivopis ( Russian Наскальная живопись , scientific transliteration Naskal'naja živopis' ; "rock painting") titled diary of Evfrossinija Kersnowskaja (1907-1994) on the most important documentary books on terrorism Kersnowskaja (1907-1994) and penal camps in the Soviet Union. The book was written in the early 1960s but could not be published by Alexander Twardowski , editor-in-chief of Nowy Mir magazine , at the time. The first Russian publication appeared in Paris in 1987; the French translation is entitled Les ténèbres . It was not until 1989 that the book could be published in the USSR.

Honors

In 1993 he was awarded the Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin Special Prize (by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS ).

Publications (selection)

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Published in German under the title "Oh Lord, when our sins accuse us": a pictorial chronicle from the Gulag. With a foreword by Lev Kopelev and a foreword by Vladimir Wigiljansky. Translation from Russian by Ivan N. Cherepov. Kiel: New Malik-Verlag 1991.
  2. ↑ cf. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag - russlandonline.ru (accessed June 23, 2019)

literature

  • Jörg Ganzenmüller , Raphael Utz (ed.): Soviet crimes and Russian memory: places - actors - interpretations. 2014
  • Thomas Grob, Boris Previšic, et al .: Narrated mobility in Eastern Europe: (Post-) imperial spaces between experience and imagination (culture - domination - difference). 2013 ( partial online view )
  • Irina Scherbakowa : Prisons and Camps in the Soviet Ruling System . In: German Bundestag (ed.): Materials of the Enquete Commission “Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity”, Vol. VI: All-German forms of remembrance of the two German dictatorships and their victims. Forms of Memory - Archive , Nomos-Verl.-Ges., Frankfurt am Main, Baden-Baden, 1999, pp. 567–622.

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personal data
SURNAME Volkov, Oleg Wassiljewitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer, publicist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1996
Place of death Moscow