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Chapter 10

p. 213 ‘My darling Sveta’: LM51-1.

p. 213 ‘My darling … I still haven’t sent you the letter’: LM51-4.

p. 213 ‘reparation generators’: LM51-4.

p. 214 ‘of the need to feed the town’: LM51-22.

p. 214 ‘power station was closed down for three weeks’: GURK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, l. 45.

p. 214 ‘twenty-nine “serious accidents” ’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 364, ll. 32–3.

p. 214 ‘lorry carrying seventy men’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 365, 1.60.

p. 214 ‘We’re living and functioning’: LM51-36.

p. 215 8,000 metres of rigging gear, etc.: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, ll. 58–65.

p. 215 ‘severe reprimand’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 362, l. 42.

p. 215 ‘accommodating unauthorized persons’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, l. 152.

p. 215 Serditov’s denunciation: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, l. 153.

p. 215 Arvanitopulo sacked: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 365, l. 1.

p. 216 ‘It is a catastrophe’: LM51-60.

p. 216 Novikov plays dominoes: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 366, l. 80.

p. 217 ‘twenty-seven individual and group escapes’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, ll. 100–101.

p. 217 Guards bribed, GU RK NARK: f. 1876, op. 7, d. 366, ll. 121–2.

p. 217 Railway wagons, knives, saws, blades: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 366, l. 80.

p. 217 Koval’chuk uncovers conspiracy: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 366, l. 122.

p. 217 ‘many of them hostile’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, l. 78.

p. 217 Escape plans of 1 May: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, ll. 72–85.

p. 218 ‘We had a lot of fun’: SI51-29.

p. 219 ‘Levi … conscience and grief’: SI51-26.

p. 220 ‘I’d like to follow in the footsteps’: LM51-20.

p. 220 ‘The final word is yours’: LM51-21.

p. 220 ‘very pleased’, ‘go-ahead’: LM51-28.

p. 220 ‘special expeditions’, ‘Decisions like this’: LM51-28.

p. 221 ‘My conscience has been troubling me’: SI51-37.

p. 221 ‘no need for labour’: LM51-35.

p. 221 ‘Levi, I really want to go to sleep’: SI51-40.

p. 221 ‘Don’t think I’m glad’: LM51-41.

p. 222 ‘My darling Levi … I received permission’: SI51-43.

pp. 222–3 ‘Welcome, Sveta’, ‘Incidentally, about the three trinkets’: LM51-45a.

p. 223 ‘Good morning, Svetlye’: LM51-45b.

p. 224 ‘Well, all right, Sveta —after seven’: LM51-45c.

p. 224 ‘So I’m home, Levi’: SI51-44.

p. 224 ‘My dear Svetin’: LM51-45e.

p. 225 ‘I’ve felt fine’: LM51-47.

p. 225 ‘It’s been exactly a week’: SI51-45.

p. 225 ‘What a wretched person’: LM51-51.

p. 226 ‘Hives are not a skin disease at all’: SI52-30.

p. 226 ‘It seems to work’: SI52-15.

p. 226 ‘I don’t know how to reply’: LM52-12.

p. 226 ‘I wish someone would give you a good whipping’: SI52-16.

p. 227 ‘Between 120 and 130 prisoners’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 365, l. 14.

p. 227 ‘There isn’t enough food’: LM52-22a.

p. 227 ‘He is barely recognizable’: LM51-56.

p. 227 ‘diet of green cabbage’: Interview with Igor Aleksandrovsky, 2010.

p. 228 ‘Svetlaya, my darling, I haven’t yet sent you’: LM52-9c.

p. 230 ‘He has only one lung’: LM52-12.

p. 230 ‘Maybe it’s too early’: SI52-16.

p. 230 ‘Lyoshka has received his clearance’: LM52-4.

p. 231 ‘as he had the flu’, ‘If I’d known’: SI52-15.

p. 231 ‘I got to the station’: LM52-35.

p. 231 ‘More and more people are leaving’: LM53-17.

p. 231 ‘5,000 man-days had been lost’, etc.: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 366, ll. 76–82.

p. 231 ‘Three group escapes’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 365, l. 129.

p. 232 ‘scraps of wood, bark, sawdust’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 366, l. 64.

p. 232 ‘Objectively … little beauty remains’: LM50-17.

p. 232 ‘Nature has blessed’: LM52-34.

p. 233 ‘I wanted to find out’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 233 ‘Mama still isn’t any better’: SI52-34.

p. 234 ‘I really think you should cancel’: LM52-32b.

p. 234 ‘Papa has lost a lot of weight’: SI52-46.

p. 234 ‘I think it will be hard’: LM52-42a.

p. 234 ‘Sveta wrote that you’: LM to E. A. Poltoratskaia, 24 October 1952.

p. 235 ‘My holiday is going very quickly’: SI52-53.

p. 235 ‘I miscalculated, Sveta’: LM52-67.

p. 235 ‘When I put aside my books’: LM52-69.

p. 235 ‘The frosts have been unmerciful here’: LM53-1.

p. 236 ‘Svetloe, it’s so dreary without your letters’: LM53-3.

p. 236 ‘Svetka, why aren’t you writing to me?’: LM53-6.

p. 236 ‘The post comes tomorrow’: LM53-7.

p. 237 ‘I don’t know why’: SI53-2.

p. 237 ‘My dear darling Svetloe’: LM53-11.

Chapter 11

p. 239 ‘How unexpected’: LM53-23.

p. 239 ‘There is always Stalin’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 239 ‘The death of Stalin’: LM53-24.

p. 240 ‘There has never been anything’: SI53-16.

p. 240 ‘No one cried for Stalin’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 240 incident from October 1952: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 240 ‘halved the prison population’: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 1, ll. 1–2.

p. 241 ‘Some of our people’: LM53-32.

p. 241 ‘It turned out’: LM52-34.

p. 241 ‘chronic shortage of labour’: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 10, ll. 55–7.

p. 242 ‘224 former prisoners’: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 13, l. 4.

p. 242 ‘Here in Pechora’: LM54-10.

p. 242 ‘that number had risen to 459’: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 12. l. 97.

p. 242 ‘paid about 200 roubles a month’: APIKM, f. 31, op. 15 (A. K. Nedel’ko).

p. 243 ‘[Bannikov] has been back with us’: LM52-38.

p. 243 ‘Darling Svetloe’: LM53-48a.

p. 243 ‘He’d like to take advantage’: LM53-84.

p. 244 ‘Nina and Iv[an] have been staying’: SI53-38.

p. 244 ‘barracks became less cramped’:
Vygliadyvaias’
, p. 44.

p. 244 Cultural activities: Interview with Igor Aleksandrovsky, 2010.

p. 244 Pechora as a town: Interviews with Boris Ivanov, 2010.

p. 244 ‘radio station’: APIKM, f. 31, op. 19 (I. Z. Serditov).

p. 245 ‘new law by the Supreme Soviet’: APIKM, f. 31, op. 13 (L. G. Mishchenko).

p. 245 Sherman biographical details: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 13, ll. 12, 130.

p. 245 ‘small-minded person’: LM52-2.

p. 245 Tkachenko’s job:
Vygliadyvaias’
, p. 43.

p. 246 ‘Before he leaves’: LM53-33.

p. 246 ‘I am feeling very calm’: LM53-48.

p. 247 ‘childishness’, ‘flippant views’, ‘lack of tact’: LM53-58.

p. 247 ‘N. annoys me more’: LM52-69.

p. 248 ‘talking in their sleep’: LM52-33.

p. 248 ‘Regarding the family ideal’: LM49-21.

p. 249 ‘There is an unavoidable psychological evolution’: LM to N. Mel’nikov, 8 April 1948.

p. 249 ‘The infinite mutual hostility’: LM48-86.

p. 249 ‘Watching the people around me’: LM50-77.

p. 249 ‘that in 999 instances’: LM48-57.

p. 249 ‘Once again I am overwhelmed’: LM49-76.

p. 250 Weights made out of axles: Communication by Nikita Mishchenko.

p. 250 ‘Physical strength’: LM48-33.

p. 251 ‘I am very grateful to you’: O. Popov to SI, 17 December 1951.

p. 251 ‘I received a note today’: LM52-67.

p. 252 ‘Yesterday Oleg came to visit us’: LM54-1.

p. 252 ‘The more I really get to know him’: LM54-4.

p. 252 ‘We have all fallen out’: LM54-5.

p. 253 ‘Everything’s weighing on me’: SI53-19.

p. 253 ‘Sveta … you mustn’t turn down the opportunity’: LM53-20.

p. 253 ‘Sveta found herself in hospital’: SI53-45, SI53-46.

p. 253 ‘Svetloe, thanks to our postal system’: LM53-58.

p. 254 ‘Sveta, increasingly I want to say all kinds of needless’: LM53-58.

p. 254 ‘Sveta, my darling, you must not take yourself to task’: LM53-65.

p. 254 ‘Of course, Lev, it’s 14 months’: SI53-61.

p. 255 ‘Levi, why do you dismiss’: SI49-17.

p. 256 ‘Yaroslavl is a nice town’: SI53-78.

p. 256 ‘M. A. says that Voronezh is better’: SI53-77.

p. 256 ‘I’ve been told good things’: LM54-6.

p. 257 ‘So, Levi … no matter whom I ask’: SI54-3.

p. 257 ‘As regards the possibility’: LM54-19.

p. 258 ‘further down the line’: LM53-77.

p. 258 ‘My darling Sveta, the things I’m going to write’: LM54-21.

p. 259 ‘Spring has been here for three days now’: LM54-13.

p. 259 ‘In the hope of glory and good’: LM54-1 (from Pushkin’s ‘Stanzas’).

p. 259 ‘My darling … I’ve been planning to tell you’: SI54-8.

p. 259 ‘I can imagine’: SI53-81.

p. 259 ‘if only for a day or two’: LM54-21.

p. 260 ‘I don’t think—as far as I understand’: LM54-15.

p. 260 ‘I could apply for a change’: LM54-21.

p. 261 ‘For a long time now’: SI54-26a.

p. 262 ‘I should have also written about Kalinin’: LM54-21.

p. 262 ‘almost accidentally, but not completely’: SI54-31a.

p. 262 ‘so vast and individuals get lost there’: SI54-30a.

p. 262 ‘At home, I casually asked’: SI54-30a.

p. 263 ‘list of towns’: SI54-30a.

p. 263 ‘Possible options’: SI54-31a.

p. 264 ‘I’m already falling headlong’: SI54-31.

p. 264 ‘Sveta, my darling, there’s not going to be any need’: LM54-26.

p. 265 ‘My leaving is still’: LM54-24.

p. 265 ‘no more certainty about the future’: LM54-25.

p. 265 ‘I’ll go about tracking down’: LM54-25.

p. 266 ‘Papa’s condition complicated’: SI54-34a.

p. 266 ‘Svetloe, after your telegram’: LM54-29.

Chapter 12

p. 268 ‘two wooden suitcases’: Interview with Lev, 2006.

p. 268 ‘Send your letters here’: LM54-27a.

p. 268 Trip to Kanin: Interview with Igor Aleksandrovsky, 2010.

p. 269 Lev’s arrival in Moscow: Interview with Lev, 2006.

p. 269 ‘the lights in the windows’, ‘Anastasia Erofeevna’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 24.

p. 269 ‘I don’t want our first meeting’: SI53-81.

p. 270 ‘30,000 roubles’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 270 ‘Dear Anastasia Erofeevna!’: LM54-30.

p. 271 Kuzminskoe descriptions: LM54-31.

p. 271 ‘I found the woman quickly’: LM54-31.

p. 272 ‘As a way out of this vicious circle’: LM54-32.

p. 273 ‘I’m going to go to the soviet’: LM54-33.

p. 273 ‘my journey has to be postponed’: LM54-36.

p. 273 ‘My old couple’: LM54-33.

p. 274 ‘handsome’, ‘none of the tasteless mix’: LM54-35.

p. 274 ‘They were paying 7 roubles a day’: LM54-40.

p. 275 ‘A mere cubbyhole’: LM54-40.

p. 275 ‘Right now is still a very bad time’: SI54-48.

p. 276 ‘We absolutely don’t need anyone’: LM54-38.

p. 277 Freelance work as a translator:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 107.

p. 277 ‘Sveta … Sometimes when I’m in crowded places’: LM54-35.

p. 278 ‘same old Moscow’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 278 Anastasia’s death, ‘Thank you, God’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 278 ‘empty bag, a shopping list and money’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 108.

p. 279 ‘It was a policeman’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 279 Amnesty of 17 September 1955: Rossii,
Spravochnik po GULAGu
vol. 1, p. 16.

p. 280 ‘gloomy basement room’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 280 ‘I wouldn’t recommend you marry him’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 110.

p. 280 ‘Let me kiss you both’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 280 Strelkov details: V. Aleksandrovsky to LM , 20 February 1955.

p. 280 ‘Lev, I need your advice’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

p. 281 Lev’s job searches in Moscow: Interview with Lev, 2006.

p. 282 ‘As I reached the edge of the forest’: Interview with Lev, 2008.

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