Rolin Olivier

The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.

One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year befo

Bohaterem tej książki, łączącej cechy powieści biograficznej i eseju historycznego, jest Aleksiej Fieodosjewicz Wangenheim — jedna z licznych ofiar stalinowskiego Wielkiego Terroru 1937–1938. Choć pochodził z osiedlonej na Ukrainie rodziny