A Museum With a Mission: Chronicling the History of the Gulag
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The Gulag Museum, which began as the passionate vocation of historian and camp survivor Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko in 2001, has just moved from its small, cramped space on Ulitsa Petrovka to a large building reconstructed especially for it.
Here visitors come face-to-face with the dark pages in Soviet history. But here, too, they learn how the human spirit can survive even in the worst conditions.
Read the story: New Museum Stakes Claim to Russia's Gulag Legacy
Here visitors come face-to-face with the dark pages in Soviet history. But here, too, they learn how the human spirit can survive even in the worst conditions.
Read the story: New Museum Stakes Claim to Russia's Gulag Legacy
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