Bidspirit auction | Chernova-Kolbasina O. Memories of Soviet

Chernova-Kolbasina O. Memories of Soviet prisons. - Publication of the Paris group of Assistance to the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries. [1921]. 34 p. Paperback, size 15 x 22.5 cm. Good condition. The covers are separated, and the block splits into sheets and notebooks. ”All proceeds from the sale of the pamphlet will go to the benefit of political prisoners in Soviet prisons.” Olga eliseevna Kolbasina-Chernova (1885-1964) - writer and journalist, spent more than three years in the Cheka prisons in the most difficult conditions. Having known all the horrors of prison, having spent 2.5 months in solitary confinement, having been in a punishment cell on Lubyanka, declaring hunger strikes, Olga yeliseyevna always fought for improving the conditions of detention of prisoners. At the request of a.m. Gorky, together with her children, she was sent abroad in 1924, sheltered the Efron-Tsvetaev family in the first months of their stay in Paris, and was the godmother of M. I. Tsvetaeva's son, George Efron. She returned to Moscow only in 1964-a few months before she died…The presented work is a hard and full story of an eyewitness who wants changes in the unjust punitive system of Soviet prisons.